Author Archives

• “Perhaps the simplest way to begin is to plunge a knife into the male urethra”

  By lauredhel on 2007-07-15 • ( 11 )

  “Anatomy is one of the key sites for the production and maintenance of sex and gender as embodied dualities, as these excerpts imply. It offers an institutionalized discourse rife with vivid representations which claim the body for medicine and then… Read More ›

• Some of these things are not like the other ones: a quiz

  By lauredhel on 2007-07-13 • ( 12 )

  Six of these sentences appeared in the Australian mainstream media this week. Eight didn’t; they have been doctored by me. Can you tell which is which? Click each number for the original story. 1. Three young white people, one of… Read More ›

• Friday Hoyden: Pippi Longstocking

  By lauredhel on 2007-07-13 • ( 8 )

  [image credit: kiddie matinee] I loved Astrid Lindgren’s Pippi Longstocking as a kid, and I’m just rediscovering her now at bedtime read-aloud with my four-year-old. Pippi is a quintessential hoyden, the obvious choice for my first Friday Hoyden piece. As… Read More ›

• Fundiewatch: a Catholic prenatal diagnosis “counselling service”

  By lauredhel on 2007-07-13 • ( 4 )

  Two of our local Catholic hospital networks have collaborated to offer a new so-called “counselling service, dubbed “Mamreh”. These two hospitals combined have a lot of community credibility already, as they provide the vast majority of private-hospital maternity services in… Read More ›

• Smouldering: most Australians rape apologists

  By lauredhel on 2007-07-11 • ( 9 )

  We’ve posted a bit about the mangy asshats who think that certain women and girls deserve to be raped – fat women, for example, or preteen girls who wear particular types of underwear. And we’ve posted about Nice Guy(tm) sexual… Read More ›

• Living Black

  By lauredhel on 2007-07-09 • ( 6 )

  First, a news snippet: The Age: Indigenous land takeover angers NT govt NT Attorney-General [and Member for Nhulunbuy] Syd Stirling said Aboriginal communities territory-wide were angry, confused and talking of legal action. He said the territory government was seeking advice… Read More ›

• Today’s bit of fun: medical marvels

  By lauredhel on 2007-07-09

  Check out this Worth-1000 competition to produce a Photoshopped medical anomaly. Most of them are a bit of fun, but I prefer the more subtle ones: Have a poke around Worth 1000 while you’re there. Check out Archaeological Anomalies, Alternate… Read More ›

• They’re creepy and they’re … creepy. Three datapoints.

  By lauredhel on 2007-07-08 • ( 14 )

  Via IBTP, buried in a long stoush about bigotry against children and whether under-18s are subhuman: To passer-by, crying child’s ear-piercing rings of abuse. Marilyn Johnson thought so when she heard a girl’s screams in a Wichita Wal-Mart on Sunday… Read More ›

• “Only stupid women are breeding” – academipanic from New Zealand

  By lauredhel on 2007-07-08 • ( 15 )

  Jim Flynn, Emeritus Professor of Political Studies at a New Zealand university, has pronounced himself the arbiter of which women should be allowed to breed. Note that fathers are completely invisible in his genetic-decay worldview, what could just as easily… Read More ›

• Image du jour: Please Leave Jackboots Here

  By lauredhel on 2007-07-07

  From the ABC News, Police support Indigenous permit status quo: Reactions of indigenous people and local police to the Howard government’s plan to steal Aboriginal land and open it to “public scrutiny”. Criticism in this article centres around two issues…. Read More ›