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A screenshot from the Simpsons showing Kent Brockman caricatured as a cuckoo clock by his own TV station with words TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES PLEASE STAND BY

In case you hadn’t noticed that HaT was missing in action for a while today?

By tigtog on 2013-01-25 • ( 2 )

Well, that hurts.

Otterday! And Open Thread

By lauredhel on 2013-01-19 • ( 25 )

Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to get off your chest? Books? News stories? What have you created lately? Commiserations, felicitations, temptations, contemplations, speculations?

The controversy in writing about your children

By hatbluemilk on 2013-01-18 • ( 13 )

This article in The Atlantic by Phoebe Maltz Bovy, “The ethical implications of parents writing about their children” is incredibly unforgiving of mother writers and bloggers. She sets the benchmark very low for the test of appropriateness with writing and… Read More ›

Men Who Dance

By Anna on 2013-01-16 • ( 28 )

Why is it not absolutely commonplace for little boys to be taken to dance class, the way it is for little girls? Imagine what a disaster it would be if we were to end up in a world with no Leading Men Who Dance.

Whimsy: Animal Armour edition

By tigtog on 2013-01-16 • ( 5 )

Sometimes we all need to see teh awesome. Please share anything that has recently surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you!

Otterday! And Open Thread

By tigtog on 2013-01-12 • ( 18 )

a silver bearded man in a fishing cap gazes thoughtfully into the distance, in the background is a wide stretch of water and a square-rigged sailing ship beside a lighthouse, all underneath a dark and cloudy sky

What can they reasonably expect?

By Mindy on 2013-01-10 • ( 21 )

What is a reasonable expectation if you have invited someone over to watch a movie?

New feminist science tumblr needs a logo

By Helen on 2013-01-09 • ( 1 )

A couple of young Melbourne women are setting up a feminist tumblr, She Blinded Me With Science. Here’s the mission statement: “Welcome to She Blinded Me With Science! We are young women in science who want to see better conversations… Read More ›

A standard meme image for NiceGuy(TM) - A pale skinned man with dark hair and glasses looks smugly into the lens. The background is blue & pink eighths on the diagonal, and there is text overlaying the image

Quicklink: Clementine Ford on NGOKC and double standards

By tigtog on 2013-01-08 • ( 12 )

A few weeks ago a controversial tumblr was started which highlighted the OK Cupid dating profiles of certain men who claimed to be Nice/Decent Guys, but whose answers on optional stock questions set by OK Cupid revealed various degrees of Not-Nice/Not-Decent attitudes. Clementine lays out the back-story, analyses some of the criticisms, and comes to some conclusions.