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• That “Feminist Whore” code in Dead Island game: nice to see a proper apology

  By tigtog on 2011-09-09 • ( 4 )

  

  Others please take note. This is how an apology is done – regret and responsibility. No “if people were offended” bullshit where the responsibility for outrage is weaselled from the perpetrator(s) to those who call it out.

• At Home With Julia: meh

  By tigtog on 2011-09-09 • ( 6 )

  

  It’s hard enough to write a sitcom when you don’t have to worry about the potential for defamation issues and being overtaken by news developments between filming and airing. I have no idea why somebody thought that it was a great idea to shackle their sitcom with such stultifying constraints.

• Femmostroppo Reader September 8, 2011

  By tigtog on 2011-09-08 • ( 3 )

  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!

• Today in Awesome Squared: Fat Ladies in Spaaaaace

  By tigtog on 2011-09-07

  

  As Dee asks on void-star.net – Best Colouring book ever?

• 40th Down Under Feminists Carnival!

  By tigtog on 2011-09-06

  QoT at Ideologically Impure has curated a fine collection of writing from Down Under bloggers over the month of August-

• Where are the women political bloggers? redux

  By tigtog on 2011-09-06 • ( 5 )

  None of the various proposals to ameliorate these well-documented patterns of hostility and condescension online address the basic disconnect that is rooted in persistent gender stereotypes: that what many women see as being fundamentally political issues are simply not acknowledged as part of “politics” by the mainstream – they’re supposedly just personal problems.

• Education and exams

  By tigtog on 2011-09-06 • ( 20 )

  

  When one particular question on an exam paper is literally incomprehensible for the whole class when they compare notes afterwards – not just one or two students, but every single one of them agreed that they had no idea what the jargon used in the question even meant – is it the students’ problem that nobody understands the question, or is it the teacher’s problem that nobody understood the question?

• Quicklink: Doctor Who Season 6B Episode 1 review

  By tigtog on 2011-09-05 • ( 8 )

  

  SPOILERS for Let’s Kill Hitler: Very interesting review, which clarifies several points that have been bothering me about Moff-era who, although I don’t agree with all of it.

• Dividing the pie: perception vs reality

  By tigtog on 2011-09-05

  

  We think the rich are too rich. But they’re even richer..

• On A Woman Choosing Not To Date A Geek

  By tigtog on 2011-09-04 • ( 28 )

  [TW for violently abusive language towards a woman] For those who haven’t come across this story, it starts when a man and a woman in New York came across each other on the OKCupid dating website and went out twice, were each less than enthralled with the other, and moved on. So far, so ordinary.