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  • Otterday! And Open Thread. (Xmas talk allowed)

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    Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. [See our other Otterday for Xmas-free chat!]

    Today’s otters, who live in the Prospect Park Zoo, are having fun opening their cheerily-wrapped Xmas boxes and finding fishies inside.

  • BFTP Friday Hoyden: Top 10 reasons I love The Sound of Music

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    A feminist narrative can be constructed, I think, even if it has to do its work within the constraints of a quite conventional romantic tale. Here are the top 10 reasons I think The Sound of Music has a place in a Hoyden’s video library:

  • BFTP: Playground accessibility for parents with disabilities

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    Parking and pathways and seating? This is a piece of cake. This is public design 101. It should be something that is an essential part of building new playgrounds and of upgrading existing ones.

    But no one is bothering. People with disabilities are supposed to be the passive “cared-for”, not active carers.

  • BFTP: Parenting While Female: “It’s Not About You”

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    This is part of our December slowdown Blast From The Past reposting program. This post was originally published May 2nd, 2007.

    I’ve been contemplating this post: The Male Gaze… falls upon a Nursing Mother…. by Morgan Gallagher. I think there’s an important truth in there, something feminists find themselves saying over and over and over again: “It’s not about you.”

  • Otterday! And Open Thread.

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    Are you feeling gifty? Or just after a treat for yourself? I went looking for otter stuff this past week, and thought I’d share what I found.[…]

    Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires.

  • Otterday! And Open Thread.

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    Today’s otters, three in a row, are coming to you via Tambaka the Jaguar on flickr. The photo was taken in the Rheintal Zoo in Oberrheintal, Switzerland.

    Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires.

  • Otterday! And Open Thread.

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    How many times do I have to tell you, people? Don’t fuck with otters. They are VICIOUS LITTLE WEASELS. Awesome vicious little weasels – this is not an insult – but vicious little weasels.

    Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires.

  • Otterday! And Open Thread.

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    Welcome to Saturday, and may the Victorian Hoydenizens have the election result you desire today. Among notable events on this day in history, Helen Clark became the first elected female PM in New Zealand, the first human-manufactured object reached the… Read More ›

  • Otterday! And Open Thread.

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    Today’s otter comes to you via Doug Brown on flickr.

    Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires.

  • Otterday! And Open Thread.

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    Today’s honorary otter is a sea lion! This little pup was born in the Adelaide Zoo over Halloween.

    Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires.