It’s to honour Jules Verne. Interactive steampunk ahoy!
Culture
The milieu through which we swim
Quicklink: newswithnipples on Mark Latham’s sexism
She wrote all about it, which means I don’t have to!
Yet another Dickwolves post
[TW: rape culture] Don’t know about it yet? You’re lucky. Here’s a timeline. Geek Feminism and Shakesville have multiple posts on how Penny Arcade fucked up not so much with just(!) an insensitive rape joke in their webcomic, but with their mockingly dismissive responses (and how that played into their fans’ responses) to people’s objections to that webcomic.
What will it take for Hosni Mubarak to go already?
Hundreds have already been killed and the violence is escalating. Let your people get on with it without you and your mates. You are not needed.
Insensitive arseholes alert: not enough tragedy for their taste
Via Possum at Pollytics, I have been made aware that Caroline Overington and other people who work for the Oz’s Media Diary think that problems with devastating cyclones and killer heatwaves have been given too much attention, presumably since not enough people have died from them.
Quick hit: NSW Coalition drops active anti-ethics classes policy
The NSW Coalition has said they will not attempt to reverse the introduction of ethics classes in Special Religious Education time this year. Classes begin this term.
Oh FFS #156784563458
“Generation Y losing ‘female’ skills” It must be a slow news day. Horror of horrors Generation Y women are losing the skills their mothers and grandmothers apparently took for granted. In case you didn’t know, all women of the baby… Read More ›
And lo, the internets did not let me down
Of course someone’s already created a nifty Davos/Davros graphic to match my pernicious brane’s wilful conflation. My faith in cyberspace is vindicated.
Friday Hoyden: Kim Clijsters made of awesome
What if, every time a woman was called fat, she laughed?
So tweeted Margot Magowan to sum up the awesomeness that was Kim Clijsters this week.
Today in Just Not Getting It
Who knew that advocating for single mothers to be NOT shamed and for their children to be adequately supported by society was tantamount to claiming that single motherhood was “the most advanced, liberating experience on the planet akin to putting a man on the moon”?
Hoyden About Town 