There’s a new advertising poster up in Manchester, and the country is abuzz. Here are some excerpts from the complaints: …disgusting… …The picture is shocking and it isn’t normal… …highly offensive… …exploitation… … the sort of picture that a paedophile… Read More ›
education
formal, eclectic, iconoclastic, autodidactic – all the ways we learn
Quickhit: “The wages of atheism”.
By In A Strange Land: When our daughters chose to opt out of the god-botherers preaching about sky fairies (Miss Ten’s words, not mine) at school, just before Easter, they were sent to pick up litter in the school grounds… Read More ›
More outrage over sex ed for youngsters: The Hormone Factory
Ostrich parents in Queensland are said to be up in arms today about a sex education website aimed at Grade 7 students. The site, thehormonefactory.com (warning:website sound), contains a selection of pubertal anatomy and physiology, basic sex information, talk about… Read More ›
That Ms. Cover
As no doubt the editors hoped, this cover for Ms. Magazine’s Special Inaugural Issue has generated a lot of controversy. Many feminists feel that Obama’s feminist credentials are not nearly as strong as they could be, while the cover has generated an escalation in panic-mongering and shrill we-told-you-so’s from the religious right plus a great deal more snark about Obamessianic visions and rainbow unicorns from the neocon right.
Quickhit: Sexist men get paid more
So, this has been covered on a few feminist blogs – a recent study has shown that men with “traditional” gender attitudes get paid significantly more than not only women, but also get paid more than men with more egalitarian… Read More ›
US Republican Party feud against UN conventions for the rights of women and children
Shakesville has a post up pointing to the official GOP policy platform site, http://www.gopplatform2008.com. The Republican Party platform includes the following: We strongly support the long-held policy of the Republican Party known as the “Mexico City policy,” which prohibits federal… Read More ›
The race double standard in action
Inspired by “Child neglect cases evidence of a wider malaise – experts”: Whitefellas abuse children Blackfellas abuse children Early intervention Army intervention Postnatal handholding Welfare withholding More childcare centres on hand Seize all their land Education with your firstborn Ban… Read More ›
Who made the seeds?
[image source] We were examining seedless grapes after dinner, biting them in half to see what they look like inside, holding them up to light to examine the veining, peeling the skin off with our teeth. We noticed that they… Read More ›
Opportunities squandered
JOHN Howard squandered the benefits of the $80 billion-a-year resources boom and wanted to be re-elected so he could retire, Labor leader Kevin Rudd said yesterday. Defining the choice facing voters in one of his last major speeches of the… Read More ›
“Oh! My! Look out! you can get HIV/AIDS”
A condom PSA from India. I’m torn between thinking “Now that’s how you do PSAs!”, and convulsing at the gleeful gyrating men and the clown-condoms. Enjoy. About this video: This is an entertaining and educational video in Telugu on Condom… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 