Femmostroppo Reader 2013-01-21

If you follow me on Twitter, you may have already seen these items of interest encountered recently in my feed-reader or via twitter (please consider following some of the bloggers/tweeters). What did I miss? (I missed a lot this week – very busy with family stuff) Leave your own interesting links or pithy observations in comments. Shameless self-promotion entirely welcome!


 

  1. If you want to discriminate for religious reasons you can’t also accept taxpayers money and have tax exemptions as well. No you ain’t.

  2. Fiddling around with @ALeighMP‘s long-run inequality data – inequality is nearly twice as high as it was in the 1970s pic.twitter.com/yt1MdQwf

  3. If you conflate “socialism” and “nazism” then not only do you understand neither but you probably don’t understand “conflate”.

  4. When I’m PM, you all have permission to mention my clothes in news reports. “He wore the floor-length brocade and carried the holy scepter.”

  5. Religious groups free to discriminate against pregnant women. Wrong, wrong. http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/-2ctsz.html …

  6. @scalzi cracks me up with these fundraiser stunts | Another Act of Whimsy: Choose Cory Doctorow’s Face! http://wp.me/p5Fv-5mK 

  7. “Good journalists are troublemakers” | The Failed Estate: FEIJOA Awards, 2012 http://thefailedestate.blogspot.com/2013/01/feijoa-awards-2012.html …

  8. Wot! MT@JulianSimpson1: Some bizarre genius: Watch Neal Stephenson slice up fruit with swords on high-speed video http://io9.com/5975503/watch-neal-stephenson-slice-up-fruit-with-swords-on-high+speed-video …

  9. RT @shivtan: sex education nonexistent- where it exists it focuses on pure biological facts not on feelings, mutual respect, #respectnotrape

  10. Call for Feminism 101 Links IV on the Finally, A Feminism 101 Blog #FF101 http://wp.me/p4Jb1-kf 

  11. Shocking attitudes point to deep misogyny in Congo | Women Under Siege Project http://buff.ly/UBNrFg  Absolutely heartbreaking.

  12. Gov says it’d charge Manning the same way if he’d leaked to NYT, so LA Times calls for dropping aiding the enemy charge http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-0113-manning-20130112,0,3161764.story …

  13. I am sick of people who’ve never read a romance or a YA novel casually dismissing the entire genres. Do some research, you tedious people.

  14. Single parents wrongly told to destroy their concession cards after moving to Newstart payments – Daniel Hurst http://bit.ly/10sEBmb 

  15. What we cover when we cover politics http://andrewelder.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/what-we-cover-when-we-cover-politics.html … by @awelder on a better way to report & analyse federal poltics #auspol #ausmedia


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