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• Friday Anti-Hoyden: count the strawfeminists

  By tigtog on 2007-11-09 • ( 6 )

  Edited to add: I was most remiss in not pointing out that I was sent this story by a Lovely Lurker. Thanks! From todays SMH, in the Heckler section (where readers are encouraged to send in 500 words of contrarianism),… Read More ›

• Dirty tricks department

  By tigtog on 2007-11-09 • ( 1 )

  What does this headline, as seen in a screengrab from today’s Daily Telegraph online, imply to you? See larger image here. The bit about “election rival ‘gay’” would be more accurately summed up as “independent candidate you’ve never heard of… Read More ›

• Friday Funnies

  By tigtog on 2007-11-09 • ( 3 )

  Via For Battle!, Lego animations of Eddie Izzard routines on YouTube from Thorn2200. DV prefers the Death Star Canteen, but I can’t go past Cake or Death. And via Club Troppo, Nick Gruen has discovered that “the poet laureate of… Read More ›

• Feminism Friday: Humour as a tool for shaming and silencing

  By tigtog on 2007-11-09 • ( 3 )

  Last week’s Feminism Friday post was on why Rape Jokes Just Aren’t Funny, based on a series from Melissa McEwan of Shakesville, and Bernice made a telling comment. Humour – the final frontier of colonialisation. You really now you’ve co-opted… Read More ›

• You know that you’re Australian when

  By tigtog on 2007-11-08 • ( 9 )

  …you’re so excited by raindrops running down your car windows that you take a photo.

• Rwandan rape victim photo wins prize

  By tigtog on 2007-11-07

  That’s the headline from Reuters, and its starkness is almost compulsory in light of the story behind the portrait. The woman below, Joseline Ingabire, is embracing her second daughter Leah, conceived after months of repeated rapes, while her first daughter… Read More ›

• Wednesday Woo from the spam queue: at least sie’s honest

  By tigtog on 2007-11-07 • ( 1 )

  This comment, thankfully caught by the spaminator over at Finally, A Feminism 101 Blog, went on for 22(!) pagedowns, and kept on repeating this paragraph: I know this sucks, for this is a complex topic, but these are tools they… Read More ›

• A Green balanced Senate looking more likely

  By tigtog on 2007-11-07

  A good article from ABC Online: Election analyst Malcolm Mackerras has told Lateline the Greens will be in a very powerful position in the Senate after the election. “I believe that the result of this election in the Senate will… Read More ›

• Middle-aged hoydens invisible?

  By tigtog on 2007-11-07 • ( 8 )

  I have now set up a news-alert email thingy for the word “hoyden”, which is sadly not used as often by other blogs as it could be. So uncommon is it, indeed, that the author of this delightful rant felt… Read More ›

• Open “why can’t I comment on some of your old posts?” Thread

  By tigtog on 2007-11-07 • ( 23 )

  Because I have installed a hand-dandy “take that, flying spam-monkeys!” plug-in, which has automatically closed comments on older posts, but which allows certain posts that are older than the cut-off to stay open so long as they have ongoing discussions…. Read More ›