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• Dear hyperventilating Aussie media

  By tigtog on 2009-10-16 • ( 6 )

  Andre Rieu is not a violin ‘virtuoso’. He is a band leader who plays a decent violin. As my darling says, he’s about as good a violinist as Liberace was a pianist i.e. a canny showman who puts on a… Read More ›

• Femmostroppo Reader – October 15, 2009

  By tigtog on 2009-10-15 • ( 9 )

  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. Radical Readers amp; Feminisms for Dummies – Online reading club and book reviews – check it… Read More ›

• Thursday Themed Cheezburger: The Seventh Virtue – Love

  By lauredhel on 2009-10-15 • ( 11 )

  And the greatest of them is Love. Winner: Runner up:

• It’s not “sex”, it’s rape: teen girls and “unwanted sex”

  By lauredhel on 2009-10-15 • ( 6 )

  In today’s “It’s Not Sex, It’s Rape” files I present Melanie Christiansen’s article in the Courier Mail, “Unwanted teen sex tied to binge drinking“. AN explosion in binge drinking among high school girls is driving an increase in unwanted teen… Read More ›

• Quickhit: “wives worry about temptation under the sea “

  By lauredhel on 2009-10-14 • ( 16 )

  From newser comes this piece on the US’s consideration of allowing women as submarine crew: “Navy pushes to allow women on submarines; wives worry about temptation under the sea” Excerpt: “There’s just a whole lot less privacy on board a… Read More ›

• Femmostroppo Reader – October 12, 2009

  By tigtog on 2009-10-12 • ( 8 )

  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. “Race Mixing Is Communism” – and so is, apparently, anything that dismantles established privilege of any… Read More ›

• Exclusively breastfed baby denied insurance unless he goes on a diet

  By lauredhel on 2009-10-12 • ( 14 )

  La Vida Locavore talks about a case in the USA where a fully-breastfed four month old infant has been denied insurance for being “obese”. The baby is on the 99th percentile for height and weight. They don’t say on which… Read More ›

• Telegram to TABs, on Spoon Theory

  By lauredhel on 2009-10-10 • ( 34 )

  [Cross-posted to FWD (feminists with disabilities) for a way forward) Message to TABs (Temporarily ABled folk): Spoon Theory? It’s not yours. It doesn’t describe the sleepy feeling you get at the end of a long day, nor the feeling you… Read More ›

• Quickhit: Rape Culture 101

  By tigtog on 2009-10-10

  Because Melissa McEwan’s comprehensive post deserves to be read and bookmarked by absolutely everyone. Obviously, trigger warnings apply.

• Essentialism damages, even kills

  By Helen on 2009-10-10 • ( 10 )

  Is this becoming a pattern in Australian heterosexual behaviour, and criminal sentencing? 1. A dysfunctional couple have a child. The dad just decides he’ll opt out of the child care role. 2. The mum is such an abominable carer that… Read More ›

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