Culture

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“The formula for understanding women”

By tigtog on 2010-09-05 • ( 16 )

…unlike the man speaking (who of course is fully entitled to hold and change his individual preferences as an autonomous adult) and the men listening to him, a woman should apparently not ever have different preferences and priorities from other women, and certainly should not ever adjust her preferences and priorities at any time according to changes in knowledge and/or circumstances. And if she does…

It’s Feminist Defence of Palin Time again

By tigtog on 2010-09-03 • ( 4 )

Which means it must be just about time for a US Congressional election. Yup, here come those midterms. So people are going to start talking to and about Sarah Palin again. Great.

Who’d be a NSW voter?

By tigtog on 2010-09-03 • ( 6 )

The swings, the roundabouts, the highs, the lows.

Friday Fandom: True Blood Season 3

By tigtog on 2010-09-03 • ( 3 )

Brought to you by Alan Swist’s True-Blood paper doll collection! Print them out and dress them up!

Boo-hoo – he hasn’t done one for Alcide yet. Can I just say: fantastic casting!

Day 10 of the hung parliament: media chasing its tail

By tigtog on 2010-09-01 • ( 4 )

There’s hardly anybody in the MSM writing anything worth reading about the current situation, because there is nothing to do but wait until 3 men who don’t give a toss about Big Media make their minds up in their own sweet time (as they should).

Quicklink: Catch Princess Cabaret if you can #edfringe

By tigtog on 2010-08-28

I feel bad for not promoting this weeks ago for any Hoydenizens planning to see some Edinburgh Fringe Festival shows this year – there’s only three more shows of Princess Cabaret left to go.

This morning’s sunrise

By tigtog on 2010-08-27 • ( 2 )

It was even rosier and purtier when I first went out to bring in the bins, but by the time I’d grabbed the camera the clouds had gone this pale tangerine shade.

How to wrangle a new paradigm

By Guest Poster on 2010-08-27 • ( 5 )

I’m particularly intrigued by the growing hysteria echoing out of Murdoch’s media outlets. Dealing with independents who aren’t pavlovian in their response to the media’s narratives must come as something of a shock.