Category Archives: Feminism

Singin’ in the Smog

August 13, 2008 – 3:50 am

Well, it seems the people who organised the Olympic Opening Ceremony learned a few things from Milli Vanilli, but have managed to get themselves something of a Singin’ in the Rain reaction. It turns out that Lin Miaoke, the pretty nine-year-old who charmed the world when she sang ‘Ode to the Motherland’ wasn’t just lip-syncing [...]

By skepticlawyer | Also posted in Fark! | Comments (7)

Change to UK law on provocation

July 30, 2008 – 7:05 pm

Almost two years ago now, I wrote a post on the defence of provocation, and how it tends to favour males who “lose it” and kill rather than women. This is not a conscious gender bias, but just something which has happened because of the different way in which men and women (generally) behave, and [...]

By Legal Eagle | Also posted in England, Law, Public Policy, Society | Comments (3)

Women as means to an end

July 22, 2008 – 5:53 am

A few days ago, Don Arthur drew my attention to the latest ‘rebuild the busted GOP from the Ground Up’ tome, Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam’s Grand New Party: How Republicans can Win the Working Class and Save The American Dream. I spent today treating Blackwell’s as a library and read about half [...]

By skepticlawyer | Also posted in Personal liberty | Comments (13)

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 [...]

By skepticlawyer | Also posted in Terrorism | Comments (30)

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 [...]

By skepticlawyer | Also posted in Economics, Free Speech, Immigration, Skeptics | Comments (30)

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 [...]

By Legal Eagle | Also posted in General, Media, Motherhood, Popular culture | Comments (14)

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 [...]

By Legal Eagle | Also posted in Children, Motherhood, Personal, Pregnancy | Comments (0)

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 [...]

By Legal Eagle | Also posted in Children, Law, Marriage, Politics, Religion, Society | Comments (1)

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)