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• Media Circus: WTF Labor? edition

  By tigtog on 2013-06-10 • ( 31 )

  

  The heavy panting from the press gallery over the possibility of another Labor leadership spill has been quite repellent, but maybe it isn’t just a blip in the news-cycle. Maybe the gallery really is onto something.

• Methinks ’tis time to update a ‘net classic

  By tigtog on 2013-06-08 • ( 15 )

  

  The world needs a social justice version of John Baez’ classic simple method for rating potentially revolutionary contributions to physics AKA The Crackpot Index, to rate our never-ending “feedback” from troglodytes of assorted stripes who are convinced that not only are we Doin It Rong but that we deserve to be threatened into silence for daring to have an opinion in the first place.

• ObNewDoctor post: Place Your Bets

  By tigtog on 2013-06-03 • ( 16 )

  

  Because thehorrorthehorror of what some other people are speculating!

• When men disagree with others it’s a robust addition to free speech, when women disagree with men it’s to silence them

  By tigtog on 2013-06-01 • ( 12 )

  

  This time it’s women objecting to sexist content in the professional magazine for the Science Fiction Writers Of America who are causing Deep Rifts™.

• Congratulations to Norrie!

  By tigtog on 2013-05-31 • ( 5 )

  

  In a landmark decision with major implications for thousands of intersex, androgynous and neuter people across the country, the court on Friday upheld an appeal by Sydney activist ‘Norrie’ against a decision by the Administrative Decisions Tribunal that people must be officially registered as ‘M’ or ‘F’.

• Quote Of The Day: Consider A Birdcage

  By tigtog on 2013-05-31 • ( 6 )

  

  If you look very closely at just one wire in the cage, you cannot see the other wires. If your conception of what is before you is determined by this myopic focus, you could look at that one wire, up and down the length of it, and be unable to see why a bird would not just fly around the wire any time it wanted to go somewhere.

• When nerdiverses collide

  By tigtog on 2013-05-30 • ( 2 )

  

  Cue your fansquee, SF telly geeks.

• Sport, racial vilification, casually racist gaffes, calling out slurs and apologies

  By tigtog on 2013-05-30 • ( 6 )

  

  I haven’t been paying attention to all the details of who said what about Adam Goodes since the on-field incident last week, but I’m pleasantly surprised to see Eddie Maguire now offering proper acknowledgements of the effects of racial vilification and proper apologies for uttering a racial slur. It’s a start.

• More silencing tactics aimed at Anita Sarkeesian and Tropes vs Women in Video Games

  By tigtog on 2013-05-29 • ( 5 )

  

  A short while ago Anita Sarkeesian published another video to her Feminist Frequency YouTube channel. Within an hour it was taken down by YouTube because it had been flagged as containing objectionable content. Feminist Frequency appealed the takedown, and it was quickly restored. Good on YouTube for restoring the video so quickly, but why doesn’t YouTube have a better mechanism for immunising known target accounts against vexatious complaints?

• Friday Hoyden: Miranda Hart

  By tigtog on 2013-05-24 • ( 13 )

  

  As promised earlier this week, here’s a  Miranda appreciation thread. http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/ACBwQz4xYTo?rel=0 MGEITF – Miranda: A Masterclass Miranda Hart, the award winning star of Miranda, is joined by co-star Sarah Hadland and BBC Head of In-House Comedy Mark Freeland to give… Read More ›