I have made an executive decision: every now and then Wednesdays around here will be Whodnesdays. This was prompted by paralysis: because Lauredhel and I couldn’t decide from the plethora of choice available for a general Whoniverse Marry, Shag or… Read More ›
Culture
The milieu through which we swim
Dismembered Summer Glau in Sarah Connor Chronicles posters
Liss at Shakesville has posted before about the commercial exploitation of woman as dismembered body parts: It’s so very girly to get all worked up about novelty boobs. Oh, you’re such a girl. You’re fucking right I’m a girl. I’m… Read More ›
Women who have had C sections may struggle to get health insurance in the USA
Health insurance for women is being denied, or premium-loaded, in the wake of the Cesarean section upsurge. The New York Times reports “After Caesareans, Some Women See Higher Insurance Cost”: When the Golden Rule Insurance Company rejected her application for… Read More ›
Various Gits the World should know more about
This may well become a semi-regular feature, as this way at least sends some linkjuice to the bloggers who have taken the time to document various gitting about that I find too angrifying to blog about in detail: From Angry… Read More ›
Journalwatch: Ethics chairs unaware of research sexism; breast cancer and HRT use fall in concert
In today’s Hoyden Journalwatch: Adelaide bioethics researchers found that human research ethics committee chairs in Australia were unaware of issues of sexism in scientific research. The research, published in today’s Medical Journal of Australia[1], consisted of interviews with 25 chairs… Read More ›
All Fun and Games: Bullying and assault in the Big Brother house
Update 3 Jun 08: Eye on Big Brother is now saying that the product squirted into Travis’s eye was not a body cleansing product as BB had claimed, but a shower mould remover, as we at Hoyden About Town suspected…. Read More ›
The Lord of the Living Room
What greeted us on our return from our walk. moar funny pictures That’s just on a share page at the moment. You can vote for it if you’d like to see it make the front page of ICHC. Just click… Read More ›
Friday Hoyden: How to Hoyden Hepburn
Oh, I have enjoyed dipping into this over the last couple of weeks.
Karen Karbo has tapped into the rich vein of enduring fascination with Kate the Great, taking a delightfully fresh approach to a much examined life. She uses quotes and anecdotes from and about Hepburn judiciously and examines the implications with a fond but clarifying eye.
Everyday Codebreaking: Aptamil advertising
Another look at advertising by artificial baby milk companies. I’m going to take a look at the visual imagery in the ad used to present their product as not just “as good as breastmilk”, but subtly or not-so-subtly better. First… Read More ›
Privacy rights in Child Protection investigations: the need for the mass media to disguise identifying features on the minors in the Henson images
Author Note: The original title of this post was “Do the right thing, Mainstream Media: disguise the faces of the minors in your reproductions of the Henson images NOW”, deliberately imperative because I wanted it to grab attention in people’s… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 