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• Sunday Picblogging: Blech, Bling and Bahaha

  By lauredhel on 2007-09-30 • ( 3 )

  Spotted in a Cotton On Kids store last week by intrepid reporter baroquestar: three children’s T-shirts, aimed at girls from toddler size. The slogans? “My Daddy Loves Beer More Than Me”, “Future Footballer’s Wife” and “Lock Up Your Sons”. [note:… Read More ›

• Not safe, not well, not unhurt, NOT SEX

  By lauredhel on 2007-09-29 • ( 18 )

  [emphases are mine] [cut for child rape triggers]

• The preschooler speaks.

  By lauredhel on 2007-09-29 • ( 2 )

  Over dinner, we were talking about the school uniform at the lad’s new school – the one he’ll be transferring to when we move. “It’s blue pants and a golden shirt”, he told Daddy, having observed the kids wearing this… Read More ›

• Mostly Feminist Reader: Commonsense edition

  By lauredhel on 2007-09-28

  NY Times: “In Reversal, Student Is Given Extra Exam Time to Pump Breast Milk”: Sophie Currier, who was refused appropriate accommodations to pump breastmilk for her young daughter while sitting her medical Board exams, has had the ruling overturned on… Read More ›

• Active management of physicians

  By lauredhel on 2007-09-28 • ( 2 )

  Birth International: “The Active Management of Labour”. This is an informative, readable article on a bit of the history of the Dublin protocol of “Active management of labour” (AML), a set of interventions used by hospitals to increase labour ward… Read More ›

• Women’s work and hottie theory

  By lauredhel on 2007-09-27 • ( 9 )

  [image credit: the Gallery of Regrettable Food] The New York Times reports on a survey that went a step further than the usual time-use surveys. The researchers asked not just “How did you spend your time today?” but also “How… Read More ›

• Youtubular: Puking on air, and performing babies

  By lauredhel on 2007-09-25 • ( 7 )

  Some Youtube ponderings. (With a tip of the hat to Neatorama.) Puking on TV Here is a clip from a Swedish game show. The host suddenly vomits in a middle of a sentence, then jumps back up with a smile… Read More ›

• GovThuggery round-up

  By lauredhel on 2007-09-24 • ( 5 )

  Atticus has “Secret police inquiry a whitewash” at Larvatus Prodeo Here is the unsurprising conclusion of the investigation into badgeless APEC cops: Police commissioner Andrew Scipione ordered an internal inquiry by the Professional Standards Command, which found there were real… Read More ›

• Songvids of femininity and masculinity: “Women’s Work” and “vogue_300”

  By lauredhel on 2007-09-24 • ( 6 )

  Femcon ’07 opened with a Feminist Show & Tell session. [Cut for images of sexualised violence. The images are taken from mainstream entertainment, but could be triggering.]

• Slices of Google, from the Buoyant Honed Two

  By lauredhel on 2007-09-21 • ( 7 )

  Anagrams Because the cool kids at Shapely Prose are doing it, I went and anagrammed Hoyden About Town. Some of my favourites, a selection that I think reflects the spirit of our bloggy duo: You Wanton Hotbed! Dab Honey Onto… Read More ›