Channel Ten’s dropped the show. Endemol thinks they can sell it to someone else. Really?
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BB Friday: Intruder Belinda joins the “but he’s BLIND!!!” game
Day 35 of Big Brother UK, and everyone is struggling with the Irish Dancing & Drumming task. Click To Play note: This is a five and a half minute video, which I’ve summarised but not transcribed yet – it’s school… Read More ›
“Sex” Watch: Colorado Vail Daily edition
We all know the problem of the mainstream media calling rape “sex”, and calling raping or being raped “having sex with”. I now bring you what is expected to be a far too regular feature: “Sex” Watch. Today, it’s the… Read More ›
Ruh-roh! Racist cartooning in Murdoch press
[via stephiepenguin] The Western Suburbs Weekly is News Limited’s trashy local rag for Perth’s western suburbs – the posh part of town. According to the WSW who bills its distribution population as “Affluent, well educated, professionals”, 74% of people in… Read More ›
Two Posts on The Gruen Transfer
We are lucky to have the blogger from Fuck Politeness as a guest Hoyden this week. ~~~ Look, I should say up front I am a little grouchy of late over feeling like as a woman I am being ‘locked… Read More ›
How to Have a Succesful Mainstream Newspaper Blog
We are lucky to have the blogger from Fuck Politeness as a guest Hoyden this week. Fuckpoliteness is a blog born out of frustration over society’s obsessive commitment to formal/semantic politeness – to the empty vision of ‘manners’ in which… Read More ›
SF Sunday: cult SF films
This topic seems timely given the discovery of a full-length version of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis that had been disregarded for years in the archives of a museum in Buenos Aires. Image Source: Emory Libraries Metropolis is a classic utopia revealed… Read More ›
Big Brother UK: Darnell says blind housemate Mikey not a “performing monkey”
There are two people with disabilities in Big Brother UK this year. Mikey and Darnell are not being presented by the production team purely as “The Disabled Housemates”, with their disability as the only facet of stereotyped caricatures. They don’t… Read More ›
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I missed this last week, but Bernice explains why this number ought to be burnt into our brains.
Ladies Products and The Gruen Transfer
This guest post is from Mindy, a regular commentor here and a contributor to the For Battle! group blog. The Gruen Transfer last night revealed that men in advertising still don’t understand ‘lady bits’. Jane Caro did her best to… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 