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Try doing this in a frock | Image Credit: Orange Sky Yoga

Oh FFS OTD: stop oppressing dude boners with your yoga pants, you strumpets

By tigtog on February 23, 2013

Attention The Good Men’s Project: Women Wear Yoga Pants Because They Are Comfortable, Not Because They Apparently Give You A Boner

Posted in gender & feminism, health | Tagged men and women, Oh FFS, ur doin it rong | 18 Responses

So it's okay as long as there are no women around?

So it’s okay as long as there are no women around?

By Mindy on October 3, 2012

Is sexist language okay as long as no women are around?

Posted in Culture, gender & feminism, media | Tagged Oh FFS, sexism | 9 Responses

Today in WTF I don't even

Today in WTF I don’t even

By Mindy on October 2, 2012

Why are we rewarding children for good behaviour at all?

Posted in education, health, Life, media, medicine, parenting | Tagged childhood obesity, obesity epidemic, obesity panic, Oh FFS | 18 Responses

Things I would like to give SdeB

Things I would like to give SdeB

By Mindy on August 5, 2012

Is 8% better pay, on average, much compensation for men given what they have to put up with for being men? You decide.

Posted in gender & feminism, Life, media, parenting, work and family | Tagged Oh FFS | 25 Responses

What the hell, Sweden?

What the hell, Sweden?

By tigtog on July 6, 2012

Transphobic court tosses out rape charge because defendant’s intent ‘was to rape a woman’

Posted in gender & feminism, law & order, social justice, violence | Tagged bigotry, gendered roles, Oh FFS, trans* | 6 Responses

F F F F*

F F F F*

By Mindy on June 28, 2012

Oh FFS.

Posted in media, Politics | Tagged environment, Federal Politics, Gillard, Oh FFS | 11 Responses

He's talking about his bank balance, right?

He’s talking about his bank balance, right?

By Mindy on May 8, 2012

Starve yourself thin, what’s new about that?

Posted in health | Tagged Oh FFS | 12 Responses

Quick Hit: Read This

Quick Hit: Read This

By Mindy on March 29, 2012

Excellent takedown of The Punch’s anti-feminist article by tallulahspankhead at The Lady Garden.

Posted in Culture, culture wars, ethics & philosophy, gender & feminism, language, Life, media, parenting, relationships, work and family | Tagged anti-feminist, feminists, Oh FFS | 7 Responses

Quick Hit: OMG I don't even...

Quick Hit: OMG I don’t even…

By Mindy on January 19, 2012

@GuardianJessica Jessica Reed
This is totally unacceptable. RT @NaomiMc: Feminism has gone too far again.

Posted in gender & feminism, Life, media, Politics, relationships, social justice, work and family | Tagged feminists, Gahhh!, Lol whut?, Oh FFS, twitter

Image: artblog by Asbjorn Lonvig

Hey Dad – this time it’s all YOUR fault

By Mindy on November 14, 2011

Do fat dads lead to fat kids?

Posted in culture wars, education, health, media, medicine, parenting, skepticism | Tagged fatphobia, obesity panic, Oh FFS, sexuality and health | 6 Responses

Feminism - we're doin it rong #1568454876

Feminism – we’re doin it rong #1568454876

By Mindy on October 10, 2011

Feminists deserting the Prime Minister?

Posted in culture wars, ethics & philosophy, gender & feminism, history, language, media, parties and factions, Politics, social justice | Tagged activism/charity, anti-feminist, Julia Gillard, Oh FFS, social change | 9 Responses

Today in Evo-psych Gender essentialism...

Today in Evo-psych Gender essentialism…

By Mindy on September 30, 2011

Gender essentialism at its best.

Posted in Culture, culture wars, gender & feminism, media | Tagged eye roll, feminists, Oh FFS | 19 Responses

Oh FFS #156784563458

Oh FFS #156784563458

By Mindy on January 31, 2011

“Generation Y losing ‘female’ skills” It must be a slow news day. Horror of horrors Generation Y women are losing the skills their mothers and grandmothers apparently took for granted. In case you didn’t know, all women of the baby boomer and older generations were goddesses of cooking, sewing, ironing and all other housework related [...]

Posted in Culture, gender & feminism, media | Tagged Oh FFS, social change | 26 Responses

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