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• Pop quiz: corporate logo.

  By lauredhel on 2007-04-11 • ( 3 )

  See this logo? What do you think it looks like? What do you think it’s on? Edited to add: all is now revealed.

• You’re soaking in it: the marketing of violence

  By lauredhel on 2007-04-08 • ( 10 )

  Some people think we’re rather odd for avoiding buying firearm toys for the Lad. Some of them, politely, keep it to themselves. Others make loud, condescending Pfffft! noises, and spit rather scornfully at us for being “first-time” parents trapped in… Read More ›

• Cyberbullying watch: Duke edition

  By lauredhel on 2007-04-05 • ( 2 )

  Most of you probably know about the Kathy Sierra death-threats episode that has left her fearing for her safety, her blog shut down and her life a mess. (Above link and rest-of-this-post trigger warning: disturbing content, misogynistic violent threats.) Some… Read More ›

• Sexism-free literature is “propaganda”.

  By lauredhel on 2007-04-02 • ( 2 )

  Sexism-free literature is “propaganda”, by its very nature. Or so Andrew Riemer, Herald book critic, firmly believes, as quoted by the SMH. According to the ABC, John Hinde has bequeathed a new literary prize, one of Australia’s richest. The prize… Read More ›

• We’re in ur land, redeemin ur children.

  By lauredhel on 2007-04-02 • ( 12 )

  The United Aborigines Mission. This stuff went out of fashion years ago, didn’t it? Those missions – the ones that stole children, tortured them, and stripped them of their heritage – they’re completely gone, aren’t they? What with the Bringing… Read More ›

• 2-D Girls in a 3-D World

  By lauredhel on 2007-03-24 • ( 9 )

  As I was leafing through the comments thread, impressed at their perspicacity and contemplating the differences between femininity, femaleness, and womanhood, I was also cruising some online toy stores.

• Adelaide-free contraception

  By lauredhel on 2007-03-21 • ( 11 )

  Hot on the heels of the Hoohaa Monologues and the suspension of high school girls for saying “vagina” in an excerpt from The Vagina Monologues, Australia finally has a new form of contraceptive device available. The contraceptive ring is finally… Read More ›