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Taxi driver will pay $3250 for refusing Commissioner’s guide dog

March 17, 2010

Taxi driver James Young should probably not be buying any Lotto tickets.
A Sydney cabbie is in the doghouse after refusing to allow a guide dog and its high-profile owner – Disability Discrimination Commissioner Graeme Innes – into his vehicle.
James Young could not have picked a worse person to turn away than Mr Innes, [...]

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Femmostroppo Reader – March 16, 2010

March 16, 2010

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

Guess What? Women Buy More Movie Tickets Than Men
– Make a note
Porn For Women
– So very, very true.
Yep, Lesbians Do Go To Prom
– “I am sure by now [...]

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Quote of the Week?

March 16, 2010

“If we just take our temperature, all of Australia has experienced warming over the last 50 years. We are warming in every part of the country during every season and as each decade goes by, the records are being broken.”

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Rape complaints versus rape convictions – UK review and response

March 16, 2010

Some campaigners said that the recommendation effectively let the criminal justice system off the hook, when women were still receiving “shocking” treatment. “What she’s proposing is to cover up what’s happening in the criminal justice system just at the time when women are finally getting the truth out,” said Ruth Hall of Women Against Rape.

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Quickhit: Ex-magistrate dismayed by sex offender visit

March 16, 2010

A former Children’s Court magistrate says she is dismayed by a decision to reunite two young girls with their father, a registered sex offender.

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Femmostroppo Reader – March 15, 2010

March 16, 2010

Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. What did I miss? Please share what you've been reading (and writing!) in the comments.
(Bit of a big one, so links are behind the cut!

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Arsevertising: Calvin Klein Rape Culture

March 15, 2010

Via Becky at Happy Bodies comes this ad from Calvin Klein, which Becky ran into at Hulu while watching “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia”.
Trigger warnings on this: threatening – like the kind of street harassment that feels like it’s just about to turn into rape.

Description: a black and white montage of young buff men [...]

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Femmostroppo Reader – March 15, 2010

March 15, 2010

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

Facebook’s new slut page: a monument to girl hatred
– “A couple of images of men have been posted on the site. One male helpfully points out that men can’t be [...]

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Juxtaposition

March 15, 2010

I found this arrangement in the cooking section in the nearby mega-bookstore:

No further comment.

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Not friends again

March 15, 2010

This article in The Australian by Rosemary Neill is more a report on the lay of the land than a way forward but what it does do is spell out nicely the latest split to occur in feminism. Once again the split is about sex (oh how we feminists have visited [...]

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Otterday! And Open Thread.

March 13, 2010

Today’s sea otter mother-baby pair comes via the Mail Online. The otters were snapped in Prince William Sound, off the south coast of Alaska. Thanks to all the people who pointed me to it!

Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great happening in your life? [...]

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Friday Hoyden – The cracking Ruth Jones

March 12, 2010

She recently popped up on my radar again as one of the principal characters in the British hit comedy Gavin & Stacey (playing Stacey’s best friend Nessa), but it wasn’t until I researched her for this post that I realised she’s actually a co-writer/creator of the show.

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Thursday Cheezburger – Surprise!

March 11, 2010

Today’s Cheezburger theme is… Surprise!

Post your own favourite surprise-themed Cheez here, and wait for admin image magic to make it appear.
Please post a link to a FULL webpage, rather than a direct link to an image only – that is, no URLs with .jpg, .png, .gif (etc) on the end. This makes our admin image [...]

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Femmostroppo Reader – March 10, 2010

March 11, 2010

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

The New Jim Crow
– “The mass incarceration of African Americans over the past 30 years is primarily related to the War on Drugs — a convenient cover for a program [...]

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No “allegedly” about it

March 11, 2010

This is not just sloppy, it’s highly insensitive to the Fletcher family who know very well that Elliott is not just “allegedly” dead. Does the Brisbane Times not employ sub-editors any more?

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