Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed The rape myth in action March 28, 2009 – “Because eye and body contact and not telling someone to stop is consent to penetrative sex, right? “ Pregnancy as public property… Read More ›
Month: March 2009
Daily Femmostroppo Reader – March 27, 2009
Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed Single and knocked up March 27, 2009 – magazine tells only the stories that serve a romantically conservative agenda regarding unplanned pregnancies Where My Wild Things At? March 27, 2009 –… Read More ›
Sub-editing fail
AKA How the addition of a single word results in a headline that doesn’t provoke the Laura Norder crowd to clutch their pearls.
Assuming, of course, that one doesn’t want to confect a controversy via a plausibly deniable misrepresentation.
Daily Femmostroppo Reader – March 26, 2009
Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed Information Reservoirs (or) How I Keep Track of a Large Amount of Incoming Information March 26, 2009 – Some good tips for organisation in the digital age Website page titles –… Read More ›
“Hon, it was just an AK-47!”
Just a quickhit as I’m spoon-missing today: The Anchorage Daily News reports on a multiple-rape, assault, and murder trial underway in court this week. * Sexual violence trigger warnings.*
Censor board hacked
The Australian Government’s Classification board website has been hacked. The text:
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Somebody Think of the Children.
A bit juvenile? Nos. Not particularly helpful? Sure. Illegal? Yup.
But I can’t help but have a leetle soft spot lurking in my heart for humorous, non-destructive civil disobedience in the face of bulldozing authoritarianism.
So who’s up for a grogblogmeet in Melbourne?
I’m there to play with a media pass for not-quite the first week of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, arriving Wednesday 1st and heading back Tuesday 7th. Who’s up for booze and food somewhere on Saturday (4th) or Sunday (5th)… Read More ›
Idle musing
For all those pharmacists and nurses and doctors out there who think that they ought to be able to have a conscience clause regarding abortion? To the point of not even referring patients to willing medical practitioners?
What do you think about the idea that a pacifist should be able to join the military and expect to draw a pay check and advance in rank while exercising a conscience clause with respect to weapons that kill people?
Dolphins blowing bubble rings
Did you all know about this, and just not tell me? Seaworld dolphins blowing bubble rings with their blowholes, and playing with them! And teaching each other how to do it! This has made my day. Or maybe my week…. Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 