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• Canine femininity on Etsy: the “Sassy Wench Corseted Dog Dress”

  By lauredhel on 2008-08-10 • ( 5 )

  When you’ve had enough of dressing your newborn in leopard-print high-heeled shoes for shits and giggles, what’s next?

  Well, why not start on your dog? If it’s a boy dog, of course, you’ve already got your Neuticles Ultra Plus (now with Epididymis!). But if it’s a girl dog, the Etsy Pampered Pooch Boutique has just the thing for those moments when you’re mortified by blundersome passersby asking “Is it a boy dog or a girl dog?” Avoid those gender-neutral faux-pas and announce your pooch’s vulva-possession to the whole world. Just because she’s spayed doesn’t mean she can’t be feminine.

• SydneyMelbourne’s “Shindig Party” and their racist SMS spam

  By Guest Poster on 2008-08-09 • ( 10 )

  

  This guest post is from Hoydenizen Raelene of Sydney.
  ~~~~~
  Hi there, hoydens. Here is a true story for you:

• Otterday!

  By lauredhel on 2008-08-09 • ( 3 )

  

  Today’s sea otter is from Jim M. Goldstein.

  There’s a bukkit caption here waiting to happen, I think

• Quicklink: how the hell did I miss this when it was the 2006 meme de jour?

  By tigtog on 2008-08-09 • ( 5 )

  The Evolution of Dance. Amazing routine.

  Find more memes you missed back in the ancient days of Internets yore at the Internet Memes Timeline. There’s explanations for the ones you see around all the time, and even use, but may not know their origins.

  H/T Tama Leaver

• Twitter

  By lauredhel on 2008-08-09 • ( 7 )

  I’ve just made my twitter feed public. Username lauredhel.

  There’s nothing particularly exciting there – I’ll probably mostly be dropping in URLs I’ve encountered that I’d like to share. You’re welcome to join me. If you’re planning a Follow, please drop a note in this thread with your username.

  Update: I protected my Twitter feed again a while back. Hoydenizens are welcome to drop me a follow request. Please don’t re-tweet

• Olympics Special: Forced Abortion in China

  By lauredhel on 2008-08-08 • ( 10 )

  

  The Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony is about to start.

  In all the protests about Tibet and about internet censorship (important issues both), there is an enormous humanitarian crisis in China at risk of getting pushed into the background. That crisis is the systematised, legalised, horrific violence against women and girls.

  Through Olympics time, I’m planning to post roundups and linkdumps on a series of these topics. Be warned – they’re all likely to contain triggers.

  First up: forced abortion.

• Amandaw is kicking arse and taking names when it comes to able-bodied privilege

  By lauredhel on 2008-08-08 • ( 3 )

  Amandaw has been writing an absolutely white-hot series of guest posts at Feministe about invisible disability and her illness experience. I intensely, wholeheartedly urge you to make an effort to set the time aside to read them all. Start at the bottom, read the comments, and work your way up.

  If you had to pick just four, though, try

• Newsflash! Gans and Leigh: Still no evidence that women are harming their babies for cash.

  By lauredhel on 2008-08-08 • ( 21 )

  Back in November 2007, tigtog and I discussed at length the paper on the baby bonus introduction by Andrew Leigh and Joshua Gans, “Born (Again) on the First of July: Another Experiment in Birth Timing”[1]. The paper has now been revised for international publication, this time with mortality data.

  Their thesis back in 2007 was there was an introduction effect “delaying” births around the time of the baby bonus introduction, and their data does show a clear change in pattern.

• A few questions for Hoydenizens

  By Guest Poster on 2008-08-08 • ( 11 )

  Todays guest poster is Liz, who is generally a Lurker. Liz asked us “Would you be willing to throw a few questions to the readers of Hoyden About Town for me?”, so Liz’s questions are now this post.

  I’m wondering if you could help me out here? I’m doing a write-up on feminist blogs and online communities for this

• Feminism Friday from the Feed-reader

  By tigtog on 2008-08-08

  A few must-reads highlighting several very different feminist core issues from the recent posts at Feministe:

  Octogalore: Opt Out, Push Out, and Pink Collar Paths

  Well, it’s critical for workplaces to become more family friendly. Single parents, poor parents, don’t have the option for one parent not to work. And for women and men to have equal access to unemployment benefits.

  But it’s also critical for this “family friendly” path not to

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