Turns out there are multiple ways of obfuscating rape in the news. This news story, for example. [cut for child rape triggers]
Sociology
Iraq too dangerous for Harry (and his tank unit)
Shorter desperate Whitehall spin: but the rest of you will be just fine, honest, even if you’re not in a tank unit, and of course the COW is totally winning in Iraq. [news story] ———————————————————- Chris Heyman, an ex-military editor… Read More ›
Loving, steadfast companion or alluring, wanton adventuress?
(my post on Monday regarding the Mary Jane sculpture reminded me that this was hanging around in the drafts folder from months ago) The last three words of the post title leapt out at me from amongst the denser verbiage… Read More ›
Jerry Falwell, dead aged 73
So he got his threescore years and ten, then. TANJ, except that he simply won’t get the glorious afterlife he’s been expecting. The Carpetbagger Report has a timeline of various highlights of his bigoted authoritarian ranting career. (via Ginmar)
After Bastard Boys
There was quite a bit of chest beating about bias with regard to the ABC drama Bastard Boys broadcast over the last two nights. Certainly the show is unlikely to do Greg Combet’s electoral chances any harm at all. But… Read More ›
Good for the gander
via Tama Leaver‘s post on a fanboy collectible of Mary Jane from the Spiderman comics (which I have seen around the feminist gamer/comics sites this week already) I find that Nancy Lorenz at GirlWonder.org has done a parody to show… Read More ›
Linkalectable #1: Radfem Carnival, prison in Uganda, the medico-rehabilitatio-industrial complex, the Australian Budget, and women go to bat against foreign multinationals in the Philippines
Linkalectable. 1. The First Carnival of Radical Feminists at Women’s Space. Heart grounds current-day radical feminism in the history of the movement, recalls the many achievements of radical feminism, and smacks down the dismissive dysperception that radfems are immersed in… Read More ›
Reason #4297 why I love this country
This morning, a breakfast TV announcer on a nationally broadcast programme forgot herself for a moment and said “oh bugger, I missed [XYZ trivial feelgood thing]”. The TV network will probably get a small flurry of letters from people who… Read More ›
Snippets of good news on reproductive rights: Skin Of Our Teeth edition
I bring you four snippets of good news on reproductive rights, two from the USA, one from Ireland, and one from Mexico. People are fighting for women’s rights, and in some places they’re hanging on — just. I think the… Read More ›
Ever found that whole Mars/Venus male/female thing sorta suss?
You’re not alone. The problem is that John Gray knows very well how to hit all the socially constructed hot buttons on male entitlement and female submission so that readers infer the message that Venusians have only themselves to blame… Read More ›