I’ve been contemplating this post: The Male Gaze… falls upon a Nursing Mother…. by Morgan Gallagher. I think there’s an important truth in there, something feminists find themselves saying over and over and over again: “It’s not about you.” Breastfeeding… Read More ›
Month: May 2007
10,000
Sometime in the next week this incarnation of Hoyden About Town will see its 10,000th comment since moving here from blogspot in September 2006. (Those interested can see the number of a comment by hovering their mouse over the datestamp… Read More ›
Yes and No
This post has been hanging around as a draft since February, because I wasn’t quite happy with it. Lindsay’s recent post (and my response), on how misusing “moderate” to describe faith positions which don’t preach intolerance imputes that the intolerant… Read More ›
Knowing Your Market
Today’s Guest Poster “Little Jim” is a masked IT professional and blogger While the outside perception is that it is still a male domain (and indeed some segments of the industry are very much like a post office), within the… Read More ›
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… Read More ›
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… Read More ›
Web 2.0 wibbling: tigtog’s recommended reads to your RSS reader (plus feminism and subculture)
People sure are coming up with lots of widgets and ways to “share” more and more material with others on the web. As if the interwebs aren’t already a far too effective tool for procrastination! Anyway, I now have a… Read More ›
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