Hundreds have already been killed and the violence is escalating. Let your people get on with it without you and your mates. You are not needed.
Sociology
Insensitive arseholes alert: not enough tragedy for their taste
Via Possum at Pollytics, I have been made aware that Caroline Overington and other people who work for the Oz’s Media Diary think that problems with devastating cyclones and killer heatwaves have been given too much attention, presumably since not enough people have died from them.
Femmostroppo Reader February 3, 2011
Items of interest come across recently in my feed-reader. I deliberately didn’t link to lots of coverage of Australian natural disasters or the Egyptian uprisings, because there’s just so much to sort through. What else did I miss? Leave your own interesting links in comments.
Quick hit: NSW Coalition drops active anti-ethics classes policy
The NSW Coalition has said they will not attempt to reverse the introduction of ethics classes in Special Religious Education time this year. Classes begin this term.
*snerk* The Personality Traits of Feminists
So many terrible, terrible attributes we have – oh the shame! Discovered by David Futrelle at man boobz, who reads MRA/MGTOW sites so that you don’t have to:
Quickhit: Seriously, Coorey?
Shorter Coorey: Nobody said anything about Gillard’s style etc until it became clear that she was only the prime minister of a minority government.
Oh FFS #156784563458
“Generation Y losing ‘female’ skills” It must be a slow news day. Horror of horrors Generation Y women are losing the skills their mothers and grandmothers apparently took for granted. In case you didn’t know, all women of the baby… Read More ›
Femmostroppo Reader January 29, 2011
Items of interest come across recently in my feed-reader. What did I miss? Leave your own interesting links in comments.
Friday Hoyden: Kim Clijsters made of awesome
What if, every time a woman was called fat, she laughed?
So tweeted Margot Magowan to sum up the awesomeness that was Kim Clijsters this week.
Today in Just Not Getting It
Who knew that advocating for single mothers to be NOT shamed and for their children to be adequately supported by society was tantamount to claiming that single motherhood was “the most advanced, liberating experience on the planet akin to putting a man on the moon”?
Hoyden About Town 