Helen Balcony responds to the study showing that some scheduled births (i.e. caesarians and inductions) were pushed back by a week or so in order to take advantage of the latest baby bribe bonus, noting that the analysis (which bemoans… Read More ›
moral panics
Smug married guy, you don’t know anything about single mothers
I’m chuffed to welcome bluemilk back to Hoyden About Town for this guest post. Bluemilk is an Australian feminist mother, posting about life, love and mummy-myths over at bluemilk.wordpress.com ~ Lauredhel. ~~~ I was so frustrated by this discussion over… Read More ›
From safari to shimmy: the Dora Princess makeover
Hola! We love Dora in this house. She tromps through the jungle, solves puzzles, outwits trolls, evades bears, captains a pirate ship, creates maps, travels the world, rescues animals, discovers volcanoes, plays soccer, climbs mountains, and crosses crocodile-infested waters. Best… Read More ›
Echidne on The Righteous Retribution of the Fat Demons
Echidne of the Snakes has written a great post, “Obesity As A Metaphor”. Inspired by the Fat-Hate-Bingo-style comments on her Leonard Nimoy post, Echidne expands on her condemnation of fattist healthism: One commenter asked: “Seriously. What am I missing here?… Read More ›
Scorn as Art
I posted recently about the art of crafting political invective, in finding just the right term to throw at a political adversary to sink them in the public estimation, and how it’s an art that’s largely gone down hill in… Read More ›
Lunch is just not that complicated: Sesame Street on breastfeeding
A while back and elsewhere, there was a conversation about this magazine cover. Part of the backlash – among breastfeeding mothers of all people! – was around “explanations”. “I don’t want to come across that magazine cover in the supermarket… Read More ›
It’s a trap! Feminism, romance, and sociological patriarchy
I started writing this, then saw that a few of the big feminist bloggers have touched on it already. But the stuff I was writing has a somewhat different slant, so I plunged on regardless. This paper was published in… Read More ›
Drinking while in the possession of a vagina
Yet another case of invisible rapists. Rape is something that just “happens” to women who “leave themselves vulnerable”. Male violence is to be considered a ubiquitous, inevitable force; the only way the world can combat it is to put the… Read More ›
Fat-hater wankstain du jour
Big Fat Deal reports on a chappie who thinks it’s a Splendid! Shiny! New! Activist! Idea! to start printing up and handing out Fat Tickets. He wants the world to start handing out these tickets, with the revelatory message “You’re… Read More ›
Just a spoonful of polyphenols…
[Image from Milk And Cookies. Check out her other recipes while you’re there, especially the orange and date tart.] The latest in chronic fatigue syndrome symptom control? 45 grams of dark chocolate a day. The effect was small, but the… Read More ›
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