Brooklynite offers some thoughts on what civil unions laws in the US will mean for the common language usage of “married”. Two years after the decision: “My friend Kyle got married last weekend.” “What? I thought he was gay?” “Oh,… Read More ›
Sociology
39 years of reproductive freedom in the UK
But for how much longer? That’s the question asked in this Guardian special, Time to Speak Up: It’s 39 years since abortion was legalised in this country, yet these days it’s rarely discussed without mention of ‘shame’, ‘mental trauma’ or… Read More ›
Australian Misogyny Week
It’s very depressing to read/listen/watch Australian media this week. I posted yesterday on the gang of youths that assaulted a developmentally delayed 17-year-old girl, forcing her to give them oral sex, urinating on her and setting her hair on fire…. Read More ›
Thugs on DVD
After yesterday’s initial outrage, prepare for more from today’s story: Students who knew members of the gang involved in the DVD said some were unapologetic and had laughed at the public outrage. Year 9 students at Werribee Secondary College said… Read More ›
More thoughts on reactionary masculinity
I posted the following as a comment in the thread over at LP from the crosspost yesterday on reactionary role models in an attempt to wrench the discussion back onto redefining gender roles instead of perpetuating the digressions it had… Read More ›
Foetuses behind a plane
I learnt over at Another Blog today that in some places in the States kind people will fly over your place of work, study or recreation and attempt to horrify you. Apparently, all over the USA this last summer, if… Read More ›
Reactionary role-yearning
Oh, this should stimulate some discussion around the blogtraps. Sara Robinson, a blogger I’ve linked to before for her pieces on religious-authoritarian childrearing practices, has written about the call for a return to traditional masculinity from religious conservatives, and its… Read More ›
Ugly
That’s the only word for some of the recent spats in what were previously some of my favourite corners of cyberspace. First there were the feminister-than-thou wars about lipstick and marriage (see Pandagon and Feministe), then there were the pseudonymity… Read More ›
blogcrush of the week
togolosh, who regularly comments at various Stateside feminist blogs but sadly doesn’t seem to have a blog of hir own (sob), skewered this anti-feminist righteously: You have NO RIGHT to contraception anymore than you have a RIGHT to eat cake…. Read More ›
Friday garden-blogging, blogroll wrangling etc
Scabious, aka the Pincushion Flower Quite a few of you enjoyed my post on a picture of Saturn’s rings a few days ago. Well, a new blog I’ve discovered has an excellent post on the following day’s Astronomy Picture Of… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 