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• Cos chicks shouldn’t dig SF! Especially hot ones!

  By lauredhel on 2009-04-28 • ( 38 )

  Joss, Joss, Joss, don’t be such a big giant douche. Here is Joss Whedon accepting the Bradbury Award for screenwriting (part of the Nebula Awards): Note that in this set of Nebulas, the women dominated. Top honours were won by… Read More ›

• Psychiatrists see reasonable adaptations to CFS, label it “cause” and “maladaptation”

  By lauredhel on 2009-04-27 • ( 15 )

  There’s a whole industry that involves measuring the survival techniques and truths of people with CFS, then pointing the finger at them for causing their own illness with their Scientifically! Proven! personality “deficits”. Here’s the latest product of that industry…. Read More ›

• Femmostroppo Reader – April 27, 2009

  By tigtog on 2009-04-27

  Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed Forgetting Sarah Marshall: Superemosogynisticexpialadocious. If You Make a Film of It, It's Really Quite Atrocious! April 27, 2009 – Quote: “This woman is a plot device who exists specifically and entirely… Read More ›

• Wordless Sunday: The Sunday Papers

  By lauredhel on 2009-04-26 • ( 6 )

• Double Carnival Reminder: Blogging Against Disablism Day, and DUFC First Birthday

  By lauredhel on 2009-04-26 • ( 1 )

  Blogging Against Disablism Day is May 1st – everyone is welcome and all topics are go! To participate, you need to go to the Blogging Against Disablism Day page at Diary of a Goldfish and register your interest. Then write… Read More ›

• Sunday Hoyden: Vale Bea Arthur

  By tigtog on 2009-04-26 • ( 7 )

  I only just caught her fabulous turn as Vera Charles a couple of days ago in the movie Mame! and thought to myself “what a great hoyden”, and today I heard the news that she has died, aged 86.

• Femmostroppo Reader – April 26, 2009

  By tigtog on 2009-04-26 • ( 1 )

  Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed Why Use a Teaspoon When You've Got a Tablespoon? April 26, 2009 – an anonymous donor is donating millions of dollars to US colleges headed by women Truth Crusaders? Really? April… Read More ›

• Soap!

  By lauredhel on 2009-04-25 • ( 25 )

  I trimmed and labelled some soap today. Strawberry Kiwi. Lovely fresh fragrance, lovely fresh colours. Lavender Vanilla – do you like the flying-seagull shape the swirl in the top soap formed? I used the Brambleberry Black Amber Lavender fragrance oil… Read More ›

• Remembering Anzac Day: stark lessons squandered and myths reinforced

  By tigtog on 2009-04-25 • ( 9 )

  I have little to add to these quoted comments below from Paul Norton’s Anzac Day post at LP, which focuses on the militaristic myth side of Anzac Day. As usual, there are some illiterates objecting to the use of the word “myth” as if the word means “untrue in its entirety”. The usage of “myth” when discussing recent history always, of course, nearly always refers to the meanings 2b and 2c below:

• Femmostroppo Reader – April 25, 2009

  By tigtog on 2009-04-25

  Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed twit April 24, 2009 – examining weird prejudices against Twitter (I don’t use it much myself, but I don’t hate it and I see how effectively others can use it) It's… Read More ›

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