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Sociology
“Quantum medicine” and “nanopharmacology” – mmm, scientitious!
Grab a cushion for your desk (the bit in front of your head) before reading this defence of homeopathy on HuffPo, Home of Woo. Thing is, this theory is perfectly testable – I foresee the need for 4 test groups… Read More ›
Toyota “Pounding” ad.
Everyone’s talking about this prize-winning Toyota Yaris ad, winner of a competition organised by by Saatchi & Saatchi. Here it is, transcribed for you, for those who want to access the conversations but can’t access the ads. A white bloke… Read More ›
Ignoring the real problem.
Now I wouldn’t know Scott Pendlebury, vice Captain of the Magpies (Collingwood) AFL team, if I fell over him. But apparently he is well known enough to be the victim of an unprovoked attack that saw him punched in the back… Read More ›
Three Examples of Rape Culture in Nice Guy(tm) Breast Cancer Activism
I thought the BoobyWall was objectifying and tacky. I thought “Save the Ta-Tas” was dehumanising, and missed the point badly. I thought the “every mouthful” nipple-water-bottles were eyeroll-worthy. I thought that instructing us that if only cismen had boobs, they’d… Read More ›
10 minutes of Bechdel-Wallace fail
My pointing out that every film in this 10-minute film montage fails the BWT is however meant to call Hollywood’s institutional taste and judgement into question – why are very nearly all these films written around an all-male or mostly-male cast, and why are nearly all these memorable moments in these films written for the male actors, especially those involving “buddy flick” moments?
19th Down Under Feminist Carnival is up at Mynxii’s
The Nineteenth Edition of the Down Under Feminists Carnival is up at mynxii’s place, The Professional Lap Cat! Check it out now. The Twentieth Carnival, covering posts from December, will be hosted by PharaohKatt at Something More Than Sides in… Read More ›
No, one of these things is not like the other
Bolt engages in a disingenuous display of Deliberately Not Getting It in the guise of outrage at sexism and double standards:
Girls Gone Wild or Wild Women? or: We Never Had Nasty Sluts When I Were A Lad
Reading an article about women’s violence at Schoolies’s Week recently prompted me to pull this languishing post out of my Drafts folder. This snippet exemplifies the phenomenon of low levels of criminal or “disorderly” behaviour by young women being given… Read More ›
Did you know?
Did you know that being a woman means you hate Keira Knightley? Fuck Politeness has done an excellent takedown of this, so I won’t repeat it here. Also, did you know (if you are a married woman) that Tiger Woods… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 