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• Short People got no reason to live

  By lauredhel on 2007-10-18 • ( 6 )

  [image from the Volgograd City Center of Orthopedics and Cosmetology.] I swear, I can no longer tell the difference between science journalism and inept satire. This study* from Clinical Endocrinology was reported on the Beeb website thus: Danish researchers examined… Read More ›

• Lunch is just not that complicated: Sesame Street on breastfeeding

  By lauredhel on 2007-10-16 • ( 9 )

  A while back and elsewhere, there was a conversation about this magazine cover. Part of the backlash – among breastfeeding mothers of all people! – was around “explanations”. “I don’t want to come across that magazine cover in the supermarket… Read More ›

• It’s a trap! Feminism, romance, and sociological patriarchy

  By lauredhel on 2007-10-16 • ( 18 )

  I started writing this, then saw that a few of the big feminist bloggers have touched on it already. But the stuff I was writing has a somewhat different slant, so I plunged on regardless. This paper was published in… Read More ›

• Napoli-esque fanfic stupid

  By lauredhel on 2007-10-16 • ( 4 )

  Quoted on fanficrants: “just wow.” Um, oh my god. Review (for a story I didn’t write): one thing: if [she] used tampons, the rape wouldn’t have hurt that much. i guess it would’ve hurt a little but not as much… Read More ›

• Ads masquerading as “information”: more infant formula company hijinks

  By lauredhel on 2007-10-15

  Edited to add (20 Oct 07): The Australian “Natural Parenting” website is now plastered with Wyeth formula advertisements, including on its front page. Way to go, NP. I’m glad to see they’re haemorrhaging members over it, but sorry to see… Read More ›

• “I can’t believe I forgot!”

  By lauredhel on 2007-10-12 • ( 1 )

  [JH part of the image clipped from here] Women for Wik has offered their opinion of the PM’s last-ditch effort to not be remembered as an imperialist, racist little weasel. (Good luck with that, Johnny!) MEDIA RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE… Read More ›

• Scapegoating feminine communication

  By lauredhel on 2007-10-11 • ( 8 )

  Sometime Hoyden guest-blogger sajbrfem has a terrific post up at Diary of a Research Artist: “Blogoz and meandering thoughts about blog hierarchy”. We missed her dearly at Perth’s Femmecon, but at least she got a day at Blogoz as a… Read More ›

• Drinking while in the possession of a vagina

  By lauredhel on 2007-10-11 • ( 21 )

  Yet another case of invisible rapists. Rape is something that just “happens” to women who “leave themselves vulnerable”. Male violence is to be considered a ubiquitous, inevitable force; the only way the world can combat it is to put the… Read More ›

• Anti-choice propaganda: following the source and the money

  By lauredhel on 2007-10-05 • ( 7 )

  Some of you may have stumbled across a news article citing a fancy-sounding “study” by Peter Carroll of London’s Pension and Population Research Institute: “The Breast Cancer Epidemic: Modeling and Forecasts Based on Abortion and Other Risk Factors”. From the… Read More ›

• Feminism Friday: Like a puke party in the Barbie factory

  By lauredhel on 2007-10-05 • ( 12 )

  We’ve long known that there are regular games and toys, and there are girls’ games and toys. Here’s a pile of the latest puce spew, mostly via Yehuda. Pink Playstation 2. Comes bundled with Singstar Pop, of course. As well… Read More ›