On the growing backlash against feminism. Today’s recommended reading.
culture wars
Broadly, conservatism vs progressives / social liberties vs authoritarianism / social justice vs elitist marginalisation.
Nitpickers alert: sexual health education division
Allison Pearson is outraged that her 12 year old daughter knows all about contraception and sexually transmitted diseases, because this will apparently ruin the youthful romantic yearnings that all teenage girls should have by right, yet paradoxically this very lack… Read More ›
More gruesome graphics
Yet another forced-birther group: If you were born after 1972, we challenge you to consider yourself a Survivor of the Abortion Holocaust. 1/3 of your generation has been killed by abortion in America! To hammer their point home, Survivors has… Read More ›
Shorter Senator Guy Barnett:
You’ll have that baby and like it, missy. Image credit: bewareofthegod.com ABC Online quotes him as saying the following yesterday: * that he moved the motion (to cut Medicare funding for abortions past 21 weeks gestation) as a matter of… Read More ›
You feminists just want to tell women to do what you want, instead of letting them CHOOSE (and we all know girls just naturally prefer the girly stuff)
Crossposted from Finally, A Feminism 101 Blog – please comment there (link now fixed!) * * * Bumped from the Open Suggestion thread: the various issues surrounding how choices can be constrained by socialised expectations and myths regarding gender essentialism:… Read More ›
Friday Hoyden: How to Hoyden Hepburn
Oh, I have enjoyed dipping into this over the last couple of weeks.
Karen Karbo has tapped into the rich vein of enduring fascination with Kate the Great, taking a delightfully fresh approach to a much examined life. She uses quotes and anecdotes from and about Hepburn judiciously and examines the implications with a fond but clarifying eye.
Privacy rights in Child Protection investigations: the need for the mass media to disguise identifying features on the minors in the Henson images
Author Note: The original title of this post was “Do the right thing, Mainstream Media: disguise the faces of the minors in your reproductions of the Henson images NOW”, deliberately imperative because I wanted it to grab attention in people’s… Read More ›
Retired police superintendent’s view on the politicisation of complaints against Henson’s work
image source – Daily Telegraph gallery Alan Leek points out in a letter to the SMH that he has a unique viewpoint on this case with a history of being both a police officer and an art exhibitor. Because that… Read More ›
The Poison Dwarf scrapes the barrel: now a comedy act is a “sex storm”
He’s trying to manufacture a scandal over the fact that the ALP candidate for the upcoming by-election for the seat of Gippsland did, as part of his duties as a cultural festival organiser in the region last year, support and… Read More ›
Auntie ABC passes the “biased reporting” test
Today’s Age: THE ABC’s flagship radio current affairs programs — often the source of tension and controversy in the Howard years — have won overwhelming endorsement from a landmark report by an external expert. An audit of AM, PM and… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 