Category Archives: Feminism

Women and sci-fi

June 27, 2008 – 7:53 pm

I came across this interesting post on how to get women more interested in sci-fi writing and film. I’m probably not the best chick to ask about this - all my favourite films are sci-fi films, as well as most of my favourite television series. I also have a large sci-fi/fantasy book collection. I think [...]

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‘I am Woman, hear me detonate’

June 15, 2008 – 6:34 am

That’s not my line, it’s Tim Blair’s. Apparently female members of Al Qaeda have been barred from blowing themselves up, and they ain’t happy. I have to admit I rolled laughing when I first saw it (the ‘oh shit, I have now seen everything’ school of laughter). Now I’m just pissed off. What sort of [...]

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Economics v Islam: a cage match

June 8, 2008 – 7:31 am

“We’re the ones who will change you,” the Norwegian imam Mullah Krekar told the Oslo newspaper Dagbladet in 2006. “Just look at the development within Europe, where the number of Muslims is expanding like mosquitoes. Every Western woman in the EU is producing an average of 1.4 children. Every Muslim woman in the same countries [...]

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Hysteria over obesity

May 31, 2008 – 11:20 pm

Before winter set in here in Melbourne, I picked up my daughter from creche.
The carer said, “She didn’t eat any lunch, but she ate all the afternoon tea, which was nachos.”
I was curious. “What was lunch?” I asked.
The carer sighed. “Salad,” she said. I gave her a wry look.
“Yes,” she said, interpreting my wry look [...]

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Belated Mother’s Day post

May 13, 2008 – 11:17 am

I don’t feel like the best mother today. My daughter was sick last week, and didn’t have to go to creche. I don’t think she had quite realised that she would have to go back this week now that she was better. She screamed “NO CRECHE, WANT TO STAY HOME WITH MUMMY!” and kicked the [...]

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God’s law and the law of the State

April 18, 2008 – 10:50 am

What happens when you have a particular group in society who are not minded to follow the law of the State, but prefer to follow God’s law as they interpret it?
Recently this question has come up in relation to Sharia law, particularly after the Archbishop of Canterbury said that some aspects of sharia law would [...]

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Be nice to nerds, you may finish up working for one

March 22, 2008 – 6:53 am

A friend of mine over here reckons that Oxford is the place where nerds go when they die. All the glorious eccentricities, social tomfoolery and obscurantist interests once repressed (or hidden) come to the fore. This is when we’re not being political junkies, finding cures for cancer or engaging in ‘other academic interests’. His comment [...]

By skepticlawyer | Also posted in Science, Skeptics | Comments (13)

Pregnancy is not an illness…

March 7, 2008 – 8:38 am

…but sometimes it sure as hell feels like it. Boom tish!
When I was having my daughter, we had a trainee midwife attending us as one of her “case studies” for qualification. She had a sticker or something with the motto “Pregnancy is not an illness”. From this you could tell she was young, idealistic, totally [...]

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Dance of the seven robes

February 5, 2008 – 12:59 pm

The title to this post could also be “Anything you can do, I can do better.” I’ve long believed that bickering and conflict between the three Abramic religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) is a bit like sibling rivalry, as I’ve said before, and the story below just confirms that belief. The three are very similar, but [...]

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Waxing lyrical

January 8, 2008 – 11:01 am

Perhaps I’m old-fashioned, but I’ve never understood the appeal of the Brazilian wax. In fact, I’m a bit disturbed by the thought that there might be guys out there who prefer women to be hairless. Do these guys like to imagine that the woman is very young? Erk.
There is a piece in The Age today [...]

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