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• Crowdsourcing: accessibility on wordpress.com?

  By tigtog on 2012-01-11 • ( 9 )

  

  I’ve noticed that quite a few of the trendy designs for blog templates on the free WordPress.com site, while looking very gorgeous and all, are just not that accessible for folks – pale grey fonts, especially tiny pale grey fonts, are the worst offender. I’d like to have a list of themes good and bad…

• 2857 days of not waking up with intrascapular pain

  By tigtog on 2012-01-04 • ( 4 )

  

  This post is part of our Summer Slowdown repost series: in March 2004 I had breast reduction mammoplasty surgery.

• BFTP: The myth of bra burning feminists

  By tigtog on 2012-01-02 • ( 6 )

  

  In 1968, some activists demonstrated against the Miss America beauty pageant and threw objects of “female oppression” – bras, high-heeled shoes, girdles, curlers – into a trash can. They were arguing about liberation – there was never any bra-burning – but the myth of the feminist as a bra-burner was created by the western media. There was also a crucial word missed in the description of the trashed bras.

• “I’ll put up with it, at least for now, because [Lego]’s just so good for little girls’ brains”

  By tigtog on 2011-12-31 • ( 6 )

  

  “If it takes color-coding or ponies and hairdressers to get girls playing with Lego, I’ll put up with it, at least for now, because it’s just so good for little girls’ brains,” says Lise Eliot. A neuroscientist at the Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science in Chicago, Eliot is the author of Pink Brain Blue Brain, a 2009 survey of hundreds of scientific papers on gender differences in children

• BFTP – Friday Hoyden: reading in public

  By tigtog on 2011-12-30 • ( 14 )

  

  This post is part of our Summer Slowdown repost series, and is revisited in solidarity with 15 year old Reddit user Lunam: comments on the original version of this post in October 2008 showed how often a dim view is taken of women reading in public.

• Yes, you are awful too

  By tigtog on 2011-12-29 • ( 10 )

  

  Kate Harding: if your solution to sexist abuse on the internet is, “Just don’t let anyone know your gender, or see a picture of you, or ever mention where you live”, you are so fucking awful, I can’t even.

• Thought for the Day: Political Correctness

  By tigtog on 2011-12-27 • ( 7 )

  

  Disdain for “political correctness” is often positioned as a concern that some important truth is not being spoken for fear of offending someone. But that concern is nothing but smoke and mirrors.

• Friday Hoydens: The Women of AbFab

  By tigtog on 2011-12-23 • ( 1 )

  

  New AbFab coming – can you believe it’s their 20th anniversary season? Christmas special in the UK, followed by Olympics specials-themed – should be on Auntie ABC in late Jan/early Feb.

• Boo to Channel 4 UK

  By tigtog on 2011-12-23 • ( 2 )

  Why don’t you allow access from other countries to see and embed your promo videos for upcoming shows? Especially in countries to which you’re no doubt planning to sell the show? At least Sky 1 knows how to do it properly.

• I missed the solstice!

  By tigtog on 2011-12-22 • ( 2 )

  It was about seven hours ago, and I meant to schedule a post to publish at the exact time, but life got in the way. Whatever your cultural/religious/astronomical orientation, may the turning of the calendar lead only to better things for you.