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• Kitties!

  By tigtog on 2009-03-18 • ( 4 )

  Lots of kitties being AWESOME. A collation of some of the best cat footage on the Web.

• Disgusting

  By tigtog on 2009-03-18 • ( 14 )

  Demotivator made by moi. Feel free to download and share from the Flickr page (click on the pic). Backstory in The Guardian.

• Daily Femmostroppo Reader – March 18, 2009

  By tigtog on 2009-03-18 • ( 1 )

  Items of feminist, political and scientific interest found recently in my RSS feed Words Matter March 17, 2009 – more Othering of PWD Read ‘Em March 17, 2009 – Links round up on Shapely Prose It's not "sex," it's rape… Read More ›

• For the benefit of those on Feed Readers

  By tigtog on 2009-03-17 • ( 21 )

  If you can’t access the blog you should still be able to read this. (If you’re seeing this on the blog, you’re not experiencing the problem this techy bugfix post is addressing, so please feel free to ignore.)

  I’ve just installed Bad Behavior to combat spammers. Very occasionally it blocks legitimate users as well,

• Daily Femmostroppo Reader – March 17, 2009

  By tigtog on 2009-03-17 • ( 1 )

  Items of feminist, political and scientific interest found recently in my RSS feed Obama's "enemy combatant" policy: following a familiar pattern March 16, 2009 – depressing Rising inequality in good and bad times? March 16, 2009 – Quote: “The Institute… Read More ›

• Every egg in the carton so far has been like this

  By tigtog on 2009-03-16 • ( 20 )

  Double yolks.

• Upgrading time again

  By tigtog on 2009-03-16 • ( 3 )

  Okay, I’m about to do a few upgrade things with the blog. I’ll aim to get them done quickly and easily without mucking too many things up, but who knows?

• It’s still the 14th somewhere, right?

  By tigtog on 2009-03-15 • ( 3 )

  I meant to post this yesterday. I did at least discuss it with my beloved. Did any reader do/make anything special to mark Pi Day? The video below has no direct relation to Pi Day, but the poem was written… Read More ›

• Rape myths, rape myth acceptance, and community perceptions of victims of sexual violence

  By tigtog on 2009-03-12 • ( 30 )

  Elsewhere, grave doubt was expressed that attitudes of holding women responsible for sexual violence directed towards them was in fact a popular community view, to the extent that a position paper from an academic conference was mercilessly mocked for this sentence:

  Women who are raped or who suffer domestic violence are somehow thought of in the popular imagination as a stereotype. According to this, the women are asking for it, dressed inappropriately, provoking it – responsible for it.

• So much for the plan to do some serious blogging today

  By tigtog on 2009-03-12 • ( 9 )

  My front door has, literally, just come off its hinges. So I can’t leave the house until it’s fixed.