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• You feminists just want to tell women to do what you want, instead of letting them CHOOSE (and we all know girls just naturally prefer the girly stuff)

  By tigtog on 2008-06-16 • ( 1 )

  Crossposted from Finally, A Feminism 101 Blog – please comment there (link now fixed!) * * * Bumped from the Open Suggestion thread: the various issues surrounding how choices can be constrained by socialised expectations and myths regarding gender essentialism:… Read More ›

• As so often occurs, I find out about something neat when it’s nearly over

  By tigtog on 2008-06-16 • ( 4 )

  NaComLeavMo: More Conversation Than You Can Shake a Stick at Arrgh, only a little over a week left! National Comment Leaving Month: an initiative of Stirrup Queens and Sperm Palace Jesters, a blog I normally wouldn’t have found because of… Read More ›

• Chez Tog in transit: pedantry in motion

  By tigtog on 2008-06-16 • ( 2 )

  The quick run on a rainy morning to get T2 to the station. (as we exit the house) T1: I’m really very annoyed with that farmer in West Australia. T2: Why? T1: I will never again be able with a… Read More ›

• Janeite’s delight: Northanger Abbey (bonus Whoverse content)

  By tigtog on 2008-06-15 • ( 16 )

  Tonight’s Jane Austen on ABC stars Carey Mulligan, AKA Sally Sparrow, in the role of Isabella Thorpe. There is no TARDIS interaction to be expected though, simply those dimples being roguish. Lucy Tartan will be having her weekly discussion of… Read More ›

• Sorry about that, Chief

  By tigtog on 2008-06-14 • ( 10 )

  but I’m really not that sure about casting Anne Hathaway as Agent 99 in the new Get Smart movie. Steve Carell is a genius choice for Maxwell Smart, but can she match him as 99? I quite liked her in… Read More ›

• Friday Hoyden: Mardigale Beauchulle, webcomic heroine

  By tigtog on 2008-06-13

  This is a new webcomic, and I find the pitch as reported by Karen Healey of Girls Read Comics and They’re Pissed difficult to resist: Also invigorating: Mistress, the new webcomic hosted by Girl-Wonder.org. Author and artist Andrea M. Bell… Read More ›

• Word of the day:

  By tigtog on 2008-06-13 • ( 5 )

  triskaidekaphobia Who’s got a scary story? Image Credit: skalasinc

• Power couple politics NSW style and the alleged disciplinary double standard

  By tigtog on 2008-06-12 • ( 4 )

  Well, hasn’t it been a busy week or so for NSW Minister John Della Bosca and his wife, Federal backbencher MP Belinda Neal? Of course, for the last few days we’ve only been hearing about her, despite Della Bosca’s documented… Read More ›

• This week, Whoydnesday is all about the Companions

  By tigtog on 2008-06-11 • ( 28 )

  So, for our second Whoydnesday (taking up Su’s suggestion for a slight revision in spelling since last week), lets focus on the sociodynamics of the relationship between Doctor and Companion. (Although when Lauredhel logs on she has a great image… Read More ›

• Why the inverted commas?

  By tigtog on 2008-06-10 • ( 5 )

  From the Independent Online’s Crime and Courts section: Man held for ‘rape’ June 09 2008 at 12:10PM A 25-year-old man was arrested for “rape” on Monday in Katlehong, East Rand police said. Spokesperson Superintendent Mega Ndobe said the man allegedly… Read More ›