New Hollaback Flyer!
We have a new flyer for Hollaback Australia! Click on the screengrab to download in PDF format, and distribute far and wide. Blog buttons and printable business cards to come. Related posts: Typical MND misrepresentation: shame on you, Glenn Sacks OK, his explanation does make sense after all Hollaback Douchehound of the Week: “A Pub [...]
Today’s fabricated panic: “Delayed” birth interventions causing childhood obesity?
Srsly. The ABC News is quoting economist Andrew Leigh as saying that the “delayed” interventions around baby bonus time is causing fatter children. A Canberra economist says an increase in the baby bonus could lead to unhealthier children. Research by the Australian National University’s (ANU) Andrew Leigh and a colleague suggests the introduction of the [...]
Holy traditional family values, Batman!
This frame is from the 1959 Batman comic “The Marriage of Batman and Batwoman”: Via Eatliver.com. Description is in footnote 1. Lonely Gods expands on the rest of the story: Batwoman’s status as an inferior woman was most clearly stated in the 1959 story “The Marriage of Batman and Batwoman”. In this tale, Dick Grayson [...]
Chunderama
Kathryn Jean Lopez at Townhall wishes the USA could have John Howard for their next President. In the final paragraphs she gets to her real point, which is that John McCain just isn’t conservative enough, and by damn he ought to be looking for a VP with conservative culture warrior credentials like Howard’s. Here’s where [...]
“Through heredity great things might be accomplished for the human race – as great things as have been achieved in the improvement of horses and cattle, fruits and flowers.”
Another instalment in the Ladies’ Handbook series! The original post is here. Today, chapter II, Making Marriage A Success. For Rebekkka. ~~~ Marriage is dual life; and life, we rightly say, is what we make it. How can this double life be made successful? How may this blending of two lives be made a blessing [...]
Friday Hoyden: Zoe Goss
Who can forget that golden moment when Zoe Goss dismissed Brian Lara? Goss was part of the Bradman XI side playing in the Bradman Foundation charity match in 1994. She bowled two for 60 off ten overs, including the wicket of Lara, one of the greatest batters in the history of the game. She had [...]
If the garbo truck didn’t wake me up before sparrows ack emma every week…
leading me to almost always suddenly remember “arrgh! the prawn heads!” and fang it out to the bin before the garbos get to my driveway, then I don’t think my neighbour’s bins would hardly ever get emptied. I race out, glance across and most weeks see that his bins aren’t waiting at the curb, so [...]
Failing to see the wood for the trees
Lisa Cuprio’s main thesis in Women keep maiden names for more than feminist reasons is this: In the past, women who declined to take their husbands’ names might be considered careerists or feminists. Today, a new breed of women who cling to their maiden names is emerging, and it’s one that did not grow up [...]
How to reduce teen pregnancies
Teen Pregnancy Decline: Teenage pregnancy rates continue to drop in Hackney, new figures reveal. The Office of National Statistics shows the number of teenage pregnancies has dropped by 28 per cent since 1998, compared with a national average of 13 per cent. Current teen pregnancy strategy includes peer mentoring for young mothers, one-to-one advice on [...]
Headline of the Day
Your headline du jour, courtesy of the Herald Sun: ‘Raped’ nurse may return to work I notice that it has hastily been switched to “Nurse in rape case may return to work”. Related posts: Re-post: Don’t get raped More for the “sex workers can’t be raped” file Things annoying me today Update: Child rapists jailed [...]
White flight
That’s today’s big story in the SMH: the growing trend over the last decade, in NSW especially, whereby white parents choose not to send their kids to the local public school, particularly for high school education, meaning the public schools have become predominated by indigenous and immigrant children of Middle Eastern descent. The trend has [...]
“Back Off!”: Why Holla Back Works
Check out our new header for HollaBack Australia, made by sajbrfem! She outlines the co-creation of HBA in her fifty two acts blog. The highlight is her closing line: And to those who say “can’t you take a joke” I say – sure we can, here’s one right back at ya. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I haven’t got [...]
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