I’m a day late, but here I am Taking Back the Blog. Today’s rant: the passive voice. When it comes to reports of men abusing and oppressing women, the passive voice prevails. Women are discriminated against Women are paid less… Read More ›
Sociology
Kate Harding on inhabiting her own body
Kate Harding has a wonderful post, “Happy Yogaversary to Me“, on reclaiming her self as an embodied subject: Like just about all girls in this culture, I was always taught that my body was primarily something for other people to… Read More ›
It’s only hurting women
Austin, TX. Shorter World Media: For some reason, terrorism doesn’t count if it’s directed against women and their health care providers. From zuzu.
Camille Paglia: still a intellectual minnow pretending to be a shark
Shorter Camille Paglia: young women who “hookup” for sex are degrading themselves terribly and should be less slutty, and if only one of those silly sluts had given the VTech shooter a mercy fuck then they wouldn’t be dead, which… Read More ›
Sex and stereotypes: What’s wrong with individualist fluffy-feminism
I love those blog posts that make me shout, “Yes!” Infinitethought has posted a biting critique of the bulging strawfeminist-packed closets of the so-called “sex-positive” individualist feminist, the second, larval stage of the embryonic INAFBer [1]: Trotting out the tired… Read More ›
Framing that Overton Window for science
This is all over the science blogs at the moment: how to present science convincingly to the public in an atmosphere of anti-science media sensationalism. It’s got a lot of scientists very agitated indeed. The debate is mostly US-centric, but… Read More ›
Silencing with “attack”, the misuses of logic, and reclaiming emotion
I’ve been contemplating the buzzword “attack”. While it is worth keeping a lid on egregious, unwarranted, off-topic ad hominem remarks, “personal attack” seems to verge on being a means to shut down dissent in some online discussions. It can function… Read More ›
Everyday Codebreaking in Australia, vol.1
As you know, I’ve been talking a bit about violations of the WHO Code. I’ve started collecting some examples of everyday Code-breaking in Australia. My last example was of Wyeth’s transgressions. Have you heard of Nutricia, a Dutch Numico subsidiary?… Read More ›
The Card’nal Pell eau d’ordure
From an opinion piece that I missed back in February, by Sydney’s Cardinal George Pell titled Scaremongers: “Global warming doomsdayers” are all wrong because, amongst other things, “January also was unusually cool.” Meanwhile, from people who took actual measurements (emphasis… Read More ›
Equality, all packaged up (Open obstreperation thread)
originally uploaded by LT See the comparative superheroine art at I Read Comics: Equalism Then check out the broken-back barbies in the Oh, Just Stop It. Now. post. Longstanding readers may remember a post on my original tigtogblog linking to… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 