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• Rape myths, rape myth acceptance, and community perceptions of victims of sexual violence

  By tigtog on 2009-03-12 • ( 30 )

  Elsewhere, grave doubt was expressed that attitudes of holding women responsible for sexual violence directed towards them was in fact a popular community view, to the extent that a position paper from an academic conference was mercilessly mocked for this sentence:

  Women who are raped or who suffer domestic violence are somehow thought of in the popular imagination as a stereotype. According to this, the women are asking for it, dressed inappropriately, provoking it – responsible for it.

• Alcohol and Breastfeeding: NHMRC buys into abstinence-only messaging

  By lauredhel on 2009-03-12 • ( 15 )

  Last month, I started talking a little bit about alcohol, pregnancy, and abstinence-only messages, in a takedown of one particular study which failed to link alcohol and preterm birth, but said it did. “Bad science on booze in pregnancy: Women… Read More ›

• Thursday Cheezburger: Crimes and misdemeanours

  By lauredhel on 2009-03-12 • ( 5 )

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• So much for the plan to do some serious blogging today

  By tigtog on 2009-03-12 • ( 9 )

  My front door has, literally, just come off its hinges. So I can’t leave the house until it’s fixed.

• I write letters

  By tigtog on 2009-03-11 • ( 5 )

  Dear Smartypants-Who-Embeds-Encrypted-Sponsor-Links-In-Code-Web-Designer, This is what I found in the footer file of a theme of yours that I was hacking/tweaking for my own web development purposes today: WARNING: This file is protected by copyright law. To reverse engineer or decode… Read More ›

• Whoydensday: Dalek in a Pond!

  By Beppie on 2009-03-11 • ( 14 )

  If you haven’t heard the news yet — last week, a dalek head was found in a pond in Hampshire. According to telegraph.co.uk: Sales executive Marc Oakland was pushing a rake around the bed of the shallow pool when he… Read More ›

• Happy dance: Australian “Global Gag Rule” overturned

  By lauredhel on 2009-03-10 • ( 9 )

  Under pressure from the Greens and other pro-choice MPs, the Australian Government finally overturned the AusAID restrictions on foreign aid for services that provide abortion information or services! SMH: Govt ends foreign aid ban on abortions The Rudd government could… Read More ›

• Medela Bites its Thumb at the WHO Code

  By lauredhel on 2009-03-10 • ( 23 )

  I’d like you to watch this ad with a critical eye. [Transcript is appended.] http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=19472558&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop=0 [If you know all about the Code and Innocenti and APMAIF already, skip down to the next iteration of the ad below!] The WHO Code… Read More ›

• Responses to Bettina

  By Mindy on 2009-03-10 • ( 7 )

  There were a number of great responses to the blather put out by Bettina on sex in marriage and women’s “fragile” libidos and I have gathered together a few of them here for those that may not have seen them. There are quite a few people out there who don’t agree with Bettina, and gosh they write well. Enjoy.

• Gricers in the Mist

  By tigtog on 2009-03-09 • ( 3 )

  Taken yesterday at the Zig Zag heritage railway, near Lithgow, NSW. A gricer is a steam locomotive enthusiast, and my husband has been one since childhood. He got to ride on the footplate back up the mountain, so he won’t stop smiling about that for at least a week.

  This shot was taken as they purged the boilers to get rid of waste sludge.

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