• Blog
  • Life
    • fun & hobbies
    • relationships
    • crisis
  • Culture
    • arts & entertainment
    • education
    • ethics & philosophy
    • history
    • media
  • Science
    • skepticism
    • technology
  • Politics
    • economics
    • environment
    • indigenous
    • law & order
    • parties and factions
    • social justice
  • Sociology
    • culture wars
    • gender & feminism
    • parenting
    • religion
    • violence
    • work and family
Hoyden about Town
HOYDEN (hoid'n): woman of saucy, boisterous or carefree behavior
  • Home
  • About
    • The Hoydens
      • tigtog
      • Lauredhel
      • Guest posts
      • Mindy
      • Helen
      • Beppie
      • blue milk
      • Wildly Parenthetical
      • Mary
      • Jennifer
      • Jo Tamar
      • napalmnacey
      • Megpie
      • mimbles
      • shonias
    • Special Interests
      • Feminism
      • Critical Thinking
      • WordPress customisation
    • Subscription Options
    • Our other blogs (and other people’s stuff)
    • Assorted Refs
  • Comments Policy
    • Commenting: The Fine Print
  • Archives
    • Archive – By Month
    • Archive – Categories
    • Archive – Tags
  • Blogroll
Browse: Home / pop culture

pop culture

Marry, Shag or Cliff? Sean Bean edition

Marry, Shag or Cliff? Sean Bean edition

By Guest Hoyden on February 20, 2013

Remember the rules? It’s been a while: you must choose one of each of the three candidates to match each fate. No skipping any.

Or you could just talk about your favourite entertainments, since this is just a hook to hang some pop culture on. How about this awards season, eh?

Posted in arts & entertainment, fun & hobbies | Tagged cinema, film, marry shag or cliff?, movies, OTP, pop culture, telly | 22 Responses

Shadowcat and Lockheed, via Prydeoftheshadows

Why I Would Rather Let My Son Watch X-Men than Bob the Builder

By Orlando on July 23, 2012

With my child reaching the advanced age of four and a half I am having a harder time keeping him on the television designed for very little people, and he is starting to ask for the stuff with superheroes in it. I haven’t shown him any of the live-action Marvelverse movies, and probably won’t for [...]

Posted in arts & entertainment, education, gender & feminism, parenting | Tagged animation, children, pop culture | 7 Responses

River Tam in the episode "Objects in Space"

Friday Hoydens: Women of Firefly

By Orlando on July 20, 2012

Zoe, Kaylee, River and Inara. The four graces. Different talents, different struggles, different features, different life experiences. Same life-affirming energy. I wish we could have heard more of their stories, and maybe one day I will get around to reading all the slash fiction. I don’t have time today to write as I should in [...]

Posted in arts & entertainment, fun & hobbies | Tagged hoydens, pop culture, science fiction | 14 Responses

Hi Bella. I am Edward.

Ob Twilight: Breaking Dawn Thread

By tigtog on November 22, 2011

Love it? Hate it? Meh? It’s a bit hard to totally ignore this week, just sayin’. (obviously, Spoilers Alert)

Posted in arts & entertainment, gender & feminism | Tagged abortion, books & writing, cinema, femininity, film adaptations, pop culture, romance | 4 Responses

Quicklink: Gaga disappoints the dudes

Quicklink: Gaga disappoints the dudes

By tigtog on August 31, 2011

News With Nipples shows us extracts from a few music industry dudes who found her dressing up as a man for an awards ceremony disturbingly unsexy…

Posted in arts & entertainment, gender & feminism | Tagged gendered roles, music, pop culture, sexualisation, telly | 5 Responses

Whoydensday: Rock out with the WHOs

Whoydensday: Rock out with the WHOs

By tigtog on March 23, 2011

rtofirefly’s beautiful band featuring 4, 8, 10 and 11 totally deserves to be gazed and gazed upon to the accompaniment of the still amazing because of, rather than despite, its blatant parody of classic pop riffs – Doctorin’ the Tardis:

Posted in arts & entertainment, fun & hobbies | Tagged doctor-who, pop culture | 3 Responses

Femmostroppo Reader  December 2, 2010

Femmostroppo Reader December 2, 2010

By tigtog on December 2, 2010

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

Posted in gender & feminism, linkfest, social justice | Tagged cinema, pop culture, race & racism, rape, Read-ems, telly, toys, trans*

The Hoydens blog on life, laughs, science, progressive politics and foiling diabolical masterminds

  • Subscribe to this blog
  • Contact the Hoydens
  • Guest Posting Policy
  • DUFC

Recent Comments

  • Friday Hoyden: Miranda Hart  4
    tigtog, Beppie, Mindy, Holly
  • Otterday! And Open Thread.  1
    tigtog
  • Otterday! And Open Thread.  25
    The Kittehs' Unpaid Help, The Kittehs' Unpaid Help, Chally, Mindy, Aphie, tigtog [...]
  • Checks to see if Guest Posting Policy link is still in our sidebar  16
    The Kittehs' Unpaid Help, angharad, tigtog, YetAnotherMatt, The Kittehs' Unpaid Help, Mindy [...]
  • Racebending on Star Trek Into Darkness  19
    The Kittehs' Unpaid Help, AMM, Chris, The Kittehs' Unpaid Help, QoT, David [...]
  • Ron Lindsay's #wiscfi twist on the conventional Opening Speech  9
    tigtog, Xanthë, tigtog, Ali, tigtog, Lauredhel [...]
  • Spurious Quotation of the Day: Big Government  4
    David, Lad Litter, Megpie71, David
  • Kevin thread  9
    Chris, Mindy, Chris, Mindy, Chris, tigtog [...]
  • Signal Boost: Under 10s Feminist Corner at the Sydney Writers Festival  1
    Aphie
  • Links Post  5
    Mindy, Mindy, David, tigtog, fmark
  • Whoydensday: DW S7 Part 2 only a few weeks away  19
    angharad, David, Mindy, David, tigtog, Mindy [...]
  • Some women want to stay home with children and feminism needs to make peace with that  28
    Megpie71, Megpie71, Sharon M, Chris, Helen, Chris [...]

Calendar

May 2013
MTWTFSS
« Apr  
 12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
2728293031 

Subscribe

RSS Feed RSS - Posts

RSS Feed RSS - Comments

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Navigation

  • Home
  • About
  • Comments Policy
  • Subscription Options
  • Archives
  • Blogroll

Authors

Beppie, blue milk, Chally, Emily Manuel, Guest Hoyden, Helen, Jennifer, Jo Tamar, lauredhel, Lauredhel, Mary, Megpie71, mimbles, Mindy, Orlando, shonias, tigtog, Wildly Parenthetical

Site Admin

  • Log in
  • Entries RSS
  • Comments RSS
  • WordPress.org

Copyright 2005 - © 2013 Hoyden about Town.

Powered by WordPress, Hybrid, and Outline.

Customised by VIVidWeb