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• Otterday! And Open Thread

  By lauredhel on 2008-09-06 • ( 58 )

  Today’s otter is from the Monterey Bay Aquarium, via Cute Otters. They have a new African Spotted-Necked otter baby named Ziwa, after the Swahili word for “lake” or “pond”. Ziwa will be three months old tomorrow, which is getting close… Read More ›

• Wallowing in victimhood in our purple ghetto

  By lauredhel on 2008-09-05 • ( 134 )

  And the “fair and balanced” mainstream media quote of the day goes to … The Australian! From “Redefining feminism: Have activists morphed into female chauvinist piglets?”: Unlike the professional feminists who love to wallow in victimhood in their purple ghettos,… Read More ›

• Sarah Palin feminism watch #3: the RNC and the “girls in between”

  By lauredhel on 2008-09-04 • ( 13 )

  Here’s a third datapoint in the Sarah Palin Introduces Her Children sexism series. The first two are in this post: “Republican sexism watch: Sarah Palin gives us no evidence that she values girls” (cross-posted to Shakesville). The only change is… Read More ›

• Marry, Shag, Cliff: Classic ER

  By lauredhel on 2008-09-04 • ( 16 )

  I remember watching that first episode of ER. Like you, I gasped when Carol Hathaway was wheeled in. It’s the first time I recall a TV show dealing with the sharp end of suicide attempts on TV. Hathaway was originally… Read More ›

• Thursday Cheezburger, and Delurking Day

  By lauredhel on 2008-09-04 • ( 25 )

  We’ve declared this week, being the first week of the month, to be Delurking Week! If you’ve been reading along, give us a hoy and let us know you’re there – either here (feel free to post your favourite LOLcat… Read More ›

• Republican sexism watch: Sarah Palin gives us no evidence that she values girls

  By lauredhel on 2008-09-03 • ( 30 )

  An edited version of this post has been guest-posted at Shakesville. There’s a rather lively discussion going on, if you’d like to check it out. ~~~ If I heard that someone’s teenage son was going away to war, I don’t… Read More ›

• How journalism has changed (or not)

  By lauredhel on 2008-09-02 • ( 1 )

  Tama Leaver is sharing some of the participatory-culture video projects that his Digital Media students are doing. This one is a bit of fun. Tama introduced it thus: In a similar vein but using a really different technique, ‘Something Old,… Read More ›

• Fourth Down Under Feminists Carnival is up at Blue Milk

  By lauredhel on 2008-09-01

  The wonderful Blue Milk has just published the Fourth Down Under Feminists Carnival, and a bloody marvellous effort it is too. (And four days ahead of deadline, what’s with that?) There’s a whole lot of Olympics, a whole lot of… Read More ›

• Raped by elves

  By lauredhel on 2008-09-01 • ( 31 )

  We’ve identified before that passive voice agent-deletion is a particular problem in reports of sexual violence. The victim is centred, just as she is in most narratives of sexual violence (and its prevention), and the perpetrator is disappeared altogether or… Read More ›

• “Soon they’ll be telling us that we can’t thrash our own wives.”

  By lauredhel on 2008-08-31 • ( 6 )

  If you didn’t get on to Green Wing last time tigtog mentioned it, you can add my voice to the chorus. Imagine Scrubs minus the glossy Americanishnessness and the relentless unselfconscious misogyny, and plus actors who are willing to laugh… Read More ›