The Hoydens got spammed by Unilever’s minions today. You remember Unilever: the company doing the pornulated “Bom Chicka Wow Wow” Axe and Lynx ads; Unilever, the company whose marketing officer Simon Clift whined that women just can’t take a joke;… Read More ›
Sociology
What the Big Giant Head phenomenon is really about
I think I just had an epiphany about the Big Giant Head phenomenon in bad photoshopping of glamour photos of women. The missing ribs and wasp waists are bad enough, but the BGH lollipop-look appears again and again and again…. Read More ›
Nellie McKay
UN-altered REPRODUCTION and DISSEMINATION of this IMPORTANT Information is ENCOURAGED. Now that’s how you do satire.
LOLpology
I may regret this. I am venting at a bullying hierarchy, not the body of believers. I don’t find religious beliefs persuasive, but see no need to insult believers in general. The Vatican hierarchy is another matter entirely – I… Read More ›
The Papal apology for clerical abuse in Australia
Kim has some excellent analysis of where it fails to hit the mark over at LP. Two major problems: the setting of the apology (a mass for seminarians and clergy/religious orders only) reflects an inward focus on dealing with abuse… Read More ›
Beats me
Ganked from comments at Sadly, No!. On July 18, 2008 at 18:47, Percy ‘Mad Dog’ Plumflute said, Poster on the global warming “hoax” thread: I believe the only reason we’re in a cooling period is as a result to the… Read More ›
Highlights from the Hierarchy for WYD
Shorter Cardinal Pell: If you agree to a candlelight dinner then you’re just asking for it, aren’t you? How could sex later be rape? [link] Shorter Cardinal Pell: It’s totally OK to tell a clerical abuse complainant that they’re the… Read More ›
Child rape victims are just cranky, says Bishop
My jaw just hit the floor. Around the Catholic “World Youth Day” week in Sydney roils much discussion of Church-sanctioned child rape and sexual abuse. Bishop Anthony Fisher is rather pissed off that some people aren’t concentrating on the things… Read More ›
Women’s bodies – pwned public space
So this post by cowardly asshat voyeur Nicu Buculei[1], a 35 year old man from Romania, was on Planet Fedora the other day, and was up for a while before being pulled down. I’m not going to reproduce the image… Read More ›
Whoydensday: Aware of all Internet Traditions
Simply because it’s been a whole month of all-encompassing internet traditions now (here’s a short explanation), and I’m angling to be featured on the blog. Although I carefully made it very non-revelatory – (obviously something is happening to Donna, but… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 