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• Reactionary role-yearning

  By tigtog on 2006-10-23

  Oh, this should stimulate some discussion around the blogtraps. Sara Robinson, a blogger I’ve linked to before for her pieces on religious-authoritarian childrearing practices, has written about the call for a return to traditional masculinity from religious conservatives, and its… Read More ›

• Ugly

  By tigtog on 2006-10-22 • ( 5 )

  That’s the only word for some of the recent spats in what were previously some of my favourite corners of cyberspace. First there were the feminister-than-thou wars about lipstick and marriage (see Pandagon and Feministe), then there were the pseudonymity… Read More ›

• For eating, not shelving

  By tigtog on 2006-10-22 • ( 3 )

  An e-friend on a mailing list just described a fabulous edible bouquet rather like this one that they received as a gift, a particularly appreciated gift in that she has long given up delighting in gifts of the dust-collecting figurine… Read More ›

• blogcrush of the week

  By tigtog on 2006-10-22 • ( 3 )

  togolosh, who regularly comments at various Stateside feminist blogs but sadly doesn’t seem to have a blog of hir own (sob), skewered this anti-feminist righteously: You have NO RIGHT to contraception anymore than you have a RIGHT to eat cake…. Read More ›

• Comments challenge at bliss factory

  By tigtog on 2006-10-22

  A while back now a few of us on LP did some fundraising for Darfur based on a comments challenge – we donated money to Medecins San Frontieres based on the number of comments we received in that thread. One… Read More ›

• Done something silly

  By tigtog on 2006-10-21

  I was trying to tweak my comments code, and now seem to have managed to make the text of the actual posts disappear if you try to view them on a single page. You can still see the comments, but… Read More ›

• Friday garden-blogging, blogroll wrangling etc

  By tigtog on 2006-10-20 • ( 3 )

  Scabious, aka the Pincushion Flower Quite a few of you enjoyed my post on a picture of Saturn’s rings a few days ago. Well, a new blog I’ve discovered has an excellent post on the following day’s Astronomy Picture Of… Read More ›

• Highway to Heaven

  By tigtog on 2006-10-20

  Brian Turner, designer of Jolly Roger, has sunk about $30,000 into his creation. His design is a variation on the fabled Archimedes death ray, which the ancient Greek mathematician allegedly devised to set enemy ships ablaze by bombarding them with… Read More ›

• In a nutshell

  By tigtog on 2006-10-19 • ( 2 )

  Emma of Gendergeek: Patriarchy offers women economic insecurity, and then offers them a “way out’ in a form that benefits patriarchy. This was a mid-thread comment from Emma in a thread of 91 comments responding to her post Prostitution: selling… Read More ›

• Our wonderful neighborhood

  By tigtog on 2006-10-17 • ( 5 )

  click on picture for larger image at APOD As regular readers know, I adore the Astronomy Picture of the Day site, and I have it as the homepage of my browser so I see every picture. This was yesterday’s, a… Read More ›