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• On women “competing for male attention”

  By tigtog on 2008-07-25 • ( 36 )

  A whole thread on LP about the social insecurities that lead to the cosmetic surgery makeover culture has been derailed by some men who are insisting on reframing it as women’s individual sexual insecurities about their looks, and how if… Read More ›

• Woman “brain-damaged” by Amazing Hydration Diet detox

  By lauredhel on 2008-07-24 • ( 8 )

  Image: Culpable “nutritionist” Barbara Nash. Source: Daily Mail. BBC: “Woman left brain damaged by detox”: A woman has been awarded more than £800,000 after she suffered permanent brain damage while on a detox diet. The High Court heard Dawn Page,… Read More ›

• Quick hit: Barnev’s “Birthtrack” continuous labour monitoring system

  By lauredhel on 2008-07-24 • ( 28 )

  Holy crap. Rixa writes: Well, the BirthTrack is here and being actively marketed to both doctors and mothers-to-be. It consists of an internal electrode that is screwed into the baby’s head and two ultrasound clips that attach to the cervix…. Read More ›

• Thursday Cheezburger

  By lauredhel on 2008-07-24 • ( 3 )

  [Runners-up are below the cut. ]

• Drongo day at HAT: Disingenuous troll of the week

  By tigtog on 2008-07-24 • ( 14 )

  The comment below was NOT approved for publication on my Finally, A Feminism 101 Blog. Free Clue, TrollDude – quoting Twisty Faster’s most infamous phrase ever is a big giveaway that you really just want to stir up a storm…. Read More ›

• Michael Savage is a drongo

  By tigtog on 2008-07-24 • ( 12 )

  I could have used many harsher terms, but I was exhausted from outrage and despair after reading his latest, and couldn’t really give him my best invective. Apparently, despite decades of study from medical and childhood health professions, Michael Savage… Read More ›

• APOD goes dancing

  By tigtog on 2008-07-23 • ( 4 )

  A couple of weeks ago I featured Matt Harding, who put up video on the internet of himself dancing, sometimes alone and sometimes with others (often a huge crowd) around the world. Today, that’s the Astronomy Picture of the Day’s… Read More ›

• Matthew Garrett on ally work and the Linux community

  By lauredhel on 2008-07-23 • ( 6 )

  Matthew Garrett gave this brief talk encouraging geeks to be vocal feminists/feminist allies, at LUGradio Live UK 2008 (LRLUK 2008). One reference in his “Community Hate Time” talk is to the “upskirt” photo published by Nicu Buculei at Planet Fedora… Read More ›

• White privilege and the centring of white people in discussions of race and racism: a spinoff thread

  By lauredhel on 2008-07-23 • ( 13 )

  This is a spinoff thread from our terrific guest post by Stephanie, “The privilege in your pocket: a manifesto”. I’m starting it from the first point where I requested that the rudeness (which involved centring of white people and scolding… Read More ›

• Can’t blog

  By tigtog on 2008-07-23 • ( 5 )

  The house is in desperate need of a can’t-wait-for-spring-cleaning cleaning.

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