Sex Contracts and Withdrawing Consent
Via Twisty, this story from Time Magazine (bolded emphasis mine): A Time Limit on Rape If a woman consents to having sex with a man but then during intercourse says no, and the man continues, is it rape? The answer depends on where you live. The highest courts of seven states, including Connecticut and Kansas, [...]
Full Story »Ooh, new blogfind.
Through a livejournal friends page, I discovered the Feminist Anti-Oppression Forum when I read this article: Unbelievable, reproducing a column by FOXNews Women and Business opinion writer Megan Dowd. Commentors noted a few awkward lines that read like they were inserted only to appeal to the social-conservative base, but the rest of He Said, ‘Stay [...]
Full Story »Any search string that leads to Molly Ivins is a good search string
Sometimes following links that turn up in sitemeter is a joy rather than the usual ennui of seeing how many pervs are finding a link to this blog in a search engine. I like to think the pervs get a jolt when they don’t find what they expect, but maybe they get off on feminist [...]
Full Story »Grieving again
The fabulous picture above was done by Olduvai George a few years ago, portraying Chris Clarke and his dog Zeke in the Pleistocene Death Valley. (hat-tip, Blogger on the Cast Iron Balcony) A few days ago I found out through my blogfeed subscriptions that Zeke sadly had to be put down, after a long period [...]
Full Story »Conservative bloggers channel Jan Brady: Marcotte! Marcotte! Marcotte!
Cut and pasted from a comment I left over at my LP post on bloggers joining political campaigns in the US (related to this Hoyden post from last week): Ha. The predicted conservative blogger meltdown about Amanda Marcotte joining the Edwards campaign has been going strong. Because she’s opinionated and cusses frequently for rhetorical effect [...]
Full Story »What a show!
Regular readers, I’m talking up the Astronomy Picture of the Day site again. This was taken in Perth on Australia Day (yes, it’s a panorama made from separate shots). The faint streak in the sky just left of centre is Comet McNaught. Related posts: Cloudwatch: Iridescence over Ethiopia Bother, missed the planetary conjunction Photo techniques [...]
Full Story »DJs sues thinktank over report on sexualised images of children in advertising
Todays SMH: Sex, lies and advertising: DJs sues over child exploitation claims IN WHAT is believed to be a world first, David Jones begins a legal case tomorrow in which it is suing the left-leaning think tank the Australia Institute and its executive director, Clive Hamilton, over claims the giant retailer’s advertising eroticised and sexually [...]
Full Story »Weekend walking
So, mr tog and I decided, on our return from abroad, that we really should keep up this walking-around-with-the-kids habit we’d developed over the 4 weeks of sightseeing. Instead of just lounging around the house on Saturdays, we should get out the door bright and early and go somewhere for a walk. As we are [...]
Full Story »Dear BBC, why is this picture part of this story?
What does this very well-muscled young man have to do with an exciting innovation in nanotechnology? Very little, but apparently because the new nanotech engine is similiar in size to our bodies’ own “engines” that make our muscles contract, BBC News decided to show muscles to illustrate it. Of course, because it was about muscles, [...]
Full Story »Kinda proves his point
A Nigerian senator says he has received death threats after saying 90% of electoral candidates are corrupt. Related posts: Quick Hit: Ms Klein, bullying and Indiegogo LNP staffer quits after anti-feminist rant in email David Willets – yeah kinda, but not really Quickhit: “a criminal organisation that hides behind its so-called religious beliefs” Quick Hit: [...]
Full Story »My goodness, it’s a holiday pic
From the second half of my holiday time in Norway, when we were touring through the fjords and mountains between Oslo and Bergen: Originally uploaded to Flickr by tigitogs in the Norway set. This was taken the day after the first big snowfall of winter (there was plenty of snow by Oz standards, but the [...]
Full Story »Nazanin saved from execution
Nazanin Mahabad Fatehi has been released! Nazanin is a young Iranian woman who was found guilty of murder and sentenced to death after she stabbed a would-be rapist in self-defence. [old tigtogblog post]. The international awareness raised by the Save Nazanin campaign eventually ended in the overturning of her death sentence and her return to [...]
Full Story »Some people certainly have a way with words
Commentor Sniper, who sadly appears to not have a blog, over at Pandagon in the thread to new contributor Sheelzebub’s first post, an evisceration of lazy sexist stereotyping of men as clueless slobs that women are obliged to rescue. OK, Purcell isn’t very funny, but he IS clearly labeled as “humor”, and frankly, the tone [...]
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