gender & feminism – Page 21 – Hoyden About Town

a silver bearded man in a fishing cap gazes thoughtfully into the distance, in the background is a wide stretch of water and a square-rigged sailing ship beside a lighthouse, all underneath a dark and cloudy sky

Our best sign yet that we are doing something right.

By Anna on 2013-05-27 • ( 7 )

Content note: child rape.
Didion at Feminéma, who has just become my new favourite person, has written a response to comments made by Roman Polanski at a press conference at the Cannes Film Festival, where he continues to be welcome.

Quick Hit: Three reasons why a vagina is not like a laptop

By Mindy on 2013-05-27 • ( 5 )

If you have ever wanted to describe to someone the difference between vaginas and laptops this article is for you.

A close-up image of a dictionary, focussed on the word *Feminism* (the word *Femininity* is just out of focus below it)

Signal Boost: Under 10s Feminist Corner at the Sydney Writers Festival

By Chally on 2013-05-21 • ( 1 )

It’s this Saturday, so book quick!

ST: TNG - Picard and Riker each are hiding their face behind a hand with a weary posture

Ron Lindsay’s #wiscfi twist on the conventional Opening Speech

By tigtog on 2013-05-19 • ( 9 )

How to undermine your own Women In Secularism conference: spend most of your opening speech scolding feminists for Doin It Rong, because why not encourage the already hyper-active flying monkeys to fling more crap at secular women?

a thumbnail graphic: text reads BLAST FROM THE PAST

BFTP: Who moved that apostrophe?

By tigtog on 2013-05-15 • ( 2 )

How did a day that grew from West Virginian Mothers’ Work Days from 1858 onwards (where mothers worked together to improve their community), and Mothers’ Friendship Days from 1865 (to promote harmony between former opponents in the Civil War), become what we celebrate now as Mother’s Day?

See the difference that apostrophe position makes?

Two illustrations of the same character side by side for comparison - one shows a teenage girl with wild red hair in a dark green dress holding a bow and wearing a quiver of arrows. The other shows an older glamorous version of supposedly the same girl, with styled flowing curls and a fancy dress with sparkles and fancy sash, striking a "look at me" pose.

Signal Boost: petition Disney to keep Brave’s Merida marketing true to movie

By tigtog on 2013-05-14 • ( 8 )

‘Brave’ creator blasts Disney for ‘blatant sexism’ in princess makeover:

Signal Boost: women being prosecuted for retracting domestic violence allegations

By Anna on 2013-05-09 • ( 3 )

From Destroy the Joint, a call for action at NSW state level: call upon the Attorney General Greg Smith to issue a direction to the NSW DPP under the Director of Public Prosecutions Act to ensure that no one is prosecuted solely for retracting an allegation of domestic or sexual violence without the approval of a senior lawyer within the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions.
Update: Attorney-General Greg Smith has made a statement that he has no plans to revise the existing laws relating to this matter. Now is the time to up the pressure.

The 60th Down Under Feminists Carnival is up!

By Chally on 2013-05-04

All the details on the latest edition and how to submit to the next one!

Queuejumping rhetoric a new low in fight against reproductive rights

By tigtog on 2013-05-01 • ( 9 )

the Member for Dawson said priority should be given to other drugs, particularly those that helped cancer patients and extended the lives of people who were sick.

“I simply don’t understand why this particular drug would find its way to the head of the queue before those drugs,” Mr Christensen told the Daily Mercury.