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• It must have been the uniforms

  By Guest Poster on 2007-05-21 • ( 4 )

  Todays guest poster is Ohmykozy, who lives with her family in Sydney’s western suburbs and doesn’t take crap from anybody Picture this: teenage girls out for the day, accused of shoplifting and taken aside by security guards wanting to ask… Read More ›

• Fluffy Feminism Redux

  By tigtog on 2007-05-20 • ( 26 )

  Last month, in one of HAT’s most commented posts, Lauredhel riffed off a trenchant criticism of the marketing around Jessica Valenti’s book Full Frontal Feminism to make some larger points about the common co-option of “sex-positive” feminism into the Feminist… Read More ›

• Meta

  By lauredhel on 2007-05-20 • ( 5 )

  Art courtesy of logansrogue:

• ‘Cos fat chicks can’t be raped

  By lauredhel on 2007-05-20 • ( 10 )

  Posted without comment, because it doesn’t need one. The London News reports: ‘Rape’ girl grateful for sex, says lawyer A teenage girl who claims she was gang raped by three 13-year-old schoolboys was overweight and would have been “glad of… Read More ›

• Karen PWN!S! TEH n00bs

  By tigtog on 2007-05-19 • ( 2 )

  Karen Healey of Girls Read Comics and They’re Pissed riffed off Lauredhel’s Anti-Feminist Bingo Card and created an Anti-Comics-Feminist Bingo Card. Apparently some fanboyz have been having a whinge at her about it, so she has called forth the mighty… Read More ›

• They still can’t tell a monkey’s arse from an ape’s elbow

  By tigtog on 2007-05-19 • ( 7 )

  Some mob of creationists out of Minnesota are putting up billboards around various other states challenging evolutionary theory with the slogan “Are They Making a Monkey out of You?”. Glenn Branch, deputy director of the National Center for Science Education… Read More ›

• Abstaining from reality

  By tigtog on 2007-05-19 • ( 2 )

  A harrowingly detailed post from TerranceDC of The Republic of T (the post-title is his) about the way that AIDS education and prevention programmes worldwide, but especially in Africa, have been sabotaged by the Bush Administration’s insistence on not only… Read More ›

• Aargheeheee! The rapier wit of the Gore-Deranged is destroying me!

  By tigtog on 2007-05-18

  Carbon Credit Killers. Why We Do It The reason we sell Carbon Debits is simple ““ we want to take away the pathetic excuse of Carbon Credits from those liberals who hide their shame filled lives behind money-bought lunacy. Carbon… Read More ›

• Peeve Week: “militant feminist”

  By lauredhel on 2007-05-17 • ( 9 )

  Peeve Week continues here in my little corner of Hoyden About Town. Today, three things I am sick of reading: “Militant feminist.” “Feminazi.” “Feminist jihad.” Given the strong links between feminism and peace/anti-violence movements, can we please just expunge these… Read More ›

• Obfuscating Rape

  By lauredhel on 2007-05-17 • ( 8 )

  Turns out there are multiple ways of obfuscating rape in the news. This news story, for example. [cut for child rape triggers]

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