Oh, for fuck’s sake. The latest in the Mmm, Sexy Pink Breast Cancer! Save The Boobies Awareness sweepstakes comes from Mount Franklin, purveyors of pointless, wasteful, plastic-ridden, environmentally unfriendly bottled water. They’ve been doing the pink lids for a while,… Read More ›
Sociology
Quick Hit: Weekend Election Watch
Teresa Nielsen Hayden at Making Light sums up how frothingly the extreme right wing blogosphere is reacting to the polls for the McCain campaign: The Corner goes round the bend Meanwhile, as I say, The Corner and its cronies continue… Read More ›
Friday Hoyden: reading in public
How many of you always carry a book to read? Do you find that your commute time is actually the time you can have to yourself to get that reading done? Is your ideal lunch-hour finding a park bench all… Read More ›
Victorian upper house votes on decriminalising abortion today
Legislation to remove abortion from the Crimes Act in Victoria (abortion will still be regulated under the Health Act) has provoked hours of debate in the upper house of the Victorian State Parliament leading up to a conscience vote. The… Read More ›
Punishing the poor
More fuckwittery from the Bush administration regarding reproductive health aid to Africa. In some parts of Africa, a woman now has a 1-in-10 risk of dying in childbirth. The idea that U.S. policy may increase that toll is infuriating. via… Read More ›
Passive voice watch: invisible rapist in Sussex
The Beeb has got a nasty case of the Invisible Rapists today, in this report: “Teenager is raped in club toilets”. A 19-year-old woman was raped in the men’s toilets in a nightclub, Sussex Police revealed. The teenager was attacked… Read More ›
Ladies’ Handbook: On quacks, hormones, abstinence, and the sexual double standard
Another instalment in the Ladies’ Handbook series! The initial post is here. This instalment is part three of Chapter IV, “Sex Physiology and Hygiene”. (Part One, Part Two, and Part Three.) But, again, in youth as in childhood; and, indeed,… Read More ›
Nuance for Dummies
The wingnuts continue to wag fingers at feminists for not supporting Gov. Palin’s election campaign. The way these loopers misrepresent feminist positions would be comical if it wasn’t so agenda driven. Jim Quinn (paraphrased): feminists simply can’t stand that Palin… Read More ›
If only we’d realised it was that easy
Yet another unpublished email from yet another concern troll over at FF101: darla (email address redacted) I think all women should embrace the fact that God made us different for a reason, stop being mad. you kind of women is… Read More ›
Help out Heretical
Heretical is the annual magazine of the Women’s Collective at UQ (University of Queensland). This year it might not appear unless there is some rapid assistance from the broad feminist community. They simply don’t have enough submissions, and time is… Read More ›
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