Remember when something as outrageously racist as a minstrel show was considered funny? Mainstream funny, not white supremacist funny? No, me neither. That kind of cruelty was a long, long time ago. Or so we thought. Then this week a… Read More ›
Culture
The milieu through which we swim
Nestle Aus manager calls critics irrational, biased
Complete with the infantilising headline we’ve come to expect from Fairfax media, Asher Moses has written up the ongoing #nestlefamily incident: “Mummy bloggers spit the dummy over Nestle’s spoilt milk” First, Nestlé hung its bloggers out to dry, leaving them… Read More ›
Quickhit: freebies, kickbacks and Disclosure by Bloggers
Interesting: FTC to Fine Bloggers up to $11,000 for Not Disclosing Payments
That’s an $11,000 fine per non-disclosing post for those bloggers coming under the US FTC’s ambit.
School holiday blogging: Bees on lavender
Taken yesterday.
Que(e)rying Sex Ed
Each year, I teach a course on gender and sexuality to a bunch of second year uni students. It’s focussed pretty firmly on challenging heteronormativity, in a way that most of the students, even those who are queer in some… Read More ›
Belated Thursday Cheezburger – The 5th Virtue, Faith
Huge apologies for my failure to post a Thursday Cheezburger yesterday! School holidays has me all in a muddle, schedule-wise. To compensate, I have bonus Honourable Mentions today. It’s also our monthly Delurking Day! If you’ve been reading along, give… Read More ›
Nestlé moves from obfuscation to outright lies
This seems a good point to start a new post. Many Nestle-bloggers seem to be continuing to believe that by taking their questions straight to the company, they will get honest replies, and will clear up all these decades of… Read More ›
Whoydensday: a bitter rant summed up in one perspicacious comment
No spoilers in the rant (link below). In fact, it has anti-spoilers as the author appears to not have done his homework. Here is the perspicacious comment,
#nestlefamily: fobbing off Nestle chocolate slavery critique with Oompa Loompa “jokes”
[I’m updating the links roundup at the end, in case you’re wondering why this post keeps popping up in your RSS feed.] For those not following the #nestlefamily hashtag on twitter, it’s about a current ‘conference’ being held by Nestle…. Read More ›
Can you take this feminist seriously?
While wandering around the internet yesterday I came across a comment that said something along the lines of “if you change your name when you get married, don’t expect to get taken seriously as a feminist”. Okaaay then. Now I… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 