Media articles on contraception surveys and how silly teh wimminz are pretty much always bother me. For a whole variety of reasons. Here’s one of them. There is so much elided, left out, glossed over, ignored, probably not even known… Read More ›
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“The Doctors” TV – Fair and Balanced on “The Alternative Birthing Debate”
I just watched “The Doctors” on birthing. They called the show “The Alternative Birthing Debate”. I thought I’d live-semi-transcribe it for you. Some of this is quickly paraphrased, but the quoted material is not misquoted in ways (I hope) that… Read More ›
Latisse hits the market.
Glaucoma drug Lumigan (bimatoprost) has been rebadged as Latisse. I’ve talked about the development of bimatoprost into a cosmetic product here in the past.
Latisse joins Botox, Lap-Band, Natrelle breast implants, and collagen injections and implants, in Allergan’s fleecing-women stable of products. No matter what part of your body the Patriarchy has made you feel insecure about, if you have heaps of time, pots of cash, and
Quick Hit: Willetts: Bridget Jones + working women = TEOTWAWKI
David Willetts, Shadow Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, at a UK Conservative Party conference: “Bridget Jones is a real phenomenon, driven partly by the way the pattern of university education is changing. For the first time, in… Read More ›
Submit for the Down Under Feminists Carnival!
The Fifth Edition of the Down Under Carnival of the Feminists is scheduled for the first week of October at Hell On Hairy Legs. HellOn is a high school radical feminist who blogs about her life, patriarchy and miscellanea. Support… Read More ›
Monica Dux thinks I’m bad for feminism’s image
Monica Dux, one of the co-authors of new book The Great Feminist Denial, has an opinion piece in the Age: Feminist is not a dirty word And it hits one of my oldest pet peeves: rejecting a large part of… Read More ›
Drongo day at HAT: Disingenuous troll of the week
The comment below was NOT approved for publication on my Finally, A Feminism 101 Blog. Free Clue, TrollDude – quoting Twisty Faster’s most infamous phrase ever is a big giveaway that you really just want to stir up a storm…. Read More ›
Three Hits: Gender Binary Edition
Hell On Hairy Legs shares a post-patriarchal Doctor Who ficlet: Doctor: (airily) Oh marriage is long gone, went with the gender binary. The downfall of patriarchy made sex so much less complicated. Donna: Gender binary? Whadya mean? There are men… Read More ›
Sex and the City in the Crib: Heelarious Heels for Babies
These sorts of shoes for girls have been around for a while:
Things that make no sense to me, #79024
The opening paragraph of the Wikipedia article, “Patriarchy“: Patriarchy is the structuring of society on the basis of family units, where fathers have primary responsibility for the welfare of, hence authority over, their families. The concept of patriarchy is often… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 