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  • After Bastard Boys

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    There was quite a bit of chest beating about bias with regard to the ABC drama Bastard Boys broadcast over the last two nights. Certainly the show is unlikely to do Greg Combet’s electoral chances any harm at all. But… Read More ›

  • Breastfeeding Manifesto

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    That’s the document spearheading a UK campaign from five royal colleges of medicine, nursing and midwifery and backed by UNICEF, which aims to introduce laws supporting breastfeeding mothers by making it an offense for anyone to attempt to stop a… Read More ›

  • Good for the gander

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    via Tama Leaver‘s post on a fanboy collectible of Mary Jane from the Spiderman comics (which I have seen around the feminist gamer/comics sites this week already) I find that Nancy Lorenz at GirlWonder.org has done a parody to show… Read More ›

  • Crook as a chook

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    and a very busy weekend too. Saturday was the extended family get-together for Mothers’ Day and the togster’s birthday (both of which were actually today, but my brother’s partner wanted a nuclear family day for her first Mothers’ Day as… Read More ›

  • Reason #4297 why I love this country

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    This morning, a breakfast TV announcer on a nationally broadcast programme forgot herself for a moment and said “oh bugger, I missed [XYZ trivial feelgood thing]”. The TV network will probably get a small flurry of letters from people who… Read More ›

  • Friday Fluffy linkfest

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    Ripped from my feedreader this week: Mentis Fugit gives us the story of two US military veterans deciding to bestow their Purple Hearts on two separate individuals they felt worthy of the decoration. Men and Women like different films (except… Read More ›

  • Ever found that whole Mars/Venus male/female thing sorta suss?

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    You’re not alone. The problem is that John Gray knows very well how to hit all the socially constructed hot buttons on male entitlement and female submission so that readers infer the message that Venusians have only themselves to blame… Read More ›

  • MPs shocked, utterly shocked

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    A cautionary tale from across the ditch: Maia, of Capitalism Bad, Tree Pretty, has a post up in the sad told-you-so category, Politicians Shocked About Predictable Consequences of their Policies. The policy in this case was New Zealand’s public health… Read More ›

  • I’ve got a little list

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    The above stresses deformities and injuries are all foreseeable and even inevitable consequences of longterm wearing of high heeled shoes.

  • Holy Act of Congress, Batman!

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    Who else went through the three phases of Adam West’s Batman? Wide eyed young kid taking BAM! BIFF! utterly seriously, pseudosophisticate thinking it was oh so silly kidstuff, then suddenly rediscovering it through ironic hipster eyes and loving all the… Read More ›