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“Rape Victim Rita”

By Lauredhel on December 3, 2007

Via Shakes and Feministing, the “Lusty Linda” doll. The malformed Linda has a fixed smile and a mood switch. In her “good mood”, plungings of the pen elicit encouraging remarks. In her bad mood, she yells “OW!” and “HELP! HELP!” and “GET OUT!” Because rape is just when she’s in a bad mood, y’know. And [...]

Posted in gender & feminism, violence | Tagged crass, peeves, race & racism, rape, sexual violence, sexuality and health | 7 Responses

Is Missy Hillary a lipsniger?

By tigtog on November 29, 2007

Crossposted from LP in exile. I’m surprised that detailed lesbian slurs against Clinton have taken this long to arise, actually, given that her sexual preferences have been questioned since long before Gennifer Flowers’ memoirs put the allegations into print. The fact that the alleged lust partner is both stunningly beautiful and a Muslima add to [...]

Posted in culture wars, Politics | Tagged crass, peeves, QUILTBAG, sexuality and health, social change | 2 Responses

Time for someone to get chucked off the ABC Board (oops – if only I hadn’t got my coalition cheerleader pundits confused)

By tigtog on November 25, 2007

It was always a joke having Caroline Overington appointed to the Board anyway – surely they have an excuse to chuck her after this? Update: How Embarrassment! I was getting her confused with Janet Albrechtsen! (Must have been more affected by last night’s booze than I thought!) Still, what a fabulous continuation of the Wentworth [...]

Posted in culture wars, Politics | Tagged crass, peeves, social change | 3 Responses

Evpsych justifications of boobie bongs; and in which The Portly Dyke speaks wisdom

By Lauredhel on November 16, 2007

This Shakesville thread, “For the Discerning Gentleman: You, Too, Can Decorate Your Life With Disembodied Boobs “ has been a laff riot. The thread devolved into a circle with several men at the centre, the men shouting about how they were the only truly objective people in the room, and about how women would only [...]

Posted in gender & feminism | Tagged crass, evolutionary psychology, evopsych, interblog, objectification, peeves, race & racism, skepticism | 3 Responses

Flounder of the week: Andrew Quah

By Lauredhel on October 29, 2007

[image source] The Herald reports: Mr Quah told the Herald yesterday he thought it was possible that he had posed for the compromising photographs. “I might have been drunk off my face or my political enemies might have drugged me.” One photo shows him exposing his private parts as he takes a picture of himself [...]

Posted in culture wars, gender & feminism, Politics, religion, social justice | Tagged bigotry, crass, fundies, peeves, sheer incompetence, social change | 3 Responses

“Ew” baby gear du jour.

By Lauredhel on October 29, 2007

Spotted on ivillage: [description: baby T-shirt sloganned "I Drink Alone", with a feeding bottle in place of the letter "I" in "drink".] Related posts: Gone too far? Baby toupees: “i’m Not a Boy!” Salma Hayek cross-nurses needy baby in Africa Qld government revises baby packs plan; no more formula promotion Useless baby gear #98485: Poteez. [...]

Posted in culture wars, health | Tagged breastfeeding, capitalism, consumerism, corporatism, crass, peeves

Sunday Affectations: “Book Decor”

By Lauredhel on October 28, 2007

Books by the foot. and Book Decor. Srsly. Choose between colour-coordinated libraries such as “Foreign Language Antique Leather”: Related posts: Children’s Book Council of Australia Book Week: Books which shaped me Book Week Wordless Sunday: The Sunday Papers “My Beautiful Mummy” book: Newsweek beat-up sucks most in The book tag

Posted in Culture, culture wars | Tagged books & writing, capitalism, consumerism, corporatism, crass, peeves | 5 Responses

Watson is no Galileo

By tigtog on October 22, 2007

I’ve used this quote before, but it bears repeating. “Alas, to wear the mantle of Galileo it is not enough that you be persecuted by an unkind establishment, you must also be right.” ““ Robert Park James Watson, famous for being one of the scientists to describe the structure of DNA, is a cranky old [...]

Posted in Culture, culture wars, education, Science, Sociology | Tagged books & writing, branding, capitalism, celebritism, consumerism, corporatism, crass, education, Galileo's mantle, peeves, vitriol | 15 Responses

“The Random Lunchtime SMS Romance”

By Lauredhel on October 5, 2007

Cheers to whoozqueen, who has agreed to let me copy this SMS conversation here. I have edited it to change the names only. Apparently, you can’t even take a wrong number SMS these days without getting hit on. I can’t help but be amused (and more than a little skeeved out) at this random chap’s [...]

Posted in fun & hobbies, gender & feminism, Life | Tagged crass, peeves | 6 Responses

Fat-hater wankstain du jour

By Lauredhel on October 2, 2007

Big Fat Deal reports on a chappie who thinks it’s a Splendid! Shiny! New! Activist! Idea! to start printing up and handing out Fat Tickets. He wants the world to start handing out these tickets, with the revelatory message “You’re Fat!”, to workmates, friends and family – and offering, among other things, to fuck them [...]

Posted in gender & feminism, violence | Tagged crass, fat-hating, moral panics, peeves, rape, sexual violence, sexuality and health | 4 Responses

Sunday Picblogging: Blech, Bling and Bahaha

By Lauredhel on September 30, 2007

Spotted in a Cotton On Kids store last week by intrepid reporter baroquestar: three children’s T-shirts, aimed at girls from toddler size. The slogans? “My Daddy Loves Beer More Than Me”, “Future Footballer’s Wife” and “Lock Up Your Sons”. [note: not actual shirts.] Related posts: Surely the longest bow ever drawn Wordless Sunday: The Sunday [...]

Posted in culture wars, fun & hobbies, gender & feminism | Tagged capitalism, consumerism, corporatism, crass, fur & fluff, peeves | 3 Responses

Censoring evolution (this week, the Netherlands)

By tigtog on September 11, 2007

An evangelical christian TV station in the Netherlands has been censoring Sir David Attenborough. When the Evangelische Omroep (Evangelical Broadcasting) network showed his flagship natural history series The Life of Mammals, it made several alterations to the script to take out references to evolution, the age of the Earth and the evolutionary relationships between humans [...]

Posted in culture wars, ethics & philosophy, Politics, religion, Science | Tagged crass, ID, peeves, social change

PM admits to being warned against inappropriate behaviour

PM admits to being warned against inappropriate behaviour

By tigtog on August 19, 2007

The Poison Dwarf, Glen Milne, has unleashed a story that’s been sat on since 2003 about Kevin Rudd attending a strip club in New York while drunk, at the invitation of a New York Post journalist. It’s obviously an attempt to discredit Rudd as the family values religious moderate that is his current public image, [...]

Posted in culture wars, Politics | Tagged crass, elections, peeves, social change, vitriol | 23 Responses

Proof positive that most Americans have hardly noticed our Prime Minister’s world-class presidential arselicking displays

By tigtog on July 22, 2007

He’s not mentioned on the Boston Phoenix‘s annual list of the 100 Unsexiest Men. It is a very US-centric list: there’s a mere sprinkling of foreigners, the only “Australian” who is mentioned is Mel Gibson, and I hadn’t heard of at least half of the specimens. Dame Edna, Rupert Murdoch and Keith Urban did get [...]

Posted in media, Politics | Tagged crass, peeves

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