Tea and Strumpets
Cross posted The NZ Herald is running a story about women dieting and ruining their future chances of having babies. So much to unpack in it, but I’m short of time this morning. Instead of any in-depth analysis, take a look at the picture the subbies chose to run with the story. I think that’s [...]
Cross posted Oh, the old “All those fat children should walk to school and get off my road” debate again… The Dominion Post has a front page article this morning: Why don’t children walk to school?” Apparently most children are driven to school, including 50% of those who live within 2km of their school, and [...]
Things we liked, or didn’t like, from around the interwebs this week. John Barrowman responds to criticism of the explicit gay sex in the latest series of Torchwood: “We kissed, we held each other, we lay on top of each other in bed… and there were lots of complaints about that.. “Nobody complained that I [...]
Hey ‘Student journalist Verity Ailsa’, wanna come and write for The Lady Garden? Because you just summed sex-positivity up in a nutshell: If you don’t see the problem with having sex, and you are fully aware of the facts of the matter, why shouldn’t you? Why should you be forced to have an opinion you [...]
No Uncomfortable Pumps or Messy Creams! Just Good Science! Guest Post by Xanthippe Amid all the fuss over including the clitoris in sex education (not the done thing back in my day, we were left in righteous ignorance), The Lady Garden are delighted to be able to reproduce this classic piece from the archives (it [...]
Cross posted I like to think that on the whole, New Zealand does reasonably well when it comes to gender equality. We’ve had two female prime ministers, two female Governors-General, a female Chief Justice, numerous female Cabinet Ministers and MPs, and although it could be much better, at about 33%, the proportion of women in [...]
My near-total web silence over the last week was caused by an enormously-enjoyable trip to Wellington. I was going to write intelligently on sex education when I came back, but Tallulah has beaten me to it (so to speak) and one of my lovely friends has given me a death-cold. But, while I was away [...]
The New Zealand Herald does a really good line in moral panic. We’ve seen it time and time again. This time, they have sex-education in their spotlight. Because you would think this would be the key point of the article. “I didn’t wind up pregnant because I didn’t attend a class. I know all about [...]
Coming early this week, because I’ve got a frantically busy day tomorrow. Because women out enjoying themselves, without men, must, simply must, be brought to their senses: My Dinner with Carol, Julie, Lyn and Hannah – or How a highly-paid attorney hijacked a pleasant evening. (H/T: Dr Cat) Classics : Lady and the Tramp (1955) [...]
Ms Magazine tweets: “Why are we willing to bleach, shave, starve, decorate, lift, implant, glue—while we meekly give up sexual pleasure?” Now, the article it links to is a fascinating one about the over-use hysterectomies in the US, but that’s not what that tweet made me think about. (If anyone would like to write a [...]
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