Lazy writers on long-running TV shows are giving me the stabbies quite often, but this particular one is still irritating me after a whole week, so it must be aired. When Dr Nikki Alexander, cool-calm-collected forensic scientist, realises that she’s… Read More ›
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A better future
My daughter found this on one of her fanfic communities, and mentioned it to me the other day. I’m rather excited by the notion that ideas like this are circulating amongst teens in what might appear to outsiders to be… Read More ›
Child rape victims are just cranky, says Bishop
My jaw just hit the floor. Around the Catholic “World Youth Day” week in Sydney roils much discussion of Church-sanctioned child rape and sexual abuse. Bishop Anthony Fisher is rather pissed off that some people aren’t concentrating on the things… Read More ›
Women’s bodies – pwned public space
So this post by cowardly asshat voyeur Nicu Buculei[1], a 35 year old man from Romania, was on Planet Fedora the other day, and was up for a while before being pulled down. I’m not going to reproduce the image… Read More ›
“Sex” Watch: Colorado Vail Daily edition
We all know the problem of the mainstream media calling rape “sex”, and calling raping or being raped “having sex with”. I now bring you what is expected to be a far too regular feature: “Sex” Watch. Today, it’s the… Read More ›
The Last Train out of Sydney
We are lucky to have the blogger from Fuck Politeness as a guest Hoyden this week. Fuckpoliteness is a blog born out of frustration over society’s obsessive commitment to formal/semantic politeness – to the empty vision of ‘manners’ in which… Read More ›
Friday Hoyden: Emma Thompson redux
Image Source: Reuters Caption: Austrian Foreign Minister Ursula Plassnik (L) and British actor and human rights activist Emma Thompson leave a container exhibit in Vienna February 11, 2008. ‘The Journey Against Sex Trafficking’ uses seven transport containers to illustrate the… Read More ›
Tick-a-box sexual harassment apologism from “Lefty” Tim
My status as a staunch “Lefty” Tim Brunero fan has been moribund for most of this season, and it’s now officially dead. On Big Brother Australia, Rory was in the shower as Terri was approaching. He masturbated till he was… Read More ›
Is “pregnancy pact” the new MSM code for child rape?
The West proclaims: “Parents form bizarre pregnancy pact with teen”. The article opens with a description of what initially is made out to sound like a (bizarre and exploitative, but mutually agreed) surrogacy arrangement between mother, stepfather, and 15 year… Read More ›
The race double standard in action
Inspired by “Child neglect cases evidence of a wider malaise – experts”: Whitefellas abuse children Blackfellas abuse children Early intervention Army intervention Postnatal handholding Welfare withholding More childcare centres on hand Seize all their land Education with your firstborn Ban… Read More ›
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