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  • Femmostroppo Reader – May 7, 2009

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    Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. Please add interesting links of your own in the comments. The Johns Sex For Sale And The Men Who Buy It – Quote: “Harm elimination, not harm reduction.” Officer Jack Sparrow?… Read More ›

  • Femmostroppo Reader – May 6, 2009

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    Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. Please add interesting links of your own in the comments. Too Fat for SCOTUS – Liss on the US Supreme Court debate and links to great pieces on how sexism informs… Read More ›

  • Assvisories: Sexting advisory for parents

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    I just received this from my son’s all-boy high school. I realise that it’s almost certainly a Department of Education advisory that they’re just passing on, but why are the only visible faces in this advisory those of girls?

  • Femmostroppo Reader – May 5, 2009

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    Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. Please add interesting links of your own in the comments. Adventures in baby magazines May 5, 2009 – oh dear Meanwhile, in Pakistan May 5, 2009 – Quote: “Note that crimes… Read More ›

  • Caption this: Baroque Egg with Bow

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    Hey, this looked bigger in the catalogue! Actual caption: Tobias Meyer of Sotheby’s talks about Baroque Egg with Bow by Jeff Koons at the auction house in New York Picture: AFP/GETTY From the Daily Telegraph’s The week in pictures: 1… Read More ›

  • You know what I hate?

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    Because our public health measures that are in place to contain infectious outbreaks before they go pandemic appear to be working well in the case of swine flu (just as they did in the last media panic about bird flu… Read More ›

  • Sometimes one WTF? is not nearly enough

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    This is a very depressing example of a journalist being entirely taken in by an anti-vaccination crank, Dr. Mayer Eisenstein, spruiking his snake-oil at the U.S. Autism & Asperger Association’s regional conference on Saturday in Cherry Hill, Jersey.

  • Uncovering women paedophiles

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    The past experience has been, too often, that their reports of abuse have been not just disbelieved but scorned, and female paedophiles have been left with unfettered access to future victims. The article is a sober and balanced piece, and the selected comments from survivors of abuse from women perpetrators are heartbreaking.

    A large part of this societal disbelief regarding sexual abuse by women is of course gendered stereotypes about the passive nature of female sexuality and the supposedly innate caring capacity of women that is meant to make women incapable of such behaviour.

  • Femmostroppo Reader – May 4, 2009

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    Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. Please add interesting links of your own in the comments. Blogging Against Disablism Day: On Depression May 4, 2009 – Cara’s BADD post Domestic Work is Real Work May 4, 2009… Read More ›

  • Sunday Quote: Carl Sagan

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    An oldie but a goodie:

    We’ve arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
    Carl Sagan