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• Ask the Hoydenizens: How to respond to the bootstrappers?

  By lauredhel on 2008-09-26 • ( 19 )

  Sabina wrote: A few days ago I was having a conversation with one of my noob-to-feminism friends about feminism and intersectionality. At one point in the conversation he said something that was pretty much the equivalent of, “In my experience… Read More ›

• A burbling blurb for Deep Blue

  By tigtog on 2008-09-26

  A quick word to absolutely recommend the show we went to see last night (thank you $corporate employer for the free tickets!). I’m pretty sure everyone in the band was a hoyden, including the blokes. Deep Blue bills itself as… Read More ›

• Feminism Friday: “You’ll catch more flies with honey”

  By lauredhel on 2008-09-26 • ( 24 )

  I hear this a fair bit. People who are angry, passionate, non-submissive, resolute, intense – we get shocked looks, and exhortations to compromise, and remarks like “You’ll catch more flies with honey, dear“. I’ve been vaguely wondering why that particular… Read More ›

• Ask the Hoydenizens

  By lauredhel on 2008-09-26 • ( 1 )

  I always like these features on other blogs, so I thought I’d float it here. Do you have any burning questions for the Hoydentariat? Looking for readings on a topic? Have a dilemma you’d like thoughts on? Drop your question… Read More ›

• Obama sez

  By lauredhel on 2008-09-25 • ( 15 )

  Courtesy of baroquestar:

• “The great army of impure women”

  By lauredhel on 2008-09-25 • ( 7 )

  Another instalment in the Ladies’ Handbook series! The initial post is here. This instalment is part three of Chapter IV, “Sex Physiology and Hygiene”. (Part One, Part Two.) This passage is quite dense with meaning, but a few things I… Read More ›

• Thursday Cheezburger

  By lauredhel on 2008-09-25 • ( 3 )

  Runner-up. Post your favourite lols o’ the week here.

• *waves*

  By tigtog on 2008-09-25 • ( 5 )

  Sorry it’s so quiet around here, I am solving website difficulties for a client and don’t have time to blog!

• Ad Standards Bureau agrees with Jim Beam that lesbianism is a “tragedy”.

  By lauredhel on 2008-09-24 • ( 32 )

  In Jim Beam demonstrates just how much men want to hate us, I showed and talked about four sexist Jim Beam bourbon advertisements. The Advertising Standards Bureau has now responded to complaints about three of these television advertisements, and their… Read More ›

• Whoydensday: nearly the S4 finale here in Oz

  By tigtog on 2008-09-24 • ( 33 )

  Update Sun 28 8:35pm: the finale episode has now aired in NZ and Oz, so SPOILERS! SPOILERS! SPOILERS! in the comments – BEWARE! This can be the basic discussion thread for the final three episodes of Season 4, just so… Read More ›

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