Items of interest come across recently in my feed-reader. What did I miss? Leave your own interesting links in comments. Shameless self-promotion entirely welcome!
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- Nasty News About How Some Religious and Cultural Values Hurt Women
- Linksplosion: a bit of everything edition
- Fox Calls Obama’s Birthday Party a “Hip Hop BBQ”
- On tech conferences and the amazing invisible women
- While we struggle to attract women to tech, the skeptics already have a plan.
- Why Startups Should Try to Hire Women « Jean Hsu
- Count us out; disability and the Census – Opinion – ABC Ramp Up (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
– “I chose to write about these two stories not because they would somehow be representative of the way women are generally treated in either place (they are not), but because they are both examples of bad treatment of women which is seen as sanctioned by either religion or social norms. These twist and turn the bad treatment into something good.”
– collected links from Chally
– “Back in 2009, Media Matters’ John Delicath wrote that Fox Nation “craft[s] inflammatory and widely misleading headlines for links to articles by news organizations whose content contradicts the Fox headline.” Indeed. None of the stories that are linked to in this post — from Politico, the Chicago Sun Times, and ABC — are stories about how Obama’s party was over-run by blackness. But by linking to these sources with an invented headline, Fox Nation attempts to borrow their authoritativeness for its own nefarious project.”
– “But it wouldn’t hurt you to take a minute to see if your definition of “qualified” sounds kind of similar to “I’ve heard of him/her before.” That six to ten percent of potential speakers who are currently at home watching Doctor Who and developing Android apps rather than sitting in a hotel watching Doctor Who and honing their conference presentation may well be more knowledgable and better qualified than that guy you have on speed dial.”
– Ha!
– “What infuriates me the most about posts like these is that people have the nerve to make blanket statements about gender based on their own experience.”
– Are you living independently with, but significantly impacted by, a disability? Your voice will not be counted.
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Hoyden About Town 
I loved the Jean Hsu article, although many of the comments were an illustration of how far we *haven’t* come. This comment she quotes makes me reach for the bucket:
This is tangential to Hsu’s article, but does anyone else read “mommy” and “mommies” as essentially an infantilising label? The word always reminds me of a small moomin. USian Hoydens, do you find our “mum” equally infantilising? It might just be my cultural bias, but I find Mommy and Mommies such irritating words. If my kids have kids themselves later on and we as a society adopt that, I’m bailing – get me the hemlock!