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• Media Circus: #BringBackOurGirls Edition

  By tigtog on 2014-04-30 • ( 7 )

  

  So who else thinks that if 200+ white schoolgirls had been kidnapped from a boarding school anywhere on the planet that the media would be making it not just a top story but the top story for weeks until their whereabouts was discovered? So why aren’t there regular updates about the 200+ kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls every single day?

  What news story/commentary/analysis has grabbed your attention lately?

• Ambient/everyday discrimination

  By tigtog on 2014-04-25

  

  Some recommended reading from John Scalzi and Soraya Chemaly, and a few thoughts.

• Otterday! And Open Thread

  By tigtog on 2014-04-19 • ( 16 )

  

  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 get off your chest? Reading a good book (or a bad one)? Anything in the news that you’d like to discuss? What have you created lately? Commiserations, felicitations, temptations, contemplations, speculations?

• Open Lymond Chronicles Casting Thread

  By tigtog on 2014-04-18 • ( 34 )

  

  Quite a few people I know are fans of Dorothy Dunnett’s Lymond Chronicles, centred upon a scapegrace Scots nobleman navigating the intrigues of the Tudor/Stewart/Suleiman era whose talents and flaws (and associated collateral damage body count) exceed those of Sherlock Holmes, Batman and Iron Man put together.

• Media Circus: Sudden Resignation Edition

  By tigtog on 2014-04-17 • ( 1 )

  

  So farewell to Barry O’Farrell, and hello to a new premier for NSW sometime later today (probably).

  What news story/commentary/analysis has grabbed your attention lately?

• Today in Anita’s Irony and Lewis’ Law: my threats will show you that harassment is a myth

  By tigtog on 2014-04-15

  

  Sending a woman rape threats to prove that sexual harassment doesn’t exist proves feminism’s point, not yours.

• Pink science

  By tigtog on 2014-04-08 • ( 4 )

  

  To add to your bookmarks, here’s Cordelia Fine in New Scientist running through some more of the scientific evidence that gendered toys are a product of socialisation rather than genetics.

• Congratulations to Australia’s Southern Stars

  By tigtog on 2014-04-07 • ( 4 )

  

  Our Southern Stars women’s cricket team won their third straight World T20 title on Sunday, beating England by six wickets in the final.

• Femmostroppo Reader 7th April 2014

  By tigtog on 2014-04-07 • ( 3 )

  

  Those who follow me on Twitter may have already seen a fair few of these links. What have you found worth reading/hatereading lately?

• Does body language really speak to us?

  By tigtog on 2014-04-04 • ( 5 )

  

  The common-sense notion that liars betray themselves through body language appears to be little more than a cultural fiction