via Peta in comments ABC radio in Canberra has been asking listeners to nominate their top ten Australian songs. This is the list they came up with. 10. It’s Because I Love You (Masters’ Apprentices) 9. And The Band Played… Read More ›
Sociology
BFTP: Is Vorkosigan as nasty as I love Lucy?
This is a repost: originally published in December 2005 at my original tigtogblog (later imported here to HaT) – I’d only been blogging for a few months.
Cardinal George Pell, humbug
He’s at it again: Faithless are coarse, uncaring and without purpose, says Cardinal Pell. Most of it’s typical tosh. We’re all utterly miserable hedonists, apparently. He even goes Godwin on us:
Quicklink: PETA does it again
Unbefuckinglievable.
DUFC Reminder
It’s nearly the end of November, which means that submissions close for this month’s Down Under Feminist Carnival in just a few days, and it will be published here at HaT next weekend. Have you submitted your favourite Antipodean Blogger’s post from this month yet?
Femmostroppo Reader November 27, 2010
Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed-reader. What did I miss? Please share what you've been reading (and writing!) in the comments.
The UN General Assembly this week voted to allow LGBT people to be executed without cause
Seriously.
I have no words.
Femmostroppo Reader November 24, 2010
Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed-reader. What did I miss? Please share what you've been reading (and writing!) in the comments.
Dissecting the trivial
Quick fact about women in the news: apparently, women feature in only about a fifth of the world’s news headlines and just ten percent of all news stories. (My guess is that if you took celebrities out of the media monitoring survey you could probably halve that number again for how often women make the news).
And when women finally make the news in what capacity do we make it?
Video: Learning Gender from Ads for Toys
These ads not only market toys to children but it also promotes and encourages gender specific values that are very limiting to boys and girls in different ways. The values and skills promoted in these commercials can play a critical role in the socalization of youth and their development of emotional expression, conflict resolution, the confidence to pursue various careers and the ability to maintain healthy relationships as adults.
Hoyden About Town 