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Friday Hoyden: Miranda Hart

Friday Hoyden: Miranda Hart

By tigtog on May 24, 2013

As promised earlier this week, here’s a  Miranda appreciation thread. MGEITF – Miranda: A Masterclass Miranda Hart, the award winning star of Miranda, is joined by co-star Sarah Hadland and BBC Head of In-House Comedy Mark Freeland to give a master class on the hit sitcom. The session examined the show’s origins on Radio 2, [...]

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Posted in arts & entertainment, fun & hobbies | Tagged comedy, hoydens, telly | 2 Responses

Checks to see if Guest Posting Policy link is still in our sidebar

Checks to see if Guest Posting Policy link is still in our sidebar

By tigtog on May 21, 2013

Why, yes it is! Quite near the top, even.

So why do people still send us general cut-and-paste guest post offers which clearly display their lack of familiarity with our policy?

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Posted in Meta | Tagged netiquette | 15 Responses

Signal Boost: Under 10s Feminist Corner at the Sydney Writers Festival

Signal Boost: Under 10s Feminist Corner at the Sydney Writers Festival

By Chally on May 21, 2013

It’s this Saturday, so book quick!

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Posted in gender & feminism | Tagged children, feminists, girls | 1 Response

Kevin thread

Kevin thread

By tigtog on May 21, 2013

Interesting timing.

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Posted in culture wars, law & order, parties and factions, relationships, social justice | Tagged marriage equality, same sex marriage, spin tactics, wedging | 9 Responses

Don't believe everything you read on the internet just because there's a picture with a quote next to it. ~ Abraham Lincoln

Spurious Quotation of the Day: Big Government

By tigtog on May 20, 2013

Don’t believe everything you read on the internet.

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Posted in culture wars, history, parties and factions | Tagged partisanry, rhetoric, urban legend | 4 Responses

Ron Lindsay's #wiscfi twist on the conventional Opening Speech

Ron Lindsay’s #wiscfi twist on the conventional Opening Speech

By tigtog on May 19, 2013

How to undermine your own Women In Secularism conference: spend most of your opening speech scolding feminists for Doin It Rong, because why not encourage the already hyper-active flying monkeys to fling more crap at secular women?

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Posted in ethics & philosophy, gender & feminism, social justice | Tagged atheism, Deep Rifts, freethought, humanism, secular sermon, silencing tactics | 9 Responses

Otterday! And Open Thread.

Otterday! And Open Thread.

By Lauredhel on May 18, 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 | 23 Responses

Links Post

Links Post

By Mindy on May 17, 2013

Link round up.

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Posted in Culture, culture wars, history, Life, linkfest, media, social justice | Tagged linky love, Read-ems | 5 Responses

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Racebending on Star Trek Into Darkness

By tigtog on May 15, 2013

Regular readers of this blog may have noticed that I’m a big fan of the Cumberbatch, and I thoroughly enjoyed his performance as the villain in the latest Star Trek movie so long as I could forget his character’s name:

SPOILERS!

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Posted in arts & entertainment, ethics & philosophy, social justice | Tagged erasure, films, race & racism, WTF were they thinking? | 19 Responses

BFTP: Who moved that apostrophe?

BFTP: Who moved that apostrophe?

By tigtog on May 15, 2013

How did a day that grew from West Virginian Mothers’ Work Days from 1858 onwards (where mothers worked together to improve their community), and Mothers’ Friendship Days from 1865 (to promote harmony between former opponents in the Civil War), become what we celebrate now as Mother’s Day?

See the difference that apostrophe position makes?

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Posted in gender & feminism, language, relationships, social justice, work and family | Tagged activism/charity, blast from the past, consumerism, motherhood, trivialisation, workers rights, working mothers | 2 Responses

Media Circus: Budget 2013 edition

Media Circus: Budget 2013 edition

By tigtog on May 14, 2013

Since the topic of these media-circus posts is just a discussion-starter, don’t let it constrain your media analysis. Any sociopolitical issue currently making the news is on topic, as is highlighting egregious churnalism and those far too rare instances where the MSM rises above it.

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Posted in ethics & philosophy, media, Politics | Tagged federal budget, media circus | 27 Responses

Vanessa Redgrave as Rosalind

Shakespeare’s Preoccupations

By Orlando on May 14, 2013

I thought it would be fun to share my list of things I have noticed Shakespeare does repeatedly, and ask if you have any others.

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Posted in arts & entertainment, history, language | Tagged drama, Shakespeare, theatre | 14 Responses

The movie's version of Merida from the movie Brave contrasted with the Disney Marketing Dept's version of Merida

Signal Boost: petition Disney to keep Brave’s Merida marketing true to movie

By tigtog on May 14, 2013

‘Brave’ creator blasts Disney for ‘blatant sexism’ in princess makeover:

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Posted in arts & entertainment, gender & feminism, media, parenting | Tagged disney princesses, marketing, sexualisation, toxic femininity, toys | 8 Responses

Chutzpah of the Day: Field and Game Australia edition

By tigtog on May 13, 2013

Field and Game Australia’s Rod Drew said protesters should be investigated over the incident. He said it could be more than just a coincidence that the slaughter happened on the year that duck protesters had been sitting for firearm and game licence tests. He said the protesters could have shot the ducks ”to bring the [...]

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Posted in environment, ethics & philosophy, law & order | Tagged gun culture | 3 Responses

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