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• Virtual Travelling: Snowy Park Benches

  By tigtog on 2013-01-30 • ( 5 )

  This bench is in Vienna. Do you have a favourite bench?

• Laurie Penny on online misogyny

  By tigtog on 2013-01-29 • ( 4 )

  

  Regular readers already know how much we’ve written here over the years on cyberbullies and their enraged cries about their Free Speech rights being breached whenever somebody declines to publish their bile – bile which absolutely nobody is preventing them from publishing on a blog of their own.

  Disingenuous doesn’t begin to cover the hypocrisy of the Women Need To STFU brigade.

• Quick Hit: Different desires

  By Mindy on 2013-01-29 • ( 10 )

  

  Dealing with different levels of desire: women they’re looking at you. Only you.

• 200 years of Lizzy Bennet

  By lauredhel on 2013-01-28 • ( 6 )

  

  Reposting a Friday Hoyden post on Lizzie Bennet from 2007 to honour the 200th anniversary of the publication of Pride and Prejudice.

• Expectations of Deception

  By megpie71 on 2013-01-28 • ( 7 )

  

  Gary Younge is upset about the level of deception which is present within everyday society. He feels this is dangerous, and we’re in danger of subsiding into a culture of fakery and deceit. He uses the examples of Beyonce’s lip-synching the US national anthem during the presidential inaguration, the discovery of horse DNA in budget beef burgers in the UK, and Lance Armstrong’s very public confession of taking performance enhancing drugs during his professional cycling career as examples of this tendency.

  I have a slightly different take on things. I think it comes down to the tyranny of expectations.

• Femmostroppo Reader 2013-01-28

  By tigtog on 2013-01-28 • ( 2 )

  

  Items of interest encountered recently. What did I miss? Leave your own interesting links in comments. Shameless self-promotion entirely welcome!

• Thoughts on Australia Day / Invasion Day

  By Anna on 2013-01-26 • ( 4 )

  

  Wesley Enoch, Artistic Director of the Queensland Theatre Company, and always a wise voice from the Aboriginal community, wrote this about the significance of what we have chosen to commemorate today. I found it both insightful and moving, and (with his permission) wanted to share it:

• Otterday! And Open Thread

  By lauredhel on 2013-01-26 • ( 27 )

  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?

• In case you hadn’t noticed that HaT was missing in action for a while today?

  By tigtog on 2013-01-25 • ( 2 )

  

  Well, that hurts.

• Shorter Michael Shermer

  By tigtog on 2013-01-24 • ( 6 )

  

  Hippieses, I hatesssss them.

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