I love the new Filter Stephen Conroy site, and I’m keen to put up a similar site aimed at people who very much want their own family’s internet access to be filtered and who have bought into the idea that Conroy’s filter is going to be the easiest way to do it (and that it will work).
Month: June 2010
Endangered Sunday: Lions and tigers and bears in Montana
Jonathan Griffiths’ photos taken in a wildlife breeding preserve in remote Montana are stunning.
Femmostroppo Reader – June 12, 2010
Government Overreach Edition – what the hell is the Rudd government up to? Read’em and weep.
Otterday! And Open Thread.
Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires.
Trouble commenting? It’s not just you!
UPDATE The Second: as you can see, things are looking a bit more familiar. Sometime over the next week I’ll incorporate our hoyden images ~ tigtog
Gratuitous southern vampires (with bonus bad photoshopping!)
HBO have released some new character poster-shots, since Season 3 starts in the US on Sunday night.
This is Domestic Violence Culture: Tim Westwood on Big Brother Big Mouth
Reality TV show Big Brother has just started its eleventh and final series in the UK. BBUK has a chat show that airs after each episode, Big Brother Big Mouth. The format of BBBM is that there are two or… Read More ›
Femmostroppo Reader – June 10, 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. Maureen Dowd…gets it right? – “If I believed, as our culture seems to, that men are… Read More ›
Guest Post by Alisa Krasnostein: The Invisibility of Women in Science Fiction
Over the last couple of years, there has been increasing discussion online about the ongoing gender disparity in science fiction (SF). We still see low representations of women in science fiction magazines and anthologies, many awards shortlists, and in criticism of the genre. One of the issues that has become apparent is that those who commentate and review the genre wield much power in directing what works get read and recognised. To me, this seems like a significant wall that needs to be broken down in the quest to see women equally respected and represented in this genre.
Sex Bias in BioMedicine
Women remain vastly underrepresented in biomedical research despite significant differences in the way they experience many diseases, medications and therapies compared to men. Despite federal mandates to include women in studies, there is much that still needs to be done, says Teresa Woodruff, a leading women’s health scientist at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, in a June 9 commentary in the journal Nature.
Hoyden About Town 