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• Pinktober is upon us

  By tigtog on 2012-10-03 • ( 5 )

  

  We’ve written a lot about the problems with pinkwashing of cancer “awareness” in the past, but this is the hardest month of the year to match actions with ideals on this issue, because (a) the pink products are everywhere, and (b) it is at least a good reminder of a worthy cause to direct our donations towards, if only we can be sure that the money is being used effectively.

• Whimsy: hedgehog in a cloak

  By tigtog on 2012-10-01 • ( 20 )

  

  A Dracula cloak! Mwahahahahaha! Please share your own brain-bleach material in comments…

• Doctor Who: S7 Ep5 –The Angels take Manhattan

  By tigtog on 2012-10-01 • ( 22 )

  

  Conflicting responses from me in this episode – I liked the noirish atmosphere and the big picture, BUT just how many annoyingly obvious plotholes can one episode have?

• Media Circus: Fauxpology Edition

  By tigtog on 2012-10-01 • ( 58 )

  

  A certain oxygen thief is a national disgrace, . As usual for media circus threads, please share your bouquets and brickbats for particular items in the mass media, or highlight cogent analysis elsewhere, on any current sociopolitical issue.

• On the averting of civil unrest and slime on the carpet

  By tigtog on 2012-09-30 • ( 4 )

  

  It was, as always, a matter of protocol. Of discretion. Of careful etiquette. Of, ultimately, alcohol. Or at least the illusion of alcohol.

• This week on Feminism 101 Blog: Cyberbullying 101/Book Recs for Teens/Privacy 101

  By tigtog on 2012-09-29

  

  Please follow the links and leave some feedback/suggestions/recommendations.

• Schrödinger’s Rapist: ever-reliable source of women being told that (yet again) we’re doing it wrong

  By tigtog on 2012-09-27 • ( 28 )

  

  BTW, women are also assessing strange men they meet as Schrödinger’s Thief, Schrödinger’s Drunk Who Vomits On New Shoes, Schrödinger’s Teller Of Long Boring Tales, and they’re also assessing every car for whether Schrödinger’s Hit And Run Driver is behind the wheel. Do those background safety checks upset you as much as Schrödinger’s Rapist? If not, why not?

• Doctor Who: S7 Ep4 –The Power of Three

  By tigtog on 2012-09-27 • ( 6 )

  

  I meant to put this up yesterday as a traditional HaT Whoydensday, but didn’t because of reasons. So it’s a day late.

• Cowboys and Aliens: mismanaging audience expectations

  By tigtog on 2012-09-26 • ( 5 )

  

  James Bond and Indiana Jones in the Wild West versus aliens with frickin’ lasers – but what was missing?

• Feminism 101 Blog: Cyberbullies 101 Part 1

  By tigtog on 2012-09-23 • ( 6 )

  

  I’d appreciate some feedback and especially additional tips and tricks that I have overlooked in my latest #FF101 post | Cyberbullies 101: Part 1 – muffling their megaphones