Today’s Morro Bay sea otter is courtesy of mikebaird at flickr. Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to get off your… Read More ›
Month: December 2009
19th Down Under Feminist Carnival is up at Mynxii’s
The Nineteenth Edition of the Down Under Feminists Carnival is up at mynxii’s place, The Professional Lap Cat! Check it out now. The Twentieth Carnival, covering posts from December, will be hosted by PharaohKatt at Something More Than Sides in… Read More ›
Femmostroppo Reader – December 11, 2009
Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. What did I miss? Please share what you've been reading (and writing!) in the comments. Facebook's New Privacy Changes: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly | Electronic Frontier Foundation –… Read More ›
No, one of these things is not like the other
Bolt engages in a disingenuous display of Deliberately Not Getting It in the guise of outrage at sexism and double standards:
Girls Gone Wild or Wild Women? or: We Never Had Nasty Sluts When I Were A Lad
Reading an article about women’s violence at Schoolies’s Week recently prompted me to pull this languishing post out of my Drafts folder. This snippet exemplifies the phenomenon of low levels of criminal or “disorderly” behaviour by young women being given… Read More ›
Thursday Cheezburger: Home Ec. With Bonus Delurking Day!
Continuing the School Subjects theme (we could be here for a while), today’s cheez theme is: Home Ec! Runnerup:
Femmostroppo Reader – December 9, 2009
Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. What did I miss? Please share what you've been reading (and writing!) in the comments. question of the day: Is Christopher Eccleston too old to play John Lennon? – Why haven’t… Read More ›
Did you know?
Did you know that being a woman means you hate Keira Knightley? Fuck Politeness has done an excellent takedown of this, so I won’t repeat it here. Also, did you know (if you are a married woman) that Tiger Woods… Read More ›
Quickhit: Last decade set to be warmest on record
I guess though that to the Glenn Becks and Sarah Palins of the world if it’s not happening right in front of them in the USA then it isn’t really happening. The rest of the world not only doesn’t matter it doesn’t even really exist.
Homo Minchinosaurus herd returns to the Opposition front bench
”John Howard and Peter Costello would have struggled to be promoted in Tony Abbott’s Liberal Party,” a senior minister, Anthony Albanese, said.
Hoyden About Town 