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• Quick Hit: 24 Lies People Like to Tell Women

  By Mindy on 2013-06-19 • ( 15 )

  

  24 things that some people believe to be true.

• On ya bike Notpology, Metapology has taken over Gutless Rhetoric Town

  By tigtog on 2013-06-18 • ( 9 )

  

  wishes to express its unhappiness with the controversy

• Not Even Trying To Figure Out If Someone Wants Your Attention Is What Makes You Creepy

  By tigtog on 2013-06-17 • ( 9 )

  

  most people can tell by looking at a cat that it doesn’t want their attention; the only thing that makes it hard to figure out whether a woman want[s] to be talking to a man is literally not even trying to.

• Farewell to Pam’s House Blend

  By tigtog on 2013-06-17

  

  Pam Spaulding is ending Pam’s House Blend after 9 years of blogging.

• The 62nd Down Under Feminists Carnival coming to Hoyden! Submit today!

  By Mary on 2013-06-17 • ( 1 )

  

  Hoyden is welcoming the Down Under Feminists Carnival back for the fifth time in July, for its 62nd edition. You can submit June 2013 posts of feminist interest by authors in Australia or New Zealand; submissions are due on 2 July at the latest, but the earlier the better!

• Otterday! And Open Thread.

  By lauredhel on 2013-06-15 • ( 13 )

  

  Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to get off your chest? Reading a good book (or a bad one)? Anything in the news that you’d like to discuss? What have you created lately? Commiserations, felicitations, temptations, contemplations, speculations?

• So how many times have you watched this video today?

  By tigtog on 2013-06-14 • ( 6 )

  

  I could listen to people repeating these sentiments across all institutions day after day after day after day.

  Message from the Chief of Army, Lieutenant General David Morrison, AO, to the Australian Army following the announcement on Thursday, 13 June 2013 of civilian police and Defence investigations into allegations of unacceptable behaviour by Army members.

• Friday Hoyden: Fictional Female Protagonists

  By tigtog on 2013-06-14 • ( 17 )

  

  In the wake of a bunch of recent posts, I’ve been thinking about women’s characterisation in fiction a lot. My next fiction purchase will be Grimspace by Ann Aguirre, and I’m sending an Open Call for guest Friday Hoyden post pitches featuring female protagonists, because I need recommendations for the gifts I’m going to give everybody this year.

• The ten questions I would most like Labor MPs to be asking themselves

  By Anna on 2013-06-12 • ( 23 )

  

  The often reliable Leigh Sales has a piece in The Drum listing “The ten questions Labor MPs are asking themselves”. Sadly, yet unsurprisingly, all ten pertain to the leadership of the party. Sales doesn’t seem to consider it even a possibility that anyone is allocating any brain space to policy or governing the country. Now, as much as it is a depressing thought, I acknowledge that there is every chance she is right. But as a reporter with a substantial platform, she has a choice about where to direct the conversation. She could, for instance, be inviting responses to these, alternative, questions, that Labor MPs have every reason to be asking themselves.

• Quicklink: The Feminist Hivemind

  By tigtog on 2013-06-12 • ( 4 )

  

  It’s a new blog! Full of secular women!

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