(at least not the ones with the flying monkey attitude) but I don’t wish the man himself any personal harm. Good luck with the surgery, Tim.
culture wars
Broadly, conservatism vs progressives / social liberties vs authoritarianism / social justice vs elitist marginalisation.
Refusing to be ashamed
Audrey Apple, in her non-alliterative RL persona, has written an online column for Adelaide’s Sunday Mail where she freely discusses her experience of two abortions as simple relief, and that she refuses to be shamed for not feeling guilt or… Read More ›
Culprits
I’m seeing more and more variations of this argument lately, especially on American sites: World immigration is a direct response to abortion throughout Europe and North America. Workers from poorer countries are always going to come to replace our lack… Read More ›
Another evpsych logic-wormhole: monkey-whores and the mating market
[image source] via AFP: “Cost of coitus: Male monkeys pay for sex”. Weekly rag New Scientist is all over this paper by Gumert, who, surprise surprise, teaches evolutionary psychology, not primate biology. (I can’t get to full versions – can… Read More ›
Censoring the Internet: Conroy plays King Canute
[This is a guest post by strangedave, yoinked with permission from a comment here. David is a board member of Electronic Frontiers Australia, and many other things besides. Here, he addresses the current plan for mandatory, national, opt-out ISP-based internet… Read More ›
Special snowflake watch
A physicist commenting on a post about how a newspaper report of a social sciences paper (speculating on why the rate of rape by Israeli soldiers against Palestinian women is reportedly low) has whipped up somewhat of a rightwing frenzy… Read More ›
Academia: Internet-Triggered Death of Civil Society Not Predicted
kwoff_id = 9106; In this week of heightened Internet! Moral! Panic!, it’s worth a peek at whether the internet really is the creeping civil cancer that some believe it to be. The JCMC (Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication) is available in… Read More ›
“Civil liberties advocates = paedophiles”: Internet culture wars from the ALP.
kwoff_id = 9092; The ABC reports on Conroy’s internet filtering bluster. He uses exactly the same discourse strategy as used by half-wit anti civil liberties debaters everywhere: “Well if you don’t like it, YOU must be a pedo then! Eh?… Read More ›
The Great Firewall of Australia
[image source] So the government has, as planned back in Beazley times, decided that ISPs in Australia must now implement blocking of “pornographic and inappropriate” websites. Customers must opt out, rather than opting in, to a blocking system that is… Read More ›
Creaky feminist gorgons, unite
We at Hoyden About Town have been tickled pink that Julia Gillard is our new second-in-command. Reviled by the now-Opposition for being “deliberately barren”, Gillard’s body, looks and fertility choices have been scrutinised and dissected by the media at least… Read More ›
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