Reader Challenge! 1. Go read : Abbott: Being hit at school never harmed me In which our Health Minister lectures to an Aboriginal community that what they really need to solve their problems is more violence from those in authority…. Read More ›
Year: 2007
“I will…NOT”
Marriage, or the lack thereof, is in the air at blogdom. At least at Feministe and I Blame the Patriarchy. The two threads have different moods. At Feministe there’s a lot of young unmarried women telling why they see little… Read More ›
Fat Hate Bingo!
For those who enjoyed Antifeminist Bingo: Via Kate Harding, now co blogging at Shakesville: Fat Hate Bingo from BStu!
A tigtogtip
When watching Blade Runner on DVD, having torrential rainfall on the roof as an addition to the soundtrack adds a certain frisson. Whatever happened to Rutger Hauer, anyway?
What happened to women’s rights in Iraq?
There were some long involved threads on ozblogs last week about Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Kim at LP, and those of us who agreed with her, got piled upon (twice) for disagreeing with some of Hirsi Ali’s suggestions about how to… Read More ›
Gigantoraptor: 1400 kg bird-like dinosaur!
It’s not every day paleontologists discover a new dinosaur! These discoveries take me back to the wonder of imagining the dinosaur world when I was a child. We weren’t saturated with the pre-digested smoothly-animated imagery* of Jurassic Park and Walking… Read More ›
1Q: How relevant are motives in assessing the public policy stance of a politician or commentator?
This week’s One Question is from Harry Clarke, who writes in an earlier post: In assessing testimony in a court of law motives are important. Elsewhere they are less so but they pervasively affect our attitudes. Some have argued that… Read More ›
Domestic abuse
A great post from a survivor of an abusive marriage, addressing the issue of “why do women stay?” and how responses to a survivor are often just victim-blaming instead of true support.
Talking about acting childish,
I finally downloaded some pics from my cameraphone, and here are the tiglets. Tigling is 12, and togster is 14, but they still sometimes act like they’re 5. Good on ’em.
“Acting childish” – from Feministe
There’s a long and involved thread on Feministe right now about the much-bandied-about phrase “I hate children!” The guest blogger, Roy, wonders why open hate speech against children is perfectly ok, when it’s not generally acceptable against other group of… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 