Bingo, anyone? Don’t you just feel awfully cheated and played for a fool by feminism now?
Month: April 2010
Femmostroppo Reader – April 19, 2010
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. Stand by your tweets – “Yesterday, coincidentally, the US National Library of Congress announced it will… Read More ›
Endangered Sunday: Wedge-Tailed Eagle
also, allegedly, known as the Eaglehawk, although that’s not a term I ever heard as a youngster. Official Status: Threatened (and Endangered in Tasmania)
“Confessional” compositions and Dudes
Anyhoo, I thought it might be fun to just have a thread listing all the songs from male performers/songwriters that draw on personal experiences and which have not been widely described as “confessional” or “diarising”.
Toby Ziegler responds to this week in the blogosphere
Josh Lyman is obviously playing “The Blogosphere” here, and of course, it’s actually every week in the blogosphere. Probably every week ever in the history of humanity, actually.
Otterday! And Open Thread.
Today’s Asian otters, Daz and Chip, reportedly lived together for fifteen years before dying within an hour of each other. They were 19 and 16 years old. Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart… Read More ›
Friday Hoyden: Jane Goodall
But what Goodall discovered made biologists, psychologists and philosophers look more closely at the great apes and their similarities to humans, provoking redefinitions of exactly what it meant to be human, and raising the question of just how far back in pre-history should paleo-anthropologists be looking for clues to the development of human behaviours.
Quick Hit – Premier’s Expert Advisory Council on Women (NSW)
Expressions of interest are invited for membership of the Premier’s Expert Advisory Council on Women. The Premier’s Expert Advisory Council provides specialist advice to the NSW Government about issues affecting the status of women in NSW. It is an expert… Read More ›
Femmostroppo Reader – April 16, 2010
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. Gizmodo: "Baby's First Cubicle: The Most Depressing Toy Ever?" – one for the WTF file Stupid… Read More ›
Quickhit: A forensic semanticist on ‘sex’ and ‘rape’
Tara Murtha at Philadelphia Weekly brings us Watch Your Language: Pedophilia, gang rape and erroneous Fox29 reporting, which has an opinion from a forensic semanticist about calling rape “having sex” or “a sexual relationship” in court: But after a recent… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 