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A US Vet Asks: “When do I get to be one of the American people?”
We have a new Guest Hoyden today! Please join me in welcoming her. Slave2TehTink is normally found making posts with no redeeming social value whatsoever[1] in her LiveJournal, or posting pictures of her small menagerie on her flickr. Offline she… Read More ›
Monica Dux thinks I’m bad for feminism’s image
Monica Dux, one of the co-authors of new book The Great Feminist Denial, has an opinion piece in the Age: Feminist is not a dirty word And it hits one of my oldest pet peeves: rejecting a large part of… Read More ›
Well they would say that, wouldn’t they?
From ABC Online: A residents’ group that fought against a proposed Muslim school at Camden, in Sydney’s south-west, has denied its support for a proposed Catholic school demonstrates a double standard in the community. Apparently their main concern, they now… Read More ›
Wallowing in victimhood in our purple ghetto
And the “fair and balanced” mainstream media quote of the day goes to … The Australian! From “Redefining feminism: Have activists morphed into female chauvinist piglets?”: Unlike the professional feminists who love to wallow in victimhood in their purple ghettos,… Read More ›
Quickhit: protests and arrests in Minneapolis St. Paul stifle legitimate dissent
If it wasn’t for blogs I would hardly have heard that nearly 300 people have been arrested while protesting the Iraq war and the Republican convention over the last few days. The city centres have been heavily militarised with large… Read More ›
Why I Don’t Read Jezebel Any More: The R Word, and Invented Diseases
I used to rather like Jezebel, back in the day. It was a fairly feminist space right in the midst of mainstream online media, with a hoydenish style that appealed. Now it’s just a sewer. The latest? “…there are still… Read More ›
Expressing milk? Call the cops!
I can barely see through my anger and disgust right now. I’m going to let the story speak for itself. “Express delivery furore” The mother of a five-month-old baby was followed and questioned by police and security guards after she… Read More ›
Women reduced to a disembodied womb, GetUp edition
GetUp, a large Australian anti-conservative action group, has a Paid Parental Leave campaign on at the moment. Yes, bravo, etc. (They do confuse parental and maternity leave, but that’s another story.) When we’re talking equal pay, we get faces. But… Read More ›
Practical aid for remote indigenous communities: subsidise freight charges for fresh food, for a start?
Some focus in the SMH today on the high cost of fresh food in remote communities, where in at least one community in WA, Mulan, so high are the basic living costs that many simply go hungry for a couple… Read More ›
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