Peter Lalor at the Australian‘s blogs takes a fairly standard potshot at our goverment deciding to rename the Orwellian Worckchoices scheme and then delivers a litany of cases of workers drastically disadvantaged by unscrupulous employers pushing the Howard government’s new… Read More ›
Year: 2007
Andrew Denton Knows His Audience
His final question to the three evangelist brothers – admit it, we all wanted to know about that hair. Image Credit: ABC-TV Update: the comments below have moved more to discussing the competing claims of faith and unbelief outlined in… Read More ›
Oh c’mon, get angry at Hicks, c’mon!
The Daily Terror is desperately trying to get us all upset that Hicks is getting “perks” that the rest of us should view “with a mixture of anger, suspicion and displeasure” apparently. (Never mind that these “perks” are not anything… Read More ›
It must have been the uniforms
Todays guest poster is Ohmykozy, who lives with her family in Sydney’s western suburbs and doesn’t take crap from anybody Picture this: teenage girls out for the day, accused of shoplifting and taken aside by security guards wanting to ask… Read More ›
Fluffy Feminism Redux
Last month, in one of HAT’s most commented posts, Lauredhel riffed off a trenchant criticism of the marketing around Jessica Valenti’s book Full Frontal Feminism to make some larger points about the common co-option of “sex-positive” feminism into the Feminist… Read More ›
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‘Cos fat chicks can’t be raped
Posted without comment, because it doesn’t need one. The London News reports: ‘Rape’ girl grateful for sex, says lawyer A teenage girl who claims she was gang raped by three 13-year-old schoolboys was overweight and would have been “glad of… Read More ›
Karen PWN!S! TEH n00bs
Karen Healey of Girls Read Comics and They’re Pissed riffed off Lauredhel’s Anti-Feminist Bingo Card and created an Anti-Comics-Feminist Bingo Card. Apparently some fanboyz have been having a whinge at her about it, so she has called forth the mighty… Read More ›
They still can’t tell a monkey’s arse from an ape’s elbow
Some mob of creationists out of Minnesota are putting up billboards around various other states challenging evolutionary theory with the slogan “Are They Making a Monkey out of You?”. Glenn Branch, deputy director of the National Center for Science Education… Read More ›
Abstaining from reality
A harrowingly detailed post from TerranceDC of The Republic of T (the post-title is his) about the way that AIDS education and prevention programmes worldwide, but especially in Africa, have been sabotaged by the Bush Administration’s insistence on not only… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 