via Tama Leaver‘s post on a fanboy collectible of Mary Jane from the Spiderman comics (which I have seen around the feminist gamer/comics sites this week already) I find that Nancy Lorenz at GirlWonder.org has done a parody to show… Read More ›
Culture
The milieu through which we swim
Reason #4297 why I love this country
This morning, a breakfast TV announcer on a nationally broadcast programme forgot herself for a moment and said “oh bugger, I missed [XYZ trivial feelgood thing]”. The TV network will probably get a small flurry of letters from people who… Read More ›
Friday Fluffy linkfest
Ripped from my feedreader this week: Mentis Fugit gives us the story of two US military veterans deciding to bestow their Purple Hearts on two separate individuals they felt worthy of the decoration. Men and Women like different films (except… Read More ›
Ever found that whole Mars/Venus male/female thing sorta suss?
You’re not alone. The problem is that John Gray knows very well how to hit all the socially constructed hot buttons on male entitlement and female submission so that readers infer the message that Venusians have only themselves to blame… Read More ›
Wotcher, orright?
Which God or Goddess are you like? Your Result: God Zeus You are Zeus. You are fierce and stong, and you like to throw lightning bolts at people who deserve it. You are fearless when it comes to fear,… Read More ›
And the Inaugural Award of the Tiniest Fainting Couch in the world goes to:
Paris Hilton, who is being positively persecuted just because she’s a celebrity, and who couldn’t possibly be sent off to nasty gaol with the polloiest of hoi polloi, just for a teeny-weeny little thing like driving drunk without a license… Read More ›
More weekend silliness
I’m working on a long post which isn’t coming together quite yet, so I keep distracting myself. Anyway, I found this picture, and frankly I’m astonished. I wonder how many of you can guess who this is? You can probably… Read More ›
Google and the He/She Ratio
I’ve been tinkering with The He/ She Ratio on Google Blogoscoped. A site’s he/ she ratio is measured by counting the number of pages on the domain containing the word “he”, then searching for the number containing “she”, and then… Read More ›
Right. It’s inflicting time!
Since Wednesday night I have had an earworm of the most incredibly cheesy version of “Afternoon Delight” imaginable. Simply by reading that, some of you will now have the same, especially if you too watched The Chaser on Wednesday. Ha!… Read More ›
Sunset
Sadly, no lennies appeared when I went to view the sunset on Wednesday evening. However the sunset was still most spectacular, with a large clump of cloud right above the setting sun and ribbons of altocumulus streaming down to the… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 