Femmostroppo Reader – May 25, 2010
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. MU graduate copes with effects of sexual assault – Columbia Missourian – “About that person, she said, “They were taking out some sort of violence on me.” Without a name or [...]
What is “healthcare”? A tale of a murderer, a victim, and a tattoo.
[*** WARNING for detailed domestic violence description from the fourth paragraph on. ***] My local paper has been abuzz with righteous taxpayer outrage over the State paying for a tattoo removal for a woman, who I’ll call JMN. The story of JMN disrupts a number of neat stereotypical societal narratives about domestic violence, about victimhood, [...]
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Daum on Palin on Feminism
While Palin remains a libertarian she’s not helping the fight against sexist or any other sort of oppression, so whether she calls herself a feminist or not, she’s not on my side.
Facebook privacy: they’re gonna fix it?
So they say. I bet they’re only going to go so far. They still want to profit from that info. FACEBOOK has caved in to pressure from critics and said it would simplify controls over the degree of privacy given to users of the popular social networking service. Facebook has been under fire from privacy [...]
Femmostroppo Reader – May 23, 2010
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. McSweeney's Internet Tendency: An Open Letter to Anyone Who Has Experienced One of My Son's Meltdowns. – “Dear [Family Member/Friend/Relative Stranger/Jackass], I’m sorry my nine-year-old son disrupted your…a) beach vacation.b) trip [...]
Weekend Wibble: Your Top F/SF Battle Scenes?
I was just enjoying Fantasy’s Top Ten Fight Scenes: The Battles at Fantasy Magazine, and was wondering what y’all think. What are your top speculative fiction (let’s include fantasy and SF) battle scenes, and why? Do any of them pass a battle-modified Bechdel test: two women (or girls) fighting, with (or against) each other, about [...]
Zombie Cow’s “Privates”: sex ed or misogyny?
[Some game graphics may be NSFW] Editor Note 2010/05/31: Welcome, new readers! Firstly, thanks to those who are engaging substantively and with attention to netiquette – it is much appreciated. Sadly, it seems a few of you aren’t reading the comments from other people in the thread over the last week, and are therefore repeating [...]
Otterday! And Open Thread
Today’s rare white Asian short claw otter pup comes via Zooborns. The leucistic otter is part of a pair born at the Blue Planet Aquarium. More photos at the link. Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great happening in your life? Anything you want [...]
My town is awesome, but it sucks
Why is Sydney awesome? Because the next time I’m in strife, I might be rescued by ninjas. Why does Sydney suck? A TV news station has taken it upon itself to out a senior politician who had broken no parliamentary codes of conduct in his private pursuits. NSW Premier Kristina Keneally says she has accepted [...]
Friday Hoyden: Claudia Alexander
I saw this marvelously enthused woman on my television last night as one of the experts on the Voyage to the Planets series, talking about her time as project manager at JPL for the final stage of the Galileo space probe’s extended mission in the orbit of Jupiter, where additional orbits gathered information particularly about [...]
Shame Shell – we all sip from this glass
While Shell toasts $9.8billion profits, people of the Niger delta are having to drink polluted water.
Reminder: Sydney Hoyden and Geek Feminism picnic, Sunday 30th May
Update 30th May: given the recent rain and the forecast, we’re pushing ahead with a wet weather plan. We are meeting at James Squire Brewhouse at 12:30pm for lunch. This regardless of the reasonably good weather this morning. Still James Squire. Original post: Time to get a reminder up in case Hoydens neglected to diary-fy [...]
Thursday Cheezburger: All Fired Up
Today: All Fired Up. Post your own favourite in-theme Cheez here, and wait for admin image magic to make it appear. Please post a link to a FULL webpage, rather than a direct link to an image only – that is, no URLs with .jpg, .png, .gif (etc) on the end. This makes our admin [...]
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