A cautionary tale from across the ditch: Maia, of Capitalism Bad, Tree Pretty, has a post up in the sad told-you-so category, Politicians Shocked About Predictable Consequences of their Policies. The policy in this case was New Zealand’s public health… Read More ›
Sociology
“I’ve never known what happened to that woman.”
Good Enough Mum narrates her journey from being pro-life in her youth to be pro-choice today. She tells the story of a woman she saw in her final year of medical school. The woman was carrying an anencephalic fetus, and… Read More ›
I’ve got a little list
The above stresses deformities and injuries are all foreseeable and even inevitable consequences of longterm wearing of high heeled shoes.
Holy Act of Congress, Batman!
Who else went through the three phases of Adam West’s Batman? Wide eyed young kid taking BAM! BIFF! utterly seriously, pseudosophisticate thinking it was oh so silly kidstuff, then suddenly rediscovering it through ironic hipster eyes and loving all the… Read More ›
Astronomer makes wistful call for gender apartheid
Sir Patrick Moore, EU segregationist, is perturbed about women getting their hooks into public life. Bewailing the domestification of television, he today launched a diatribe reminiscing about the “golden days” when the BBC was an shrine to testosterone, and lamenting… Read More ›
Emphasis mine
Fat children are more likely to have their father to blame for their weight problem than their mother, a new study shows. Research by Australian child health experts has revealed that fathers who are disengaged or do not set clear… Read More ›
What you don’t see when you’re a “good guy”
Kate Harding is stunned by an unexpected response from a Random Guy to her asserting herself, and then makes some connections and intersections: And you know, the worst part is, my boyfriend was sitting right by the window inside, a… Read More ›
And the Inaugural Award of the Tiniest Fainting Couch in the world goes to:
Paris Hilton, who is being positively persecuted just because she’s a celebrity, and who couldn’t possibly be sent off to nasty gaol with the polloiest of hoi polloi, just for a teeny-weeny little thing like driving drunk without a license… Read More ›
Google and the He/She Ratio
I’ve been tinkering with The He/ She Ratio on Google Blogoscoped. A site’s he/ she ratio is measured by counting the number of pages on the domain containing the word “he”, then searching for the number containing “she”, and then… Read More ›
It’s not the empty street that causes rape
Today’s Guest Post is a crosspost from JoAnne Schmitz of Jupiter9. Edited to add: a link from Pandagon to this particular post was actually meant to link to this other post on passive/active voice by Lauredhel instead. Please do read… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 