The state of being wrong at every conceivable scale of resolution. That is, from a distance, a fractally wrong person’s worldview is incorrect; and furthermore, if you zoom in on any small part of that person’s worldview, that part is just as wrong as the whole worldview.
language
use, misuse and cynical manipulation of language in common and specialist speech and writing
An Open Challenge to mainstream media re SlutWalk Sydney
Does a single one of you have the guts to forego predictable titillation and let the public know the truth about Slutwalk and the hundreds and hundreds of other women and male and queer allies who will be marching in non-skimpy wear, and why they are there? Or will it just be more sad head-shaking misrepresentation from your pundits?
Today in sexism
Finance Minister Senator Penny Wong gets called ‘catty’ in Parliament by Coalition member, Senator David Bushby and addresses it head on. See the video here.
Re-post: But why shouldn’t she take some responsibility too for the rape?
Image credit here. In honour of the Slut Walk happening in parts of Australia at the moment I am re-posting this piece, which orginally appeared here on blue milk. TRIGGER WARNING – graphic description of rape. ——————————————– I am going… Read More ›
Re-post: Don’t get raped
Image credit here. In honour of the Slut Walk happening in parts of Australia at the moment I am re-posting this piece, which orginally appeared here on blue milk. From Amelia Bentley’s article in the brisbane times (my use of… Read More ›
Quick Hit – To march or not to march?
Great post from Racialicious on Slut Walk.
Slutwalking
The best deconstruction I’ve read yet: Sex, lies and slutwalking by Lauren Rosewarne
I can’t decide…
whether Alan Greenspan deserves internet immortality more for referring to a hypothetically invisible entity as “unredeemably opaque” or for the phrase which spawned this epic Crooked Timber thread. I await the inevitable memetic offspring.
Rougher than usual: The Monthly on Julian Assange and consent
Yet again, I was approaching an article on Julian Assange, this time in the Monthly by Guy Rundle, Crayfish Summer: Julian Assange, Sex crime and Feminism, with low expectations. Most of the blogosphere and media appears to have eaten up… Read More ›
4.3 inverse femtobarns of data
No, I don’t know how much a femtobarn is either, but analysis based on that much data has got some particle physicists rather hot and bothered.
Hoyden About Town 