So, Rudd’s allegedly said something that is appallingly socially conservative and anti-feminist. Oh wow, what a huge surprise and disappointment, are these scales I see falling from my eyes?…NOT.
elections
“best argument against democracy is 5 min conversation with the averag VOTER sa winston churchil who was aktualy not bad and looking at colection of numskuls oiks roters bulies and cads of st custards he may hav a point.” ~ Nigel Molesworth esq, the goriller of 3b
Mixed messages
That’s still a solid lead for Labor and for Rudd as preferred PM.
Femmostroppo Reader – January 22, 2010
Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. What did I miss? Please share what you've been reading (and writing!) in the comments. Disregarding Probable Cause – “When there are grounds for suspicion that a person has committed a… Read More ›
Fairfax Feature Fail
Fairfax never fail to disappoint. Right now WAToday is running a front-page-promoted slideshow thus: The photos of the decade A selection of amazing, spellbinding images from the past ten years. Right next to a photo of a burning World Trade… Read More ›
Holidays Are For Wibble: Battlestar Rhapsody (spoilericious)
Why did I not know about this at the time? It’s a songvid of several seasons of Battlestar Galactica, set to filk of Bohemian Rhapsody. The random, apparently-obligatory (WTF is with that, things-that-are-otherwise-funny?) bit of misogyny in the middle is… Read More ›
10 minutes of Bechdel-Wallace fail
My pointing out that every film in this 10-minute film montage fails the BWT is however meant to call Hollywood’s institutional taste and judgement into question – why are very nearly all these films written around an all-male or mostly-male cast, and why are nearly all these memorable moments in these films written for the male actors, especially those involving “buddy flick” moments?
No, one of these things is not like the other
Bolt engages in a disingenuous display of Deliberately Not Getting It in the guise of outrage at sexism and double standards:
Homo Minchinosaurus herd returns to the Opposition front bench
”John Howard and Peter Costello would have struggled to be promoted in Tony Abbott’s Liberal Party,” a senior minister, Anthony Albanese, said.
NSW’s first female premier
She may not literally be a puppet premier, but she’s well and truly boxed in by the ongoing factional dominance of the NSW Labor Right.
Show your vote
a virtual ballot box that can be embedded into any website allowing people to register their support for sealing a fair and effective climate deal at the UN climate summit in Copenhagen, which runs for two weeks from Monday.
Hoyden About Town 