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• Friday Hoyden: Keiko Wakabayshi, martial arts virtuoso

  By lauredhel on 2008-09-19 • ( 4 )

  Keiko Wakabayashi was featured in the UK Telegraph several months ago (and on Shakesville at the time.) Martial arts expert Keiko Wakabayshi, nicknamed the “Samurai Granny”, has been hired by [Italy’s] military to train recruits in hand-to-hand combat. Miss Wakabayshi,… Read More ›

• “Bring breast awareness back to the workplace”

  By lauredhel on 2008-09-19 • ( 14 )

  Remember Rethink? With all their huh-huh-boobies advertisements? Rethink, who thinks that the main focus of “breast cancer awareness” should be sexualised breasts and men? They’re at it again. This time, they’re exhorting us to “Bring breast awareness back into the… Read More ›

• Quick Hit: WA Cabinet announced

  By lauredhel on 2008-09-18 • ( 1 )

  Premier-elect Colin Barnett has just announced his Liberal minority-government Cabinet for Western Australia, which includes three National Party members and one Independent. National leader Brendon Grylls, who kept the state on tenterhooks waiting to see who he would throw the… Read More ›

• Thursday Cheezburger

  By lauredhel on 2008-09-18 • ( 9 )

  Runner-up.

• Linkfest: wheelchair dancing, acafandom, Declare Yourself, and “This ain’t rude”

  By lauredhel on 2008-09-17 • ( 7 )

  In “How Do Wheelchairs Work? A Word to Choreographers”, Wheelchair Dancer writes an open letter to non-disabled choreographers on the “replication” of disability, and how not to work with dancers who use wheelchairs. ~~~ For acafans – those interested in… Read More ›

• In which each generation thinks it invented sex; and on chlamydia and prostitution

  By lauredhel on 2008-09-17 • ( 5 )

  The young’uns always think they invented sex, don’t they? The Sydney Morning Herald reports that “Oral sex is on the rise”. The Australasian sexual health congress in Perth has been told oral sex, once the exclusive domain of sex workers,… Read More ›

• Monica Dux thinks I’m bad for feminism’s image

  By lauredhel on 2008-09-16 • ( 237 )

  Monica Dux, one of the co-authors of new book The Great Feminist Denial, has an opinion piece in the Age: Feminist is not a dirty word And it hits one of my oldest pet peeves: rejecting a large part of… Read More ›

• California Dairy Industry Tries to Trademark “Got Breastmilk?”

  By lauredhel on 2008-09-15 • ( 2 )

  The California Milk Processor Board (also known as the CMPB or the California Fluid Milk Processor Advisory Board), home of the “Got Milk?” cow’s milk advertising campaign, is a collection of companies marketing cow’s milk and infant formula products in… Read More ›

• Otterday! And Open Thread

  By lauredhel on 2008-09-13 • ( 27 )

  Start your weekend with this wee oriental small-clawed otter pup, only a few days old. She has four sisters, and they all live in Budapest. Via la doctorita. Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your… Read More ›

• Palin interview: Don’t Blink

  By lauredhel on 2008-09-12 • ( 34 )

  Part of the Gibson/Palin interview is up at Shakesville – click through to Shakes for a transcript, or scroll down for video. Did Sarah Palin really not know what the Bush Doctrine was, or was she just avoiding the question?… Read More ›