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• Friday Hoyden: Katie Taylor

  By Anna on 2012-08-10 • ( 4 )

  

  Katie Taylor, of the Republic of Ireland, just won a gold medal in the 60kg lightweight division of the first women’s boxing competition to be held at the Olympics.

• Is holding a door open always about good manners?

  By Mindy on 2012-08-10 • ( 28 )

  

  Can holding a door open be sexist?

• The 51st Down Under Feminists Carnival is up!

  By Chally on 2012-08-10 • ( 1 )

  

  All the details on the latest edition, and how to submit to the next one!

• Torture was central to both the witch scares and the Inquisition

  By tigtog on 2012-08-09 • ( 10 )

  

  … under such duress, people confessed at length and in great detail to the fantastic and impossible, often also indicting others, in a spreading, spiraling cascade of fantasies. Remember also that terror regimes the world over use it delightedly to terrify and suppress dissidents within their populations. […] And they can do this only in an environment in which there are people naive enough to believe the absurd perjuries concocted under such conditions.

  Don’t be one of those people.

• Whimsy: Straw Feminists in the Closet

  By tigtog on 2012-08-07 • ( 9 )

  

  Please share anything that has recently surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you: the world needs more unicorn chasers.

• Eggcorn of the Day

  By tigtog on 2012-08-07 • ( 4 )

  

  pre-madonna

• New Mars rover Curiosity landing today

  By tigtog on 2012-08-06 • ( 6 )

  

  Today the Mars Science Laboratory mission finds out whether they made all the calculations correctly as the delivery vehicle targets Gale Crater for Curiosity’s landing. Landing should be at 15:31 AEST.

• What a transperson in science academia might tell you about sexism

  By hatbluemilk on 2012-08-06 • ( 7 )

  

  You have to read this over at The Wall Street Journal: Ben Barres had just finished giving a seminar at the prestigious Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research 10 years ago, describing to scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard… Read More ›

• Terminology 101: ‘females’ vs ‘women’

  By tigtog on 2012-08-06 • ( 32 )

  

  Females :: many species. Women :: one species. Female humans :: one species.
  This post has been brought to you courtesy of disingenuous arguments taking place elsewhere.

• Thank you Lara Giddings

  By tigtog on 2012-08-06 • ( 3 )

  

  …and the MPs of Tasmania who are willing to vote for marriage equality.

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