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• Weekend Wibble: Colony Cookies

  By lauredhel on 2009-12-13 • ( 3 )

  Cookies for the microbiologist in your life. [Not So Humble Pie, via Neatorama.]

• 10 minutes of Bechdel-Wallace fail

  By tigtog on 2009-12-12 • ( 17 )

  My pointing out that every film in this 10-minute film montage fails the BWT is however meant to call Hollywood’s institutional taste and judgement into question – why are very nearly all these films written around an all-male or mostly-male cast, and why are nearly all these memorable moments in these films written for the male actors, especially those involving “buddy flick” moments?

• Otterday! And Open Thread.

  By lauredhel on 2009-12-12 • ( 19 )

  Today’s Morro Bay sea otter is courtesy of mikebaird at flickr. 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… Read More ›

• 19th Down Under Feminist Carnival is up at Mynxii’s

  By lauredhel on 2009-12-12

  The Nineteenth Edition of the Down Under Feminists Carnival is up at mynxii’s place, The Professional Lap Cat! Check it out now. The Twentieth Carnival, covering posts from December, will be hosted by PharaohKatt at Something More Than Sides in… Read More ›

• Femmostroppo Reader – December 11, 2009

  By tigtog on 2009-12-11 • ( 2 )

  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. Facebook's New Privacy Changes: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly | Electronic Frontier Foundation –… Read More ›

• No, one of these things is not like the other

  By tigtog on 2009-12-11 • ( 6 )

  Bolt engages in a disingenuous display of Deliberately Not Getting It in the guise of outrage at sexism and double standards:

• Girls Gone Wild or Wild Women? or: We Never Had Nasty Sluts When I Were A Lad

  By lauredhel on 2009-12-10 • ( 18 )

  Reading an article about women’s violence at Schoolies’s Week recently prompted me to pull this languishing post out of my Drafts folder. This snippet exemplifies the phenomenon of low levels of criminal or “disorderly” behaviour by young women being given… Read More ›

• Thursday Cheezburger: Home Ec. With Bonus Delurking Day!

  By lauredhel on 2009-12-10 • ( 11 )

  Continuing the School Subjects theme (we could be here for a while), today’s cheez theme is: Home Ec! Runnerup:

• Femmostroppo Reader – December 9, 2009

  By tigtog on 2009-12-09 • ( 10 )

  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. question of the day: Is Christopher Eccleston too old to play John Lennon? – Why haven’t… Read More ›

• Did you know?

  By Mindy on 2009-12-09 • ( 1 )

  Did you know that being a woman means you hate Keira Knightley?  Fuck Politeness has done an excellent takedown of this, so I won’t repeat it here. Also, did you know (if you are a married woman) that Tiger Woods… Read More ›

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