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• Sex and stereotypes: What’s wrong with individualist fluffy-feminism

  By lauredhel on 2007-04-23 • ( 48 )

  I love those blog posts that make me shout, “Yes!” Infinitethought has posted a biting critique of the bulging strawfeminist-packed closets of the so-called “sex-positive” individualist feminist, the second, larval stage of the embryonic INAFBer [1]: Trotting out the tired… Read More ›

• Silencing with “attack”, the misuses of logic, and reclaiming emotion

  By lauredhel on 2007-04-22 • ( 5 )

  I’ve been contemplating the buzzword “attack”. While it is worth keeping a lid on egregious, unwarranted, off-topic ad hominem remarks, “personal attack” seems to verge on being a means to shut down dissent in some online discussions. It can function… Read More ›

• Everyday Codebreaking in Australia, vol.1

  By lauredhel on 2007-04-22 • ( 5 )

  As you know, I’ve been talking a bit about violations of the WHO Code. I’ve started collecting some examples of everyday Code-breaking in Australia. My last example was of Wyeth’s transgressions. Have you heard of Nutricia, a Dutch Numico subsidiary?… Read More ›

• Weekend Wibbling: From Peri to Fraggles

  By lauredhel on 2007-04-21 • ( 9 )

  Don’t ask me why, but I’ve been contemplating fairy mythology in kidlit and TV, specifically fairy proxies like The Fraggles and The Borrowers. This idea – that there is a whole world of tiny, wise and/or mischievous creatures, that are… Read More ›

• Draft Blog Reader’s Code of Conduct: Don’t threaten to rape and kill her.

  By lauredhel on 2007-04-18 • ( 12 )

  I can’t help thinking that this whole brouhaha over O’Reilly’s proposed “Blogger’s Code” is begging to be re-jiggered along the lines of that “Don’t rape her” meme from a while back. So, my draft Blog Reader’s Code: * If a… Read More ›

• McBrickWall on Mother’s Milk

  By lauredhel on 2007-04-17 • ( 14 )

  Further to this post about a family being threatened with removal from a Ronald McDonald House for breastfeeding – in the eating area – with one twin post-op from brain surgery and exclusively on breastmilk – and with their banishment… Read More ›

• “Activist” judges: rape world round-up

  By lauredhel on 2007-04-16 • ( 3 )

  A roundup of rape in court this week, in the USA, UK and Australia. Cut for rape and child sexual abuse triggers. Carson City, Nevada, USA: the Nevada Appeal report on a plea-bargain in a child pornography case involving possession… Read More ›

• Rain on the strawberries

  By lauredhel on 2007-04-15 • ( 1 )

  This is why we are content to celebrate a global festival of renewal and new life in the southern autumn, instead of in the spring. My heart feels buoyant. And this is why: Fresh, lush, beautiful rain on the strawberry… Read More ›

• Anti-feminist-Bingo! A master-class in sexual entitlement.

  By lauredhel on 2007-04-14 • ( 119 )

  Edit 18 Dec 2009: I’ve seen this referred to in quite a few places round the ‘sphere as “Antifeminist Troll Bingo”. It’s not called that here, and was never called that here, because that isn’t my sole or primary intention…. Read More ›

• The big pink M logo and the corporate appropriation of breastfeeding

  By lauredhel on 2007-04-12 • ( 8 )

  Thanks for all the guesses on the pink-M logo. All is now revealed: Tigtog, Joules, Mel, you were right on with the mummy-marketing interpretation. Tigtog, you win Lauredhel’s Grade-A Cynic Prize of the Week – you were dead right. Before… Read More ›