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• Estrangement, entitlement, evaluation: questions arising

  By lauredhel on 2008-03-31 • ( 14 )

  I have four questions for you all. ~~~ Question 1 to the Hoydenverse: Have you ever broken up with someone (or been broken up with) via text message? (feel free to switch to an anon handle if you prefer.) ~~~… Read More ›

• Creeping pinkification: “the persistent feminization of unisex commodities”

  By tigtog on 2008-03-31 • ( 24 )

  In breaking news, marketing drones continue to lack imagination, sticking to the apparently conventional wisdom that if you want women to buy things that both men and women tend to use and want, just run up a version in pink… Read More ›

• Nifty tip for commenters: a brief guide to the Text Formatting Toolbar Extension

  By lauredhel on 2008-03-30 • ( 4 )

  Are you struggling with formatting your blog comments in the appropriate HTML? Want to quote clearly, add a link, emphasise a little? You might have noticed the link to the Firefox add-on “Text Formatting Toolbar Extension” just above the comments… Read More ›

• Useless baby gear #98485: Poteez. Just say no.

  By lauredhel on 2008-03-29 • ( 13 )

  Headdesk of the day: Poteez single-use disposable potties. Can I see a possible role for having one in the back of the car for emergencies? Sure, though you could just use a regular potty or a bowl or jar. But… Read More ›

• Late Night Friday Hoydens: Granny Peace Brigade

  By tigtog on 2008-03-28 • ( 7 )

  Just read about these fabulous women. Last week, I can’t remember where, I read some biological essentialist claptrap about feisty older women, that it was somehow all to do with less hormonal oestrogen in the post menopausal years. I can’t… Read More ›

• Apollo 11: a stroll around the baseball field

  By tigtog on 2008-03-27 • ( 3 )

  NASA recently published an interesting map showing a map of the lunar excursions by Aldrin and Armstrong, superimposed over a standard baseball diamond. Image source: NASA (click link for high-res image) One of my invisible friends took one look and… Read More ›

• Fetal presentations: an economist’s guide

  By tigtog on 2008-03-27 • ( 15 )

  Image Source: Dorland’s Medical Dictionary for Health Consumers. © 2007 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc. Because at least one doesn’t seem prepared to acknowledge that foetal presentation makes any difference to birthing outcomes. Lauredhel has been astonishingly civil… Read More ›

• The Dog Candy doesn’t carry a warning.

  By lauredhel on 2008-03-26 • ( 16 )

  The website trumpets: » 1964 online players at the present time and 206 851 registered Bimbos! Miss Bimbo is a webgame aimed at girls as young as seven years old (grade 2). With a pricey-text-message business model and a pink-slathered… Read More ›

• An alternative

  By tigtog on 2008-03-26 • ( 20 )

  I have issues with the common poster of the Quiverfull-practising and publicity-seeking Duggar family which uses a tag about a clown car. Inspired by a discussion about the poster in this Pandagon discussion thread (Amanda’s post is spot on, I… Read More ›

• Cyberfeminist art: Reversing the Gaze

  By lauredhel on 2008-03-25 • ( 3 )

  sajbrfem, co-moderator of anti-street-harassment blog Hollaback Australia, has been playing with the idea of the gaze. Act 12 of her Fifty Two Acts of cyberfeminist art is “Watching Women Street Art”. She has taken depictions of women by Leonardo da… Read More ›

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