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• Heffernan: Non-incubators are non-people

  By lauredhel on 2007-05-01 • ( 6 )

  From today’s Australian comes this story: Liberal[1] Senator and colossal asshat Bill Heffernan says he stands by comments that Labor Deputy Leader Julia Gillard is not qualified to lead the country because she is deliberately “barren”. […] “If you’re a… Read More ›

• Feminism – an ethic or a subculture?

  By tigtog on 2007-05-01 • ( 2 )

  This post is text yanked from the previous post, because the beginning and the end of the post were just a really, really bad match, and I think the feminist material deserved its own post. So if you’ve already read… Read More ›

• Web 2.0 wibbling: tigtog’s recommended reads to your RSS reader (plus feminism and subculture)

  By tigtog on 2007-05-01

  People sure are coming up with lots of widgets and ways to “share” more and more material with others on the web. As if the interwebs aren’t already a far too effective tool for procrastination! Anyway, I now have a… Read More ›

• “Moderate” language

  By tigtog on 2007-04-30

  Image Credit: Karen Wehrstein, Gliese 581c, uploaded by Phil Plait The picture has nothing to do with the subject of the post, it’s just v. cool (follow the link). Lindsay Bernstein, of Majikthise, has a post up talking of the… Read More ›

• Take Back the Blog

  By tigtog on 2007-04-30 • ( 2 )

  Take Back the Blog was a blogswarm aimed at encouraging discussion of the rights of women to full participation in online discussions. Check out the collection of posts at Crablaw’s place. Lauredhel put up a belated post addressing the way… Read More ›

• Because “fun ‘n’ edgy” and “pornification of slavery” are so easily confused.

  By lauredhel on 2007-04-29 • ( 23 )

  Hot on the heels of the murdered-gaunt-women-are-sexxxay spread from Top Model comes this “fashion spread”. Racist and sexist objectification all rolled into one odious airbrushed slavery-porn package. See it and froth.

• Passive Aggression: Foregrounding the Object

  By lauredhel on 2007-04-29 • ( 88 )

  I’m a day late, but here I am Taking Back the Blog. Today’s rant: the passive voice. When it comes to reports of men abusing and oppressing women, the passive voice prevails. Women are discriminated against Women are paid less… Read More ›

• Kate Harding on inhabiting her own body

  By lauredhel on 2007-04-28 • ( 4 )

  Kate Harding has a wonderful post, “Happy Yogaversary to Me“, on reclaiming her self as an embodied subject: Like just about all girls in this culture, I was always taught that my body was primarily something for other people to… Read More ›

• How to win your local audiophile pissing contest

  By tigtog on 2007-04-28 • ( 4 )

  Buy a pair of monobloc class-A valve amplifiers and matching pre-amp for your iPod. Watch them writhe. Or possibly confess that they can’t actually hear any difference.

• It’s only hurting women

  By tigtog on 2007-04-27 • ( 2 )

  Austin, TX. Shorter World Media: For some reason, terrorism doesn’t count if it’s directed against women and their health care providers. From zuzu.

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