Kate Harding – feminism, fat and more Tama Leaver dot Net – digital culture Diary of a Research Artist – journey toward a PhD with cyberfeminist Art Girls Read Comics (And They’re Pissed) Karen Healey, Kiwi using pissed in the… Read More ›
Month: April 2007
Silencing with “attack”, the misuses of logic, and reclaiming emotion
I’ve been contemplating the buzzword “attack”. While it is worth keeping a lid on egregious, unwarranted, off-topic ad hominem remarks, “personal attack” seems to verge on being a means to shut down dissent in some online discussions. It can function… Read More ›
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?… Read More ›
Unimpressed
The Gawker has jumped the shark. “LOLGayz”, FFS. Othering, anyone?
Weekend Wibbling: From Peri to Fraggles
Don’t ask me why, but I’ve been contemplating fairy mythology in kidlit and TV, specifically fairy proxies like The Fraggles and The Borrowers. This idea – that there is a whole world of tiny, wise and/or mischievous creatures, that are… Read More ›
Friday Fluffy, thoughtful bloggers, the cute factor and FOOD
image from NYT This image is for Penguin Unearthed, who kindly included me in her list of bloggers who make her think a few weeks ago.
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… Read More ›
Equality, all packaged up (Open obstreperation thread)
originally uploaded by LT See the comparative superheroine art at I Read Comics: Equalism Then check out the broken-back barbies in the Oh, Just Stop It. Now. post. Longstanding readers may remember a post on my original tigtogblog linking to… Read More ›
This is what a godbag looks like
It’s not a term I use that often, but this is the simple definition of godbag that I just added to a jargon file today: godbag – religious authoritarian, theocrat That’s always what the word has meant. There are, sadly,… Read More ›
Draft Blog Reader’s Code of Conduct: Don’t threaten to rape and kill her.
I can’t help thinking that this whole brouhaha over O’Reilly’s proposed “Blogger’s Code” is begging to be re-jiggered along the lines of that “Don’t rape her” meme from a while back. So, my draft Blog Reader’s Code: * If a… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 