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• You’d flinch too

  By tigtog on 2007-02-26 • ( 4 )

  if Christopher Walken did all his scenes with you after eating three cloves of garlic every morning. This is how Walken manages to make his fellow actors so tense around him that on screen he appears to exude palpable menace,… Read More ›

• Linky-link

  By tigtog on 2007-02-24 • ( 3 )

  Sex, Sexuality, Sexual/Gender Stereotypes: Cristy’s post at LP on the American Psychological Association’s report on the emotional harm caused by immersion in a culture of sexualised representations of girls. (also at her own blog) Anna’s post at LP on another… Read More ›

• Blogging, blaming and outing or alerting

  By tigtog on 2007-02-23 • ( 15 )

  Hello, visiting Blamers! (and thanks for the emails) So, it appears I am the only person who’s worked out Switchbutt Dorktor‘s identity, or at least the only person who’s owned up to it. Short summary for non-Blamers: Anonymous doctor posts… Read More ›

• Gazumped, dangnabbit

  By tigtog on 2007-02-23

  Helen got around to mocking Conservapedia first.

• Consensual sex contracts vs. consexual creed

  By tigtog on 2007-02-22 • ( 8 )

  There’s a lot of discussion in the feminist blogs about this T-shirt: This is timely, as currently most of the search engine hits bringing visitors to this blog are people googling on “consensual sex contracts“. But they’re not leaving comments…. Read More ›

• Sexism always sucks, even when dissing the Coultergeist

  By tigtog on 2007-02-21 • ( 24 )

  There’s always some low-level antagonism towards Ann Coulter going on amongst the socially progressive bloggers, and fair enough too. The woman is a hateful bigot who deliberately stirs up anger and fear towards anyone not fitting into her conservative WASPangelical… Read More ›

• Just more politics, not a “clash of civilisations”

  By tigtog on 2007-02-21

  The Guardian: a global survey released on Monday showed that most people believe the current clash between Islamists and the West is primarily political rather than genuinely based on religious and cultural differences. (NB: update appended – debunking the talking-point… Read More ›

• Election issues: transport edges out water shortages in wake of QM2

  By tigtog on 2007-02-21

  To the surprise of no-one who commutes into the Sydney CBD these days, Sydney’s transport system got tired and emotional and went to take a Bex and a lie down last night just as all the fireworks-trippers were trying to… Read More ›

• FFS

  By tigtog on 2007-02-20

  Spare me. Michelle Malkin patting some hack on the back for doing a search and replace on a few paragraphs from the of a George Orwell essay, doing the usual strip-the-context bait and switch, as if he has made some… Read More ›

• Why insomniacs love the internets

  By tigtog on 2007-02-20 • ( 7 )

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