A gender neutral pre-school in Stockholm ruffles some feathers.
social change
Thinking about children
Why is some people choosing not to have children so confronting for other people?
Quicklink: partial Australian web censorship starts in July
By “voluntary” they mean that the ISPs are filtering content identified as child abuse material voluntarily, not that they are giving their customers who don’t want to look at child abuse material anyway any choice about being gifted with a false sense of cybersecurity.
Driven to be free
Best of luck to the Saudi women drivers and their supporters today. (You can follow this extraordinary campaign on twitter at #Women2Drive).
Things to make you go [insert name here] SMASH!
Today in moral panics.
Pedant’s Corner: Dear BBC Knowledge Channel,
Your earlier show “A Victorian Farm” could have been arguably marketed as “the dawn of the Industrial Age”, but it was well past noon by Edward’s time. Why does your marketing department have to embarrass all those poor historians like this?
Re-post: But why shouldn’t she take some responsibility too for the rape?
Image credit here. In honour of the Slut Walk happening in parts of Australia at the moment I am re-posting this piece, which orginally appeared here on blue milk. TRIGGER WARNING – graphic description of rape. ——————————————– I am going… Read More ›
Re-post: Don’t get raped
Image credit here. In honour of the Slut Walk happening in parts of Australia at the moment I am re-posting this piece, which orginally appeared here on blue milk. From Amelia Bentley’s article in the brisbane times (my use of… Read More ›
Quick Hit – To march or not to march?
Great post from Racialicious on Slut Walk.
Friday Hoyden: Roseanne Barr
Before we realised this ‘yummy mummy’ thing was engulfing us; before a whole host of experts came out and made a theory of the intensification and idealisation of motherhood and the damage it is doing to us; before smart women… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 