Tara Murtha at Philadelphia Weekly brings us Watch Your Language: Pedophilia, gang rape and erroneous Fox29 reporting, which has an opinion from a forensic semanticist about calling rape “having sex” or “a sexual relationship” in court: But after a recent… Read More ›
language
Another gutless conservative deletes his Twitter account
here, preserved in a screencap, is Australian uni student Nick Sowden calling Barack Obama a monkey during the much-publicised interview with Kerry O’Brien on the 7:30 report on Wednesday night:
Noel Pearson v. Abbott: welcomes to country and acknowledgment of traditional owners
If you can’t sit through those few minutes or few seconds it is unlikely that you are only annoyed with the occasional political correctness or silliness of it.
Canberra’s great communicators
I have found the last few weeks of relentless spin about Rudd’s sudden transition from last year’s alleged cynical spinmeister whose soundbites mesmerised a malleable public to this year’s alleged droning word-salad-tosser who can’t convey his vision to the voters to be the most tedious period of media non-analysis for years.
Snippets of awesome
Despite February being a short month, Fuckpoliteness has a huge and FABULOUS Down Under Feminists Carnival up! This is our 22nd carnival and still going strong. Go and check out what local feminists have had to say about Tony Abbott,… Read More ›
Keep your eye on the ball
Negative stereotypes about feminists abound in the media. And in response several times a year another article written by a feminist comes out worrying about the damage done by the deliberate misrepresentation of feminism. I worry too. Women won’t want… Read More ›
Denialism: it’s a tactic, not an ideology
Denialism (n): the practice of creating the illusion of debate when there is none.
Tautology Of The Day: cashing in on MJ dept
The Jacksons: A Family Dynasty Thanks for the vote of confidence in the average vocabulary, A&E.
Riley, Hilary, Leslie, Mackenzie, Lindsay, Taylor, Logan, Hunter
Once these names were all once considered manly names exuding virility. Yet every one of these traditionally masculine names might as well suddenly have become Sue, since all it took for most parents to stop giving these names to their sons was for them to become popular names for girls.
On speaking out, and stigma
So hey, Cosima Marriner at the SMH, here’s a tip. If you’re going to talk about how disabilities shouldn’t be stigmatised (and about how PWD should come out already because then the stigma will go away), how’s about not using… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 