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• Open-mindedness: are you sure you know what it really means?

  By tigtog on 2009-05-15 • ( 1 )

  Video [Via Rebecca on Skepchick]

• Friday Hoyden: Kirsty Moore

  By tigtog on 2009-05-15 • ( 1 )

  Congratulations on being the first woman pilot to join the UK’s elite Red Arrow aerobatic display team!

• “Prehistoric pin-up”? Paleolithic fertility carving dubbed “pornography”

  By lauredhel on 2009-05-14 • ( 14 )

  The back-slapping homosocial bonding continues. This time, it’s over a Palaeolithic sculpture. You heard right. This Aurignacian mammoth-ivory carving has been found in Germany by Nicholas Conard, and published in a letter to Nature. It’s thought to be the oldest… Read More ›

• Thursday Cheezburger: Arthur C Clarke edition

  By lauredhel on 2009-05-14 • ( 19 )

  “Any sufficiently advanced technology…” Runner up:

• SMH reporter Asher Moses calls woman “slutty groupy”: twitter explodes

  By lauredhel on 2009-05-14 • ( 23 )

  Last night, SMH reporter Asher Moses was twittering about the Johns/rugby ‘gang bang’ business. Moses twitters under his own name, with “Technology Reporter, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age” in his bio. He wrote to the world: “So Matthew… Read More ›

• Femmostroppo Reader – May 14, 2009

  By tigtog on 2009-05-14 • ( 1 )

  Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. Please add interesting links of your own in the comments. The Trouble with Linda Hirshman's Critique of Jezebel – more on Hirshman and her tin ear regarding rape Undersupplied U.S soldiers… Read More ›

• Fat acceptance and Oppression Olympics fail on The Gruen Transfer

  By lauredhel on 2009-05-14 • ( 26 )

  Via the Sarahs at Saucy Sisters, some massive adfail on ABC show The Gruen Transfer. TGT was going to look at a “fat pride” advertisement that combines the Oppression Olympics and -ist-humour tropes tonight. The show, which played the Adults… Read More ›

• Police strip searching children

  By lauredhel on 2009-05-13

  These two articles have dropped into my RSS reader in the past little while, and it’s a really disturbing combination. 1. Adults absent during child strip searches: Ombudsman [NSW Ombudsman] Bruce Barbour’s investigation found that between December 1, 2005, and… Read More ›

• Femmostroppo Reader – May 13, 2009

  By tigtog on 2009-05-13 • ( 2 )

  Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. Please add interesting links of your own in the comments. My Raging Narcissism: Now Including 51% of the Earth's Population! – Sady beats down another meme discounting women’s opinions and experiences…. Read More ›

• Elite male athletes and homosocial bonding through sexual coercion of women

  By tigtog on 2009-05-12 • ( 80 )

  As raised on the Otterday open thread, this has been all over the TV, radio and papers today – the 4 Corners episode on ARL footy players and their attitudes of sexual entitlement. Especially the attitude that says if a girl agrees to sexual contact with one footballer, or maybe two, that it’s no big deal if suddenly several other players appear in the room to “take a turn”, with a larger crowd of the team’s entourage happily watching this suddenly changed situation. The news stories very carefully avoid any terms suggesting that any player committed a criminal sexual offence, as no charges have been laid, and certainly no convictions have ensued.

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