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  • BFTP: Playground accessibility for parents with disabilities

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    Parking and pathways and seating? This is a piece of cake. This is public design 101. It should be something that is an essential part of building new playgrounds and of upgrading existing ones.

    But no one is bothering. People with disabilities are supposed to be the passive “cared-for”, not active carers.

  • Bitter

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    “highly educated women should quit their jobs in order to guide and “sculpt” their husbands to professional triumphs” – I don’t have a subscription to Madison magazine so I can only assume that it is real, not a tongue in cheek article. I’d love someone to prove me wrong – about the article that is. I don’t think I’m wrong in thinking this is a bad idea.

  • Today in good news

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    1. DADT repeal bill signed. 2. UN resolution condemning extrajudicial killings reinstates sexual orientation clause. 3. Sady Doyle gets a good night’s sleep.

  • Thursday Cheezburger: it is the season to be surly

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    Today’s LOL theme is: it is the season to be surly. Shopping, travel, compulsory hilarity, office parties getting you down? Cheezes are grumpy too!

    Post your own favourite in-theme Cheez here, and wait for admin image magic to make it appear.

  • Greer, Steinem, Brownmiller et al: please challenge Naomi Wolf’s statements on rape and consent

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    Harriet J: “Dear Second and Third Wave Feminists With Publicly Recognizable Names …Please give us somebody else to point to when we are told that we can be raped in the ways Naomi Wolf has decreed are acceptable…Please do not let Naomi Wolf become the voice of what is rape, because rapists were listening when she spoke, and judges, and juries, and future victims who will spend their lives believing it was their fault, and they are always saying “yes” if they are not shouting “no.” “

  • Silly Season post 3 – Singing Animals

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    Unashamedly pinched from Fine’s comment on LP’s Wednesday Whimsy post. Enjoy.

  • Happy Solstice Day!

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    The December solstice happened about twelve minutes ago as I compose this post (2010-12-21 23:38 Universal Time). APOD, as per usual, has the solstice goodies:

  • Silly Season post 2 – Christmas etiquette

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    I’m never sure when to wish someone a Merry Christmas at this time of year.

  • Signal Boost: Mighty #MooreandMe link collection

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    Only just catching up on the current online activism taking place using the #MooreandMe hashtag on Twitter? Not quite sure what it’s all about? Hoyden commentor Meg Thornton has put together a huge #MooreandMe link collection: Source Materials, Sady Doyle’s activism, Rape Apologism 101 Stuff, Comment & Opinion, Places to Send Donations and more.

  • What gay marriage opponents have in common with gay French philosophers

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    Fear and bigotry exist for a reason, so I looked at their arguments a little more closely. And I amused to discover that, beneath the surface, the view that marriage-is-between-a-man-and-a-woman-and-a-man-and-a-woman-only can probably be made sense of by the work of a famously gay, leftie French philosopher. Michel Foucault.

    In fact, when it came to the political logic underlying their arguments, Foucault and gay marriage opponents had a fair bit in common.