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• About Joan’s choice

  By hatbluemilk on 2012-06-17 • ( 10 )

  

  (Lots of SPOILERS for season 5 of Mad Men in this post). It has been a fascinating season for the character of Joan, hasn’t it? This season Joan is a new mother and she’s very quickly also become a single… Read More ›

• Sunday Singalong: Dolly Parton

  By hatbluemilk on 2012-06-17 • ( 4 )

  

  Look at Dolly Parton in her Mad Men era, isn’t she beautiful? Parton is famous for her sly winking ‘dumb blonde’ routine but she is obviously incredibly talented as a recognised and award-winning singer-songwriter, a multi-instrumentalist, actor and philanthropist –… Read More ›

• Some useful things you might teach your children in our rape culture

  By tigtog on 2012-06-17 • ( 10 )

  

  This particular nugget comes from Pharyngula, where a post from PZ addressing rape culture led to a predictable influx of the usual victim-blaming rape myths as if they were commensense truths, leading to a predictably forceful pushback from the Pharyngulites, who do not let that crap stand. If readers would like to add their own favourite links addressing rape myths/culture in comments, I’d really like to see them.

• Otterday! And Open Thread.

  By lauredhel on 2012-06-16 • ( 26 )

  Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to get off your chest? Reading a good book (or a bad one)? Anything in the news that you’d like to discuss? What have you created lately? Commiserations, felicitations, temptations, contemplations, speculations?

• Hey guess what?

  By Mindy on 2012-06-15 • ( 8 )

  

  Guess what word gets you banned from participating in a debate on an abortion bill in Michigan.

• Lingerie Football League: The Undakkening

  By Helen on 2012-06-13 • ( 12 )

  Helen Razer doesn’t even like Lingerie Football League. She makes that clear in this article. But she goes to the wall to defend it against “feminist” (Boo!) critics. Somehow I feel compelled to reply, although it’s about as tempting as… Read More ›

• Perth Stormageddon Thread redux

  By tigtog on 2012-06-13 • ( 4 )

  

  We’re getting a fair few hits on a post of Lauredhel’s about storms around Perth in 2010. Here’s a new post to discuss the south-western Western Australia storms from the past weekend. Our thoughts are with our friends and the 27,000 homes currently without power in WA.

• Internet Misogyny Datapoint: the hatefest aimed at Anita Sarkeesian

  By tigtog on 2012-06-13 • ( 12 )

  

  Every time women on the internet point out how routine it is for a woman’s mere presence on the internet to provoke squadrons of flying he-man-she-hater monkeys to post floods of vile abuse, someone reckons that it’s not really that bad and women should just get thicker skins/lighten up/stop whining etc.

• This week in Streisand Effecting: funnyjunk.com hires a lawyer who doesn’t understand SEO to sue theoatmeal.com

  By tigtog on 2012-06-13 • ( 16 )

  

  See that post title just above these words? And the link I’m adding to this name right here? => That‘s how SEO works, Charles Carreon Attorney At Law.

• Just when you think you have it right

  By Mindy on 2012-06-09 • ( 9 )

  

  Just when you think you have got it right, you find out how wrong you are.

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