via Tama Leaver‘s post on a fanboy collectible of Mary Jane from the Spiderman comics (which I have seen around the feminist gamer/comics sites this week already) I find that Nancy Lorenz at GirlWonder.org has done a parody to show… Read More ›
gender & feminism
Linkalectable #1: Radfem Carnival, prison in Uganda, the medico-rehabilitatio-industrial complex, the Australian Budget, and women go to bat against foreign multinationals in the Philippines
Linkalectable. 1. The First Carnival of Radical Feminists at Women’s Space. Heart grounds current-day radical feminism in the history of the movement, recalls the many achievements of radical feminism, and smacks down the dismissive dysperception that radfems are immersed in… Read More ›
Snippets of good news on reproductive rights: Skin Of Our Teeth edition
I bring you four snippets of good news on reproductive rights, two from the USA, one from Ireland, and one from Mexico. People are fighting for women’s rights, and in some places they’re hanging on — just. I think the… Read More ›
Ever found that whole Mars/Venus male/female thing sorta suss?
You’re not alone. The problem is that John Gray knows very well how to hit all the socially constructed hot buttons on male entitlement and female submission so that readers infer the message that Venusians have only themselves to blame… Read More ›
“I’ve never known what happened to that woman.”
Good Enough Mum narrates her journey from being pro-life in her youth to be pro-choice today. She tells the story of a woman she saw in her final year of medical school. The woman was carrying an anencephalic fetus, and… Read More ›
I’ve got a little list
The above stresses deformities and injuries are all foreseeable and even inevitable consequences of longterm wearing of high heeled shoes.
Holy Act of Congress, Batman!
Who else went through the three phases of Adam West’s Batman? Wide eyed young kid taking BAM! BIFF! utterly seriously, pseudosophisticate thinking it was oh so silly kidstuff, then suddenly rediscovering it through ironic hipster eyes and loving all the… Read More ›
Astronomer makes wistful call for gender apartheid
Sir Patrick Moore, EU segregationist, is perturbed about women getting their hooks into public life. Bewailing the domestification of television, he today launched a diatribe reminiscing about the “golden days” when the BBC was an shrine to testosterone, and lamenting… Read More ›
Emphasis mine
Fat children are more likely to have their father to blame for their weight problem than their mother, a new study shows. Research by Australian child health experts has revealed that fathers who are disengaged or do not set clear… Read More ›
What you don’t see when you’re a “good guy”
Kate Harding is stunned by an unexpected response from a Random Guy to her asserting herself, and then makes some connections and intersections: And you know, the worst part is, my boyfriend was sitting right by the window inside, a… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 