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• Ask Auntie Hoyden: “she swallowed my cork”

  By lauredhel on 2009-01-07 • ( 21 )

  It’s time for another…. Ask Auntie Hoyden! Dontcha just love these search-terms posts? Well, I do, so if you don’t, move along, nothing to see here.

  How do googlers find their way here? Most of the time they’re obviously searching for porn. Horrible, demeaning, often illegal porn. But once I’ve cut out most of that, the rest of the searchers are a source of endless amusement, diversion, curiosity, and sometimes pathos. Here are some of the search terms googlers have entered recently to end up at Hoyden About Town. Many of them didn’t find what they were looking for. And I’ve taken the liberty of answering a few googlers’ questions.

• Linkfest

  By lauredhel on 2009-01-06 • ( 2 )

  This is dubious. “Bronze Boy Holding a Girl Up“, at Overstock.

  

• Faves: Bad Science

  By lauredhel on 2009-01-05

  Hoyden About Town is looking forward to the finalist voting in the 2008 Weblog Awards. Because it’s school holidays and tigtog and I are family-focussed right now, I’ve put together a few of my posts from the past, in the categories Feminism, Breasts, bodies and birth, Bad science, Big pharma, and Disability. They’re not chosen for any strict criteria – just the posts I found memorable, the ones

• “The 15 most kickass women on television”

  By lauredhel on 2009-01-04 • ( 50 )

  

  This article from Cliqueclack, “The 15 most kickass women on television“, gets it pretty close to right, I reckon, in content if not in order.

• Faves: Big Pharma

  By lauredhel on 2009-01-04

  Hoyden About Town is looking forward to the finalist voting in the 2008 Weblog Awards. Because it’s school holidays and tigtog and I are family-focussed right now, I’ve put together a few of my posts from the past, in the categories Feminism, Breasts, bodies and birth, Bad science, Big pharma, and Disability. They’re not chosen for any strict criteria – just the posts I found memorable, the ones

• New Year Otterday! And Open Thread.

  By lauredhel on 2009-01-03 • ( 19 )

  Today’s sea otter comes courtesy of Ecobirder.

  

• Faves: Bodies, Breasts ‘n’ Birth edition

  By lauredhel on 2009-01-03 • ( 6 )

  Hoyden About Town is looking forward to the finalist voting in the 2008 Weblog Awards. Because it’s school holidays and tigtog and I are family-focussed right now, I’ve put together a few of my posts from the past, in the categories Feminism, Breasts, bodies and birth, Bad science, Big pharma, and Disability. They’re not chosen for any strict criteria – just the posts I found memorable, the ones linked a lot, the ones that attracted lots of comments. I’m not sure whether tigtog will find time to do the same (but I hope so!) This should be fun for relative newcomers to Hoyden About Town as well as for people cruising the Weblog Awards nominees.

  If you have a favourite Hoyden post, do please feel free to add it in comments for the appropriate category. Enjoy.

  Bodies

  “It’s just like a normal external bra!” Snoopy-nosed Redundant Skin Envelopes

  Vaginas are not “disgusting”. The Be Cervix Savvy campaign

  Peeve Time: “The Obese” as Walking Dead

  Birth

• Carnival Time at Stephiepenguin’s!

  By lauredhel on 2009-01-02

  

  It’s Carnival Time! We made it into our second year, yay!

  The Eighth Edition of the Down Under Feminists’ Carnival is now up at stephiepenguin’s place.

  There is plenty of great holiday reading, from

• Friday Hoyden: Candice Bergen and her singing voice

  By lauredhel on 2009-01-02 • ( 15 )

  

  Friday Hoyden: Candice Bergen

  Why do I have Bergen pegged as a Hoyden? The characters she has played on television does bust submissive femininity norms, so that’s part of it. But I think it’s her bad singing that has really reeled me in. It’s hard enough to sing in public when you can hold a tune, but it takes a special kind of hoydenish chutzpah to do it when you can’t. And I like that.

• Faves: Disability

  By lauredhel on 2009-01-02 • ( 1 )

  Hoyden About Town is looking forward to the finalist voting in the 2008 Weblog Awards. I’ve put together a few of my posts from the past, in the categories Feminism, Breasts, bodies and birth, Bad science, Big pharma, and Disability. They’re not chosen for any strict criteria – just the posts I found memorable, the ones linked a lot, the ones that attracted lots of comments.