Heffernan: Non-incubators are non-people
From today’s Australian comes this story: Liberal[1] Senator and colossal asshat Bill Heffernan says he stands by comments that Labor Deputy Leader Julia Gillard is not qualified to lead the country because she is deliberately “barren”. [...] “If you’re a leader, you’ve got to understand your community. One of the great understandings in a community [...]
Feminism – an ethic or a subculture?
This post is text yanked from the previous post, because the beginning and the end of the post were just a really, really bad match, and I think the feminist material deserved its own post. So if you’ve already read the previous post, this is the same stuff, OK? If you haven’t read it yet, [...]
“Moderate” language
Image Credit: Karen Wehrstein, Gliese 581c, uploaded by Phil Plait The picture has nothing to do with the subject of the post, it’s just v. cool (follow the link). Lindsay Bernstein, of Majikthise, has a post up talking of the effect of describing some Muslims (or some Christians) as “moderates”. Although the intent may be [...]
Take Back the Blog
Take Back the Blog was a blogswarm aimed at encouraging discussion of the rights of women to full participation in online discussions. Check out the collection of posts at Crablaw’s place. Lauredhel put up a belated post addressing the way that passive versus active language used to describe gender interactions, especially those involving sexual violence, [...]
Because “fun ‘n’ edgy” and “pornification of slavery” are so easily confused.
Hot on the heels of the murdered-gaunt-women-are-sexxxay spread from Top Model comes this “fashion spread”. Racist and sexist objectification all rolled into one odious airbrushed slavery-porn package. See it and froth. Related posts: I get very confused about being a feminazi sometimes Because portraying violence against women is so edgy, doncha know? #nestlefamily: fobbing off [...]
Kate Harding on inhabiting her own body
Kate Harding has a wonderful post, “Happy Yogaversary to Me“, on reclaiming her self as an embodied subject: Like just about all girls in this culture, I was always taught that my body was primarily something for other people to experience externally, not something I actually inhabited. By the time I was 20, without even [...]
It’s only hurting women
Austin, TX. Shorter World Media: For some reason, terrorism doesn’t count if it’s directed against women and their health care providers. From zuzu. Related posts: Friday Hoyden Quick Hit: Women Who Direct Films Finding the gaps in Australian women’s health services Femmostroppo Reader – May 22, 2009 Women who have had C sections may struggle [...]
Camille Paglia: still a intellectual minnow pretending to be a shark
Shorter Camille Paglia: young women who “hookup” for sex are degrading themselves terribly and should be less slutty, and if only one of those silly sluts had given the VTech shooter a mercy fuck then they wouldn’t be dead, which serves them right. It doesn’t really surprise me that Paglia would say something so self-contradictory [...]
Sex and stereotypes: What’s wrong with individualist fluffy-feminism
I love those blog posts that make me shout, “Yes!” Infinitethought has posted a biting critique of the bulging strawfeminist-packed closets of the so-called “sex-positive” individualist feminist, the second, larval stage of the embryonic INAFBer [1]: Trotting out the tired old line ‘I used to think that all feminists were miserable and hairy’, Valenti does [...]
Framing that Overton Window for science
This is all over the science blogs at the moment: how to present science convincingly to the public in an atmosphere of anti-science media sensationalism. It’s got a lot of scientists very agitated indeed. The debate is mostly US-centric, but there’s no reason for the science-literate elsewhere to rest on our laurels: anti-intellectualism and partisan [...]
Everyday Codebreaking in Australia, vol.1
As you know, I’ve been talking a bit about violations of the WHO Code. I’ve started collecting some examples of everyday Code-breaking in Australia. My last example was of Wyeth’s transgressions. Have you heard of Nutricia, a Dutch Numico subsidiary? Some examples of issues in Numico’s past include direct-to-mother promotional campaigns in China, hospital violations [...]
The Card’nal Pell eau d’ordure
From an opinion piece that I missed back in February, by Sydney’s Cardinal George Pell titled Scaremongers: “Global warming doomsdayers” are all wrong because, amongst other things, “January also was unusually cool.” Meanwhile, from people who took actual measurements (emphasis added): The combined global land and ocean surface temperature was the highest for any January [...]
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