Weekend Wobot: Woomba
Hot on the heels of floral-soaked feminine hygiene products everywhere comes Woomba, taking the hard work out of women’s business. A miniature disc-shaped robot, Woomba is pink (of course), sensor-equipped, and fully-automated. Set and forget! (if the Youtube link doesn’t work, try here.) Related posts: Weekend Womenscraft: knitting shrugs and shawls Weekend Earworms Art for [...]
By any other name?
Guest post by sajbrfem. Fat acceptance has recently beeped on my radar, despite living the majority of my life one or two dress sizes outside a convenient mainstream shopping experience, I had not been aware of this movement until now. My new awareness is largely due to Kate Harding, and of course the amazing Hoydens. [...]
Friday Fun: Which feminist icon are you?
Well, I try and kick arse, but I don’t really think I kick an Angela Davis level of arse. (Updated to Add: see, although Crikey! has just described Hoyden About Town as “dispens[ing] its femmobolsho views loudly, proudly and with plenty of bite”, in contrast The Stranger‘s blog Slog last week called us a “charming [...]
In which I judge a book by its cover
Guest post by Helen on the Cast Iron Balcony. Thanks to Tigtog for honouring me with an invitation to guest post at Hoyden while she whizzes down mountains. Recently, the folks at IBTP have been bemoaning the pinkification of everything (something also deplored by Barbara Ehrenreich, Twisty and Tigtog). Coincidentally, while relaxing with the dead-tree [...]
Ten year old girl “asked for it”
In today’s “YayRape!”-judge news, a judge in the UK has offered up a very light sentence to a pedophile who raped a ten-year-old girl. Why? Because of what she was wearing. In the latest case, Oxford Crown Court heard harrowing details of the assault on the 10-year-old. She was attacked in a park in South [...]
Soundbite shortcomings in a nutshell
Because this blog discusses sexuality, sexual violence, homosexuality and gendered insults etc with the intent to inform, a ratings system based on words alone gets us lumped in with sites that are nothing but sexual titillation and/or gender vilification. Mingle2 – Blog Rating This rating was determined based on the presence of the following words: [...]
Feminism Friday: Reclamation: thoughts from a fat hairy uppity angry gimp bitch
This post started with me suggesting a FAQ on reclamation for the “Finally, a Feminism 101 Blog” blog: “But there’s a whole feminist magazine called Bitch and a book called The Ethical Slut, so why can’t I call you a slutty bitch?” I tried to write a one-paragraph answer, but things snowballed a little. Here’s [...]
Feminist ethics and digital communities
A discussion in another blog reminded me that I hadn’t yet got around to HTMLifying my exploration of feminist ethics in digital communities. I’ve put it up here. I’m particularly interested to hear responses to these questions: In a blog comment community, who has the right to participate in the production and enforcement of norms, [...]
What about the sex workers?
I want to examine two points I’ve noted are repeatedly raised by anti-feminists, and both ignore certain realities of sex work. The first argument is against the idea that the gender gap in pay either exists, or, if it does exist, the argument goes that it is justified because men’s work is more dangerous than [...]
“I will…NOT”
Marriage, or the lack thereof, is in the air at blogdom. At least at Feministe and I Blame the Patriarchy. The two threads have different moods. At Feministe there’s a lot of young unmarried women telling why they see little need to join the marriage tradition, and if they do they won’t go along with [...]
What happened to women’s rights in Iraq?
There were some long involved threads on ozblogs last week about Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Kim at LP, and those of us who agreed with her, got piled upon (twice) for disagreeing with some of Hirsi Ali’s suggestions about how to best end the oppression of women in Islamic cultures. The offended were a whole bunch [...]
Feminist Frustrations
That’s Eryn Loeb’s title for her Bookslut review of two recent feminist primers: Jessica Valenti’s Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman’s Guide to Why Feminism Matters and Megan Seely’s Fight Like a Girl: How to be a Fearless Feminist. Loeb details the strengths and weaknesses of both works, and questions both the clarity of the [...]
Puking up pink
I first saw this story from Zenobia, then Jess McCabe added to it, and then Twisty got a hold of it and spanked it. I have little to add to their words, but I thought that what the story really needed was a photo essay. Short version: an airline is putting together a special “shopping [...]
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