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• She had a fondness for gardenias

  By tigtog on 2007-03-15

  A friend of a friend (FOAF) really wants to know the source for this quote. (Actually, sie only knew the first sentence as per the title above and the rest has been scoured from the Internets by other FOAFs). “She… Read More ›

• Fussin’, feudin’, flamewarring feminists

  By tigtog on 2007-03-15

  They aren’t here yet. But they eventually will be. Nothing to see here yet, folks.

• Lenten limitations

  By tigtog on 2007-03-14 • ( 10 )

  Some of you already know that while I am a militant agnostic (I don’t know whether any god exists and neither does anybloodyone else) my beloved mr tog is a regular churchgoer. He wasn’t when we met, it crept up… Read More ›

• Social skills: over-rated?

  By tigtog on 2007-03-14 • ( 5 )

  (Updated: forgot the damn link) Twisty thinks so, after describing her own lack of compliance with social conformity: It is an asset, not to mention a joy and a relief, to be unencumbered by social skills. What are they, after… Read More ›

• Tactical feminist voting: does the politician have daughters?

  By tigtog on 2007-03-14

  Kristjan Wager has a very interesting post up, based on a 2005 study. She finds that women with girls in both countries and men with girls in Canada are significantly more likely to hold feminist views. Warner and Steel (1999)… Read More ›

• I love it when my friends are extra clever

  By tigtog on 2007-03-12

  My friend Sheryl won a Image of the Month competition on Flickr ($100 to spend at amazon!) with this fab photo (check out the competition from the other finalists in the link above): (C) All rights reserved. Used with permission…. Read More ›

• Setting low bars

  By tigtog on 2007-03-11 • ( 5 )

  There’s SF in blogtopia’s air lately, it seems. Whee! says my internal geek-meter. PZ Myers of Pharyngula has put up a list he found via tikistitch of the “Most Significant SF & Fantasy Books of the Last 50 Years” …. Read More ›

• Finally, a Feminism 101 Blog

  By tigtog on 2007-03-10 • ( 2 )

  called Finally, A Feminism 101 Blog. Revived after a long period of neglect. It’s a links round-up blog of existing articles/posts/essays on the simpler side of feminist theories, and is meant to be a general resource for the fem-blog community,… Read More ›

• Interesting

  By tigtog on 2007-03-10 • ( 5 )

  From a comment at LP by cam of South Sea Republic: The muslims are the current beating pad for conservatives, yet immigration statistics suggest that immigrants commit crimes at a lower rate than the Australian born (Victoria IIRC is the… Read More ›

• Finally, A Feminism 101 blog

  By tigtog on 2007-03-09 • ( 6 )

  called Finally, A Feminism 101 blog. This is an idea I kicked around with a few people in email about a year ago. At the time we let it slide because none of us wanted to write the original content… Read More ›