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• Femmostroppo Reader – March 6, 2010

  By tigtog on 2010-03-06 • ( 3 )

  Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. What did I miss? Please share what you've been reading (and writing!) in the comments. 22nd Down Under Feminists Carnival – Bumper effort from carnival-wrangler Fuckpoliteness Rape Myths Lead to No… Read More ›

• “One-time bad decisions” that rapists keep on repeating

  By tigtog on 2010-03-06 • ( 8 )

  So what do you do if you decide that this person in your social circle is, on the balance of probabilities, a likely undetected serial sexual predator?

• Otterday! And Open Thread

  By lauredhel on 2010-03-06 • ( 23 )

  Today’s otter was captured by rospix in Wales (check out the rest of the pictures!), and comes via the BBC Wales Nature blog. Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything… Read More ›

• WA Government to apologise for abusive, illegal adoption system

  By lauredhel on 2010-03-05 • ( 1 )

  The West Australian today reports that the WA government may become the first State government to publicly acknowledge and fully apologise to all mothers and children forced into adoptions, and harmed by illegal adoption practices. For decades in the mid… Read More ›

• RIP Jon Swift, blogger merveilleux

  By tigtog on 2010-03-04

  Condolences to his family and to everyone else who knew and loved him. He was a delight to read and must have been even more of a delight to know.

• Thursday Cheezburger: Fairytale Kittehs!

  By lauredhel on 2010-03-04 • ( 4 )

  And today’s LOLcat theme is: Fairy Tales and Nursery Rhymes! Post your own favourite Fairytale Cheez here, and wait for admin image magic to make it appear. Please post a link to a FULL webpage, rather than a direct link… Read More ›

• Between two senior politicians and three journalists, none of us knows how to make it work

  By tigtog on 2010-03-04 • ( 11 )

  The media narrative over the last few days has been remarkably replete with Abbott the Adventurer articles and astonishingly bare of Lost In The Political Wilderness articles. Why is that, I wonder?

• Louis Nowra? He has no idea what makes sexists tick

  By tigtog on 2010-03-04 • ( 32 )

  The irony within his own essay, which instead of simply engaging with Greer’s ideas includes gratuitous slams at her personal appearance, slams based on Greer eschewing these allegedly essential feminine fripperies, eludes him. Why, how could people like him mocking women who fail to delight his eye with fripperies possibly have anything to do with women’s “inherent” desire for fripperies?

• Quickhit: Trans men still fighting mandatory sterilisation in WA

  By lauredhel on 2010-03-03 • ( 9 )

  Amanda Banks writes in The West Australian: Transsexuals in landmark case Two female-to-male transsexuals should be able to keep female organs that allow them to bear children and still be legally recognised as men, it was argued in a landmark… Read More ›

• Breastfeeding children and women a “low priority” – Western Australian parliament

  By lauredhel on 2010-03-03 • ( 4 )

  Remember the protests in Perth last year about Premier Barnett’s party failing to bring WA into line with the rest of Australia with laws protecting breastfeeding families from harassment? In which Barnett insisted that there would be no need for… Read More ›

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