In the wake of my mildly controversial decision to like Little Mosque on the Prairie, I’m going to up the ante and say that I also don’t mind Army Wives, when I can screen out the heroic-soldiers-deploying-to-Iraq side of things…. Read More ›
work and family
Nuance for Dummies
The wingnuts continue to wag fingers at feminists for not supporting Gov. Palin’s election campaign. The way these loopers misrepresent feminist positions would be comical if it wasn’t so agenda driven. Jim Quinn (paraphrased): feminists simply can’t stand that Palin… Read More ›
Quicklinks: Maternity and Parental Leave
The Rudd Government is mooting some changes. Others have blogged: Bite the bullet from blue milk by blue milk Quoting Eva Cox: Of course, there are gaps: too many workers still miss out, six months would have been better and… Read More ›
Does it really take a divisive stereotype to catch a divisive stereotype?
Author: blue milk – kinda radical feminist who kinda identifies with the “suburban mum” tag these days. Not so long ago Monica Dux, in promoting the publication of jointly-authored book The Great Feminist Denial, attempted to initiate a conversation about… Read More ›
Expressing milk? Call the cops!
I can barely see through my anger and disgust right now. I’m going to let the story speak for itself. “Express delivery furore” The mother of a five-month-old baby was followed and questioned by police and security guards after she… Read More ›
Women reduced to a disembodied womb, GetUp edition
GetUp, a large Australian anti-conservative action group, has a Paid Parental Leave campaign on at the moment. Yes, bravo, etc. (They do confuse parental and maternity leave, but that’s another story.) When we’re talking equal pay, we get faces. But… Read More ›
SF Sunday: reproduction
I’ve been thinking of various books I’ve read where a pivotal part of the Strange Land aspect of the narrative has been a style of reproduction that varies from the human norm – either technologically transformed human reproduction, or else… Read More ›
SF Sunday: machines and freedom from slavery
From my Quotes File (which you can see serving up random quotes at the bottom of the sidebar):
The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. The Greeks were quite right there. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture, and contemplation become almost impossible. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.
Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900)
I find the search for the perfect robot society a continuing feature of SF novels,
Feminism Friday from the Feed-reader
A few must-reads highlighting several very different feminist core issues from the recent posts at Feministe:
Octogalore: Opt Out, Push Out, and Pink Collar Paths
Well, it’s critical for workplaces to become more family friendly. Single parents, poor parents, don’t have the option for one parent not to work. And for women and men to have equal access to unemployment benefits.
But it’s also critical for this “family friendly” path not to
Sunday inspiration: simple, effective action
Via Catherine Price at Salon comes the story of Olga Murray, who devised a simple, practical philanthropic solution that has virtually eradicated a tradition of starving Nepalese farming families selling their daughters into indentured servitude. 1n 1989 Murray was horrified… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 