Now there’s a story arc
Last night’s Dr Who 3rd season finale and the future story of Captain Jack. There be spoilers ahead. If you haven’t seen the episode you really don’t want to click the link if you hate surprises being ruined. Related posts: Whoydensday: DW S7 Part 2 only a few weeks away Whoydensday: Planet of the Dead [...]
Slices of Google, from the Buoyant Honed Two
Anagrams Because the cool kids at Shapely Prose are doing it, I went and anagrammed Hoyden About Town. Some of my favourites, a selection that I think reflects the spirit of our bloggy duo: You Wanton Hotbed! Dab Honey Onto Wut?? Hot Bayonet Wound Boy-Taunt Hoedown Buoyant Honed Two Tauten Body? Nohow! A Donut-Hewn Booty [...]
Linkfest: Cultures ‘n’ Vultures edition
The Age has this opinion piece by Claire Smith: “The Aboriginal intervention policy is failing”. Smith is an associate professor in archaeology at Flinders University, has worked with Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory for almost 20 years, and is involved in Women for Wik. She opens: I was supposed to go to the funeral [...]
Ignoring imprisonment and institutionalisation
As long as it’s only women in the sex industry being exploited and abused, that is. There’s two excellent posts around on legalised prostitution at the moment, examining the way that legalisation seems to have offered an extra layer of cover for the trafficking of other women in what is tantamount to slavery, and incidentally [...]
“Let us remember that we are not our own.”
And now, the last of the “Dress and Its Relation to Health” chapter from the Ladies’ Handbook of Home Treatment, 1905. The previous parts of this chapter are here, here, and here. In which we consider women’s pro-corset angst and the appropriate rebuttals thereof, why women put up with clothing pain that men would never [...]
EvoPysch and “natural” attraction.
I’ve been stewing up an FAQ for FF101 for a while, and it hasn’t come together as well as I’d like. I want to take on EvPsych, basically, and look at some of the crap on offer that claims that somehow evolution has forced men to be attracted to (totally coincidentally highly physically vulnerable) young [...]
Wanted? Want!
If you want one too, Ducky is selling proper poster-sized versions, beautifully printed on gorgeous paper. Put it in your window for the run-up to the election, frame it afterwards and put it in the loo! Fabulous. Image Source: Ampersand Duck Related posts: Signal Boost: Octogenarians in the Melbourne Region Wanted for Theatre Project Quick [...]
Styling womanhood
[Headless Woman - Rodin] The Australian College of Midwives is looking for a new logo. And they’ve been looking for a while. It’s been a long, slow, bumpy process, and they’re now at the point of asking members for ideas. Why? The brief was simple: * The College has corporate colours (green and purple as [...]
More “chemtrails” conspiracy theory
Remember my post from last week about CT Busters? I have sadly discovered that there are way too many videos on YouTube showing their “evidence” that jets are spraying poison chemicals all over our skies. Of course, these people would call me the gullible one. Related posts: Meme of the week: Casually Pepper Spray Everything [...]
“Any woman scientist they draw looks severe and not very happy”
Top 5 Myths About Girls, Math and Science Myth 1: From the time they start school, most girls are less interested in science than boys are. Myth 2: Classroom interventions that work to increase girls’ interest in STEM run the risk of turning off the boys. Myth 3: Science and math teachers are no longer [...]
Wednesday Wow: Calanais At Dusk
The next time I go to the UK and France I’d rather like to do a tour of various stone circles, menhirs, dolmens – any megaliths really – of Britain and Brittany.
Rising damp of the womb: more Ladies’ Handbook
Further to “Fish-wives, savages and the curse of Eve”, and “So in studying the human figure we must have a standard of grace and beauty with which to compare the abnormal figure.” I bring you part 3 of “Dress and its Relation to Health”, from the Ladies’ Handbook of Home Treatment, Melbourne, 1905. ~~~ THE [...]
Censoring evolution (this week, the Netherlands)
An evangelical christian TV station in the Netherlands has been censoring Sir David Attenborough. When the Evangelische Omroep (Evangelical Broadcasting) network showed his flagship natural history series The Life of Mammals, it made several alterations to the script to take out references to evolution, the age of the Earth and the evolutionary relationships between humans [...]
Please
Please tell me this site is a wind-up. Image source: screenshot from marryourdaughter.com H/t to commentor Zwilnik at LP. Related posts: Reporting in This morning I am preemptively addressing SAD No “allegedly” about it I have nothing to add … Interesting
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