Christian Kerr was never my favourite Crikey! contributor back in the day, so I wasn’t especially aware of his opinion on many issues due to mostly skipping his byline (basically I avoided anything by him that was not straight political… Read More ›
cyberbullying
Not just ‘trolls’ stirring the pot: these bullies intend to silence through intimidation
Peeve OTD: Tolerance versus Acceptance
Why is it, when some poor specimen of a social conservative writes something breathtakingly offensive/stupid/bigoted/hateful, and gets responses of “hey, that was breathtakingly offensive/stupid/bigoted/hateful”, the response is all too often snark along the lines of “this must be the famous… Read More ›
Carnivalia, transgenderism and the gender binary
Two feminist blogging carnivals were published this week: Carnival Against Sexual Violence 53 The 17th Carnival of Radical Feminists Both carnivals contain plenty of excellent posts to ponder, provoke and especially to disturb. Which brings me to the posts that… Read More ›
Kate Harding is such a bitch
And proud of it. With good reason. It’s a while since I talked about how the principles of moderating comments work on this blog. We don’t have as high a volume of comments to deal with as Shapely Prose does,… Read More ›
Feminist bookmark alert: street harassment
Over at The F-word, Laura Woodhouse has responded to a post at the Guardian’s Comment is Free about street harassment, or more particularly to the response it provoked on the Guardian’s own site: once again the comments section has filled… Read More ›
“Women are treated better than men online”, says NerdBoobLoot-man
This post is cross-posted at Shakesville. [image source] From a CyberPsychology & Behavior issue earlier this year: “Gender Swapping and Socializing in Cyberspace: An Exploratory Study” [1][fulltext PDF available free]. The goal of this small online survey was to examine… Read More ›
The Perils of Blogging #37291
If you blog from work, someone will find out unless you are scrupulously careful. If your workplace is a political party and you use a photo that could only come from party sources, that is not being scrupulously careful. If… Read More ›
WordPress.com enables another new “feature” to far from universal acclaim
Looking at Fire Fly’s blog, I noticed that she’s discovered that a new feature on her hosted-by-Wordpress.com blog. It turned up without direct notification, and is opt-out, not opt-in. … » Problem No.1 (She’s disabled it, and you should too if you blog on wordpress.com – see below for instructions)
The continuing Clinton-Obama nomination saga
Why Clinton’s Not (Necessarily) Crazy from Shakesville by Kate Harding: Kate sums up why Clinton isn’t giving up, why she won’t give up until the last legal avenues via the nomination convention are exhausted, and why this is not bad… 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 ›
Hoyden About Town 