The way much online advertising is structured to respond to words used in text on the page, all in the service of consumerism, is often jarring. Fat-acceptance blogs, for instance, tend not to have such advertising (which would help them… Read More ›
Year: 2007
Youth Media Survey in Western Australia
I just saw a blip on the Ten nightly news about results of a local “Youth Media Survey”. What did they find the biggest fear of young people today is? Environmental disaster? War? Terrorism? Nope. OK, we know teenagers can… Read More ›
More on Howard’s Indigenous Emergency Measures
Andrew Bartlett has the best response I’ve read so far, with David Tiley‘s a close second. Bartlett is hopeful that despite understandable cynicism about the effectiveness of measures proposed with such an intersection of cynical politicising and inadequate planning or… Read More ›
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… Read More ›
Sexual assault medicine in crisis in regional NSW
Fancy driving a round trip of 700km for a forensic medical examination after being raped? That’s what rape victims in central NSW are facing due to NSW Health’s refusal to pay the standard call-out rate for medical practitioners who are… Read More ›
Blood and guilt: Federal jackbootery roundup.
Further to tigtog’s post Howard’s Wedge, several blog posts that you may not have stumbled across on the usual round of Ozblogistan trackbacks and read ’ems. The fabulous brownfemipower cuts through all the bullshit in her post “abusing into goodness”:… Read More ›
Simple changes could end discrimination for thousands of Australian couples
This press release from the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC), dated 21 June 2007, has largely gone off the media radar due to Howard’s Indigenous Emergency plan hogging all the limelight: Changing the definitions describing de facto… Read More ›
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… Read More ›
For my librarian friends
Even I think this is uncalled for. Image Credit: xkcd.com
Cheers and jeers: rape edition
Cheers for Thailand and Jeers for Jerry Seinfeld.
Hoyden About Town 