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• Lunch is just not that complicated: Sesame Street on breastfeeding

  By lauredhel on 2007-10-16 • ( 9 )

  A while back and elsewhere, there was a conversation about this magazine cover. Part of the backlash – among breastfeeding mothers of all people! – was around “explanations”. “I don’t want to come across that magazine cover in the supermarket… Read More ›

• It’s a trap! Feminism, romance, and sociological patriarchy

  By lauredhel on 2007-10-16 • ( 18 )

  I started writing this, then saw that a few of the big feminist bloggers have touched on it already. But the stuff I was writing has a somewhat different slant, so I plunged on regardless. This paper was published in… Read More ›

• Well-crafted scorn is a joy forever

  By tigtog on 2007-10-16 • ( 4 )

  What a shame that our current options for Dear Leader of Orstraya are Beige and Beiger. We are most unlikely to be hearing anything about drover’s dogs, or mouths filled with Achilles heels, or even a statement as relatively mild… Read More ›

• Napoli-esque fanfic stupid

  By lauredhel on 2007-10-16 • ( 4 )

  Quoted on fanficrants: “just wow.” Um, oh my god. Review (for a story I didn’t write): one thing: if [she] used tampons, the rape wouldn’t have hurt that much. i guess it would’ve hurt a little but not as much… Read More ›

• Ads masquerading as “information”: more infant formula company hijinks

  By lauredhel on 2007-10-15

  Edited to add (20 Oct 07): The Australian “Natural Parenting” website is now plastered with Wyeth formula advertisements, including on its front page. Way to go, NP. I’m glad to see they’re haemorrhaging members over it, but sorry to see… Read More ›

• Timely reminder

  By tigtog on 2007-10-15 • ( 1 )

  With yesterday’s announcement of a November 24th election, the election writs are likely to be officially announced on Wednesday this week. If you’re not currently enrolled, you must enrol to vote before 8PM on Wednesday 17th October. If you are… Read More ›

• As If

  By tigtog on 2007-10-14 • ( 6 )

• It’s so easy to fact-check

  By tigtog on 2007-10-14 • ( 9 )

  …so why don’t more journalists do it? And why on earth do so many make sweeping assertions outside their area of expert knowledge? In a fairly scathing review of Elizabeth, The Golden Age, a reviewer at Time Magazine says: But… Read More ›

• Friday Hoyden: Diana Rigg as Emma Peel

  By tigtog on 2007-10-12 • ( 18 )

  

  On some other forums I use a different avatar. Someone commented on how much they loved this “ridiculous picture of the divine Ms Rigg”, so I posted the full picture from which I cropped the avatar, and from which I… Read More ›

• “I can’t believe I forgot!”

  By lauredhel on 2007-10-12 • ( 1 )

  [JH part of the image clipped from here] Women for Wik has offered their opinion of the PM’s last-ditch effort to not be remembered as an imperialist, racist little weasel. (Good luck with that, Johnny!) MEDIA RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE… Read More ›

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