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• All aboard the Big Brother douchetrain: Nobbi and Ben’s inexpert manipulation

  By lauredhel on 2008-06-07 • ( 3 )

  I’ve been writing a little about the bullying campaign against Travis in the Big Brother Australia house in this 2008 season. Ringleader Nobbi took out the Friday Night Live games tonight, prompting for the first time a resounding round of… Read More ›

• Friday Hoyden: Whoopi Goldberg

  By lauredhel on 2008-06-06 • ( 2 )

  This Friday Hoyden is in video, thanks to the wonders of Youtube! Everything you wanted to know about the wonderful, forthright Whoopi Goldberg. Scroll down for descriptions.

• The Inaugural Down Under Feminists Carnival

  By lauredhel on 2008-06-06 • ( 33 )

  Hoyden About Town is proud to present the first edition of the Down Under Feminists Carnival! I hope you enjoy this spectacular buffet of feminist writing. The Down Under Feminists Carnival is open to feminist submissions from any blog based… Read More ›

• Thursday Cheezburger

  By lauredhel on 2008-06-05 • ( 3 )

  (Yes, I’m working on the carnival.)

• Dismembered Summer Glau in Sarah Connor Chronicles posters

  By lauredhel on 2008-06-03 • ( 11 )

  Liss at Shakesville has posted before about the commercial exploitation of woman as dismembered body parts: It’s so very girly to get all worked up about novelty boobs. Oh, you’re such a girl. You’re fucking right I’m a girl. I’m… Read More ›

• Women who have had C sections may struggle to get health insurance in the USA

  By lauredhel on 2008-06-03 • ( 1 )

  Health insurance for women is being denied, or premium-loaded, in the wake of the Cesarean section upsurge. The New York Times reports “After Caesareans, Some Women See Higher Insurance Cost”: When the Golden Rule Insurance Company rejected her application for… Read More ›

• Quick hit: China earthquake rescue stories in comics

  By lauredhel on 2008-06-03 • ( 4 )

  Coco Wang has documented some horrifying, heartbreaking, touching, and even funny China earthquake rescue stories. The stories are presented in the style of a graphic novel, at Paul Gravett’s place. Bring your tissues, and time to compose yourself. My thoughts… Read More ›

• Journalwatch: Ethics chairs unaware of research sexism; breast cancer and HRT use fall in concert

  By lauredhel on 2008-06-02 • ( 8 )

  In today’s Hoyden Journalwatch: Adelaide bioethics researchers found that human research ethics committee chairs in Australia were unaware of issues of sexism in scientific research. The research, published in today’s Medical Journal of Australia[1], consisted of interviews with 25 chairs… Read More ›

• All Fun and Games: Bullying and assault in the Big Brother house

  By lauredhel on 2008-06-01 • ( 14 )

  Update 3 Jun 08: Eye on Big Brother is now saying that the product squirted into Travis’s eye was not a body cleansing product as BB had claimed, but a shower mould remover, as we at Hoyden About Town suspected…. Read More ›

• Everyday Codebreaking: Aptamil advertising

  By lauredhel on 2008-05-30 • ( 3 )

  Another look at advertising by artificial baby milk companies. I’m going to take a look at the visual imagery in the ad used to present their product as not just “as good as breastmilk”, but subtly or not-so-subtly better. First… Read More ›