Femmostroppo Reader – December 17, 2009

by tigtog on December 17, 2009

Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. What did I miss? Please share what you've been reading (and writing!) in the comments.

OMG SHOEZ

– more “women are callous bitchez” crap

Security guards: 12-year-old rape victim wanted it

– FFS

Military Abortion Ban: Female Soldiers Not Protected by Constitution They Defend

– Trigger warning

When "Too Much Treble" is Thinly Veiled Code for "Too Girly"

– “Especially since the judges seemed to completely flip over the all-male groups that may have had lower voices but were all over the place and less in tune.”

Reward to catch youths who hit dolphin

– Arseholes

Blind student tops HSC subject

– with English as a second language, to boot. Yay for Ria!

ACMA finds Kyle & Jackie O show in breach of radio codes

– as well they bloody well should

Conroy releases dog of an internet policy – where are the ALP’s usual media critics on the right?

– Jeremy’s right – the usual crew of vitriolic Rudd critics are not all over the internet filter plan – why not?

'Code of silence' over WA jail rapes – The West Australian

– “Sexual assaults against men in WA’s overcrowded jails are being significantly under-reported, according to a ground-breaking study which has found that predators are being protected by a code of silence among prisoners and guards.”

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{ 11 comments }

1 TimT December 17, 2009 at 12:15 pm: Jeremy’s criticism of right-wingers is the same in form to the conservative criticism of feminists – ’something bad just happened, why don’t I see any [insert blanket term for group of people here] criticising this? This lack of an immediate response illustrates that [insert blanket term for group of people here] are hypocrites!’

I expect that Catallaxy might have written something about it now were it not for the fact that their site seems to have disappeared into a howling internet vortex.
2 TimT December 17, 2009 at 12:35 pm: http://andrewnorton.info/2009/12/16/should-the-whole-censorship-regime-be-relaxed/
Clearly right-wingers have remained silent on the issue apart from the right-wingers that have not!
3 skepticlawyer December 17, 2009 at 12:59 pm: We wrote a corporate condemnation as well, on behalf of the whole blog. We even managed to wheel out F.A. Hayek… (a classic rightie).
4 tigtog December 17, 2009 at 2:14 pm: Hmm, Crikey seems to be down (what is it with sites starting with “C”?) but I checked in my feed reader and my memory is not cheating me: since Jeremy’s piece was on the blog Pure Poison, which is devoted to lobbing coconuts at MSM columnists of a particular partisan slant, and references articles by Bolta and by journos on The Punch, isn’t it a fair bet that he’s talking about the same stable of knee-jerk Rudd-bashing* columnists as Pure Poison usually talks about? So while right wing blogs are one thing, they’re not the thing that Jeremy is talking about.

*Nuanced Rudd-bashing is quite another matter.
5 Liam December 17, 2009 at 3:12 pm: Yes, I think Jeremy’s showing his own lack of nuance.
It’s a bit rich to interpret Bolt’s and Akerman’s silence on Conroy’s internet policy as something bad if it’s a policy they either agree with, or simply think is not particularly important. They can either be consistent or hypocritical, but not both.
As TimT said, Jeremy’s a master of conspicuous indignation.
6 orlando December 17, 2009 at 4:26 pm: This recent from xkcd translates beautifully to Dudez who come onto feminist websites with Fresh Manly Wisdom:
http://xkcd.com/675/
7 Liam December 18, 2009 at 7:03 am: Sorry, Orlando, are you trying to make out that either TimT or I are ignorant about either Bolt and Akerman, the clean feed, or what Jeremy’s trying to argue?
8 tigtog December 18, 2009 at 7:08 am: I suspect that orlando is just dropping a general femmostroppo link as solicited in the post, Liam.
9 Liam December 18, 2009 at 7:14 am: God—you’re right, I’m still drinking my coffee and forgot it was the open thread.
I’m sorry Orlando and other readers, please forgive my habitual punchiness.
10 tigtog December 18, 2009 at 8:33 am: Back to Bolta/Albrechtsen/Akerman/Devine etc: I just checked my feedreader for the opinion section titles from yesterday and today in the News Ltd stable, and I can’t see a single piece addressing the internet filter at all. If I’ve missed one, please let me know.

So while you’re quite right to argue that no single rightist MSM columnist is obliged to rant about the net filter if it’s not a big issue to them, I find the odds of not a single one deciding that this was a good chance to stick another boot into the current govt to be rather slim at best.
11 The Amazing Kim December 18, 2009 at 1:36 pm: Kit Whitfield has written a reference post about mental illness, colloquial terms and stigma.

Also, Sufjan Stevens is an excellent Christmas soundtrack.