A whole thread on LP about the social insecurities that lead to the cosmetic surgery makeover culture has been derailed by some men who are insisting on reframing it as women’s individual sexual insecurities about their looks, and how if… Read More ›
Sociology
Woman “brain-damaged” by Amazing Hydration Diet detox
Image: Culpable “nutritionist” Barbara Nash. Source: Daily Mail. BBC: “Woman left brain damaged by detox”: A woman has been awarded more than £800,000 after she suffered permanent brain damage while on a detox diet. The High Court heard Dawn Page,… Read More ›
Quick hit: Barnev’s “Birthtrack” continuous labour monitoring system
Holy crap. Rixa writes: Well, the BirthTrack is here and being actively marketed to both doctors and mothers-to-be. It consists of an internal electrode that is screwed into the baby’s head and two ultrasound clips that attach to the cervix…. Read More ›
Drongo day at HAT: Disingenuous troll of the week
The comment below was NOT approved for publication on my Finally, A Feminism 101 Blog. Free Clue, TrollDude – quoting Twisty Faster’s most infamous phrase ever is a big giveaway that you really just want to stir up a storm…. Read More ›
Michael Savage is a drongo
I could have used many harsher terms, but I was exhausted from outrage and despair after reading his latest, and couldn’t really give him my best invective. Apparently, despite decades of study from medical and childhood health professions, Michael Savage… Read More ›
APOD goes dancing
A couple of weeks ago I featured Matt Harding, who put up video on the internet of himself dancing, sometimes alone and sometimes with others (often a huge crowd) around the world. Today, that’s the Astronomy Picture of the Day’s… Read More ›
Matthew Garrett on ally work and the Linux community
Matthew Garrett gave this brief talk encouraging geeks to be vocal feminists/feminist allies, at LUGradio Live UK 2008 (LRLUK 2008). One reference in his “Community Hate Time” talk is to the “upskirt” photo published by Nicu Buculei at Planet Fedora… Read More ›
A better future
My daughter found this on one of her fanfic communities, and mentioned it to me the other day. I’m rather excited by the notion that ideas like this are circulating amongst teens in what might appear to outsiders to be… Read More ›
Kristen Schaal is brilliant
Kristen Schaal, as seen on Flight of the Conchords, is now the “senior women’s issues commentor” for Jon Stewart’s Daily Show. http://www.thedailyshow.com/sitewide/video_player/view/default/swf.jhtml H/T Unapolegetically Female via RH Reality Check
“we can’t take American assurances that they do not torture detainees at face value”
Story: British MP’s raise torture concerns So some politicians have finally noticed that when one group of people define torture so that it includes waterboarding and another group defines torture so that it excludes waterboarding, then the word torture itself… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 