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• BFTP: The myth of bra burning feminists

  By tigtog on 2012-01-02 • ( 6 )

  

  In 1968, some activists demonstrated against the Miss America beauty pageant and threw objects of “female oppression” – bras, high-heeled shoes, girdles, curlers – into a trash can. They were arguing about liberation – there was never any bra-burning – but the myth of the feminist as a bra-burner was created by the western media. There was also a crucial word missed in the description of the trashed bras.

• “All I Ever Wanted” by Vikki Wakefield: A Review

  By lauredhel on 2012-01-02

  Book one of my Australian Women Writers Challenge.

  Does Mim sound like a goody two-shoes? She isn’t.
  Does she know everything? She doesn’t. But she does know you don’t walk too close to the Tarrant house.

• Melbourne Hoydenizen meet-up: Sunday Jan 8

  By Jo Tamar on 2012-01-01 • ( 32 )

  Anyone up for a meet-up in Melbourne? Sunday 8 Jan, From 11.30 am (late arrivals fine!), Portland Hotel, 127 Russell St (cnr Lt Collins – NW corner).

  We will be in the casual bar area.

• Today in WTF?

  By Mindy on 2012-01-01 • ( 15 )

  

  Today in WTF?

• “I’ll put up with it, at least for now, because [Lego]’s just so good for little girls’ brains”

  By tigtog on 2011-12-31 • ( 6 )

  

  “If it takes color-coding or ponies and hairdressers to get girls playing with Lego, I’ll put up with it, at least for now, because it’s just so good for little girls’ brains,” says Lise Eliot. A neuroscientist at the Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science in Chicago, Eliot is the author of Pink Brain Blue Brain, a 2009 survey of hundreds of scientific papers on gender differences in children

• Otterday! And Open Thread.

  By lauredhel on 2011-12-31 • ( 23 )

  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? […] Commiserations, felicitations, temptations, contemplations, speculations?

• BFTP – Friday Hoyden: reading in public

  By tigtog on 2011-12-30 • ( 14 )

  

  This post is part of our Summer Slowdown repost series, and is revisited in solidarity with 15 year old Reddit user Lunam: comments on the original version of this post in October 2008 showed how often a dim view is taken of women reading in public.

• Reminder: submit now for the 44th Down Under Feminists Carnival!

  By Mary on 2011-12-30

  

  Reminder: submit now (by Jan 2 at the latest) for the 44th Down Under Feminists Carnival!

  Submissions must be of posts of feminist interest by writers from Australia and New Zealand that were published in December. Submissions are due on 2 January at the latest, but the earlier the better!

• Yes, you are awful too

  By tigtog on 2011-12-29 • ( 10 )

  

  Kate Harding: if your solution to sexist abuse on the internet is, “Just don’t let anyone know your gender, or see a picture of you, or ever mention where you live”, you are so fucking awful, I can’t even.

• Thursday Internet Tradition: Status Cats

  By Mary on 2011-12-29 • ( 2 )

  

  Hoydens are aware of all Internet traditions! But we share our hard-won cultural knowledge! This week, we introduce you to the tradition of the Status Cat.

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