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• Rising damp of the womb: more Ladies’ Handbook

  By lauredhel on 2007-09-11 • ( 1 )

  Further to “Fish-wives, savages and the curse of Eve”, and “So in studying the human figure we must have a standard of grace and beauty with which to compare the abnormal figure.” I bring you part 3 of “Dress and… Read More ›

• Censoring evolution (this week, the Netherlands)

  By tigtog on 2007-09-11

  An evangelical christian TV station in the Netherlands has been censoring Sir David Attenborough. When the Evangelische Omroep (Evangelical Broadcasting) network showed his flagship natural history series The Life of Mammals, it made several alterations to the script to take… Read More ›

• Still nervous

  By tigtog on 2007-09-11 • ( 2 )

  Mark at LP wrote an excellent post yesterday on how Howard is now looking so bad in the polls, pointing out in part that margins in the last two elections were closer than is generally acknowledged and Howard would have… Read More ›

• Please

  By tigtog on 2007-09-11 • ( 6 )

  Please tell me this site is a wind-up. Image source: screenshot from marryourdaughter.com H/t to commentor Zwilnik at LP.

• The eternal feminist problem: Lecture deficiency syndrome

  By lauredhel on 2007-09-11 • ( 16 )

  Before we start: please read my disclaimer[1], which shouldn’t be necessary, but is. I’ve had a nudge or two behind the scenes to write something in response to this fatuous piece from the Herald Sun: “Feminists fail to stay abreast… Read More ›

• Another linkfest: the Headcold edition

  By tigtog on 2007-09-10

  Taken in the front garden this morning Cory Doctorow has a piece in the Guardian about how the movie studio quest for a perfect copy protection system is doomed to fail. DRM is supposed to force those unwilling to pay… Read More ›

• Linkfest: fashion cops, fertility scolding, welfare-to-Woollies, and culturally safe healthcare

  By lauredhel on 2007-09-09 • ( 8 )

  My weekend reading: ~~ The Daily Telegraph: “Female recruit ads ‘bizarre’ “ The Telegraph reports on a new ad campaign by the New South Wales Police Force. It seems that their research consisted of sitting down and watching the Mel… Read More ›

• If you don’t refresh your browser

  By tigtog on 2007-09-09 • ( 4 )

  …you won’t see the spiffy yet restrained new background.

• Weekend Feminist Reading

  By tigtog on 2007-09-08 • ( 2 )

  crossposted from Finally, A Feminism 101 Blog Hard to believe, but apparently even feminists can be sexy… from AUDREY AND THE BAD APPLES by audrey *crossposted at Larvatus Prodeo…* (longer comment thread) Manly men from Firedoglake by David Neiwert On… Read More ›

• “So in studying the human figure we must have a standard of grace and beauty with which to compare the abnormal figure.”

  By lauredhel on 2007-09-07 • ( 9 )

  Further to “Fish-wives, savages and the curse of Eve”, here comes part 2 of “Dress and its Relation to Health”, from the Ladies’ Handbook of Home Treatment, Melbourne, 1905. ~~~ What can it be then that causes us to fall… Read More ›

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