Somebody please tell me this is not a real Guinness ad. Because I’d really hate to have to start boycotting it. NSFW. Not safe for anyone. Triggers. [via Sociological Images.]
Month: July 2008
On women “competing for male attention”
A whole thread on LP about the social insecurities that lead to the cosmetic surgery makeover culture has been derailed by some men who are insisting on reframing it as women’s individual sexual insecurities about their looks, and how if… Read More ›
Woman “brain-damaged” by Amazing Hydration Diet detox
Image: Culpable “nutritionist” Barbara Nash. Source: Daily Mail. BBC: “Woman left brain damaged by detox”: A woman has been awarded more than £800,000 after she suffered permanent brain damage while on a detox diet. The High Court heard Dawn Page,… Read More ›
Quick hit: Barnev’s “Birthtrack” continuous labour monitoring system
Holy crap. Rixa writes: Well, the BirthTrack is here and being actively marketed to both doctors and mothers-to-be. It consists of an internal electrode that is screwed into the baby’s head and two ultrasound clips that attach to the cervix…. Read More ›
Thursday Cheezburger
[Runners-up are below the cut. ]
Drongo day at HAT: Disingenuous troll of the week
The comment below was NOT approved for publication on my Finally, A Feminism 101 Blog. Free Clue, TrollDude – quoting Twisty Faster’s most infamous phrase ever is a big giveaway that you really just want to stir up a storm…. Read More ›
Michael Savage is a drongo
I could have used many harsher terms, but I was exhausted from outrage and despair after reading his latest, and couldn’t really give him my best invective. Apparently, despite decades of study from medical and childhood health professions, Michael Savage… Read More ›
APOD goes dancing
A couple of weeks ago I featured Matt Harding, who put up video on the internet of himself dancing, sometimes alone and sometimes with others (often a huge crowd) around the world. Today, that’s the Astronomy Picture of the Day’s… Read More ›
Matthew Garrett on ally work and the Linux community
Matthew Garrett gave this brief talk encouraging geeks to be vocal feminists/feminist allies, at LUGradio Live UK 2008 (LRLUK 2008). One reference in his “Community Hate Time” talk is to the “upskirt” photo published by Nicu Buculei at Planet Fedora… Read More ›
White privilege and the centring of white people in discussions of race and racism: a spinoff thread
This is a spinoff thread from our terrific guest post by Stephanie, “The privilege in your pocket: a manifesto”. I’m starting it from the first point where I requested that the rudeness (which involved centring of white people and scolding… Read More ›
