Image Source: Matt Harding, el bailarín trotamundos de YouTube, en Madrid This guy, Matt Harding, went travelling and shot video of himself doing a silly dance, that ended up on the internet. That ended up getting some chewing gum company’s… Read More ›
media
old, new, social, global, cross platforms etc.
Tick-a-box sexual harassment apologism from “Lefty” Tim
My status as a staunch “Lefty” Tim Brunero fan has been moribund for most of this season, and it’s now officially dead. On Big Brother Australia, Rory was in the shower as Terri was approaching. He masturbated till he was… Read More ›
Is “pregnancy pact” the new MSM code for child rape?
The West proclaims: “Parents form bizarre pregnancy pact with teen”. The article opens with a description of what initially is made out to sound like a (bizarre and exploitative, but mutually agreed) surrogacy arrangement between mother, stepfather, and 15 year… Read More ›
Quicklink: Kira Cochrane in the Guardian
On the growing backlash against feminism. Today’s recommended reading.
Senate report on the sexualisation of children in the contemporary media
The full report can be found here (long). Just the recommendations are here (brief). I can’t think of anything in particular to add to Senator Bartlett’s summary, and totally agree that the best recommendation of the report is the one… Read More ›
“What were they thinking?” tampon ad du jour
Via Gigglesugar, this Tampax ad.
AP backpedaling?
Lauredhel posted last week about AP’s Cease and Desist posturing over a blogger using short excerpts from their articles (with attribution and links). Today? SMH: AP to hammer out deal with bloggers Jim Kennedy, the AP’s director of strategic planning,… Read More ›
Nitpickers alert: sexual health education division
Allison Pearson is outraged that her 12 year old daughter knows all about contraception and sexually transmitted diseases, because this will apparently ruin the youthful romantic yearnings that all teenage girls should have by right, yet paradoxically this very lack… Read More ›
Who’s the TV couple of the Noughties?
[Images and links may include spoilers.] The turn of the century seems only moments ago to me, but it’s 2008 already. And I’ve been contemplating who is the TV romantic pairing of the decade. In the seventies, we had Joanie… Read More ›
Three Hits: Gender Binary Edition
Hell On Hairy Legs shares a post-patriarchal Doctor Who ficlet: Doctor: (airily) Oh marriage is long gone, went with the gender binary. The downfall of patriarchy made sex so much less complicated. Donna: Gender binary? Whadya mean? There are men… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 