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• Rape is now a girl’s “Secret Sex Shame”, says Brisbane Times

  By lauredhel on 2009-11-20 • ( 17 )

  Come ON, Brisbane Times. Is someone doing this deliberately? This one deserves a screenshot, because I barely believe it myself, and I’ve come to have mighty low expectations over these past few years. Schoolies’ secret sex shame MARISSA CALLIGEROS November… Read More ›

• Thursday Cheezburger: Physics

  By lauredhel on 2009-11-19 • ( 8 )

  And today’s high-school-subjects theme is… Physics! Relegated to runner-up just because I think it’s been seen here once before, but I still couldn’t bring myself to exclude it: Post your own favourite Theme Cheez o’ t’ week here, and wait… Read More ›

• Quickhit: Schoolie “rape squad” victim-blaming

  By lauredhel on 2009-11-17 • ( 18 )

  From The West: “Rape squad for Rotto schoolie week” Specialist sex assault detectives will be based at Rottnest Island during schoolies’ festivities after attacks on young women there in recent years. Police Commissioner Karl O’Callaghan warned teenage girls to stay… Read More ›

• WA Police using Smartrider public transport data to track people

  By lauredhel on 2009-11-16 • ( 9 )

  WA Today reports that police are weekly requesting personal information from Perth’s public transport system without a subpoena – and are receiving it. Police using Smartrider to track people Police are using the Public Transport Authority’s Smartrider electronic ticketing system… Read More ›

• Obesity Still Dramatically Decreases Risk of Severe H1N1 Flu?

  By lauredhel on 2009-11-16 • ( 6 )

  I wrote about this before, with very preliminary data, very small numbers – the June figures from the CDC on obesity as a risk factor for swine flu, which was showing that the prevalence of obesity in the ‘severe’ group… Read More ›

• Otterday! And Open Thread.

  By lauredhel on 2009-11-14 • ( 27 )

  My favourite site this week features baby Asian Small-Clawed otters born in Osaka, Japan. More photos of the otters can be found at Zooborns. Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there… Read More ›

• Keiko Fukuda: Be Strong, Be Gentle, Be Beautiful

  By lauredhel on 2009-11-13 • ( 8 )

  Olde-tyme Hoydenizens may remember that I wrote about Keiko Fukuda back in 2007, in the Friday Hoyden feature. Fukuda is probably the most knowledgeable and accomplished judoka alive, the last living student of Jigoro Kano, the founder of judo. Geekfeminism… Read More ›

• In the news: School chaplains & flogging, police van assault, and inaccessible firefighting

  By lauredhel on 2009-11-12 • ( 1 )

  What’s grinding my gears today: WA Today: Poor parenting alarms schools Education Minister Julia Gillard has acknowledged that poor parenting is placing a heavy burden on schools and has promised principals she will give them more support to tackle violence,… Read More ›

• Thursday Cheezburger and Delurking Day: Maths Cats

  By lauredhel on 2009-11-12 • ( 13 )

  Today’s theme is: Mathematics! Runner up: Post your own favourite Theme Cheez o’ t’ week 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… Read More ›

• More on St Paul’s College “Define Statutory” facebook page

  By lauredhel on 2009-11-10 • ( 5 )

  Mary wrote yesterday about rape culture in university residential colleges, and about her lack of surprise that students from St Paul’s college* at the University of Sydney had set up a facebook page, Define Statutory, that characterised itself as being… Read More ›