… they’d never greenlight tosh like Atlas Shrugged: Part 1 (part one!)
Sociology
On the not Grokking of Internet Bingo Cards
Let me hand a depressingly large number of people an embarrassingly obvious cluestick: nobody gets to yell BINGO! on marking just one square.
Femmostroppo Reader February 13, 2011
Items of interest come across recently in my feed-reader. What did I miss? Leave your own interesting links in comments.
Friday Hoyden: Dr Ivy Williams, first woman called to the English Bar
“She now set her heart on being called to the bar (not, it seems, for her own sake but to offer free legal advice to the poor).”
Looking for an expert female speaker for your Australian event?
After nearly a year in concept, the No Chicks No Excuses website listing women speakers covering a wide variety of expertise has been launched, so that organisers no longer find it so terribly difficult to find women who know how to speak at a large event.
Working Mum it’s all your fault too.
Just when you thought it was Ladies of Leisure being at fault now it’s working mothers making their children fat.
A new definition of functional
This messy patchwork of care arrangements – its favours and returned favours; its sick children one week and different working hour requirements the next – are how the modern working parent operates these days.
How many ways can you get it wrong?
Two main “facts” in the headline. Two main “facts” completely and utterly wrong.
Quicklink: newswithnipples on Mark Latham’s sexism
She wrote all about it, which means I don’t have to!
Yet another Dickwolves post
[TW: rape culture] Don’t know about it yet? You’re lucky. Here’s a timeline. Geek Feminism and Shakesville have multiple posts on how Penny Arcade fucked up not so much with just(!) an insensitive rape joke in their webcomic, but with their mockingly dismissive responses (and how that played into their fans’ responses) to people’s objections to that webcomic.
Hoyden About Town 