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• That attachment parenting TIME cover

  By tigtog on 2012-05-14 • ( 9 )

  

  Annie Urban looks at how it’s so easy for the MSM to misuse the concepts underpinning attachment parenting to “throw some fuel on the mommy wars”, and how motherhood is not a competition.

• Quicklink: Is this feminist?

  By tigtog on 2012-05-14 • ( 3 )

  

  A new tumblr to answer this question about a range of activities.

• A little advice gleaned from Condescending Wonka

  By tigtog on 2012-05-14 • ( 2 )

  

  If, after saying something, one feels the urge/need to say: “I don’t mean that in a creepy* way“, THEN ONE SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER THAN TO SAY IT IN THE FIRST PLACE.

• Political Meme of the week: Abbott “explains” things – they just are

  By tigtog on 2012-05-12 • ( 6 )

  

  ABBOTT: ‘blah blah Gillard govt schoolkid bonus bad blah blah’
  REPORTER: ‘How is this different from the Howard govt baby bonus?’
  ABBOTT: ‘Well look, they just are.’

• Friday Hoyden: Sady Doyle

  By tigtog on 2012-05-11 • ( 10 )

  

  Sady Doyle from the fantastic Tiger Beatdown blog gave Hoyden About Town a shout-out in a piece she wrote for In These Times – Blogging Sisterhood: How feminist blogs saved my life. So here’s a shout-out back, to one of my favourite writers!

• Things that unexpectedly remind one of Mark Latham

  By tigtog on 2012-05-10 • ( 7 )

  

  You know you’re an Aussie poli-tragic when an infographic which could for most people in the world have happily been linked to in the Whimsy thread just gets you thinking about suckholes and the US-Australian alliance.

• Weekly Whimsy

  By tigtog on 2012-05-10 • ( 14 )

  

  This week’s whimsy comes via Shakesville: Tweet of the Day – an epic typo for Benedict Cumberbatch. Please share any bits and pieces you have come across recently that have surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you.

• Obama interview: “I think same sex couples should be able to get married”

  By tigtog on 2012-05-10 • ( 15 )

  

  Malia and Sasha, it wouldn’t dawn on them that somehow their friends’ parents would be treated differently. It doesn’t make sense to them and, frankly, that’s the kind of thing that prompts a change in perspective.

• This week in Game of Thrones: Theon Greyjoy is horrid and horrider

  By tigtog on 2012-05-08 • ( 7 )

  

  Lots of other things are horrid too. Have a general snarking on Westeros thread.

  SPOILERS FOLLOW

• Media circus vs policy

  By tigtog on 2012-05-08 • ( 7 )

  

  Another week, another slew of personality-conflict and MP-scandal headlines. Who’d think it was Budget week in Canberra, eh? Discuss actual policy here, if you like. Or just heave brickbats at the worst of the circus acts, if you prefer.