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• Biddulph discovers something that I think we’ve been calling feminism

  By hatbluemilk on 2013-02-19 • ( 14 )

  

  Parenting expert, Steve Biddulph, who I am not a fan of for various reasons, is best known for his book, Raising Boys. Now Biddulph has begun calling attention to the plight of girls with the launch of his new book,… Read More ›

• This is aesthetics not health

  By Mindy on 2013-02-19 • ( 6 )

  

  Fat bellies and men’s health. Does correlation really equal causation?

• À chacun son goût

  By tigtog on 2013-02-18 • ( 5 )

  

  One person’s adorable quirk is the next person’s pet peeve.

• A thought experiment

  By Mindy on 2013-02-18 • ( 7 )

  

  Slacker Mums: Lets come up with a scenario and then add bits to see where we end up.

• International Women’s Day Concert To Benefit IWDA

  By shonias on 2013-02-18 • ( 2 )

  

  A heads up from the organisers. Links to tickets sales etc at the end.
  International Women’s Development Agency (IWDA) will celebrate International Women’s Day 2013 with a concert, “Half the Sky”, at the Melbourne Recital Centre on March 7th.

• A couple of things to bear in mind with the ‘slacker mum’ movement

  By hatbluemilk on 2013-02-17 • ( 9 )

  

  Jane Caro has just written a rather charming article, “Over-mothered? No, over mothering” for the Sydney Morning Herald. For birthdays, I bought two packs of 12 lamington fingers and stuck a candle in each one. They served a whole class…. Read More ›

• Otterday! And Open Thread

  By lauredhel on 2013-02-16 • ( 8 )

  Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to get off your chest? Books? News stories? What have you created lately? Commiserations, felicitations, temptations, contemplations, speculations?

• Friday Hoydens: Chihiro, Ofelia and Coraline

  By Anna on 2013-02-15 • ( 1 )

  

  Last night my family sat down together to watch Coraline, and I found myself instinctively grouping it with two other films centred on little girls navigating dark and strange fantasy lands, Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away and Guillermo Del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth.

• Those who do not know their internet history are doomed to repeat it, clearly.

  By tigtog on 2013-02-15 • ( 15 )

  

  Datum the First: On April 8, 2007 Tim O’Reilly wrote a Draft Blogger’s Code Of Conduct …In the nearly seven years since, many similar initiatives have been proposed.

• Film review: Silver Linings Playbook

  By tigtog on 2013-02-14 • ( 11 )

  

  This is a feast of a film, a comedy-drama-romance of families, friendships and forgiveness which sparkles with subtly dazzling restraint, studded with troubling emotions and snort-out-loud humour.

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