there is a correlation between overexposure to sexualized media images of women with depression, eating disorders and risky sexual behavior for girls and demeaning, sexist attitudes in boys
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In Things To Make You Hate The World
Following major publicity over Charlie Sheen’s latest hospitalisation following yet another “meltdown” that resulted in a cowering woman, the ratings for his craptacular sausage-com have gone up.
Friday Hoyden: Eartha Kitt wants to be evil
The Eartha Kitt fan club has a lyrics transcript, which is especially notable for showing both the lyrics she’s singing here and the “official” lyrics, which are more tame.
Paging @BoganetteNZ to the light relief phone
I figured Boganette could do with a bit of light relief from her position as inadvertent heart of a Twitterstorm (That Shall Not Be Otherwise Mentioned In This Thread*, because then it wouldn’t be light relief at all).
On Ophelia, Who Never Got to Be a Hoyden
The casual use of violence perpetrated on the female body in telling a story about a man’s experience will not be news to most people here, but it might be enlightening to look at it in the context of what is often considered to be one of the great works of humanist literature, one that still carries more cultural weight than possibly any other, and is often claimed to speak to all people, everywhere.
Whoydensday: Mitch Benn’s “Doctor Who Girl”
I have to confess to a guilty secret: I love Mitch Benn’s “Doctor Who Girl”. It makes me feel all warm and gooey. But before I hand in my “good feminist” card, I will say, I rather suspect that this whole song is tongue-in-cheek —
How about a fillum on Tuesday instead of the fillies?
I’m thinking seriously of going to see Made in Dagenham while the rest of the nation is stopped by a race.
Friday Hoyden: Ari Up
Dead at 48. Ageing rockers and younger fans are mourning Ari Up, or Arianne Forster as she was known to her mum and dad. Forty-eight. Cancer, what a miserable bastard you are. I was lucky enough to be around for… Read More ›
Extreme breastfeeding in novels
I am reading Emma Donoghue’s Room at the moment. It is one of those novels that everyone is suddenly talking about. Narrated by a five year old, it is about he and his mother’s very isolated life. The book has an extraordinary premise, which I won’t give away here, but there is another element to the story that everyone can’t help but seem to notice and unpick and that is that the five-year old is still being breastfed.
Half-arsed Sunday: Books and Bechdel
So what’s everybody else been reading? What have you found especially well written, or at least well plotted? What’s particularly Bechdel-Wallacious? What, if anything, has been both?
Hoyden About Town 