Speechless. Via the SMH, the new men’s collection from John Galliano, inspired by Abu Ghraib, and complete with bleeding neck and chest wounds, black hoods, and nooses. Photos below the cut.
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Mitt Romney and his Black Best Friends
Oh my, this is embarrassing. Major cringe warning. Mormon Republican candidate Mitt Romney gathers with a group of African American teenagers at a Martin Luther King Day parade. He spontaneously bursts into a chorus of “Who Let The Dogs Out?”… Read More ›
The Rotting Cryptkeeper is at it again
Via a commentor at Larvatus Prodeo, I discovered that Fred Phelps, the leader of the Westboro Baptist Church hate group, is planning to picket the funeral of Heath Ledger as a “fag enabler”. As I’ve blogged before, the WBC’s funeral-picketing… Read More ›
PoCo A PoCo: Fifty Two Acts of Political Correctness
Babalon-93 has suggested that I expand my previous post, “Words Mean Stuff: thorny language”, into a Fifty Two Something series: 52 Something Choose something you would really like to do on a weekly basis and commit to sharing it with… Read More ›
Step up, Rudd: Lib doctors throw down the gauntlet on foreign aid and abortion
This may be a watershed: the Rudd government has been challenged to show its true colours on women’s rights. Way back in the twentieth century, the Liberal government faced a situation where a woman-hating theocon, Brian Harradine, held the balance… Read More ›
“Find One With A Big Rack And Mount It”: Woman-hating hunter fashion
After strangedave pointed to these creepy Blackwater baby onesies, I went looking for the infant hunting paraphernalia that had creeped me out in the past. I didn’t find the specific stuff, but I did stumble over some particularly misogynistic, dehumanising… Read More ›
They think we can’t smell them a mile off
This guy tried to post in one of our other threads, and because there was a distinct whiff of racist arsehat about his comment, it wasn’t published. We have no interest in our regular commentors being confronted with offensive remarks… Read More ›
Glasson: “Of course, some people, particularly those with vested interests (like those making money out of selling alcohol), will feel threatened.”
[image source] The Christmas Issue of the Medical Journal of Australia has a section on the Northern Territory Intervention. Reading the various contributions in concert with each other is illuminating. Check it out. A few snippets: The Northern Territory intervention:… Read More ›
Gratuitous John Barrowman blogging
I just realised (watching Torchwood from the beginning on cable) that John Barrowman is about to start this year’s panto season, starring as Aladdin at Birmingham’s Hippodrome. He’s a musical theatre lad from waaaaay back. As I look at his… Read More ›
Toddler with “political hair” threatened with preschool expulsion
LP has been stoushing over whether schools are in the right to exclude devout students wearing a kirpan (Sikh short sword). Are expressions of ethnicity, race, identity and heritage more slippery – or less? What about when the expression is… Read More ›
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