Catherine Deveny writes ironically that her recent column on why do women still change their names upon marriage seems to have realised her “aim of whittling my readership down to three”. It was a case of Team Deveny versus Team… Read More ›
Sociology
Time to go?
Image Source: The Age The Liberal Party have just filed into a Party Meeting to debate Howard’s future as Prime Minister. It seems to be shaping up as a Potemkin meeting, with reports that Howard has effectively stared down his… Read More ›
“Any woman scientist they draw looks severe and not very happy”
Top 5 Myths About Girls, Math and Science Myth 1: From the time they start school, most girls are less interested in science than boys are. Myth 2: Classroom interventions that work to increase girls’ interest in STEM run the… Read More ›
Rising damp of the womb: more Ladies’ Handbook
Further to “Fish-wives, savages and the curse of Eve”, and “So in studying the human figure we must have a standard of grace and beauty with which to compare the abnormal figure.” I bring you part 3 of “Dress and… Read More ›
Censoring evolution (this week, the Netherlands)
An evangelical christian TV station in the Netherlands has been censoring Sir David Attenborough. When the Evangelische Omroep (Evangelical Broadcasting) network showed his flagship natural history series The Life of Mammals, it made several alterations to the script to take… Read More ›
Please
Please tell me this site is a wind-up. Image source: screenshot from marryourdaughter.com H/t to commentor Zwilnik at LP.
The eternal feminist problem: Lecture deficiency syndrome
Before we start: please read my disclaimer[1], which shouldn’t be necessary, but is. I’ve had a nudge or two behind the scenes to write something in response to this fatuous piece from the Herald Sun: “Feminists fail to stay abreast… Read More ›
Another linkfest: the Headcold edition
Taken in the front garden this morning Cory Doctorow has a piece in the Guardian about how the movie studio quest for a perfect copy protection system is doomed to fail. DRM is supposed to force those unwilling to pay… Read More ›
Linkfest: fashion cops, fertility scolding, welfare-to-Woollies, and culturally safe healthcare
My weekend reading: ~~ The Daily Telegraph: “Female recruit ads ‘bizarre’ “ The Telegraph reports on a new ad campaign by the New South Wales Police Force. It seems that their research consisted of sitting down and watching the Mel… Read More ›
Weekend Feminist Reading
crossposted from Finally, A Feminism 101 Blog Hard to believe, but apparently even feminists can be sexy… from AUDREY AND THE BAD APPLES by audrey *crossposted at Larvatus Prodeo…* (longer comment thread) Manly men from Firedoglake by David Neiwert On… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 