Commentor Sniper, who sadly appears to not have a blog, over at Pandagon in the thread to new contributor Sheelzebub’s first post, an evisceration of lazy sexist stereotyping of men as clueless slobs that women are obliged to rescue. OK,… Read More ›
Sociology
Dignity in relationships
“During the course of my relationship with my husband I have not given space to conjugal conflict, even when his behaviour has been such as to merit it” “Now that my daughters have reached adulthood, the example of a woman… Read More ›
What good does blogging do?
Lauredhel, on Pondering power and resistance in response to attacks on the utility of feminist blogdom: Speech isn’t pointless. Speech isn’t inherently inferior to action. Speech doesn’t preclude action, and, what’s more, in the case of embedded often-impalpable power structures… Read More ›
Strewth
Despite the folks behind this website believing they have a sense of humour*, this appears to be sadly not actually a joke: Darwin Dating: online dating minus ugly people Darwin Dating has been designed by hot people for hot people…. Read More ›
Not so appropriate to call them machines – ya think?
Reproduced in full from Japan Times:Yanagisawa calls women ‘birth-giving machines’ MATSUE, Shimane Pref. (Kyodo) Health minister Hakuo Yanagisawa referred to women as “birth-giving machines” in a speech Saturday on welfare and health care. Addressing prefectural assembly members of the Liberal… Read More ›
BDS: Disgust, not Derangement
Lance Mannion has a kickarse post – Why We Don’t Like Him – on the US media’s uncritical adoption of the argument that the Left has an irrational distrust of President Bush, the wingnutteria’s invented mental illness “Bush Derangement Syndrome”…. Read More ›
The battle over language and abortion
Interesting editorial by one Erik Gable from a small-town newspaper in the States. Some time ago, I received a letter from a reader asking why The Daily Telegram used the phrase “pro-choice” to describe people who want to keep abortion… Read More ›
Bring in the real women
Repellent, it appears, is the mot-de-semaine: I think American society would benefit greatly if we got rid of all the Sara Jessica Parker wannabe stinky swanks and sent them to the deepest arm pits of Africa. We should then bring… Read More ›
Come back when you can play with the big boys
Repellent neologism of the week: minigarch (anyone worth less than $50m) I guess that makes me a nanogarch, if I’m lucky. seen and defined in today’s Crikey! email
Poverty and Peace
poverty generates hostility and anger, and […] peace is impossible where poverty exists. Let’s just repeat Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammed Yunus’ words for emphasis, shall we? poverty generates hostility and anger, and […] peace is impossible where poverty exists… Read More ›
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