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• Dissecting the trivial

  By hatbluemilk on 2010-11-23 • ( 6 )

  Quick fact about women in the news: apparently, women feature in only about a fifth of the world’s news headlines and just ten percent of all news stories. (My guess is that if you took celebrities out of the media monitoring survey you could probably halve that number again for how often women make the news).

  And when women finally make the news in what capacity do we make it?

• Video: Learning Gender from Ads for Toys

  By tigtog on 2010-11-23 • ( 8 )

  These ads not only market toys to children but it also promotes and encourages gender specific values that are very limiting to boys and girls in different ways. The values and skills promoted in these commercials can play a critical role in the socalization of youth and their development of emotional expression, conflict resolution, the confidence to pursue various careers and the ability to maintain healthy relationships as adults.

• Cyclists riding safely and legally, motorists driving less so

  By tigtog on 2010-11-23 • ( 2 )

  Drivers were at fault in 87 per cent of incidents with cyclists and most did not realise they had behaved in a reckless or unsafe manner,

• Femmostroppo Reader November 22, 2010

  By tigtog on 2010-11-23 • ( 2 )

  Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed-reader. What did I miss? Please share what you've been reading (and writing!) in the comments.

• The Pope and condoms – don’t get too excited

  By tigtog on 2010-11-22 • ( 3 )

  Despite some of the reports out there in tabloid land about the Pope “ending the ban on condom use” he actually has done no such thing.

• Kate Harding nails it

  By tigtog on 2010-11-21 • ( 2 )

  A USAmerican couple have put up a website asking the Internet whether they should choose to complete her pregnancy or terminate it. Of course it’s a pro-life/anti-choice stunt,

• Gratuitous Kid Bragging Thread

  By tigtog on 2010-11-21 • ( 19 )

  I am so proud of her for walking her own path here. What wonderful things have kids who you love been up to lately?

• Transgender Day of Remembrance: Living with the threat

  By Queen Emily on 2010-11-20 • ( 19 )

  Even though it’s remembrance of all the deaths worldwide, most writings you’ll find about TDOR online will be from the US, where the day started. But it’s important to acknowledge the specifics of exactly who it is dying, rather than universalise the violence as affecting all trans men, women, genderqueers and other non-binaries equally.

• Otterday! And Open Thread.

  By lauredhel on 2010-11-20 • ( 18 )

  Today’s otter comes to you via Doug Brown on flickr.

  Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires.

• Friday Hoyden: Luna Lovegood

  By tigtog on 2010-11-19 • ( 1 )

  AKA The Harry Potter #7 movie review

  Just a short one, and I’m aiming to be spoiler-aware here for those few who haven’t actually read the book of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

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