[TW: rape culture] Don’t know about it yet? You’re lucky. Here’s a timeline. Geek Feminism and Shakesville have multiple posts on how Penny Arcade fucked up not so much with just(!) an insensitive rape joke in their webcomic, but with their mockingly dismissive responses (and how that played into their fans’ responses) to people’s objections to that webcomic.
Month: February 2011
Victorian storms & floods
Check in, if you’ve got power! Watch out for those tricksy flash floods, and when do we get a week free of natural disaster dangers please?
Otterday! And Open Thread.
Otters! Vicious little wea —
dawwwwww.
Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires.
What will it take for Hosni Mubarak to go already?
Hundreds have already been killed and the violence is escalating. Let your people get on with it without you and your mates. You are not needed.
Insensitive arseholes alert: not enough tragedy for their taste
Via Possum at Pollytics, I have been made aware that Caroline Overington and other people who work for the Oz’s Media Diary think that problems with devastating cyclones and killer heatwaves have been given too much attention, presumably since not enough people have died from them.
Femmostroppo Reader February 3, 2011
Items of interest come across recently in my feed-reader. I deliberately didn’t link to lots of coverage of Australian natural disasters or the Egyptian uprisings, because there’s just so much to sort through. What else did I miss? Leave your own interesting links in comments.
Quick hit: NSW Coalition drops active anti-ethics classes policy
The NSW Coalition has said they will not attempt to reverse the introduction of ethics classes in Special Religious Education time this year. Classes begin this term.
Thursday Cheezburger – Obvious Troll is Obvious
Today’s theme is: Obvious Troll is Obvious
Post your own favourite in-theme Cheez (or other macro image) here, and wait for admin image magic to make it appear.
*snerk* The Personality Traits of Feminists
So many terrible, terrible attributes we have – oh the shame! Discovered by David Futrelle at man boobz, who reads MRA/MGTOW sites so that you don’t have to:
Hoyden About Town 