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• Vestigial indigeniety in the coloniser’s eye: from useless to nuisance

  By lauredhel on 2007-11-17 • ( 13 )

  It’s the Day of Action against the Northern Territory invasion. I’ve been toying with a different approach from my usual snarkrants. I’ve been exploring the coloniser world view, getting into the brains of those who are perpetuating the ongoing invasion…. Read More ›

• International Day of Action/Call for Solidarity – tomorrow

  By lauredhel on 2007-11-16 • ( 2 )

  A reminder that tomorrow is the International Day of Action on the Northern Territory Intervention. Talk, write, blog, protest, call, donate, join: help the push towards a consultative, respectful, productive reconciliation process, instead of the Howard Government’s invasion and recolonisation…. Read More ›

• Evpsych justifications of boobie bongs; and in which The Portly Dyke speaks wisdom

  By lauredhel on 2007-11-16 • ( 3 )

  This Shakesville thread, “For the Discerning Gentleman: You, Too, Can Decorate Your Life With Disembodied Boobs “ has been a laff riot. The thread devolved into a circle with several men at the centre, the men shouting about how they… Read More ›

• Friday Feminism on the run: Nice Guys (TM) redux and what makes an ideal husband and father

  By tigtog on 2007-11-16 • ( 14 )

  Over at Feministe, Jill dissects a particularly loopy column/movie review from Jill Stanek (dialled up several notches even from her notoriously loose grip on what passes for analysis), where Stanek ends up in her column’s comments thread being reduced to… Read More ›

• Bobby’s Dairy: “Your baby cannot have your milk.”

  By lauredhel on 2007-11-15 • ( 5 )

  Moving house is sucking all my blogergy, so here’s a tale for you. Trish and Bobby. [Image source] Background to this story: Bobby was born with hypoplastic left heart syndrome. This is a congenital defect in which the left side… Read More ›

• Humourless feminists and PUAs

  By tigtog on 2007-11-15 • ( 4 )

  It seems silly to waste time on artificial techniques to trick a woman into having sex when she quite possibly wanted to have sex anyway as long as the man seems likeable.

• Gratuitous Roger Federer blogging

  By tigtog on 2007-11-15 • ( 4 )

  Photo by Annie Leibovitz, taken in Dubai, for Mens Vogue. This seems as good a time as any to mention the wonderful blog Romancing the Tome, the blog which loves a good literary adaptation. Assuming that the charming Federer might… Read More ›

• What a slimy, self-regarding, small, repugnant, grub of a man

  By tigtog on 2007-11-14 • ( 6 )

  I’ve become so inured to the sight of our current Prime Minister arrogating the ceremonial duties of our Governor General that I tend to no longer be outraged. Thankfully, Ken Lovell at Surfdom is not so reticent, and his description… Read More ›

• Monty Python allusion de jour

  By tigtog on 2007-11-14

  From Designated Sidekick, discussing DC Comics’ tendency to have Batman display an irritating level of knowitallness: He’s Batman, not Dan DiDio, he’s not the God of DCU. Bruce isn’t the messiah, he’s just a very broody boy

• She did not feel as guilty because at the funeral she found out the girl had tried to commit suicide before

  By tigtog on 2007-11-14 • ( 21 )

  Imagine your 13 year old daughter, who has battled clinical depression and has a history of some social awkwardnesses, finds a friend online though MySpace, a 16 year old boy, who makes her feel good about herself. Imagine six weeks… Read More ›

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