Quick Hit: Splitting the Bill
What one man’s refusal to listen when she asks to pay for her meal tells a woman on a first date.
Sunday Cinema Trailer: Pixar’s Brave
…the courageous Merida confronts tradition, destiny and the fiercest of beasts.
Gender baby
Image description: a photograph of some stenciled graffiti art on a rendered brick wall. It shows two identical baby faces side by side…
Many roads, one surname
In yesterday’s SMH Catherine Deveny asked Why do (don’t go there) most children(don’t go there) still end up with (don’t go there, don’t go there, don’t go there!) their father’s surname? She’s fairly clearly talking about a certain, already small and reportedly shrinking, milieu, that of heterosexual couples forming a nuclear family where the male [...]
In a nutshell
zuzu sums up, because some people are still playing the “but isn’t feminism all about choice? Support my choice!” card
How things have changed
I’ve been poking trhough William Heberden’s Commentaries on The History and Cure of Diseases (1802). Chapter 62, Menstrua, includes the following: “The pains, which several women experience during some part of the menstrual flux, are safely mitigated with opium; and such persons should always have in readiness half a grain or a grain of opium, [...]
Quickhit: Beauty, Virtue & Vice, and a Map of a Woman’s Heart
Slave2tehtink pointed me to this online exhibition, Beauty, Virtue & Vice, looking at American 19th-century prints of women. The exhibition talks about notions of ideal beauty and ideal womanhood in white wealthy American society, and at some threats to these notions. Check out the whole thing, after having a look at this image, “A Map [...]
SF Sunday
A few things lately have got me thinking about two distinct strands of definitively “what-if?” speculative fiction which sometimes intertwine – the alternate history based narrative, and the utopian-dystopian narrative. Related posts: SF Sunday: success by stealth? SF Sunday: must read novels SF Sunday: intricately detailed worlds etc SF Sunday: hmmm SF Sunday: cult SF [...]
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