Highlights from the Hierarchy for WYD
Shorter Cardinal Pell: If you agree to a candlelight dinner then you’re just asking for it, aren’t you? How could sex later be rape? [link] Shorter Cardinal Pell: It’s totally OK to tell a clerical abuse complainant that they’re the only one to ever accuse that priest while writing the same day to another complainant [...]
“I looked into the blacks of his eyes”? Big Brother 10
I’m not planning to blog as much Big Brother 10 from the USA as much as I do the Australian and UK versions, I swear. For a start, the USAn version is populated much more by fifth-rate Hollywood wannabes. In some ways, it’s more fake – the soap-opera set, the dreadful narration and commentary. In [...]
Child rape victims are just cranky, says Bishop
My jaw just hit the floor. Around the Catholic “World Youth Day” week in Sydney roils much discussion of Church-sanctioned child rape and sexual abuse. Bishop Anthony Fisher is rather pissed off that some people aren’t concentrating on the things the church wants them to concentrate on, like, oh I dunno, pop music. Clearly fed [...]
Whedon’s “Dr Horrible” fizzles for international audience
I was a little excited when Tama Leaver mentioned the other day that Joss Whedon’s new project, a musical miniseries called “Dr Horrible’s Singalong Blog“, was going to be a free internet-only premiere. “An experiment in models of distribution and commerce”, an effort to get the fans excited, and drum up a bit of interest [...]
Ben had a Bad Day: Schadenfreude and the Big Brother Australia “Big Sting” farce
So who caught Big Brother: The Big Sting last night? The show that went to air could have been edited to half the size, but it was still comedy gold for anyone keen on a bit of Ben-and-Rory schadenfreude. For background, Ben and Rory were two-thirds of the gang of thugs who tormented and assaulted [...]
The difference between satire and “satire” in political humour
I’d like to compare and contrast two political images, both of which inspired comment wank. The first is from the Western Suburbs Weekly [1]. The second is a Bush macro from Pundit Kitchen [2]. The Bush macro is is classic crip humour – exactly the sort of dark humour I’d expect a PWD (person with [...]
Big Brother gets the boot
Channel Ten’s dropped the show. Endemol thinks they can sell it to someone else. Really? Related posts: Big Brother Friday: Noirin sets her boundaries and is ignored, again Sree on Big Brother UK – harasser, homophobe, Nice Guy(tm)? “I looked into the blacks of his eyes”? Big Brother 10 Ben had a Bad Day: Schadenfreude [...]
BB Friday: Intruder Belinda joins the “but he’s BLIND!!!” game
Day 35 of Big Brother UK, and everyone is struggling with the Irish Dancing & Drumming task. Click To Play note: This is a five and a half minute video, which I’ve summarised but not transcribed yet – it’s school holidays and I’ve been a low-spoon-y. If anyone needs a transcription, please let me know. [...]
“Sex” Watch: Colorado Vail Daily edition
We all know the problem of the mainstream media calling rape “sex”, and calling raping or being raped “having sex with”. I now bring you what is expected to be a far too regular feature: “Sex” Watch. Today, it’s the Vail Daily. D.A.: Eagle man jailed for sex with girl, 13 EAGLE, Colorado — A [...]
Ruh-roh! Racist cartooning in Murdoch press
[via stephiepenguin] The Western Suburbs Weekly is News Limited’s trashy local rag for Perth’s western suburbs – the posh part of town. According to the WSW who bills its distribution population as “Affluent, well educated, professionals”, 74% of people in the area were born in Australia, the UK, or Ireland. 6.5% are immigrants from Asia, [...]
Two Posts on The Gruen Transfer
We are lucky to have the blogger from Fuck Politeness as a guest Hoyden this week. ~~~ Look, I should say up front I am a little grouchy of late over feeling like as a woman I am being ‘locked out’ of certain cultural experiences. Since it’s acceptable to slip in slaps in the face [...]
How to Have a Succesful Mainstream Newspaper Blog
We are lucky to have the blogger from Fuck Politeness as a guest Hoyden this week. Fuckpoliteness is a blog born out of frustration over society’s obsessive commitment to formal/semantic politeness – to the empty vision of ‘manners’ in which an insincere apology can cover the fact that the injury was intended, a linguistic ‘niceness’ [...]
SF Sunday: cult SF films
This topic seems timely given the discovery of a full-length version of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis that had been disregarded for years in the archives of a museum in Buenos Aires. Image Source: Emory Libraries Metropolis is a classic utopia revealed as dystopic narrative, with our hero leaving his life of idyll to discover the dark [...]
Big Brother UK: Darnell says blind housemate Mikey not a “performing monkey”
There are two people with disabilities in Big Brother UK this year. Mikey and Darnell are not being presented by the production team purely as “The Disabled Housemates”, with their disability as the only facet of stereotyped caricatures. They don’t seem to have been offered any particular “special treatment” by BB producers. This is incidental [...]
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