Friday Hoyden: Keiko Fukuda
I was a judo player through my university years. Judo was an essential ingredient in my personal realisation of my bodily strength and mental power. I learned that I could jump, fall, roll, lift, and throw; and I learned that I could escape a stranglehold or an armlock or a larger person trying to pin [...]
*grin* Stop having a sook, Australia
What a glorious rant! Starring a Chopper Reed impersonator. This video uses language that is Not Safe For most Workplaces. Related posts: My favourite place in Australia Which books best capture a feeling of Australia for you? Stop looking at my Mom Grin du jour. Hands up anyone who was offended
The useless bit of flesh around a vagina
[Image credit: Cincinnati Institute for Reproductive Health] I think every feminist has a least favourite term for “women”. And they’re all teeth-grindingly offensive in different ways: “girls”, “broads”, “chicks”, “babes”, “coeds”, “fillies”, “skirts”. Meredith Clark offers an article on the “f-word” on Tallahassee.com: “No, not that one! It’s ‘female’ “. (She is talking specifically of [...]
Paris takes new tack to attract Rugby World Cup spectators
Hmmm. It certainly got at least one Londoner’s attention. Related posts: Possibly the most Extreme act of Rugby World Cup Avoidance evah Public Transport Authority takes crip-blaming to a new level Now, I’m not the biggest Beckham fan in the world Some things make the world a better place Seven’s slur on rugby international
Wednesday Wow
The photo below, apart from being beautifully composed, spoke to me simply by evoking the great white cold so effectively. It’s not quite that cold here, but yesterday was Sydney’s coldest day in 20 years.
Recklessly supplying a SIM card
Curmudgeon of the Day goes to the caller I heard on ABC702 talkback radio this morning (paraphrased from memory): What a ridiculous charge?…How do you even do that? Tie it to a brick and chuck it at someone? He’s talking of course of Dr Mohammed Haneef, who was yesterday granted conditional bail by a Queensland [...]
So, is it OK?
crossposted at Feministe Jessica, Amanda, Twisty and Violet Socks (and Melissa too!)have all written about this article: Is it OK to Demand Anal Sex?. The picture accompanying the article is odiously twee and threatening simultaneously, and as virtually every respondent noted for starters, when is it ever OK to demand any kind of sex? (The [...]
What do disabled people, fat people, and indigenous languages have in common? They’re not disposable.
Read ‘Ems for today: Sunday Telegraph: Quadriplegic left on train Mark McCauley, a man with quadriplegia, was abandoned on a New South Wales CityRail train for four hours when the train lost power. The ambulatory passengers were all evacuated one hour into the debacle. Luckily, he had his mobile phone on him. His first call, [...]
Review: Exit The King
I was fortunate enough to step into a seat for the sold-out season of this play when my Belvoir St Theatre-subscribing friend C’s friend C was too ill to make it. How lucky was I? Geoffrey Rush on stage in Eugene Ionescu’s absurdist farce on mortality. There’s some comprehensive reviews of his performance available. [The [...]
Sigh
(Now crossposted at Feministe – I’m guest-blogging there this week. Thanks, Jill!) 10 points to Indian journalist Saira Kurup for debunking the myth of bra-burning feminists as part of a column about the history of the bra. -100 points for not getting the larger point, although Kurup is far from the only one who missed [...]
Where the wild political parodies are
My ISP hates me and I can’t hardly browse anything at the moment. Luckily I have siblings with computers who also have kids whose cuteness is second only to mine own sprogs’ cuteness who can be blogged about. Image credit: originally uploaded by tigitogs I uploaded this photo from my sister’s extensive collection of sprogshots, [...]
Fundiewatch: a Catholic prenatal diagnosis “counselling service”
Two of our local Catholic hospital networks have collaborated to offer a new so-called “counselling service, dubbed “Mamreh”. These two hospitals combined have a lot of community credibility already, as they provide the vast majority of private-hospital maternity services in this State. Baby-catching (or baby-cutting-out, for over half the births in these hospitals) is big [...]
This is nasty.
Although I am, to quote an old Sandra Boynton gag, “eruditer than you” (or at least most), I still found reading through the composition quoted below involved more than a handful of false starts and reversals. Via Making Light, via a comment quite a way down the thread about the sudden emergence of the word [...]
A timeline to think upon
If Iran Were America (And We Were Iran): A Timeline This is a very well done example of reversing protagonists and putting shoes on other feet. It’s also a useful pointer for people who have been previously unaware of just how much throttling of autonomous political movements in ex-colonial resource-rich states has been done by [...]
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