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• Signal Boost: Kickstarter for documentary on violation of workers’ rights in strip clubs

  By tigtog on 2012-06-19 • ( 2 )

  

  This feature documentary is about the choices that three San Francisco strippers, Lola, Daisy, and Mariko, make as their workplaces engage in illegal labor practices. Strip clubs refuse to pay strippers even minimum wages & actually charge them for the privilege to work.

• Understatement OTD: “One of the things we will be looking at urgently is the communications team”

  By tigtog on 2012-06-18 • ( 2 )

  

  Says the representative of the Argyll and Bute Council in Scotland, whose heavy-handed response streisand-effected a regional scandal into a worldwide media storm about attempts to censor a schoolgirl blogging their school lunches. Now the school lunch menu is being reformed, and the furore helped her raise more than £80,000 for development charity Mary’s Meals. Martha Payne is authentically awesome.

• Some useful things you might teach your children in our rape culture

  By tigtog on 2012-06-17 • ( 10 )

  

  This particular nugget comes from Pharyngula, where a post from PZ addressing rape culture led to a predictable influx of the usual victim-blaming rape myths as if they were commensense truths, leading to a predictably forceful pushback from the Pharyngulites, who do not let that crap stand. If readers would like to add their own favourite links addressing rape myths/culture in comments, I’d really like to see them.

• Perth Stormageddon Thread redux

  By tigtog on 2012-06-13 • ( 4 )

  

  We’re getting a fair few hits on a post of Lauredhel’s about storms around Perth in 2010. Here’s a new post to discuss the south-western Western Australia storms from the past weekend. Our thoughts are with our friends and the 27,000 homes currently without power in WA.

• Internet Misogyny Datapoint: the hatefest aimed at Anita Sarkeesian

  By tigtog on 2012-06-13 • ( 12 )

  

  Every time women on the internet point out how routine it is for a woman’s mere presence on the internet to provoke squadrons of flying he-man-she-hater monkeys to post floods of vile abuse, someone reckons that it’s not really that bad and women should just get thicker skins/lighten up/stop whining etc.

• This week in Streisand Effecting: funnyjunk.com hires a lawyer who doesn’t understand SEO to sue theoatmeal.com

  By tigtog on 2012-06-13 • ( 16 )

  

  See that post title just above these words? And the link I’m adding to this name right here? => That‘s how SEO works, Charles Carreon Attorney At Law.

• “Special thanks to all the trolls for their tireless efforts x”

  By tigtog on 2012-06-09 • ( 6 )

  

  I know this is everywhere at the moment, but I’ve put up this post to assist bookmarking this delightful video for future deployment against infestations of sexually aggressive, racist, homophobe, misogynistic, cowardly, illiterate, wastes of human skin: Thank You Hater by Isabel Fay

• Friday SteamPunk Fun: Steam Powered Giraffe

  By tigtog on 2012-06-08 • ( 9 )

  

  This band is currently Sprog the Younger’s favourite. I totally get the appeal.

• Weekly Whimsy: Hedgehog Bath Time

  By tigtog on 2012-06-06 • ( 5 )

  

  Max’s bath time. Including hedgehog freakout, calm down, scrubbing, sniffing, sneezing, tattoos, and split tongue. Please share any bits and pieces you have come across recently that have surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you.

• Food for thought: if rapists just can’t control their urges…

  By tigtog on 2012-06-04 • ( 15 )

  

  …when they see skimpily covered attractive flesh? Then why do we never hear of summer sun-seekers being attacked by rapists in the middle of large sunlit crowds at public squares and parks and beaches? The skimpily covered attractive flesh is there in maximum abundance, but somehow the attacks just don’t happen when there are plenty of surrounding eyewitnesses and CC-TV?