Today in sexism
Finance Minister Senator Penny Wong gets called ‘catty’ in Parliament by Coalition member, Senator David Bushby and addresses it head on. See the video here. Related posts: About #ditchthewitch Homophobia and racism: the Australian media prove they can do two things at once A Minister for Men? Quicklink: newswithnipples on Mark Latham’s sexism Oh please, [...]
Farewell to the Space Shuttle
Just watched Endeavour‘s last landing at the Kennedy Space Center. For a little while, you can still see it sitting on the runway going through its final postflight checks, via this livestream.
Bingo Card: My Need For Female Attention Outweighs Your Lack of Interest or Sense of Safety
Reading an old thread about self-proclaimed “nice guys” who refuse to take no for an answer, I realised that we had thrown around the idea of a bingo card in comments.
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Gutless buck-passing bastards
Mr Barrett said the church’s commitment to the defence of Best and other convicted clergy contrasted to its treatment of victims.
Pedant’s Corner: Dear BBC Knowledge Channel,
Your earlier show “A Victorian Farm” could have been arguably marketed as “the dawn of the Industrial Age”, but it was well past noon by Edward’s time. Why does your marketing department have to embarrass all those poor historians like this?
@mfarnsworth on Blanchett
Malcolm Farnsworth on the Murdoch Media’s confected outrage du jour: actress Cate Blanchett has political opinions, and dares to share them in public.
Re-post: But why shouldn’t she take some responsibility too for the rape?
Image credit here. In honour of the Slut Walk happening in parts of Australia at the moment I am re-posting this piece, which orginally appeared here on blue milk. TRIGGER WARNING – graphic description of rape. ——————————————– I am going to assume the person who left this comment on my post Don’t get raped is [...]
Re-post: Don’t get raped
Image credit here. In honour of the Slut Walk happening in parts of Australia at the moment I am re-posting this piece, which orginally appeared here on blue milk. From Amelia Bentley’s article in the brisbane times (my use of bold in the excerpt below): A 17-year-old girl’s drunken night out at Brisbane club Friday’s [...]
Anti-racist awareness and denial within progressive spaces
Two very important posts on anti-oppression conversations that so often implode and intersectional goals that end up not being reached. I’m bookmarking these.
Captain Jack sings one of my favourite songs.
John Barrowman performing ‘You’re so vain’ from his album ‘Another Side’, on The midweek national Lottery Draw. (14/11/07)
Why the 9 months delay?
I’ve also been waiting for one single news story on the matter to point out that it’s not just the soldiers at risk, it’s also the sexual partners of every single one of those soldiers over the last 9 months, some of whom may end up infected when that could so easily have been avoided by timely notification. So far I’ve seen nothing even mentioning the possibility.
Vale Bob Gould, Bookseller Extraordinaire
If you imagine the stereotypical, small, dusty secondhand bookshop, enlarge it substantially and then imbue this cavern with many of the bigger-on-the-inside properties of the TARDIS as if designed by Escher you might start to get a feel for how those shops worked.
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