homophobia – Hoyden About Town

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FFS @thedailybeast: How About Thinking Things Through? #grindrstunt

By tigtog on 2016-08-12

[Content Note: homophobia, homophobic oppression, trivialisation of homophobia]
“The Daily Beast Just Violated Queer Athletes, Gay Space, and Journalistic Standards in One Fell Swoop”

Deveny! Deveny! Deveny!

By tigtog on 2012-09-14 • ( 11 )

According to the angriest keyboard pounders in the Twitterverse, Catherine Deveny rudely interrupted & talked loudly over the top of everybody else on Q&A on Monday night, and was especially disrespectful to the Anglican Archbishop of Sydney, Peter Jensen. What a frightfully boorish display that would be if it were true.

How to do a homophobic political ad

By hatbluemilk on 2012-03-12 • ( 11 )

Bob Katter’s Australia Party are running a homophobic television advertisement to try and convince Queenslanders to vote for them instead of the alternative conservative political party, the Liberal National Party (LNP) in the forthcoming state election.

Thought of the day: when does bigotry occur?

By tigtog on 2012-02-08 • ( 5 )

If we use the intentions and feelings of privileged people to determine when bigotry occurs, you will find that no one is bigoted by that definition.

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Guest BFTP Post: CLITORIS CLITORIS CLITORIS!

By Guest Poster on 2011-12-20 • ( 17 )

This is a Summer Slowdown Guest Post (thanks QoT!) – a repost of a blog post from earlier this year. Clearly the media meme of the month is “won’t someone think of the children, and the imaginary innocence we ascribe to them in order to justify our lack of openness about basic anatomy because it’s ~icky~?”