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?
Some great angry writing from feminists.
What do these two pieces of popular culture have in common?
(TW: references to violence (including sexual violence) against women)
If not, go and read bluemilk’s latest for Daily Life. Have a tissue or forty handy. TW: involves a snake.
To add to your bookmarks, here’s Cordelia Fine in New Scientist running through some more of the scientific evidence that gendered toys are a product of socialisation rather than genetics.
Our Southern Stars women’s cricket team won their third straight World T20 title on Sunday, beating England by six wickets in the final.
Those who follow me on Twitter may have already seen a fair few of these links. What have you found worth reading/hatereading lately?
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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?
The common-sense notion that liars betray themselves through body language appears to be little more than a cultural fiction
Hoyden About Town 