UPDATE: OK, it looks like I misheard this one. The story wasn’t about a sex worker at all, it was about a public servant seeking worker’s compensation for an injury sustained during a sexual encounter at a work-related conference. This does put a different perspective on the joke and the reaction.
Year: 2010
Today in vile scumbaggery: just here to help
Newspaper publishes list of gay people to ‘help them live responsible lives’ Of course! Outing them is for their own good!
Sobering thought for the day: how many earn $250K?
US$250,000 is an important number because this the income level where the about-to-expire Bush tax cuts (that have got the Tea Party so energised) kick in, and these are the tax cuts that many people say are motivating their intent to vote Republican at the mid-term elections that will be held today.
Princess Boy
I was expecting this to have so much fail and was actually pleasantly surprised.
On Being Fat in Public, and Beyond Responding to Hate
Being fat in public is, so often, a political act, but just as often it’s an almost inescapable act. As a woman of colour who is often read as white, and a queer woman in a relationship with a man, these aspects of my identity are, in many cases (though not all, because so often it’s heavily dependant upon the ‘audience’), not as front-and-centre visible. My fat, however, is always here, with me.
Nurse practitioners not actually TEOTWAWKI* – yay!
The Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute (APHCRI) says its research shows Australians were comfortable with the newly expanded role to be taken on by specially trained nurses.
Femmostroppo Reader October 31, 2010
Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed-reader. What did I miss? Please share what you've been reading (and writing!) in the comments.
Guest Hoyden: Remembering The Lost
I’m just going to say again what I’ve said lots of times before – we need to construct the rituals and the social rules for talking about and publicly recognising miscarriage, still birth and infant death.
Surely the longest bow ever drawn
(This is about a rape joke, so usual trigger warnings apply, though trust me, you will get the last laugh). This article on brisbanetimes.com.au: The state government is urging Queensland clothing stores not to sell a t-shirt depicting a woman… Read More ›
Otterday! And Open Thread.
Otter Cupcakes! These little edible sea otters on blue-iced cupcakes are coming to you via EpiCute.
Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires.
Hoyden About Town 