I apologise if I overuse the word 'fuck' in this post. It's writing Killjoys fic, getting the language is like make up some weird shit + insert 'fuck' every other sentence. Thank you to everyone who uploaded the radio rip of 'Na Na Na' so I could hear it properly. I am delighted with this track, hot damn. (Also, pondering the lyric 'eight legs ( Read more... )

I have never understood why so many otherwise progressive, pro-queer people stick up for Carrie Prejean. I never understood why Carrie Prejean was such a topic of converstaion for so long, but maybe I just answered my own point ( Read more... )

I'm going to the Show today. Haven't been in ages. So that's going to be interesting ( Read more... )

I started reading The Great Feminist Denial yesterday. It's intriguing. Some of it I agree with, some of it I don't, some I'm just filing away for use in my Honours thesis if I ever get around to it. One thing that I found sort of amusing, though, is that in contemporary discussions about feminism, everyone seems to fear the 'hairy-legged ( Read more... )

Since I posted that news article, I've been thinking about it. About the problems that lead to a tightening of rape laws, and about the silliness of the solution. (I'm now fairly sure that the MP in question wasn't really serious about the contract, but was making a point that she thought the new laws were too tough, and the Herald Sun ( Read more... )

Is this just what I get for reading the Herald Sun on a whim?

WOMEN should have to sign a contract before sex to combat false rape allegations if proposed new laws are passed in South Australia, an MP says ( Read more... )

I just stumbled into a discussion about depiction of women in comics that used the word 'cheesecake' a lot. (Is that the Western comics equivalent of 'fanservice'?) I completely lost track of the discussion because I found myself craving cheesecake so badly ( Read more... )