Women in science
Two posts from PZ at Pharyngula. Firstly, a repost of a strip from the brilliant comic Non Sequiturwith a single short paragraph of commentary: You know, when you stop to think about it, this strip really isn’t that funny — it’s cutting a little too close to the truth. Ladies of the readership, you may [...]
Axe and Unilever strike again: Clinton as slavering brainless schoolgirl
Hey, you know that company that feminists are slavering over, because of all the wonderful work they’ve done for women’s self-esteem, especially average-sized middle-class conventionally-beautiful able-bodied women? The one that talks about how women can be strong, independent, and confident? The one that has a global campaign, “Beyond Stereotypes”? That one? Yeah. They did this. [...]
Feminism and Romance – Rudman paper followup
So I have a copy of the Rudman paper asserting that not all us feminists are fugly lonely lezzos after all. (My first post on the issue is here.) My initial response consisted mainly of a rejection of the patriarchal framing of the question itself, and of the misogynistic, heterosexist assumptions underpinning the uncritical characterisation [...]
It’s a trap! Feminism, romance, and sociological patriarchy
I started writing this, then saw that a few of the big feminist bloggers have touched on it already. But the stuff I was writing has a somewhat different slant, so I plunged on regardless. This paper was published in the journal “Sex Roles” this month: “The interpersonal power of feminism: is feminism good for [...]
Am I being too much of a snob?
Am I saving myself as much time and possible grief as I think I am when I refuse to read their blog if I click on a commenter’s profile and find that they’ve listed The Da Vinci Code as a favorite book? Maybe there are some perfectly perspicacious people who nonetheless love this book that [...]
Strange Men, children and hysteria
I know that there are many men who don’t feel safe to go up to a distressed child and try to comfort them for fear that other people watching might take them for paedophiles.
Hepburn and Mephistopheles
…is the title of an essay, actually an obituary, that I came across while searching out some images of the estimable hoyden-about-town Katherine Hepburn. Oh. My. Spag. Just read the caption in the obituary for this photo below, which is carefully nearly neutrally phrased, but the actual article leaves one in no doubt that trouser-wearing [...]
Packer lacked respect for women – is anybody surprised?
Stephen Mayne, in today’s Crikey! , dishes some dirt on the long-rumored philandering of Kerry Packer and his serial string of alleged mistresses over the years and ties it up in a bow of anecdotes detailing KP’s utter lack of respect for women in general. He then ends it, oddly, with: Where are Australia’s feminists [...]
So, how does one tell the axe-murderers from the con-artists?
I’m off shortly to the Sydney latte-blog get-together. I’ve got together IRL with net-buddies before in my USENet days, and shared fun and hospitality, but whenever I speak of it to people who don’t interact online they are always concerned re the safety aspects of meeting up with people I’ve never seen. I think coffee [...]
James Frey’s fictional non-fiction – more than just a personal flaw
It is very frightening that many, perhaps millions of people’s understanding of addiction has been grossly perverted by a fraudulent book that started its life as an overt work of fiction. So says my old mate Kev, over at Sufficient Scruples. Kev takes a deeper look at the issues of the day, with especial attention [...]
Apparently, laughing at them sometimes works
In response to me and everybody’s dog mocking them yesterday: No Brokeback blackoutJanuary 13, 2006 – 10:49AM Roadshow Films denies claims that it will not be releasing Brokeback Mountain in regional areas of Far North Queensland. Goodness me, mockery on breakfast TV (paraphrase:”they reckon gay cowboys are unrealistic, but they’ll swallow talking lions!”) seems to [...]
Pooftas, we don’t let our sons grow up to be Gayboys
“Maybe there are some (gay cowboys) out there but I’ve never heard of ‘em,” he said. “I mean, it’s not a profession that attracts those sort of people.” So says Bob “mad as a” Katter, Federal MP for the Kennedy electorate in North Queensland, where the townships of Townsville and Rockhampton have banned screenings of [...]
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