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 ›
Sociology
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”.
Toby Ziegler responds to this week in the blogosphere
Josh Lyman is obviously playing “The Blogosphere” here, and of course, it’s actually every week in the blogosphere. Probably every week ever in the history of humanity, actually.
Friday Hoyden: Jane Goodall
But what Goodall discovered made biologists, psychologists and philosophers look more closely at the great apes and their similarities to humans, provoking redefinitions of exactly what it meant to be human, and raising the question of just how far back in pre-history should paleo-anthropologists be looking for clues to the development of human behaviours.
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 ›
Quickhit: A forensic semanticist on ‘sex’ and ‘rape’
Tara Murtha at Philadelphia Weekly brings us Watch Your Language: Pedophilia, gang rape and erroneous Fox29 reporting, which has an opinion from a forensic semanticist about calling rape “having sex” or “a sexual relationship” in court: But after a recent… Read More ›
Vatican tells bishops to report abuse cases to police
Just posted this over at LP, but I’d like to have this discussion here as well. The Guardian: Vatican issues detailed instructions to all bishops after criticism of Catholic church’s handling of paedophile priests Yep. Not actually that hard to… Read More ›
Values are not exclusively Christian.
The article linked to below attacks the idea of teaching ethics in NSW Public Schools “at the expense of scripture”. As a parent who is also an atheist, I quite like the idea of ethics classes that have nothing to… Read More ›
On what we talk about when we talk about “domestic violence”
Why do we, as feminists (collectively), and as anti-violence activists in general, typically ignore the largest group of victims when we talk about domestic violence? The group that can’t get away under their own steam, no way, no how? The… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 