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Life at 1: breastfeeding

By Mary on 2011-02-20 • ( 13 )

The longitudinal television program Life at 5, following from Life at 1 and Life at 3, is now showing. The whole thing has my Hoyden antenna up a bit, so I am going to post a few discussions of some of the aspects of the show I was less impressed by. Today: breastfeeding.

If more Hollywood producers read Bob the Angry Flower

By tigtog on 2011-02-17 • ( 17 )

… they’d never greenlight tosh like Atlas Shrugged: Part 1 (part one!)

Gratuitous Colin Firth blogging

By tigtog on 2011-02-14 • ( 12 )

Congratulations to the lovely and talented Mr Firth on his Best Actor BAFTA. Do go and see The King’s Speech if you haven’t already.

Femmostroppo Reader February 13, 2011

By tigtog on 2011-02-13 • ( 6 )

Items of interest come across recently in my feed-reader. What did I miss? Leave your own interesting links in comments.

Happy Darwin Day

By tigtog on 2011-02-12 • ( 4 )

Charles Darwin was born 202 years ago today, and the International Darwin Day Foundation uses February 12th each year to celebrate Darwin, Science and Humanity. In November it will be 152 years since the publication of his paradigm-shattering work, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.

Looking for an expert female speaker for your Australian event?

By tigtog on 2011-02-11 • ( 14 )

After nearly a year in concept, the No Chicks No Excuses website listing women speakers covering a wide variety of expertise has been launched, so that organisers no longer find it so terribly difficult to find women who know how to speak at a large event.

Abbott-Watch: macho moments more important than basic consideration

By tigtog on 2011-02-09 • ( 16 )

Paraphrasing a comment I just made at LP: The “shit happens” comment is revealing despite being a media “gotcha” beatup, and what it reveals isn’t pretty.