SMH: WA Govt Apologises to Unwed Mums

Pretty much what Mum went through with my half-brother - although that was SA. She only knew he was a boy because she screamed up a storm until they told her :(

Via kateorman, and reposted here because: dammit, THIS.

Schrödinger’s Rapist: or a guy’s guide to approaching strange women without being maced

Little bemused at the Misfits comms - clearly a very different age group operating - wut, on LJ? - I know, I know, but still. I'd expected an oniony discussion to flow from some of the concepts in ep 3, but so far everyone's calling a rose a daisy and moving on. Bit disturbing, especially given comments by posters elsewhere about sexism/the use ( Read more... )

AAAGGGHHH. Mad Nanna has switched ADHD/ODD's medication *back*. After two days, most of which he hasn't even spent with her. With predictable results on his brain chem and just general well-being.

Cheering self up with (a) A certain person's standup debut! GO SOO! :) and (b) SoA 2.12. 5 mins in and I'm already whistling for Clay. Call me ( Read more... )

Garden - spent yesterday buying plants, fanging up to the Brindabellas to see if any snow remained (sadly not), then doing a Kramer (running the car on empty) back for about 50k through completely unpopulated forest areas. Hmmm. That *was* exciting, for a given value of "if I have to walk more than 5k for petrol hubby is SO dead". Anyway. Fun ( Read more... )

Over at metaquotes - This post on the continuing trend toward blaming the victim in rape. And the original it's taken from and everywhere that leads, which is linky leapfrog involving a great deal of potentially triggery stuff m'kay? most of which is however appropriatedly warned for and labelled and hidden and cut-tagged, but still. You know how it goes ( Read more... )

Thanks to Cynical C for the heads-up - the Fallen Princess Project. Places fairytale characters in modern surroundings with a realistic outcome.

Love it.

It just occurred to me that absofuckinglutely every hero I ever had as a child/young person, everybody I ever wanted to be when I grew up, everybody I ever daydreamed of meeting or being or turning into, everybody except ONE, was male ( Read more... )

Thanks to metafandom, directly and not, for these:

synecdochic - Don't be That Guy

And on that note it's not just cons, is it?

...not for any reason, just online avoiding that bloody book :(

As a half-assed libertarian feminist, I usually find Rage Against the Manchine sits somewhere in the grey lurk between 'entertaining' and 'foddery', but this week's bald prescription that:

regardless of the ethical and moral reasons to avoid porn, men ought to avoid it for their own benefit if not that of the women they care about....*scratches ( Read more... )