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• Me and my suspicious mind

  By tigtog on 2011-10-11

  

  I just really hope that the film producers planning to turn a profit by telling of the horrors visited on one group of disadvantaged children had the grace to pass on those very robust film set buildings that they were so very proud of to people who could turn them to good use for other disadvantaged children.

• Quicklink: NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione pushes rape myths

  By tigtog on 2011-10-09 • ( 9 )

  

  If you’re drunk and get raped, you’ve got no one to blame but yourself, says NSW Police Commissioner.

• Slutwalk: why can’t it be better than this?

  By tigtog on 2011-10-07 • ( 10 )

  

  The sentiment that whatever we wear and wherever we go, yes means yes and no means no is what got me Slutwalking earlier this year. Those campaigning to “reclaim” the word “slut”? I didn’t totally hate the idea, but it wasn’t one that particularly inspired me, because I’m skeptical regarding reclamation of marginalising slurs in concept and feel it’s of limited utility compared to actively challenging prejudices more radically.

• It’s called the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it

  By tigtog on 2011-10-06 • ( 6 )

  

  George Carlin’s Final 2005 Words To The World…sounding hugely relevant right now.

  TW for rape analogy

• 41st Down Under Feminists Carnival!

  By tigtog on 2011-10-06

  Stef at A Touch Of The Crazy has curated a fine collection of writing from Down Under bloggers over the month of September – looking forward to catching up on the posts that flew under my radar first time around.

• Femmostroppo Reader October 5, 2011

  By tigtog on 2011-10-05 • ( 7 )

  Items of interest come across recently in my feed-reader. What did I miss? Leave your own interesting links in comments. Shameless self-promotion entirely welcome!

• I feel rather like this sneezing bear this week

  By tigtog on 2011-10-05 • ( 1 )

  

  Except I’m not nearly so cute.

• Links of the day: gendered slurs as social signals

  By tigtog on 2011-10-03

  

  On the subject of gendered insults (in this case, the use of specific terms to signal acceptable behavior):

• Guys, Don’t Do That

  By tigtog on 2011-10-01 • ( 8 )

  

  Months later, the woman who spoke these four words is still dealing with cyber-harassment including rape and death threats

• Today’s Dose of Awesome: Desaturated Santa

  By tigtog on 2011-09-30 • ( 5 )

  

  This was all over the intertubes a while ago, but I missed it at the time. Anyway, the image is not photo-manipulated – this is pure art-concept theatrical costuming executed with meticulous attention to detail.