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• Astronomer makes wistful call for gender apartheid

  By lauredhel on 2007-05-08 • ( 5 )

  Sir Patrick Moore, EU segregationist, is perturbed about women getting their hooks into public life. Bewailing the domestification of television, he today launched a diatribe reminiscing about the “golden days” when the BBC was an shrine to testosterone, and lamenting… Read More ›

• Emphasis mine

  By tigtog on 2007-05-08 • ( 10 )

  Fat children are more likely to have their father to blame for their weight problem than their mother, a new study shows. Research by Australian child health experts has revealed that fathers who are disengaged or do not set clear… Read More ›

• What you don’t see when you’re a “good guy”

  By tigtog on 2007-05-08

  Kate Harding is stunned by an unexpected response from a Random Guy to her asserting herself, and then makes some connections and intersections: And you know, the worst part is, my boyfriend was sitting right by the window inside, a… Read More ›

• True Mom Confessions

  By tigtog on 2007-05-07 • ( 1 )

  Along the lines of Postcard Secrets – short posts allegedly from moms of feelings they feel that they can’t tell those around them. Interesting.

• And the Inaugural Award of the Tiniest Fainting Couch in the world goes to:

  By tigtog on 2007-05-07 • ( 9 )

  Paris Hilton, who is being positively persecuted just because she’s a celebrity, and who couldn’t possibly be sent off to nasty gaol with the polloiest of hoi polloi, just for a teeny-weeny little thing like driving drunk without a license… Read More ›

• More weekend silliness

  By tigtog on 2007-05-06 • ( 9 )

  I’m working on a long post which isn’t coming together quite yet, so I keep distracting myself. Anyway, I found this picture, and frankly I’m astonished. I wonder how many of you can guess who this is? You can probably… Read More ›

• I’ve envied Melissa’s fainting couch for long enough

  By tigtog on 2007-05-06 • ( 10 )

  So I went image hunting and photoshopping. For those who don’t frequent Shakesville, Melissa McEwan (aka Shakespeare’s Sister) occasionally presents certain commenters with an image of a fainting-couch, or uses it to illustrate a post involving a moral panic amongst… Read More ›

• Google and the He/She Ratio

  By lauredhel on 2007-05-05 • ( 17 )

  I’ve been tinkering with The He/ She Ratio on Google Blogoscoped. A site’s he/ she ratio is measured by counting the number of pages on the domain containing the word “he”, then searching for the number containing “she”, and then… Read More ›

• Right. It’s inflicting time!

  By tigtog on 2007-05-05

  Since Wednesday night I have had an earworm of the most incredibly cheesy version of “Afternoon Delight” imaginable. Simply by reading that, some of you will now have the same, especially if you too watched The Chaser on Wednesday. Ha!… Read More ›

• It’s not the empty street that causes rape

  By Guest Poster on 2007-05-05 • ( 13 )

  Today’s Guest Post is a crosspost from JoAnne Schmitz of Jupiter9. Edited to add: a link from Pandagon to this particular post was actually meant to link to this other post on passive/active voice by Lauredhel instead. Please do read… Read More ›

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