Libra’s new transphobic ad, and what you can do about it
So here’s some unnecessary and unkind rubbish in a new ad from Libra, a company selling tampons, pads and liners in New Zealand and Australia. Poking fun at trans women is very much not how to get the tampon-buying public on your side.
Katha Pollitt: Hitchens and his writing on Women
for someone who prided himself on his wide-ranging interests, he had virtually no interest in women’s writing or women’s lives or perspectives
G’day, Bingo Viewers!
There’s been an uptick over the last few weeks in site visitors clicking on links to Anti-Feminist Bingo and Anti-Feminist Bingo #2 – since comments on those posts have been long closed, I invite you to comment here instead, should you feel so inclined.
Do you see Indigenous men as role models?
Aboriginal and Islander men, so readily demonised in Australia, held a march last Saturday in Melbourne in the name of reclaiming, respecting and protecting themselves and their communities.
One to bookmark: Slavering Beast Theory
There are ordinary guys and there are Slavering Beasts. And they are very, very easy to tell apart.
Where are the women political bloggers? redux
None of the various proposals to ameliorate these well-documented patterns of hostility and condescension online address the basic disconnect that is rooted in persistent gender stereotypes: that what many women see as being fundamentally political issues are simply not acknowledged as part of “politics” by the mainstream – they’re supposedly just personal problems.
Viva la Vulva (possibly NSFW)
Hey, wanna get all ’1970′s Germain Greer’ feminism and analyse female genital art together? Oh, don’t be such a kill-joy, yes you do. This is an interesting art piece. The sculptor, Jamie McCartney has created a piece called The Great Wall of Vagina, involving 400 casts of vulvas. McCartney says he was motivated in part [...]
Too sexy for breastfeeding?
Image credit. (Some Not Suitable For Work links included in this post). Not long after her baby was born, Madison Young, an adult actor – also an artist, film director, gallery director, and activist – put on an art show titled Becoming MILF at Femina Potens, a gallery she owns specialising in queer, trans and [...]
Insurance Fail
Mum not a good enough title for you? Nevermind, this insurance company will look after you.
Must Read OTD: Darkness and diversity in fiction helps kids/teens #YAsaves
The persistent belief that childhood is a rosy, happy time where nothing bad ever happens is directly damaging to children who are, in fact, not having a rosy and happy time.
Hands up who thinks these (and other) prejudices are over
“Virginity tests for immigrants ‘reflected dark age prejudices’ of 1970s Britain”
Today in essentialist claptrap
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
Tim Minchin’s ‘Storm’, and one quick thought on sex/gender
I’m letting other people’s writing do the secular sermon heavy lifting this week.
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