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• Media Circus: Reforms and Other Changes edition

  By tigtog on 2013-02-25 • ( 20 )

  

  What’s piqued your media interests lately? Please share your bouquets and brickbats for any current sociopolitical reportage on legacy/new media.

• QOTD: Pinkification

  By tigtog on 2013-02-24 • ( 14 )

  

  Any explanation of pink preference that is handed to children by the society they live in and only looks at the last hundred years, and calls itself “evolutionary psychology”, is blatantly misunderstanding both words in its title.

• Oh FFS OTD: stop oppressing dude boners with your yoga pants, you strumpets

  By tigtog on 2013-02-23 • ( 18 )

  

  Attention The Good Men’s Project: Women Wear Yoga Pants Because They Are Comfortable, Not Because They Apparently Give You A Boner

• Femmostroppo Reader 2013-02-23

  By tigtog on 2013-02-23

  

  What items of interest did I miss? Leave your own interesting links in comments. Shameless self-promotion entirely welcome!

• À chacun son goût

  By tigtog on 2013-02-18 • ( 5 )

  

  One person’s adorable quirk is the next person’s pet peeve.

• Those who do not know their internet history are doomed to repeat it, clearly.

  By tigtog on 2013-02-15 • ( 15 )

  

  Datum the First: On April 8, 2007 Tim O’Reilly wrote a Draft Blogger’s Code Of Conduct …In the nearly seven years since, many similar initiatives have been proposed.

• Film review: Silver Linings Playbook

  By tigtog on 2013-02-14 • ( 11 )

  

  This is a feast of a film, a comedy-drama-romance of families, friendships and forgiveness which sparkles with subtly dazzling restraint, studded with troubling emotions and snort-out-loud humour.

• Proving the point: harassers attempt to hijack #TellAFeministThankyou hashtag

  By tigtog on 2013-02-13 • ( 12 )

  

  I started #tellafeministthankyou b/c of feminists harassed on Twitter. Now ppl are using the tag to harass feminists. Prove the point more! — Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) February 12, 2013

• Happy Darwin Day, fellow mutants

  By tigtog on 2013-02-12 • ( 2 )

  

  Charles Darwin was born 204 years ago today, and the International Darwin Day Foundation uses February 12th each year to celebrate Darwin, Science and Humanity. In November it will be 154 years since the publication of his paradigm-shattering work, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.

• Media Circus: Pope resigns edition

  By tigtog on 2013-02-12 • ( 29 )

  

  Well, all sorts of things are going to fly under the media’s radar this week, aren’t they? What else has piqued your sociopolitical media interests lately? Please share your bouquets and brickbats.