That old “really the earth is cooling and we’re about to have an ice age” argument gets another outing, this time in The Australian courtesy of Phil “Australia’s first astronaut” Chapman. Greensblog comprehensively debunks his arguments, which basically rest on… Read More ›
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Sexual harassment ‘jokes’: still not funny. Hayden Panettiere on Funny or Die
From “Funny or Die“, via Oh No They Didn’t, via whooz_queen: Hayden Panettiere (star of Heroes) drops the ball attempting to satirise sexual harassment in this faux-PSA: Transcript: [Panettiere is standing in a plain dark dress facing the camera, hands… Read More ›
More “Teehee! Boobies!” from the breast cancer awareness industry
And again, a ‘breast cancer awareness’ ad misses the mark completely. This ad is from the pinkified crazysexycancer campaign “Rethink”, sponsored by a femirazor company and fashion, makeup and hairstyling product manufacturers, among others. You may remember Rethink from such… Read More ›
Creeping pinkification: “the persistent feminization of unisex commodities”
In breaking news, marketing drones continue to lack imagination, sticking to the apparently conventional wisdom that if you want women to buy things that both men and women tend to use and want, just run up a version in pink… Read More ›
How to intimidate a personal trainer
Laugh in their face when they suggest that your target weight loss in middle age should take you to 5kg below the weight you were as a superfit teenager (competitition squash, cross-country running, speed-skating, bushwalking, bodysurfing, school softball and soccer… Read More ›
Failing to see the wood for the trees
Lisa Cuprio’s main thesis in Women keep maiden names for more than feminist reasons is this: In the past, women who declined to take their husbands’ names might be considered careerists or feminists. Today, a new breed of women who… Read More ›
Shame file: Haven Backpackers Resort Hostel, Alice Springs
Hostel facing lawsuit after telling Aboriginal women to leave: the 16 women and children had travelled 300 kilometres from Yuendumu to Alice Springs to train as lifeguards for their community’s new swimming pool. They checked into the Haven Backpackers resort, but a short time later the manager told them that guests already staying there had complained of being scared.
Headline of the Day
Your headline du jour, courtesy of the Herald Sun: ‘Raped’ nurse may return to work I notice that it has hastily been switched to “Nurse in rape case may return to work”.
John McCain supports pseudoscience
This should hardly be surprising news, as he panders to just about every other kook group that could get him elected, but McCain recently came out and supported the repeatedly disproved “vaccines cause autism” crowd (or at least that a… Read More ›
A shallow exercise in self-congratulation, victim-blaming, and denial
Playing at Poverty at Resist Racism. A classic example of unexamined privilege in a “social experiment” about “starting from scratch” being held up as a morality tale against social security. This is a fantastic post: read it. *title from Kai’s… Read More ›
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