Rudd govt anti-same-sex-discrimination bill depends on the Senate balance of power
The Age: The Age believes Attorney-General Robert McClelland will announce today that he will introduce amendments to Parliament as early as next month to alter around 100 federal laws. The changes will not allow gay marriages or same-sex couples to adopt children, and the issue of access to the Family Court for same-sex couples is [...]
Ask Auntie Hoyden
Don’t you just love How-people-found-us search term posts? As usual, I’ve ignored all the searches about rape, paedophilia, and pictures of fat naked women, which doesn’t leave a lot. Here are a few things people have googled this week to find their way here to the Hoydenverse. lame jokes smug married women candid beach blog [...]
New to the blogroll or other bits of the blog
Here, Have A Kitty Amnesty Internationals Irrepressible Info campaign That new widget in the sidebar allows us to help “undermine censorship by publishing fragments of censored material” from some of the many websites around the world which have been censored by one government or another. (via Lauredhel) The Internet is a new frontier in the [...]
Judge-endorsed abuse by protective services: more on the FLDS mother-child foster separation issue
In a followup to this issue mentioned under Tigtog’s post “The FLDS polygamy and statutory rape farm”, Time Magazine has a piece on the FLDS “rescue”[1] in Texas. “The Texas Polygamist Sect: Uncoupled and Unchartered” Caught in the middle is Texas judge Barbara Walther, who was asked to weigh requests from the parents to hold [...]
Then and now: on acuteness and chronicity.
I used to wait until I was sick enough to go to the doctor. Now I wait till I’m well enough to go to the doctor. I used to not mind a long wait, so long as I had plenty of time myself to air all my concerns and hash out all possible solutions. Now, [...]
Various topics I’d like to blog on if I had more time
So I’ll link you to other ozbloggers who’ve done it already! Edited to add: if there’s something you were intending to blog but haven’t got around to, or wish you had blogged but somebody else said it superbly first so you didn’t bother, or something you wished was being blogged about by ozbloggers but isn’t, [...]
Horrid neologism of the Day
effectuating as in “effectuating real change”. Please, sweet Flying Spaghetti Monster, make the compulsive adding of redundant syllables stop. Related posts: This week in Game of Thrones: Theon Greyjoy is horrid and horrider Today in Evo-psych Gender essentialism… Things to make you go [insert name here] SMASH! So, Sprog the Younger now has dental braces [...]
Fat is a macronutrient, not a sin: Act Three
52 Acts of Political Correctness: Act Three [original post here, 52something meme here] Yesterday the lad came home from seeing the Wizard of Oz show, and started excitedly telling me about the characters. “And the Tin Man”, he said with a huge grin (it’s his favourite character), “Was all covered in silver! And he had [...]
No, no, no, just no.
The Age: ‘Groomer’ jailed for sex with 12-year-old No. Rape isn’t sex. [cut for child rape triggers] Related posts: Women on trial Victim-blaming files: 12-year-old an “enthusiastic participant” in her own rape Is “pregnancy pact” the new MSM code for child rape? Prosecutor in Queensland rape case has resigned Yet another case of “Shh! Don’t [...]
i made u a LOLswan
but he sez iz not fud moar funny pictures Edit: Because I’m an ICHC n00b, I fubared the submission of this image for consideration for the front page. The link on the image above now takes one to an official voting page, but if everybody else has found the revisions a bit tedious and can’t [...]
This week’s accessibility frustration
Adding this to the list of things I can’t access: Driving Change in the Disability Sector: A multi-disciplinary symposium The topic of inclusion is a concept that has many faces, many interpretations and although controversial, may in some instances be an intended disguise for exclusion. This symposium approaches the notion of inclusion, in relation to [...]
Interlude: Chez Tog
mr tog is off doing a course this weekend. It will fulfil most of the remaining requirements for him to be registered as a civil marriage celebrant. He has been dressing rather more formally to attend the course than is his wont for his day job as an IT consultant. tigtog: I haven’t seen you [...]
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