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• Advising women to prevent their own rapes is not brave or edgy or helpful

  By tigtog on 2013-10-22 • ( 31 )

  

  Education campaigns dispelling the traditional ignorance perpetuating rape myths that allow rapists to get away with making “commonsense” excuses work. Victim-blaming doesn’t work.

• Media Circus: It is not illegal to seek asylum edition

  By tigtog on 2013-10-21 • ( 9 )

  

  Disgusting and shameful, but hardly unexpected from this government.

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

• ObWhoniverse: 50th Anniversary Episode Trailer

  By tigtog on 2013-10-20 • ( 5 )

  The trailer features all the Doctor’s incarnations and a selection of friends and foes. It’s not giving anything much away except a sense of portent:

• Today in Fantasy Film Sexism: Disney tries to pat some feminists’ heads

  By tigtog on 2013-10-16 • ( 6 )

  It’s been ages since I linked to Margot McGowan’s ReelGirl blog, and I thought I’d rectify that.

• Friday Hoyden: Ada Lovelace Day 2013

  By tigtog on 2013-10-16

  

  It was the fourth Ada Lovelace Day on Tuesday this week (juuuust missed posting on the day), celebrating women’s achievements in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) fields. Did you go to any Ada Lovelace Day events this year? Tell us about it if you did.

• Media Circus: Shorten is LOTO edition

  By tigtog on 2013-10-14 • ( 3 )

  

  Opposition leader Bill Shorten announces Tanya Plibersek as deputy leader, and Penny Wong as Leader of the senate for the Labor party.

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

• Media Circus: grovelling to the royals edition

  By tigtog on 2013-10-09 • ( 2 )

  

  Ugh. It’s been so appalling that it’s taken me days to process it sufficiently to write even these few sentences.

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

• Sunday Song: Heart pay tribute to Led Zeppelin

  By tigtog on 2013-10-06 • ( 5 )

  

  Many of you may have already seen this, it’s nearly a year old, but I’ve only just caught up with it myself. Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart pay tribute to Led Zeppelin at the 2012 Kennedy Center Honors with a kickarse performance of Stairway To Heaven. Robert Plant teared up a little bit towards the end.

• Channeling Inigo Montoya: “Enormity”

  By tigtog on 2013-10-03 • ( 6 )

  Sure, language moves on, yada yada, and usage shifts to what people most like the sound of, and “enormity” in particular somehow sounds more erudite than “enormousness”, so many people think it must be a more correct word for something that is huge or immense. Yeah, no.

• Looks like I need better minions

  By tigtog on 2013-10-01 • ( 18 )

  NONE of you informed me that Christopher Eccleston was going to be the villain (Malekith the Accursed) in Thor 2.