2011 – Page 68 – Hoyden About Town

Can you offer emergency animal foster care in Brisbane area?

By tigtog on 2011-01-11 • ( 7 )

Several RSPCA animal shelters are flooded or about to be. I’m donating, since I’m too far away to foster.

Please only call RSPCA QLD hotlines if you have an animal emergency.

Email offers of help or donate through the website.

Something wrong in the wiring.

By Mindy on 2011-01-10 • ( 3 )

There must have been a glitch in my wiring then, somehow I got the ‘male’ wiring and I am obviously an affront to nature or at least to motherhood. I don’t want to be a ‘house-wife’ and I think that is a pretty awful term with a nasty stereotype “what did you do all day?” attached and doesn’t reflect the reality of unpaid work whether you have children or not. ‘Working mother’ is a tautology, because it doesn’t matter whether you are paid or unpaid you are still working. Bloody hard I might add.

Femmostroppo Reader January 10, 2011

By tigtog on 2011-01-10 • ( 4 )

Items of interest come across recently in my feed-reader. Lots of reaction to the Arizona shootings. What did I miss? Leave your own interesting links in comments.

a winged monkey sculpture crouched against a chimney stack

How I minimise the online abuse I receive

By tigtog on 2011-01-09 • ( 17 )

So here is an assortment of technical tips & tricks whereby bloggers can cut down the volume and the repetition coming from this cyberbullying cadre of keyboard jockeys, making the harassment little more than a tiny hiss of background noise instead of an overwhelming flood of spite.

carcharias taurus, Maroubra, Sydney, by Doug Anderson, CC BY-NC

Endangered Sunday: grey nurse shark

By Mary on 2011-01-09 • ( 3 )

I’ve been in the water with a lot of sharks: leopard sharks, wobbegongs, Port Jackson sharks, grey and white tipped reef sharks and grey nurse sharks. What’s a scary thing I’ve encountered diving? That dreaded apex predatory homo sapiens. Homo sapiens is of course the big threat to today’s Endangered Sunday species, the grey nurse shark or carcharias taurus.

Otterday! And Open Thread.

By lauredhel on 2011-01-08 • ( 8 )

The photo was taken in the Pforzheim wildlife park (English translation) in the Black Forest, Germany.

Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires.

BFTP: Friday Hoyden – Eleanor of Aquitaine

By tigtog on 2011-01-07 • ( 2 )

Another Summer Slowdown blast from the past post from the archives.. A long time e-friend in 2006 welcomed the arrival of his second daughter, to be known as Eleanor.

I love that name, as Eleanor of Aquitaine (at various times Prince of Aquitaine as ruling Duchess, Queen of France, Queen of England, Queen Mother and Regent of England) is my favourite historical hoyden. EofA is, indeed, how I judge the quality of any encyclopaedia I encounter.

BFTP: How To Be A Bitch

By tigtog on 2011-01-07 • ( 1 )

This is not a repost exactly, as I am revisiting more than one previously published post in response to yet another comment left over at FF101 about How Feminism Killed Chivalry, So Enjoy Lifting Those Heavy Parcels Ladies, Because It Serves You Right. This is a favourite trope amongst the antifeminists, about how feminists will be sorry Real Soon Now because they’re saving themselves for real feminine women, who know how to be properly grateful when a man makes a big display of how nice he’s being right now when he could be being really nasty instead, but he isn’t being nasty right now, because he’s just Such A Nice Guy especially just for you.