vid on youtube [sorry about lack of embedding, can’t seem to get it to work today – fixed ~tt] Then read this. Of course there is still a long way to go before we see anything other than a young… Read More ›
gender & feminism
Today in the Bechdel test: 24
[Warning: here be spoilers.] 24, the TV saga of implausible counterterrorist superhero Jack Bauer, has a whole lot of issues. But there is one thing that Season 8 of the show 24 is getting right, and that’s the Bechdel test… Read More ›
Leave it to football to prove that women are the ‘sex class’
Gentlemen, a bit of perspective please. A police inquiry into an affair of prostitution involving an under-age call girl could not have come at a worse time for Raymond Domenech and his players just 50 days before the start of… Read More ›
Feminism destroyed chivalry nyahnyah nyahnyah nyahnyah
Bingo, anyone? Don’t you just feel awfully cheated and played for a fool by feminism now?
“Confessional” compositions and Dudes
Anyhoo, I thought it might be fun to just have a thread listing all the songs from male performers/songwriters that draw on personal experiences and which have not been widely described as “confessional” or “diarising”.
Quick Hit – Premier’s Expert Advisory Council on Women (NSW)
Expressions of interest are invited for membership of the Premier’s Expert Advisory Council on Women. The Premier’s Expert Advisory Council provides specialist advice to the NSW Government about issues affecting the status of women in NSW. It is an expert… Read More ›
Down Under Feminists Carnival at Fat Lot of Good!
Bri has an amazing Down Under Feminists Carnival, our Twenty-Third, up at Fat Lot of Good. There is a focus on Body Acceptance with a whole lot of good reading, and plenty more. Check it out, and spread the word!… Read More ›
It’s Carnival time! Submit your posts now.
The Twenty-Third Edition (can you believe it?) of the Down Under Feminists Carnival is fast approaching! The deadline for submissions is the 2nd of April – tomorrow – so get your posts in now. This 23rd edition will be hosted… Read More ›
Let’s Dance
A US lawyer says a lesbian student who sued a Mississippi school over its policy banning same-sex prom dates can bring her girlfriend to a privately sponsored dance. The dance is not the school prom, that is still cancelled, it… Read More ›
Logansrogue IS Teh Feminist Cabal, sez Crazy Domains
Remember Crazy Domains and their jizztastic cream-jaculatin’ Pamela Anderson advertisement? The one pulled by the Advertising Standards Bureau (ASB)? Gavin Collins, Managing Director, is throwing a tanty. And he blames one little post on livejournal for all his problems. This… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 