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• Friday Furry and Linkfest

  By tigtog on 2008-04-11 • ( 4 )

  A moose gives some cats a winter surprise in Alaska: Image credit: photograph by LizMarie Links harvested from my feedreader this week:

• WOC ‘Engage best through negative discourse’: Seal Press

  By lauredhel on 2008-04-10 • ( 13 )

  You know how Seal Press aren’t at all racist? And how these book covers[1] are just all mass-market-fun and goofball and ironic and hilarious and why must you always be so serious and critique-y and stuff anyway? Well. The amazing… Read More ›

• Marry, Shag or Chuck off a Cliff: Regency drama edition

  By tigtog on 2008-04-09 • ( 16 )

  I’m stuck in a costume drama mood: largely as escapism from the rest of what I’m reading about, I expect. Who else is up for some escapism? Fitzwilliam Darcy, Horatio Hornblower, Richard Sharpe: what do you do? Elizabeth Bennet, Elinor… Read More ›

• Move to close WA Parliamentary sexual harassment loophole

  By lauredhel on 2008-04-08 • ( 1 )

  Remember we were all wondering a few months ago how Troy Buswell had managed to continue his rise to the leadership of the Western Australian Liberal Party, despite his history of sexually harassing colleagues and staffers alike?

• Ah, that immutable primate heritage

  By tigtog on 2008-04-08 • ( 3 )

  Richie at Crimitism takes on the latest piece of simian research (rhesus monkeys this time) which is being spun as proving something about innate gender tendencies. He details the various ways in which the spin fails to take certain results… Read More ›

• Hospital predator’s appeal rejected: blames rape on victim, non-existent mental health disorder

  By lauredhel on 2008-04-08 • ( 8 )

  Just another example[1] of the way in which vulnerable girls are used and abused by men who think they’re entitled to their bodies. This particular rapist was supposed to be tending to his hospitalised son overnight, but instead he decided… Read More ›

• Brian McKinstry whines about women taking over medicine

  By lauredhel on 2008-04-07 • ( 10 )

  This prat thinks there are too many women in medicine, recklessly dragging quality standards up. For some reason, the British Medical Journal decided to host a trite debate on the subject, “Are there too many female medical graduates?” The “Yes”… Read More ›

• Prostitution: regulation, exploitation and death

  By tigtog on 2008-04-07 • ( 15 )

  prostitution is literally killing women, by murder more than any other cause, and a whole heap of people simply don’t care.

  No other industry with a comparable mortality rate is unregulated by the state, and in none of those industries would the workers be allowed to sign away their basic health and safety guarantees in order for more pay. Employers who try to coerce miners or firefighters to go into work without adequate safety measures are quite rightly prosecuted and socially condemned, yet the workplace death rate of those professions combined does not match just the homicide rate amongst prostitutes, let alone the death rate once drug overdoses are taken into account.

• “Death twice as likely by caesarean”?

  By lauredhel on 2008-04-07 • ( 18 )

  I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: No discussion of reproductive justice is complete without attention to birthing and birthing care. A blithe, shallow, naive focus on “reproductive choice” is not enough. We don’t have free choice in… Read More ›

• Carping Corner (Historical Drama Division): The Tudors

  By tigtog on 2008-04-06 • ( 17 )

  There are many things for a history nerd to greatly enjoy about the lush 2007 miniseries of The Tudors, the first season of which is currently showing on cable here in Oz…but now the carping must commence!

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