According to Matt Cowgill, potentially yes, but there aren’t any good reasons to do so.
Sociology
Today in Fantasy Film Sexism: Disney tries to pat some feminists’ heads
It’s been ages since I linked to Margot McGowan’s ReelGirl blog, and I thought I’d rectify that.
Friday Hoyden: Ada Lovelace Day 2013
It was the fourth Ada Lovelace Day on Tuesday this week (juuuust missed posting on the day), celebrating women’s achievements in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) fields. Did you go to any Ada Lovelace Day events this year? Tell us about it if you did.
Why the Opal Card could be a bad thing.
Is the new Opal card all it is cracked up to be and could it end up costing you more?
And the gold goes to….
TW: Discussions of rape culture and child sexual abuse The 21st annual Ernie awards were held at NSW Parliament House last night, and for the first time I was there for the … festivities? It’s a fun night, but also… Read More ›
The 65th Down Under Feminists Carnival is up!
All the details on the latest edition and how to submit to the next one!
Maybe if we all went barefoot?
Are your shoes stopping you from buying a house?
Thursday Hoyden and Talk Like a Pirate Day Special: Ching Shih
In honour of annual Talk Like a Pirate Day, this week’s Friday Hoyden is being brought forward a day, and is the fearsome pirate admiral, Madame Ching Shih.
Fetal personhood (“Zoe’s Law”) before NSW Parliament
The stated intent of Zoe’s Law is to allow separate prosecution of injury to a fetus, following the death of Zoe Donegan (stillborn at 32 weeks gestation) in 2009 after Zoe’s mother Brodie was hit by a van. However, the bill has been introduced by an anti-abortion politician, and there are grave concerns about its potential interpretation, particularly “an unborn child is taken to be a living person”. Coalition and ALP members have been granted a conscience vote on Zoe’s law.
Today in smackdowns: Matt Yglesias rolls his eyes at Pax Dickinson’s ‘pernicious nonsense’
Pax Dickinson, whose employment as CTO at Business Insider was abruptly terminated when the board’s attention was drawn to some of his bigoted jackass tweets and the potential liability risk they could present to the company, had an interview in nymag entitled Pax Dickinson on His Regrets, the Media ‘Witch Hunt,’ and What Women Need to Understand About Men (so not doubling down in any way at all) where Pax shares his fear that “turning [tech] into a politically correct wasteland” will take away “the freewheeling nature of [tech that] leads to innovation [which is] really important to this country and to the world”.
Matt Yglesias calls bullshit…
Hoyden About Town 