Recent Posts - page 189

  • Femmostroppo Reader March 23, 2011

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    Items of interest come across recently in my feed-reader. What did I miss? Leave your own interesting links in comments.

  • Why aren’t there Facebook ‘Like’ buttons on everything?

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    Because I want a Facebook Like button on this. What would you put a ‘Like’ button on if you could? ETA: And then you find someone who’s done it so much better.

  • Whoydensday: Rock out with the WHOs

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    rtofirefly’s beautiful band featuring 4, 8, 10 and 11 totally deserves to be gazed and gazed upon to the accompaniment of the still amazing because of, rather than despite, its blatant parody of classic pop riffs – Doctorin’ the Tardis:

  • Mythcommunication and Defending the Indefensible

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    Two posts from today that neatly bookend a whole series of shelves about the rape culture. We’re not supposed to ever hold a winning hand here.

  • Enabling Femininity?

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    Going on from bluemilk’s post on Masculinity and the fear of losing it and Mena’s comment is allowing our girls to wear nail polish and dress up in pink enabling femininity? Are we giving our daughters the wrong message? From… Read More ›

  • Admin note: RSS feeds

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    If you changed your subscription a couple of years ago, as requested, to our new Hoyden feed for the new domain, then you shouldn’t be seeing anything different in your feed-reader. If you are not a content-aggregator site, then you can now ignore this post. If you are seeing a change in your feed, and you are one of our personal subscribers via a feed-reader, here’s how to get your full feed back:

  • Quote of the Week: victim blaming and rape culture

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    If the fact that there are people who will argue with a straight fucking face that an 11-year-old child “didn’t do enough” to stop eighteen young men from raping her doesn’t convince everyone with a capacity for reason and any trace of decency that we live in a culture that supports and condones rape, I can’t imagine what possibly could.

  • Libya NFZ and selective support for Arab uprisings

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    Open thread on ‘Arab Spring’ uprisings and retaliations.

  • Some good news from Japan

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    Two tsunami survivors found nine days later in Ishinomaki City; the ‘Fukushima 50’ volunteers are gradually stabilising the reactor crisis.

  • Masculinity and the fear of losing it

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    It took becoming a mother of a son for me to realise just how fearful the world is of losing masculinity. I mean, god knows there are lots of rules about gender binary and how girls and women perform femininity, too, but I don’t think we’re as frightened of femininity being corrupted and lost as we are of masculinity being diluted.