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• Quickhit: Women in media

  By tigtog on 2009-03-09

  An op-ed from the BBC News Magazine online. Raises many good points, some info I didn’t know, the conclusion seems to trail off. Thoughts? Hat/tip to lurker J.

• For the stats geeks: Correlation

  By tigtog on 2009-03-09 • ( 4 )

  

  Don’t forget to hover your mouse over the image until Rand’s metacomment shows up.

• International Women’s day: On being the Groke

  By Helen on 2009-03-08 • ( 28 )

  Helen writes at the Cast Iron Balcony. She’s a blogger, she’s a grinner, she’s a mother, she’s a sinner. She plays her music in the sun.     There wasn’t any buzz about IWD last week among friends, family or… Read More ›

• Top 5 TV credits: What are your favourites?

  By lauredhel on 2009-03-08 • ( 22 )

  Most of us pop culture adherents have favourite opening credits for our TV shows. They may create an intense mood, immerse you in a place and time; they may have a great theme song; they may just remind you of… Read More ›

• Yet another Whedon peeve [1]: “What is that? Why is it beeping?”

  By lauredhel on 2009-03-08 • ( 20 )

  [Post contains spoilers for Dollhouse episode 4, unrelated to the serial plot. THERE ARE SPOILERS IN COMMENTS.] Hey Joss Whedon, Mr Feminist Icon dude, can I have a word in your shell-like? There are fields of endeavour in which the… Read More ›

• Another sad story for the “It’s not sex, it’s rape.” file, by Guest Hoyden Slave2TehTink

  By Guest Poster on 2009-03-07 • ( 7 )

  Slave2TehTink is normally found making posts with no redeeming social value whatsoever[1] in her LiveJournal, or posting pictures of her small menagerie on her flickr. Offline she lurks on the Civil War battlefields of northern Virginia with her fawn Doberman… Read More ›

• IWD 2009: Women and men united to end violence against women and girls

  By tigtog on 2009-03-07 • ( 1 )

  Tomorrow is International Women’s Day, and the above title is the United Nations official theme for the year – different nations may choose different themes in any year, so it might not necessarily be what your particular national IWD activities are emphasising. You can find out about IWD activities in your region at the official website.

  Any Hoydenistas doing anything special for IWD?

• Otterday! And Open Thread.

  By lauredhel on 2009-03-07 • ( 47 )

  Some newcomers to Hoyden may have received the impression, over the past few weeks, that I think otters are cute little cuddly furry things. Nothing could be further from the truth. Vicious little weasels, the lot of them, and I… Read More ›

• G’day to the quake zone

  By lauredhel on 2009-03-06 • ( 15 )

  There’s just been an earthquake in Melbourne. Twitter has exploded; Google News is yet silent. Nothing on USGS yet; and the Aussie Seismology Research Centre is inaccessible. (Broken, or quake-dotted?) I hope our Melburnian Hoydens are all ok. I blame… Read More ›

• Some women are afraid of being mummy-tracked; others are afraid of being fired.

  By lauredhel on 2009-03-06 • ( 18 )

  One of the ways of starkly illustrating an aspect of the gender divide is DeBecker’s quote: “At core, men are afraid women will laugh at them, while at core, women are afraid men will kill them.” I think there’s a… Read More ›

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