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Quick Hit: 24 Lies People Like to Tell Women

Quick Hit: 24 Lies People Like to Tell Women

By Mindy on June 19, 2013

24 things that some people believe to be true.

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Posted in Culture, gender & feminism, Life | Tagged feminism, gender, lies, women | Leave a response

On ya bike Notpology, Metapology has taken over Gutless Rhetoric Town

On ya bike Notpology, Metapology has taken over Gutless Rhetoric Town

By tigtog on June 18, 2013

wishes to express its unhappiness with the controversy

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Posted in ethics & philosophy, gender & feminism, social justice | Tagged anti-harassment policies, atheism, Deep Rifts™, freethought, really not helping, skepticism | 7 Responses

Not Even Trying To Figure Out If Someone Wants Your Attention Is What Makes You Creepy

Not Even Trying To Figure Out If Someone Wants Your Attention Is What Makes You Creepy

By tigtog on June 17, 2013

most people can tell by looking at a cat that it doesn’t want their attention; the only thing that makes it hard to figure out whether a woman want[s] to be talking to a man is literally not even trying to.

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Posted in arts & entertainment, gender & feminism, language, Life | Tagged creepy, fiction | 9 Responses

Farewell to Pam's House Blend

Farewell to Pam’s House Blend

By tigtog on June 17, 2013

Pam Spaulding is ending Pam’s House Blend after 9 years of blogging.

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Posted in Life, social justice | Tagged blogging | Leave a response

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The 62nd Down Under Feminists Carnival coming to Hoyden! Submit today!

By Mary on June 17, 2013

Hoyden is welcoming the Down Under Feminists Carnival back for the fifth time in July, for its 62nd edition. You can submit June 2013 posts of feminist interest by authors in Australia or New Zealand; submissions are due on 2 July at the latest, but the earlier the better!

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Posted in gender & feminism | Tagged australia, blogging, carnival, dufc, new zealand | 1 Response

Otterday! And Open Thread.

Otterday! And Open Thread.

By Lauredhel on June 15, 2013

Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to get off your chest? Reading a good book (or a bad one)? Anything in the news that you’d like to discuss? What have you created lately? Commiserations, felicitations, temptations, contemplations, speculations?

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Posted in Life | Tagged fur & fluff, otterday, otters | 12 Responses

So how many times have you watched this video today?

So how many times have you watched this video today?

By tigtog on June 14, 2013

I could listen to people repeating these sentiments across all institutions day after day after day after day.

Message from the Chief of Army, Lieutenant General David Morrison, AO, to the Australian Army following the announcement on Thursday, 13 June 2013 of civilian police and Defence investigations into allegations of unacceptable behaviour by Army members.

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Posted in culture wars, ethics & philosophy, social justice | Tagged anti-harassment policies, leadership, military, sexual harassment | 6 Responses

Friday Hoyden: Fictional Female Protagonists

Friday Hoyden: Fictional Female Protagonists

By tigtog on June 14, 2013

In the wake of a bunch of recent posts, I’ve been thinking about women’s characterisation in fiction a lot. My next fiction purchase will be Grimspace by Ann Aguirre, and I’m sending an Open Call for guest Friday Hoyden post pitches featuring female protagonists, because I need recommendations for the gifts I’m going to give everybody this year.

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Posted in arts & entertainment, gender & feminism | Tagged books & writing, hoydens, telly | 15 Responses

The ten questions I would most like Labor MPs to be asking themselves

The ten questions I would most like Labor MPs to be asking themselves

By Orlando on June 12, 2013

The often reliable Leigh Sales has a piece in The Drum listing “The ten questions Labor MPs are asking themselves”. Sadly, yet unsurprisingly, all ten pertain to the leadership of the party. Sales doesn’t seem to consider it even a possibility that anyone is allocating any brain space to policy or governing the country. Now, as much as it is a depressing thought, I acknowledge that there is every chance she is right. But as a reporter with a substantial platform, she has a choice about where to direct the conversation. She could, for instance, be inviting responses to these, alternative, questions, that Labor MPs have every reason to be asking themselves.

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Posted in media, Politics | Tagged Federal Politics, labor government, media | 23 Responses

Quicklink: The Feminist Hivemind

Quicklink: The Feminist Hivemind

By tigtog on June 12, 2013

It’s a new blog! Full of secular women!

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Posted in ethics & philosophy, gender & feminism, social justice | Tagged Deep Rifts™, freedom of/from religion, freethought | 4 Responses

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Whimsy: Author sucked into own novel wishes he was better at writing women

By Orlando on June 11, 2013

From the (Onion-like) The Beaverton:
After being magically trapped inside his latest novel, author Kyle Rapoport maligned his inability to properly write and develop female characters.

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Posted in arts & entertainment | Tagged female-centred fiction, whimsy | 3 Responses

Media Circus: WTF Labor? edition

Media Circus: WTF Labor? edition

By tigtog on June 10, 2013

The heavy panting from the press gallery over the possibility of another Labor leadership spill has been quite repellent, but maybe it isn’t just a blip in the news-cycle. Maybe the gallery really is onto something.

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Posted in parties and factions | Tagged elections, media circus | 31 Responses

Methinks 'tis time to update a 'net classic

Methinks ’tis time to update a ‘net classic

By tigtog on June 8, 2013

The world needs a social justice version of John Baez’ classic simple method for rating potentially revolutionary contributions to physics AKA The Crackpot Index, to rate our never-ending “feedback” from troglodytes of assorted stripes who are convinced that not only are we Doin It Rong but that we deserve to be threatened into silence for daring to have an opinion in the first place.

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Posted in culture wars, fun & hobbies, language, Meta, social justice | Tagged crowdsourcing, cyberbullying, Deep Rifts™, silencing tactics, threats, ur doin it rong | 15 Responses

Otterday! And Open Thread.

Otterday! And Open Thread.

By Lauredhel on June 8, 2013

Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to get off your chest? Reading a good book (or a bad one)? Anything in the news that you’d like to discuss? What have you created lately? Commiserations, felicitations, temptations, contemplations, speculations?

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Posted in Life | Tagged fur & fluff, otterday, otters | 14 Responses

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