Two of our local Catholic hospital networks have collaborated to offer a new so-called “counselling service, dubbed “Mamreh”. These two hospitals combined have a lot of community credibility already, as they provide the vast majority of private-hospital maternity services in… Read More ›
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Smouldering: most Australians rape apologists
We’ve posted a bit about the mangy asshats who think that certain women and girls deserve to be raped – fat women, for example, or preteen girls who wear particular types of underwear. And we’ve posted about Nice Guy(tm) sexual… Read More ›
They’re creepy and they’re … creepy. Three datapoints.
Via IBTP, buried in a long stoush about bigotry against children and whether under-18s are subhuman: To passer-by, crying child’s ear-piercing rings of abuse. Marilyn Johnson thought so when she heard a girl’s screams in a Wichita Wal-Mart on Sunday… Read More ›
“Only stupid women are breeding” – academipanic from New Zealand
Jim Flynn, Emeritus Professor of Political Studies at a New Zealand university, has pronounced himself the arbiter of which women should be allowed to breed. Note that fathers are completely invisible in his genetic-decay worldview, what could just as easily… Read More ›
Anytime, Anyplace, Anywhere
We’ve been running a bit of a series on repulsive advertising featuring women’s bodies: * the Nando’s stripper-mummy-with-a-heart-of-gold: Been trying to find the words * Pornified racist slavery in the pursuit of fashion: Because “fun “n’ edgy” and “pornification of… Read More ›
Konkokted Kreationist Krap
This would be side-splittingly hilarious if it wasn’t so evil. A digg-er spotted this scan of a restaurant children’s menu: Front Back Alongside the cheeseburgers and corndogs is a list of “DiNoSaUr FuN fAcTs”! These include: “The most up to… Read More ›
Ten year old girl “asked for it”
In today’s “YayRape!”-judge news, a judge in the UK has offered up a very light sentence to a pedophile who raped a ten-year-old girl. Why? Because of what she was wearing. In the latest case, Oxford Crown Court heard harrowing… Read More ›
Fat Hate Bingo!
For those who enjoyed Antifeminist Bingo: Via Kate Harding, now co blogging at Shakesville: Fat Hate Bingo from BStu!
Puking up pink
I first saw this story from Zenobia, then Jess McCabe added to it, and then Twisty got a hold of it and spanked it. I have little to add to their words, but I thought that what the story really… Read More ›
Blood on her shoes: hospital safety equipment and embedded sexism
There were no size 5 gumboots on the surgical unit. I was doing a six-month obstetrics & gynaecology residency. I looked all through the women’s theatre changeroom. I found nothing but single-use elasticated paper shoe covers, and a few pairs… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 