I’m going to address a comment here that I found elsewhere, and as I’m pretty sure it will have been moderated and deleted as vexatious by now, I’m not going to link to it. However, I do want to address… Read More ›
Sociology
Smug married guy, you don’t know anything about single mothers
I’m chuffed to welcome bluemilk back to Hoyden About Town for this guest post. Bluemilk is an Australian feminist mother, posting about life, love and mummy-myths over at bluemilk.wordpress.com ~ Lauredhel. ~~~ I was so frustrated by this discussion over… Read More ›
Rape, booze, consent, and concern-trolling: The law can’t “turn you into a rapist”.
[Please read the note at the bottom of this post before commenting.] The Daily Telegraph reports: “Law ‘turns boys into rapists’ “ For other takes on this, check out Shakesville, abyss2hope, and The Curvature. Gah. I’ve been holding off blogging… Read More ›
Fetish Clothing for the Preschool Set: Made Of Ick
Many thanks to Baroquestar for this guest post, while I’m in the throes of domestic relocation. Baroquestar is a 28 year old singing, studying, Australian museum geek who likes to make trouble in her spare time. She is a solo… Read More ›
47th Carnival of Feminists is up
The 47th Carnival of Feminists is up at Ornamenting Away. Check it out.
Friday Anti-Hoyden: count the strawfeminists
Edited to add: I was most remiss in not pointing out that I was sent this story by a Lovely Lurker. Thanks! From todays SMH, in the Heckler section (where readers are encouraged to send in 500 words of contrarianism),… Read More ›
Chestpuffing Pillock of the Week Prize
The Curvature has a very special commenter this week, going by the name of Hugh. Hugh muscled his way into “Rape Article Offensive-Off”, a post railing against the language of rape in the media. Cara’s particular targets were the report… Read More ›
Woman-blaming gymnastics by Janet Hall
“Dr Janet Hall” bills herself as an INFOTAINER. Bedwetting, sex therapy, smoking cessation, public speaking, business confidence, computer coaching, tantrums, eating disorders, social commentary, she does it all. You can read her newsletters here. Check out “October 2007 – Why… Read More ›
Rwandan rape victim photo wins prize
That’s the headline from Reuters, and its starkness is almost compulsory in light of the story behind the portrait. The woman below, Joseline Ingabire, is embracing her second daughter Leah, conceived after months of repeated rapes, while her first daughter… Read More ›
Tracking The Intervention: Discarding and devaluing Aboriginal work
Jangari’s “Four Corners on the Intervention” pulls out a few key points from last night’s Tracking The Intervention show. You can watch the show for yourself here at the ABC. Jangari details the ways in which Aboriginal communities are being… Read More ›
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