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.
- Don’t we have more important things to do?
- Anti-filter Facebook Page blocked
- Rats get caught in the same mess
- Gay parenting and the law
- Senator Quixote deserves to be told off
- ‘That is so gay!’
- A must-read: how ghostwriters helped sell HRT
- The best of the rest of the internet
– “Our readers know we make things more dramatic than they really are, yet we continue to act like we’re smarter than them. I don’t even think it’s about writing for each other, rather than writing for our audience – I think we’re so used to using journalese that we’ve long since stopped thinking about what the words mean.”
– Silenced with no notification or explanation for 8 days and counting
– “The power of the media often gets over-stated. Ultimately people form their views based on their experiences. The media may influence how those experiences are interpreted, but ultimately are limited by what those experiences are. The media cannot make things up out of thin air and be credible. However, one reason why the media’s power tends to be exaggerated is the hollowing out of the political process. The more detached from a social base, the more insecure is the political class and the more it understands it as losing a “battle of ideas” through the media.”
– “Indeed, when one looks at the moral objections to same-sex parenting, often the same critcisms can be applied to heterosexual parenting, and these objections just don’t stand up:”
– “As long as the filter is Government policy, we must maintain the rage; the possibility of floor-crossing Liberals, a double-dissolution election, or regulation-based solution can still keep us up at night.”
– “The problem with using language such as ‘faggot’ when you are not aware of its history and what it signified and still does signify is that you make light of the violence behind such language.”
– “For those who have been mystified by the resolute defence of HRT by some specialists, for those who are interested in integrity in publishing, medicine and science, and for those who enjoy a shocking yarn”
– linkfest from Rachael Hills
Categories: linkfest
The 109th Down Under Feminists Carnival is up! 
The 105th Down Under Feminists Carnival is up! 
Hoyden About Town 
In the really vile and potentially triggering category. There’s an action alert at the New Agenda. They are calling for people to email News Corps about alleged comedian Louis CK’s misogynist tweets and the most disgusting series of ableist insults I have encountered in a long time. Sarah and Trig Palin were the targets. Again.
There’s a great article at the Guardian about the resurrection of the misogynist comedian: The rise of the rape joke
This shit is hostile, dudes.
”It’s Not That Bad,” Except When It Is: on how we talk ourselves out of realizing that oppression is very bad indeed.
Nice post, Dani. Thanks for sharing. I like your blog!