Because I have installed a hand-dandy “take that, flying spam-monkeys!” plug-in, which has automatically closed comments on older posts, but which allows certain posts that are older than the cut-off to stay open so long as they have ongoing discussions…. Read More ›
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Evolutionary Psychology Bingo!
PunkAssBlog has seen a Great Need, and filled it. Evolutionary Psychology Bingo! This particular bingo card specifically addresses the antifeminist/sex-essentialist uses of evpsych. My splorf favourite? “Confusion over whether they’re rationalising polyamory or nuclear-family patriarchy, but whatever they’re rationalising, only… Read More ›
I forgot the blogiversary!
I first moved to this URL in August 2006, and I started blogging at the old digs on the 10th of September, 2005. Thanks to those who encouraged me to start blogging in the first place, and to all those… Read More ›
I’m a bit over the “just sayin'” thing, however,
if you can think of nothing better to do in a thread where people are enjoying some fannish solidarity than mindlessly slag the fan object rather than provide some substantive critique, and if at the same time your link to… Read More ›
If you don’t refresh your browser
…you won’t see the spiffy yet restrained new background.
Invisible Illness Bingo.
I’ve posted before on my experience with invisible disability, and linked to amandaw on the “But you don’t look sick!” phenomenon. And for further background, everyone should read the “Open Letter to Those Without CFS/Fibro” at Not Done Living. Now… Read More ›
Linkalicious: Big Tuesday Edition
A veritable smorgasbord for you! 1. “Intimate Politics: A Roundtable”: a downloadable podcast of a panel of feminist scholars and their reactions (not book reviews, but further musings) to the book Intimate Politics: How I Grew Up Red, Fought for… Read More ›
Notes for those reading via RSS
Hi, I’m doing some updating of old posts today, mainly shifting images which are chewing up my bandwidth to other image hosting services. So if you see an old post turn up in your feed-reader, it’s only because I’m updating… Read More ›
Girls in white gumboots and fat chicks in chainmail
I’m fascinated by the Referrer section in website logs. I’m not sure why. Is it the voyeurism of a tiny glimpse into someone else’s web cruising habits, the sociology of wondering why people search for what they do, the laughs?… Read More ›
Tell me boys and girls
How much do we hate people who don’t program bandwidth auto-notification emails properly? For the last few days I have been receiving ever more frequent missives telling me that I had used 80% of my allocated bandwidth for the month…. Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 