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• Quick Hit: Willetts: Bridget Jones + working women = TEOTWAWKI

  By lauredhel on 2008-09-30 • ( 11 )

  David Willetts, Shadow Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, at a UK Conservative Party conference: “Bridget Jones is a real phenomenon, driven partly by the way the pattern of university education is changing. For the first time, in… Read More ›

• Lazyblogging Replay: “Yes We Can” vs “Ten Thousand Years”

  By lauredhel on 2008-09-30

  We’re getting a lot of googlers popping by after searching variations on mccain obama compare and contrast I just rewatched the two videos on the original “Obama and McCain: Compare and Contrast” post, and they’re as relevant now as they… Read More ›

• Perth homophobes hyperventilate over Mayor’s call

  By lauredhel on 2008-09-29 • ( 7 )

  A couple of days ago, Perth Lord Mayor Lisa Scaffidi opened the Pride festival with these words: “Gay, straight, who cares?” She went on to talk about wishing to make Perth as gay-friendly as Sydney and San Francisco, and said… Read More ›

• Goward on Palin: “She has led a conventional life, a conservative life, and liked it.”

  By lauredhel on 2008-09-28 • ( 17 )

  Pru Goward, NSW Opposition spokesperson for women, has a really, really low opinion of those who share her gender. What I learned from her column today: “Palin true to herself and values”: * The most important things for women to… Read More ›

• Submit for the Down Under Feminists Carnival!

  By lauredhel on 2008-09-27

  The Fifth Edition of the Down Under Carnival of the Feminists is scheduled for the first week of October at Hell On Hairy Legs. HellOn is a high school radical feminist who blogs about her life, patriarchy and miscellanea. Support… Read More ›

• Otterday! And open thread

  By lauredhel on 2008-09-27 • ( 22 )

  This bewhiskered little critter comes to you courtesy of Bill Swindaman on flickr. Check out his bird pics, too. Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great happening in your… Read More ›

• Ask the Hoydenizens: How to respond to the bootstrappers?

  By lauredhel on 2008-09-26 • ( 19 )

  Sabina wrote: A few days ago I was having a conversation with one of my noob-to-feminism friends about feminism and intersectionality. At one point in the conversation he said something that was pretty much the equivalent of, “In my experience… Read More ›

• Feminism Friday: “You’ll catch more flies with honey”

  By lauredhel on 2008-09-26 • ( 24 )

  I hear this a fair bit. People who are angry, passionate, non-submissive, resolute, intense – we get shocked looks, and exhortations to compromise, and remarks like “You’ll catch more flies with honey, dear“. I’ve been vaguely wondering why that particular… Read More ›

• Ask the Hoydenizens

  By lauredhel on 2008-09-26 • ( 1 )

  I always like these features on other blogs, so I thought I’d float it here. Do you have any burning questions for the Hoydentariat? Looking for readings on a topic? Have a dilemma you’d like thoughts on? Drop your question… Read More ›

• Obama sez

  By lauredhel on 2008-09-25 • ( 15 )

  Courtesy of baroquestar: