The title is quoted from this ABC Online article with respect to the special regulations in force from yesterday until the end of this month that relate to the behaviour of onlookers and protesters to the Roman Catholic World Youth… Read More ›
Culture
The milieu through which we swim
Whoydensday! Season 4 Official Trailer
Below is the official BBC teaser trailer for Season 4: This is an Open Season 4 Wishes, Speculations and Horrible Suspicions Thread. As usual, those Hoydenizens who live in countries where some of the series has already been shown, please… 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.
All time favourite
Come to Australia, you might accidentally get killed! The song is “Deadly Animals”, by Australian comedy musical duo The Scared Weird Little Guys (aka the Scaredies), and it’s all over the Intertubes (my second cousin just posted it to us… Read More ›
Disappointment
is the reaction of the neighbourhood mooch-cat to finding that the interesting pile on the kitchen floor is only locks of hair from the buzzcut I gave my son this morning instead of something delicious. “To tell of disappointment and… Read More ›
School holidays coming, guest hoydens needed!
Lauredhel and I will both have much less time than usual to squeeze in our blogging while our respective kids are not at school for the next few weeks. Outings and trips have to happen, as do sleepovers and cinema… Read More ›
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 ›
SF Sunday
A few things lately have got me thinking about two distinct strands of definitively “what-if?” speculative fiction which sometimes intertwine – the alternate history based narrative, and the utopian-dystopian narrative.
Otterday!
Today’s otter comes courtesy of the Sunshine Coast Daily. Mo and Bud, small-clawed south east Asian otters from Underwater World, are on their way to New Zealand for what the Daily calls “a breeding holiday”. An Underwater World spokesperson said:… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 