Is 8% better pay, on average, much compensation for men given what they have to put up with for being men? You decide.
Month: August 2012
2012 Australian Women Writers Challenge Review: The Sisters Antipodes by Jane Alison
An extra review for the 2012 Australian Women Writer’s Challenge – The Sisters Antipodes by Jane Alison
Quickhit: World Breastfeeding Week and the Astroturfed “Mommy Wars”
[…] I’ve really had it with sensationalist attempts to fuel the mommy wars. All mothers are criticized for how they feed their babies no matter what choices they make.
Otterday! And Open Thread.
Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to get off your chest? Reading a good book (or a bad one)? Anything in the news that you’d like to discuss? What have you created lately? Commiserations, felicitations, temptations, contemplations, speculations?
Friday Hoyden, Olympic edition: Gillian Rolton
It’s Olympics time and again, we learn the names of athletes who we never hear of at other times. As a nation we’re obsessed with swimmers and runners and ball sports, but our equestrians kick serious butt. We see horse… Read More ›
Raising daughters to have high self-esteem and the problem with that
So much good analysis in this piece from Jessica Valenti in The Nation – “The Upside of Ugly”: But this is the problem with teaching young women that the key to happiness and success is self-esteem. If our end goal… Read More ›
Friday Fluff: eaglets!
Found nesting on top of a monopole (cell phone tower), the baby eagles are to be left and allowed to leave the nest naturally.
The Drawbacks Of A Healthy Eating Internet Education
I know you. We have a lot in common. You have been doing some reading and now you are pretty sure everything in the grocery store and your kitchen cupboards is going to kill you.
Whovian Squee: trailer for upcoming season
Beware casting spoilers, if those bother you.
De Botton on sex – even odder than you might have expected
Apparently Alain de Botton knows exactly how everybody feels about sex (just like he does! how convenient!) while being blithely unaware of the sheer TMI factor. This review of his latest book How To Think More About Sex at sexandthe405.com is long, comprehensive and unfavourable.
Hoyden About Town 