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• “Get on that treadmill, laydeez!”

  By lauredhel on 2010-03-24 • ( 6 )

  So tonight, Channel Ten News is all about New! Groundbreaking! Research! purporting to show that women actually need “three times more exercise than previously thought(!!1!)” in order to avoid weight gain. No longer twenty minutes per day, we all have… Read More ›

• Women on trial

  By lauredhel on 2010-03-23 • ( 7 )

  The Northern Star today has an article about a man who is being tried on “five counts of having sex with a minor; and seven counts of indecent assault”. The woman laying the complaints was 15 when she was first… Read More ›

• Official Perth Stormageddon Thread

  By lauredhel on 2010-03-22 • ( 24 )

  Further to comments in this thread, here’s a spot to talk about the storm. The storm follows over four months without rain in Perth. We have some damage here – porch roof destroyed with the huge hailstones, main roof leaking…. Read More ›

• Answering hand-waving with hand-waving: Donnelly, rape, and Lady Gaga

  By lauredhel on 2010-03-22 • ( 8 )

  Both tigtog and I have little more than an eyeroll in response to Harradine-mentored Catholic-right NSW Labor MP Greg Donnelly’s remarks in Parliament. While Parliament tried to debate a motion about International Women’s Day, Mr Donnelly chose to take the… Read More ›

• Sunday Night Fontmonstery: Dogs As Fonts

  By lauredhel on 2010-03-22 • ( 2 )

  Neatorama has a link to Dogs As Typefaces, which matches photos of dogs to particular fonts. An arched dalmatian is Courier; an alert German Shepherd (older puppy?) is Helvetica; a daschund is Fraktur; a somewhat abashed-looking bull terrier is Bodoni…. Read More ›

• Contraception in the media

  By lauredhel on 2010-03-20 • ( 12 )

  Media articles on contraception surveys and how silly teh wimminz are pretty much always bother me. For a whole variety of reasons. Here’s one of them. There is so much elided, left out, glossed over, ignored, probably not even known… Read More ›

• Otterday! And Open Thread.

  By lauredhel on 2010-03-20 • ( 14 )

  Today’s otters come via Seaview Wildlife Encounter. Do you want to caption the shot? Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to… Read More ›

• It’s Not Sex, It’s Rape: Prostituting-A-Disabled-Child Edition

  By lauredhel on 2010-03-19 • ( 5 )

  I just don’t even. This is one of the worst examples I’ve seen. Trigger warnings out the wazoo.

• Blow for non-binary folks – Norrie’s ‘ungendered’ status withdrawn

  By lauredhel on 2010-03-18 • ( 9 )

  The Sydney Morning Herald reports that the New South Wales Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages has withdrawn the birth certificate they had granted to Norrie May-Welby, stating “Sex Not Specified”. It says it cancelled Norrie’s “recognised details certificate” after… Read More ›

• Thursday Cheezburger: REVENGE!

  By lauredhel on 2010-03-18 • ( 4 )

  Today’s cheezburger theme is… REVENGE! Post your own favourite in-theme LOLcat here, and wait for admin image magic to make it appear. Please post a link to a FULL webpage, rather than a direct link to an image only –… Read More ›