Sometimes I just wonder why I read the news. What the fuck? I have nothing to say. Cut for people-are-vile triggers. Not particularly gory, in the blood-and-guts sense. Whether it’s safe for work or not, I’m not prepared to say…. Read More ›
gender & feminism
Might as well go for the big three of humourless feminism
Seeing as the two previous posts are Lauredhel’s on rape culture and mine on prostitution, I thought I’d add a link to this post that I had been saving up for later in the week: Trouble in Pornoland. Written by… Read More ›
Drowning in the static
I haven’t written anything about rape culture for a while now. Sometimes I’m just not sure what to say. Half the population experiences it directly, and the other half often seems to me to be divided into those who actively… Read More ›
“Let us remember that we are not our own.”
And now, the last of the “Dress and Its Relation to Health” chapter from the Ladies’ Handbook of Home Treatment, 1905. The previous parts of this chapter are here, here, and here. In which we consider women’s pro-corset angst and… Read More ›
EvoPysch and “natural” attraction.
I’ve been stewing up an FAQ for FF101 for a while, and it hasn’t come together as well as I’d like. I want to take on EvPsych, basically, and look at some of the crap on offer that claims that… Read More ›
Liberté, Fraternité, Rosé
The Chronicle Herald reports that a pair of Canadian lads organised a demonstration of solidarity with a boy who was being tormented by bullies – for wearing pink. A gang of arsehats had been harassing the younger pink-wearing boy. They… Read More ›
My ecoprint report card: could do better
I know a large part of my ecoprint above comes because I eat meat, I drive a car, and I have electricity (one car, and efficient/green electricity, but still). I’ve done reasonably well on the areas outside those parameters, although… Read More ›
Styling womanhood
[Headless Woman – Rodin] The Australian College of Midwives is looking for a new logo. And they’ve been looking for a while. It’s been a long, slow, bumpy process, and they’re now at the point of asking members for ideas…. Read More ›
That surname thing bites again
Catherine Deveny writes ironically that her recent column on why do women still change their names upon marriage seems to have realised her “aim of whittling my readership down to three”. It was a case of Team Deveny versus Team… Read More ›
“Any woman scientist they draw looks severe and not very happy”
Top 5 Myths About Girls, Math and Science Myth 1: From the time they start school, most girls are less interested in science than boys are. Myth 2: Classroom interventions that work to increase girls’ interest in STEM run the… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 