I’m lucky. I live in a place where there are playgrounds everywhere. There are two within a very short walk from our place, and probably half a dozen or more within five minutes’ drive, including a very large and pleasant… Read More ›
gender & feminism
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 ›
Mailbag: Allergan-o-panic “Clinical Pearl”
[update 14 Jun: I’ve fixed the video now, I think.] So what should I find in the unsolicited mailbag this week? This little “Healthed Clinical Pearls” video CD: Apparently, “Healthed is one of Australia’s most popular and respected providers of… Read More ›
Update: Child rapists jailed
Two years ago, nine men and boys raped a ten year old girl in the town of Aurukun. My previous posts on the subject: “Naughty little girl”, explains rape apologist Crown Prosecutor in gang rape of ten year old girl… Read More ›
Job insecurity: women suffer most
We know that women earn a lower average wage than men, and earn far less money over a lifetime than men (putting our retirement security at major risk). Further evidence is accumulating that what pay we do get, we can’t… Read More ›
Quick hit: Rape sorcery in far north Queensland
In today’s “Damn dirty sluts just keep on asking for it!” news, the Cairns police have blamed drunk women for bringing on their own “sex attacks”. (Hint: Rape is not “sex”.) And somehow, these attacks magically materialise out of thin… Read More ›
I Write Letters
Dear etc, “I have contacted the IAS admin about access to this conference before, as well as about access to the Disability Inclusion seminar, and was rebuffed each time. I am contacting you again in the hope that you have… Read More ›
Power couple politics NSW style and the alleged disciplinary double standard
Well, hasn’t it been a busy week or so for NSW Minister John Della Bosca and his wife, Federal backbencher MP Belinda Neal? Of course, for the last few days we’ve only been hearing about her, despite Della Bosca’s documented… Read More ›
“Don’t write a poem about rape.”
“Shove It: Part 2” (The Buffaloe Pen) is Julie’s story of having her deeply personal poem about rape rejected by a literary journal editor. But it wasn’t just rejected. The editor, who is obviously a rapist or rapist-in-waiting, wrote her… Read More ›
Sex and the City in the Crib: Heelarious Heels for Babies
These sorts of shoes for girls have been around for a while:
Hoyden About Town 