The discourse around breastfeeding, both public and private tends to flit between two summations: “Mothers should breastfeed” and “Mothers shouldn’t feel guilty”. I’m guessing that regular Hoydenistas have spotted the framing problem already: “Mothers should”. (If you’re a mother, are… Read More ›
gender & feminism
Predictable
The one time I read a newspaper report of a social study that actually is reported with a bit of attention to fine distinctions and looks like a reasonable summary of the actual journal paper, what happens? The comments section… Read More ›
Travelling Blamer
That’s some great blaming by my friend baroquestar and her trusty digital camera. Check it out here.
Applying Bill of Ockham’s sharp thing
Carey Roberts, a withered geriatrarch of the he-man-she-haters club, is once again complaining that women are meanyheads: in Misandry in the least likely of places Roberts clutches his pearls over the lyrics of a Country song about a revenge scenario… Read More ›
Linkalicious: Big Tuesday Edition
A veritable smorgasbord for you! 1. “Intimate Politics: A Roundtable”: a downloadable podcast of a panel of feminist scholars and their reactions (not book reviews, but further musings) to the book Intimate Politics: How I Grew Up Red, Fought for… Read More ›
Stereotyping feminism
Two contrasting examples, one using the broadest of brushes and the other dissecting stereotypes instead. Firstly, one of the run-of-the-mill “raunch culture is all the fault of feminists who talked up the sexual revolution” op-eds that are becoming soooo familiar:Feminism’s… Read More ›
“Hospital overwhelmed by child anorexia rise”
This is just heartbreaking. News.com.au reports that admissions of pre-teen girls with severe anorexia nervosa to Melbourne Royal Children’s Hospital have risen by over 1400% in the past four years. The article continues: Clinical leader Dr Andrew Kennedy, who overseas… Read More ›
Piggy in the middle
Note: I analogise between racism and sexism in this post. Yes, I realise they’re not the same thing. However, I believe there are enough similarities and parallels to draw useful analogies. I was having a poke around on fora.tv, a… Read More ›
Trouser tyranny
is what the men who love MUGs say they are fighting against. MUGs are Male Unbifurcated Garments such as kilts, and the movement against Trouser Tyranny calls its adherents Bravehearts after Mel Gibson’s smash hit movie back before he went… Read More ›
Milking it in California
Edited to add: Two other blogs have now picked up on this story. The Lactivist notes “The International Breast Milk Project in the News Again“. And MamaBear at breastfeedingsymbol.org has done some ringing around – directly to the iThemba Lethu… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 