February 2008

• Friday Hoyden: Emma Thompson
• A bigot is dead
• Feminism Friday and 52 acts
• Feminist motherhood: a definition
• Gender-switching fiction: Viola’s Bookshelf
• Launching: Holla Back Australia!
• Carnival Time!
• Marry, shag, or throw off a cliff?
• “These stunts are becoming tiresome…”
• One of these things is not like the other ones: Australia’s “best and brightest”
• Seed Vault under the Arctic frost
• “Honey, what’s five plus three?”
• Tuesday Verse
• Congratulations Shakesville!
• “Revealed: the Butcher of Bega”
• Historical scenes of sexual equality: must be fiction, or just some ritual
• Blogplug! “Oohsome”.
• “Older women […] are inclined to be cantankerous and fussy.”
• Some weekend reading
• Photoessay of the day
• Friday Hoyden: Cyndi Lauper
• Breaking news: double standard alive and well
• “For the first time, it is possible to determine by a simple, rapid and inexpensive method if a woman has got a G spot or not.”
• “Just because you can see it, doesn’t mean it’s yours.”: the political misappropriation of personal pain
• Thursday Quick Pic(k)s
• Gratuitous Eric Bana blogging
• Ralph readers vote Julia Gillard deputy sex object of the year
• iJoyRide
• Is it possible to have too much Emma Peel?
• Leonard Nimoy’s Full Body Project on The Colbert Report
• “Letting his lust get the better of him”
• Another for the “beware delegating authority to thugs who like uniforms” file
• Repellent Robbo, rape apologist
• Howard’s End on Four Corners
• Graeme Reeves: Medical rape culture and collegiality
• AntiFeminist Bingo 2
• The continuing Bushite erosion of rights and liberties
• Hypocrite Watch: Ben Stein et al
• Last minute film alert
• “Please don’t push me off my Segway.”
• Sunday Youtubery
• Telemarketing: You gotta get your amusement where you can
• Friday Hoyden from fiction: PM Anne Adair
• Friday WTF: BLOW energy drink
• Senate balance
• Earliest and latest possible election dates
• I Can’t Believe You’re Disabled! Institutional Abuse and Vulnerability
• Drinkin’, gamblin’, smokin’, shootin’ up, skull-ownin’, tattoo-havin’, and candle-burnin’: the Seven Deadly Sins
• Apology and Reparation: In Their Own Words
• Gratuitous Official International Kilt Day men in kilts blogging