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• Quotables: Jimmy Carter on Religion and Women

  By tigtog on 2010-01-12 • ( 4 )

  “The belief that women are inferior human beings in the eyes of God,” Mr. Carter continued, “gives excuses to the brutal husband who beats his wife, the soldier who rapes a woman, the employer who has a lower pay scale for women employees, or parents who decide to abort a female embryo.”

• Troubles with comments?

  By tigtog on 2010-01-12 • ( 3 )

  At least one person is having trouble commenting when using Firefox – when sie hits the “Submit” button on a current discussion sie is redirected to a post from 2007 instead. I can’t reproduce it using Firefox myself, so am… Read More ›

• Femmostroppo Reader – January 11, 2010

  By tigtog on 2010-01-12 • ( 3 )

  Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. What did I miss? Please share what you've been reading (and writing!) in the comments. Storm’s a-Comin’ – Tim Minchin’s Storm is getting animated (by a Skepchick). Woot! Teachers know decimals… Read More ›

• Bless: they’re still confused about weather vs climate

  By tigtog on 2010-01-11 • ( 11 )

  Not one of them seems to realise that the only thing that has ever stopped the UK (and other nations around the North Atlantic) from having the same winters as Moscow (at a similar latitude) is the twin effects of the oceanic Gulf Stream (North Atlantic Conveyor) and the atmospheric Jet Stream over Europe

• Feminism to Blame (Again!)

  By tigtog on 2010-01-11 • ( 27 )

  Does Prof Baskerville give us any stats for how many men in the prisons are there for rape, DV or skipping child support compared to other crimes? No, indeed he does not.

• QOTD: Andrew Bartlett #nocleanfeed

  By tigtog on 2010-01-09 • ( 9 )

  The government’s compulsory internet filter will not make the internet any safer for children to use unsupervised, nor will it make police detection of users of illegal content any easier.

• Tropes and jargon in the femmogeekosphere

  By tigtog on 2010-01-09 • ( 14 )

  I’m putting together a reference page for some of the handy dandy jargon phrases we know and love on these tubal internets, but which we also have to explain fairly often to people who haven’t heard them before. So far… Read More ›

• Femmostroppo Reader – January 8, 2010

  By tigtog on 2010-01-08 • ( 1 )

  Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. What did I miss? Please share what you've been reading (and writing!) in the comments. OMG! VF discovers "tweethearts"! – “There’s something kind of cute about watching the withering old media… Read More ›

• Can’t blog

  By tigtog on 2010-01-08 • ( 20 )

  Devouring boxed set of Southern Vampire/Sookie Stackhouse novels. Catchya laterz.

• Femmostroppo Reader – January 6, 2010

  By tigtog on 2010-01-07 • ( 3 )

  Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. What did I miss? Please share what you've been reading (and writing!) in the comments. Perpetrator Friendly Sexual Violence Prevention: Part 2 – “The flaws in this worldview are easy to… Read More ›