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  • Slash and Teh Magick Testicles of Perspicacity

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    Via glandujakiss and sqbr. You don’t even have to know anything about slash to get a few giggles and more than a few eyerolls out of this interview with evolutionary psychologist Don Symons, author of Warrior Lovers: Erotic Fiction, Evolution… Read More ›

  • You know what I hate?

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    Because our public health measures that are in place to contain infectious outbreaks before they go pandemic appear to be working well in the case of swine flu (just as they did in the last media panic about bird flu… Read More ›

  • Sometimes one WTF? is not nearly enough

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    This is a very depressing example of a journalist being entirely taken in by an anti-vaccination crank, Dr. Mayer Eisenstein, spruiking his snake-oil at the U.S. Autism & Asperger Association’s regional conference on Saturday in Cherry Hill, Jersey.

  • Quickhit: SMH FAIL, Chief Justice Diana Bryant WIN

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    The Sydney Morning Herald reports that the Family Court has granted permission for a 17-year old ftm trans boy to have his breasts removed. Well, sort of: THE Family Court has allowed a 17-year-old girl to have her breasts removed… Read More ›

  • Uncovering women paedophiles

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    The past experience has been, too often, that their reports of abuse have been not just disbelieved but scorned, and female paedophiles have been left with unfettered access to future victims. The article is a sober and balanced piece, and the selected comments from survivors of abuse from women perpetrators are heartbreaking.

    A large part of this societal disbelief regarding sexual abuse by women is of course gendered stereotypes about the passive nature of female sexuality and the supposedly innate caring capacity of women that is meant to make women incapable of such behaviour.

  • Femmostroppo Reader – May 4, 2009

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    Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. Please add interesting links of your own in the comments. Blogging Against Disablism Day: On Depression May 4, 2009 – Cara’s BADD post Domestic Work is Real Work May 4, 2009… Read More ›

  • “Mens sana in corpora sano”

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    I’m reading “Enforcing Normalcy”, by Lennard J Davis. The second chapter, “Constructing Normalcy”, talks about the development of the concept of “normal” in European/American culture, mostly from the seventeenth century onwards. On page 37-38, he talks about early twentieth century… Read More ›

  • First Birthday Down Under Feminists Carnival!

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    The twelfth and Bumper Birthday Edition of the Down Under Feminists Carnival is up at Chally’s place, Zero At The Bone. Many thanks to Chally who I know has put plenty of work into it. And yes, there is cake…. Read More ›

  • Sunday Quote: Carl Sagan

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    An oldie but a goodie:

    We’ve arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
    Carl Sagan

  • PSA: The CDC on swine flu and breastfeeding

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    A lot of people think that breastfeeding is a tenuous, fragile, and even dangerous thing. Oh, they might concede that breastfeeding is a fine thing to do if it’s easy, and the mother is perfectly healthy, and the baby is… Read More ›