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• Friday Feminism on the run: Nice Guys (TM) redux and what makes an ideal husband and father

  By tigtog on 2007-11-16 • ( 14 )

  Over at Feministe, Jill dissects a particularly loopy column/movie review from Jill Stanek (dialled up several notches even from her notoriously loose grip on what passes for analysis), where Stanek ends up in her column’s comments thread being reduced to… Read More ›

• Humourless feminists and PUAs

  By tigtog on 2007-11-15 • ( 4 )

  It seems silly to waste time on artificial techniques to trick a woman into having sex when she quite possibly wanted to have sex anyway as long as the man seems likeable.

• Gratuitous Roger Federer blogging

  By tigtog on 2007-11-15 • ( 4 )

  Photo by Annie Leibovitz, taken in Dubai, for Mens Vogue. This seems as good a time as any to mention the wonderful blog Romancing the Tome, the blog which loves a good literary adaptation. Assuming that the charming Federer might… Read More ›

• What a slimy, self-regarding, small, repugnant, grub of a man

  By tigtog on 2007-11-14 • ( 6 )

  I’ve become so inured to the sight of our current Prime Minister arrogating the ceremonial duties of our Governor General that I tend to no longer be outraged. Thankfully, Ken Lovell at Surfdom is not so reticent, and his description… Read More ›

• Monty Python allusion de jour

  By tigtog on 2007-11-14

  From Designated Sidekick, discussing DC Comics’ tendency to have Batman display an irritating level of knowitallness: He’s Batman, not Dan DiDio, he’s not the God of DCU. Bruce isn’t the messiah, he’s just a very broody boy

• She did not feel as guilty because at the funeral she found out the girl had tried to commit suicide before

  By tigtog on 2007-11-14 • ( 21 )

  Imagine your 13 year old daughter, who has battled clinical depression and has a history of some social awkwardnesses, finds a friend online though MySpace, a 16 year old boy, who makes her feel good about herself. Imagine six weeks… Read More ›

• Cicada in trouble

  By tigtog on 2007-11-13 • ( 2 )

  .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Cicada in trouble, originally uploaded by tigitogs. This was how we spent some of our time… Read More ›

• Sing it, sister

  By tigtog on 2007-11-12 • ( 3 )

  Helen Balcony responds to the study showing that some scheduled births (i.e. caesarians and inductions) were pushed back by a week or so in order to take advantage of the latest baby bribe bonus, noting that the analysis (which bemoans… Read More ›

• Ossified and doomed

  By tigtog on 2007-11-12 • ( 9 )

  I’m going to address a comment here that I found elsewhere, and as I’m pretty sure it will have been moderated and deleted as vexatious by now, I’m not going to link to it. However, I do want to address… Read More ›

• Sunday photo favourites

  By tigtog on 2007-11-11 • ( 1 )

  .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Favourites Mosaic, originally uploaded by tigitogs. 1. Toji and Chihiro, 2. remember, 3. 11th hour of… Read More ›