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• Friday Hoyden from fiction: Jo Marsh March, Little Women

  By tigtog on 2008-04-18 • ( 28 )

  How old were you when you first read Little Women? I think I was about 8, and I was utterly typical: Jo was my favourite. Was anyone unenraptured by Jo March on reading the book? What about portrayals on the silver screen or the box?

• Typical MND misrepresentation: shame on you, Glenn Sacks OK, his explanation does make sense after all

  By tigtog on 2008-04-18 • ( 36 )

  Alert blog-readers may have noticed that many blogs, including this one, use a “cut” or “more” tag on longer posts, so that only the first few paragraphs show on the main page, and to read the full story one needs… Read More ›

• Damon Wayans’ Wayout TV: Violence against Women is Fucking Hilarious

  By tigtog on 2008-04-17 • ( 7 )

  Unbelievable. Summary of video: Man playing videogames, phone rings. He eventually answers it. Cut to Woman calling Man, nervously, to tell him she’s pregnant. Man says “oh, no, what are YOU going to do?” Woman says “I’m not sure what… Read More ›

• Parliamentary Pinkification Panic: the Spanish “Zapettes”

  By lauredhel on 2008-04-17 • ( 9 )

  The Spanish ministry has suddenly shot to gender equality, and you know what that means, don’t you, Hoydenizens? It’s fashion week at the Telegraph! The female Spanish and French ministers, individuality-free and named as appendages of the men in charge… Read More ›

• BFP’s words

  By lauredhel on 2008-04-17 • ( 1 )

  Read this. Read it, listen to it, hear it, believe it, act on it.

• Lighter side: Cat and theremin

  By tigtog on 2008-04-17 • ( 2 )

  This is zooming around the traps, so you may have already seen it. If not, enjoy.

• Hollaback Douchehound of the Week: “A Pub is a Sexualised Space”

  By lauredhel on 2008-04-16 • ( 11 )

  This pompous arse wins Hollaback Australia Douchehound Commenter[1] of the Week. The prize? Nothing more or less than our eternal mocking and disdain. Posted here in full for your, erm, edification. This story does not fit into your mandate of… Read More ›

• Saint Magnus would not approve: Churchie gay formal

  By lauredhel on 2008-04-15 • ( 3 )

  [image cribbed from Pinknews] The Most Reverend Phillip Aspinall, Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane and president of the school council of “Churchie”, the all-boys Anglican Church Grammar School in Brisbane, is in the news. Churchie, where manly men are made under… Read More ›

• Stolen Generations experiments: Australia’s Tuskegee?

  By lauredhel on 2008-04-15 • ( 3 )

  [image source: Turing Foundation] News.com.au: Aboriginal children ‘injected with leprosy’ Allegations have arisen that Aboriginal children from the Stolen Generation may have been infected with leprosy or injected with experimental medication while institutionalised. The issue was raised during a Senate… Read More ›

• Belated Blog for Solidarity: Congo Rape Epidemic

  By tigtog on 2008-04-15

  With everything else I had happening last weekend, I missed this blogswarm. I have nothing to add to Melissa’s wonderful post anyway: Blog in Solidarity: Congo Rape Epidemic I know it’s horrible. I know it’s the last fucking thing in… Read More ›

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