gender & feminism

Skeptical speakers behaving badly, anti-harassment policies and yammering yahoos

By tigtog on 2012-05-24 • ( 7 )

Last week a casual anecdote in a conference speech by Jen McCreight started a whole lot of balls rolling.

Macro of Sean Bean as Boromir in Lord of the Rings, the "One does not simply walk into Mordor" moment

George Tierney Jr of Greenville SC aka @geotie2323 can’t get taken “off Google”, decides to go down in flames

By tigtog on 2012-05-23 • ( 40 )

George Tierney Jr of Greenville SC aka @geotie2323 on Twitter decided to call Sandra Fluke some vile misogynist names, and she retweeted his tweets. People took screencaps and blogged his tweets. Now those tweets are the top results for a search on his name on Google. George Tierney Jr of Greenville SC wanted that fixed.

That frickin’ ‘mummy homework’ thing

By hatbluemilk on 2012-05-19 • ( 55 )

More of the invisible work of motherhood. From here at the Huffington Post. For the uninitiated, Mommy Homework is the bane of many mothers’ lives. While perhaps intended to be an opportunity for bonding between parent and student, it instead… Read More ›

Lucy Liu as Dr Joan Watson & Johnny Lee Miller as Sherlock Holmes, filming Elementary

Friday Hoyden: Lucy Liu as Dr Joan Watson

By tigtog on 2012-05-18 • ( 12 )

In the new Sherlock Holmes adaptation by CBS – Elementary. Johnny Lee Miller will be starring as Holmes. It’s set in Manhattan. Wheeeee! WATCH ALL THE VERSIONS!

Yet another women and purchasing power list o’ facts (and omissions)

By tigtog on 2012-05-17 • ( 14 )

Yet, yet again, it makes no distinction between
*discretionary personal spending which a woman can choose not to do and nobody except herself will care
versus
*necessary household spending, which if the woman doesn’t do then somebody else has to get it done.

a beam of light like the Bat Signal but the symbol shown is the RSS symbol

Quicklink: Is this feminist?

By tigtog on 2012-05-14 • ( 3 )

A new tumblr to answer this question about a range of activities.

Friday Hoyden: Sady Doyle

By tigtog on 2012-05-11 • ( 10 )

Sady Doyle from the fantastic Tiger Beatdown blog gave Hoyden About Town a shout-out in a piece she wrote for In These Times – Blogging Sisterhood: How feminist blogs saved my life. So here’s a shout-out back, to one of my favourite writers!