Tea and Strumpets
“Because our society, New Zealand society, Western society in general, has been hijacked by a conspiracy of Silly Little Girls. They’re everywhere; in the schools, in the media, in the public service, in the judiciary, even in Cabinet. Everywhere we turn, the foundations of masculinity, the pillars of male-ness which have underpinned the construction and [...]
A fascinating snippet in a post at Skeptic Lawyer. the Romans arrested men who made use of streetwalkers (they called their Johns ‘Marcus’, which I find hilarious), but this was not because prostitution was illegal, far from it — the Romans represent the epitome of the ‘legalise, regulate and tax’ model — but because they [...]
Many people linked us this week, to this delightful piece of commentary from Rosemary McLeod about sex work. My own response was, oh, shut up. Oh, and Don’t Read The Comments. But I thought someone with more knowledge and experience than me might have a somewhat more eloquent response. So I asked the wonderful Dorothy [...]
Underage Sex Isn’t Necessarily Bad. Let’s not get too hung up on the exact figures of underage sex. The important thing is that anyone having sex at any age should be making an informed choice, emotionally able to deal with it, protected from pregnancy and STIs, enthusiastically consenting, with no power-imbalances or exploitation, and also [...]
For your Tuesday morning reading pleasure, two headdeskers, and a rational response. The dead tree version of the Dom Post has an article about how men are naturally aggressive , and this has helped man [sic] to progress through history. You can read the on-line version at the Telegraph, where the subbing is marginally less [...]
Cross posted I’m going to do FebFast 2012, and I’m hoping that some of the fabulous feminists and friends that I know would like to do it too, and join the team I have set up for us. The idea of FebFast is simple. You give up drinking alcohol for an entire month, and you [...]
Things we liked, or didn’t like, from around the internet this week. Women writers, or, how well would J. K. Rowling have done if she had been Joan Rowling writing about Hermione? A woman’s place: sexism in literature A guide to an abnormal smear. In Malawi, women wearing trousers or short skirts are assaulted for [...]
Cross posted My mother made the fruit mince, I made the shortcrust pastry, and Ms Thirteen and I cut out the rounds and pressed them gently into mini-muffin pans and filled them with the mince and cut out the stars and put them on top and baked them. (Description: six small Christmas mince tarts, with [...]
Interesting things we found around the internet this week. The English Obscene Publications Act looks under threat after a jury failed to convict a man for selling gay pornography. Peacock said customers “asked me for specific titles or niches, and knew exactly what they were getting”. The jury decided that the audience could not be [...]
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