When Emma Thompson follows through on this promise…
(to remove her name from the petition supporting Roman Polanski) then I’m adding her picture to the sidebar Hoydens collection.
Silence owes no explanation
Prefacing Disclaimer: I have no special knowledge of what is happening amongst the Shakesville team, and to re-emphasise the post title, I don’t feel that I am owed any communication from anyone on the team. UPDATE: As I was posting this, an explanatory post was put up on Shakesville by Melissa’s co-bloggers! It might help [...]
Friday Hoyden: Melissa McEwan
Our first blogospheric Friday Hoyden. Liss provides an extraordinary service to the readers of Shakesville, having created and maintained a safe space for progressive discussion as well as ensuring lots of fun. Yet she’s doing it tough, because she earns no income from this (some of you may remember how a dream job was torpedoed). [...]
Obstreperation round-up
Just the most recent posts from my feed-reader that have made me stroppy: Yarl’s Wood staff steal legal guide from asylum seeker from The F-Word Blog by Jess McCabe Anti-choice website: Being a teen mom is cool! from Feministing by Jessica Man Grabs Women’s Breasts; Hilarity Fails to Ensue from Shakesville by Guest Blogger (Aunt [...]
Reclaim The Night, 30 October (and thereabouts)
I was just reading the comments on this Shakesville thread, “Feminism 101“, when a press release for Reclaim the Night, from the Cross Campus Womyns Network in Melbourne, dropped into my inbox. The Shakes thread opens: The Right To Go Out by Echidne. Discussion Question: In what ways has the idea of sexual assault and/or [...]
Linkfest: from steampunk to flamingos
Check out Sophie’s Steampunk Suffragette costume, now at the Hoydens About! flickr pool. She wore this for the Wasteland Steampunk convention. ~~~~ I’ve a guest post up at Shakesville, reprising the Monica Dux saga and responding to her article which repudiated blogospherians in general and the Hoydens in particular as a shameless, hysterical lynch mob. [...]
Friday Hoyden: Keiko Wakabayshi, martial arts virtuoso
Keiko Wakabayashi was featured in the UK Telegraph several months ago (and on Shakesville at the time.) Martial arts expert Keiko Wakabayshi, nicknamed the “Samurai Granny”, has been hired by [Italy's] military to train recruits in hand-to-hand combat. Miss Wakabayshi, who stands exactly 5ft tall, looks tiny compared to her charges who are mostly over [...]
Election Watch: Open thread
As well as the US elections in November, we have elections coming up in New Zealand (also in November) and Canada (in October). Hoydenizen Deborah is guest-blogging at Larvatus Prodeo with NZ election coverage, onya Deborah! An election ad for Stephen Harper’s Conservatives in Canada apparently features a puffin taking a crap on the NDP [...]
Friday feminist linkage
Various items I failed to blog in the last week or two are linked below. ETA: What have Hoydenizens read lately that should be shared more widely? Turn that douchehound upside down (from Shapely Prose by Sweet Machine) – commentors testifying to cruel and sexist comments from men about women’s appearance, in response to a [...]
Devastated by Dame Helen
Ack. I can’t even write about this. Coverage from others: Helen Mirren tells men’s magazine date rape shouldn’t be illegal – why, oh why?! from The F-Word Blog by Jess McCabe Helen Mirren thinks date rape shouldn’t be illegal? from Feministing by Jessica Helen Mirren unleashes the bulldozers from Shakesville by William K Wolfrum Related [...]
Feminism Friday linkage:
Impossibly Beautiful
from Shakesville by Melissa McEwan (read the whole series, linked at the foot of the post)
Olympic medal-winning women called “gold-diggers”
from Feministing by Ann
Why feminism should be taught in schools
From The Times by Joan Smith
Looking back, I’m amazed at how much we achieved – many feminist ideas, such as the right to maternity leave, have become mainstream – but I’m also horrified by the casual misogyny of 21st-century life. Since my book, Misogynies, was first published in 1989, it has got much worse.
But 21st-century politicians don’t use the vocabulary of their 20th-century forebears, and feminism needs to reinvent itself as much as any other political movement.
Also from The Times:
How more vile (and thick (and don’t forget vile)) can McCain possibly be?
He pimped his wife to voters as a potential contestant in a local “beauty contest” that involves skimpy swimwear, topless parades and simulated sex acts – (edited to addwhich to be fair I’m sure he didn’t know was quite so “risque”, but it’s still totally objectifying his wife). (Video here of both McCain’s “quip” and a typical night’s entertainment in the contest) As I’m sure you’ll all
Dismembered Summer Glau in Sarah Connor Chronicles posters
Liss at Shakesville has posted before about the commercial exploitation of woman as dismembered body parts: It’s so very girly to get all worked up about novelty boobs. Oh, you’re such a girl. You’re fucking right I’m a girl. I’m a girl with no sense of humor about anti-girl things — go figure. And it [...]
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