This whole piece at Motherlode irked me. It is about a 17 year old school student who faked a pregnancy for several months as an investigation into stereotypes and discrimination for a school project. It is an amazing social experiment… Read More ›
Politics
A selection from this morning’s Tweets
Neck playing up so avoiding typing, please forgive the linkfest. Greeting me when I opened my Seesmic this morning were these stories:
Hands up who thinks these (and other) prejudices are over
“Virginity tests for immigrants ‘reflected dark age prejudices’ of 1970s Britain”
Neoliberal welfare and gender inequality
I suppose that by now, everyone in Australia has probably come across some version of the latest iteration of the hatin’-on-teen-mums discourse, which comes up with frightening regularity. This version of course, is part of the ‘tough love’ strategy being… Read More ›
Quick Hit: Today in ‘equality’
Her refusal to cheer for him in basketball games led to her being thrown off the team, and she then sought to sue her school (specifically for infringing her freedom of speech).
Systemic Imbalance and Marginalised Voices: Feminism FOR REAL
This anthology was launched in March, but in a fine example of its major theme regarding whose voices get sidelined in the feminism movement, most of the femosphere appears to not have heard of it until it was centred in a blogstorm this week.
Quick Hit – Friend with benefits
Two ADFA cadets involved in the recent Skype incident have faced court in the ACT today.
Lessons from My Lai & The Extras
How can we raise our children to be willing to take a stand against injustice in favour of integrity? Where do we start?
Lest We Forget
Because it’s Anzac Day, I’ve spent much of my time looking over the various diaries/letters of my greatuncles who took part in the Great War.
I can’t decide…
whether Alan Greenspan deserves internet immortality more for referring to a hypothetically invisible entity as “unredeemably opaque” or for the phrase which spawned this epic Crooked Timber thread. I await the inevitable memetic offspring.
Hoyden About Town 