‘Ruined the experience for me’: mother’s story of breastfeeding voyeurism: When Julia Cooper had her first child, she decided to breastfeed so that she could take her out on long walks through nature, one of her favourite hobbies. But that suddenly changed when she spotted a man pointing a long lens camera towards her as she breastfed her baby ( Read more... )

- I mean, it's already a horrible cruel windup if that's all it is: Girlfriend proposes to undertake a 'joke wedding' with boyfriend's bestie (who is gay, it transpires somewhere in the comments): However the marriage itself will be real. The wedding will be a joke and there are no feelings involved I trust that, and I’ve been asked to be best man ( Read more... )

Augusta Fells Savage, a talented sculptor who had faced obstacles due to her sex and race at every turn: [L]ittle of Savage's work survives today. Because she couldn't afford bronze, she often had to make her sculptures out of plaster; most of these have crumbled over time. Other works, like The Harp, were destroyed because they could not be moved ( Read more... )

Education secretary 'in favour' of Eton admitting girls
Ummm - okay, I can just about see the argument that this would give the gurlyz admission to the fast track to power and influence that is bestowed upon Ye Olde Etonians -
- but, on the other paw, they would have to swim through a cess-pit of toxic masculinity to get there.
Do we not shudder ( Read more... )

I am really so over these pieces on reading that make it sound pretty much up there with doing your 10K steps that get your heart-rate up per diem and having sufficient fibre in your diet (actually I think that one is a bit passe and 80s?) and other worthy self-improving enterprises:
Reading is good for the brain and the soul, but we don’t always ( Read more... )

Oft, my dearios, have I complained about people who state that a person or a historical event is unknown or forgotten when the fact of the matter is, the person or event had not previously come to their attention and was known &/or remembered by plenty of other people.
But we have lately had people complaining that historians have been operating ( Read more... )

This guy is some kind of Conservative blogger, and really, I do think it rather reveals certain things that one thought were cliched stereotypes of the breed: On judicial corporal punishment.
No, really, he is a positive flopsy-bunny who doesn't believe in capital punishment, honestly. What he wants is corporal punishment, and the implication seems ( Read more... )

A pregnant woman working at a Queenstown ski field found a colleague had left a condom filled with mayonnaise and a crude note on her desk during a staff morale boosting event.
And okay, perhaps this is me being Very British Problems, but I'm fairly creeped out by the concept of an event dubbed "woo week" where staff were encouraged to boost each ( Read more... )

Should probably say that my part of London is pretty distant from Parson's Green.
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Dept of Fortuity: when you see news of a book that you would be really interested in reading, at eye-watering academic press prices, even for the ebook: and in a day or so having a request from the very same press to referee a book proposal for them, in return for ( Read more... )

Okay, there are quite a number of 'cult books' of the 60s and 70s that I have never read, partly because it seemed to me at the time - and largely seems still - that a significant proportion were Bloke Books of the blokiest kind.
Among these books I have never read is numbered 'Luke Rhinehart's The Dice Man.
There is an interview with the actual ( Read more... )