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Text: Women Never Date Nice Guys Like Me.  I Hate Those Fucking Bitches

Quicklink: Clementine Ford on NGOKC and double standards

By tigtog on January 8, 2013

A few weeks ago a controversial tumblr was started which highlighted the OK Cupid dating profiles of certain men who claimed to be Nice/Decent Guys, but whose answers on optional stock questions set by OK Cupid revealed various degrees of Not-Nice/Not-Decent attitudes. Clementine lays out the back-story, analyses some of the criticisms, and comes to some conclusions.

Posted in gender & feminism, relationships | Tagged dating, double standards, entitlement, gender roles, NiceGuysTM | 12 Responses

Bananas in Pyjamas teaching you to like 'bad boys' and clean up all their mess

Bananas in Pyjamas teaching you to like ‘bad boys’ and clean up all their mess

By blue milk on November 3, 2012

File this one under: Don’t let your cranky, feminist mother watch your TV shows. So, my three year old son was watching an episode (‘Super Bear’) of the Australian children’s show, Bananas in Pyjamas the other day and I walked past and caught a scene that began to irritate me. I was so bewildered by [...]

Posted in arts & entertainment, gender & feminism, parenting | Tagged children, gender roles, telly | 21 Responses

Deveny! Deveny! Deveny!

Deveny! Deveny! Deveny!

By tigtog on September 14, 2012

According to the angriest keyboard pounders in the Twitterverse, Catherine Deveny rudely interrupted & talked loudly over the top of everybody else on Q&A on Monday night, and was especially disrespectful to the Anglican Archbishop of Sydney, Peter Jensen. What a frightfully boorish display that would be if it were true.

Posted in ethics & philosophy, gender & feminism, media, religion, social justice | Tagged atheism, gender roles, homophobia, Q&A, stereotypes, telly | 11 Responses

Raising daughters to have high self-esteem and the problem with that

Raising daughters to have high self-esteem and the problem with that

By blue milk on August 3, 2012

So much good analysis in this piece from Jessica Valenti in The Nation – “The Upside of Ugly”: But this is the problem with teaching young women that the key to happiness and success is self-esteem. If our end goal for girls is simply to have them feel “confident”—especially about their looks—then we create a [...]

Posted in gender & feminism, media, parenting | Tagged beauty myth, gender roles | 25 Responses

Why I will go easy on the 'save yourself' rhetoric with my daughter

Why I will go easy on the ‘save yourself’ rhetoric with my daughter

By blue milk on June 4, 2012

Reading Clementine Ford’s piece in Daily Life on teenage sexuality something struck me about the young girls she was describing. The arrival of One Direction certainly took Australia by storm – mostly because nobody outside of the 12-17 year old teen girl bracket and a handful of their mothers had ever heard of them. But [...]

Posted in arts & entertainment, gender & feminism, media, parenting, relationships | Tagged double standard, gender roles, gender stereotypes, sexuality | 12 Responses

10 rules for women blogging about their relationship woes

10 rules for women blogging about their relationship woes

By blue milk on April 7, 2012

Before beginning your rant, and it will be a rant because you’re a woman writing this, always start that post with an apologetic, introductory paragraph about how truly nice your partner is and how he (and he will be a ‘he’) ‘helps’ you around the house and ‘helps’ you with the kids, a lot; really, [...]

Posted in gender & feminism, Meta, parenting, relationships, social justice, work and family | Tagged gender roles | 4 Responses

Living as a feminist

Living as a feminist

By blue milk on February 22, 2012

When Rachel Cusk wrote about motherhood in A Life’s Work: On Becoming a Mother, I felt heard. It wasn’t my story, exactly, but it was closer to my story of the early days of motherhood than others were writing. This time she is writing about her divorce. It isn’t my story either, but I suspect [...]

Posted in gender & feminism, parenting, relationships, work and family | Tagged division of labour, gender roles, SAHD, social change | 1 Response

Big Shiny Public Tech vs Little Nifty Domestic Tech

Big Shiny Public Tech vs Little Nifty Domestic Tech

By tigtog on February 22, 2012

Which sort of tech actually makes the most daily difference to the largest number of people?

Posted in gender & feminism, history, technology, work and family | Tagged division of labour, gender roles, social change | 13 Responses

Quickhit - bring on the female tradies!

Quickhit – bring on the female tradies!

By Jo Tamar on November 9, 2011

What proportion of tradies would you guess are women?

Posted in gender & feminism | Tagged gender roles, gendered stereotypes, social change, traditional gender roles, women in trades | 34 Responses

SMH front page clip showing an article about eliminating bingo wings (for women) in the Life & Style section

Do you see what I see?

By Jo Tamar on September 28, 2011

The SMH is at it again.

Posted in Culture, gender & feminism, media | Tagged gender roles, mainstream media, media, traditional gender roles | 2 Responses

The 21st Century Motherhood Movement: Mothers Speak Out on Why We Need to Change the World and How To Do It

Redux: The 21st Century Motherhood Movement – book review

By Mindy on August 2, 2011

I’m not going to go into spoilers, but I can say if you like bluemilk’s blog you will enjoy her writing which is simultaneously distilled essence of bluemilk expanded tenfold into a really fantastic chapter.

Posted in arts & entertainment, gender & feminism, parenting, relationships | Tagged books & writing, gender roles, mothering, social change

This week in Spooks related obstreperation

This week in Spooks related obstreperation

By tigtog on May 7, 2011

In a world where women who are about to become royalty can go shopping in exclusive boutiques wearing ballet flats without upsetting the world’s incredulity meters, why the fuck do you put a woman who is supposed to be an active espionage agent in six inch fucking heels to go and strew misleading evidence around a very ordinary flat?

Posted in arts & entertainment, gender & feminism | Tagged gender roles, telly | 9 Responses

Today in essentialist claptrap

Today in essentialist claptrap

By tigtog on April 19, 2011

Sample headlines:
*Career women enjoy doing household work
* Housework not a dirty word
* Majority of Working Women Like to Perform Household Tasks
* Working Aussie women refusing to share workload at home
* Some career women still enjoy doing household chores

Posted in gender & feminism, relationships, work and family | Tagged gender essentialism, gender roles, stereotypes | 22 Responses

Tim Minchin's 'Storm', and one quick thought on sex/gender

Tim Minchin’s ‘Storm’, and one quick thought on sex/gender

By tigtog on April 10, 2011

I’m letting other people’s writing do the secular sermon heavy lifting this week.

Posted in culture wars, ethics & philosophy, religion, Science | Tagged gender roles, scientific method, secular sermon, sexual dimorphism, stereotypes, woo | 18 Responses

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