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[P]eople with money buy things, so a beggar with money can take on the role of consumer. Doolittle: I’m one…
People get into plenty of trouble dressing up for Halloween at costume parties with themes like, “come as the scariest…
You can't use fun, tasteful, Nazi imagery for ANYTHING. Especially not "The Producers." The point there is that the play…
No, I think that's just a coincidence - I either had never seen, or had completely forgotten about, that deleted…
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Category Archives: Gender and the Body
Resistance To Female Genital Cutting On The Rise In Egypt
There’s a good article in the NY Times on the growing and vibrant anti-Female Genital Cutting ((AKA Female Circumcision, Female Genital Surgery, AKA Female Genital Mutilation or FGM.)) movement in Egypt in the Times. (Curtsy: Feministe and Sly Civilian). Previous … Continue reading
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Review: No Future For You: Part 1 (SPOILERS)
I’m in. I was undecided about whether the comic book was ‘Buffy’. I accepted it was cannon, Joss says goes. But I just wasn’t sure whether I was going to treat it like Buffy. I’m not a comic book person, … Continue reading
Abortions also make women skinnier….
The Health Select Committee has just recommended extending paid parental leave to six months, to encourage breast feeding. As a supporter of paid parental leave (or, more accurately, as someone who believes that paid parental leave doesn’t go nearly far … Continue reading
If only people would just die of the shame like they're supposed to
While I write a bit about bodies, fat and ‘the obesity epidemic’ I don’t write that much about the health aspects of this. Mostly because I largely find them irrelevant. Other people can do very good jobs of proving that … Continue reading
Posted in Fat, fat and more fat, Gender and the Body
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What could be more of a challenge?
Project Runway has got everything you’d want in a reality show, interesting challenges, weird people and a look at a different world. In the most recent episode here in NZ the challenge was to design for another contestant’s mother or … Continue reading
Hah! Fun as it is, it looks to me like this George Shaw, whoever he is, is basically writing My…