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• Twilight Eclipse

– “Here’s the dilemma. I have to think of Eclipse from two different perspectives. The first from a business perspective and the second from a content perspective.[…] A female led franchise will open in the most theatres EVER. Sounds to me like the game has changed.[…] Then we get to the actual movie. Now, just remember we don’t do content analysis on big Hollywood films that star guys like we do for the ones that star women. So we are already creating a double standard here.”

• Make Your Dude-Dominated Subculture More Accessible to Women

– Bookmark it – you’ll want to send this to people

• Homebirthing may soon disappear

– ” However the Review’s report has recommended against the government offering indemnity insurance for private homebirth midwives.

If the recommendation is taken up midwives will be unable to register themselves on this national list and since it’s illegal to practise midwifery without such registration (and the offence carries a jail term), homebirths, legally midwife-supported homebirths that is, will become a thing of the past.

The review’s antagonistic stance towards homebirth is perplexing.”

• The making of Ming the Merciless

– “It is noteworthy that while the faction brokers may have got rid of their number one enemy, things are not back as they were. Gillard has retained the power of appointing the Ministry, rather than the factions, a century long tradition that Rudd broke. At the end of the day, the factions cannot fully recover because the social base for their existence has gone.”

• Where are all the feminist tweeters?

– crazybrave tells you!

• Links of Great Interest: Sit down and shut up.

– linkfest from hathor’s legacy

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Tags: Read-ems