I found a new plugin which will extract my latest shared items from my Google Reader at regular intervals. They won’t all be explicity feminist articles - there will be political, science and atheist pieces as well. I’m going to configure it to be a bit more obviously Hoydenish too (even...

An op-ed from the BBC News Magazine online. Raises many good points, some info I didn’t know, the conclusion seems to trail off. Thoughts? Hat/tip to lurker J.Similar Posts: “Letting his lust get the better of him” by Lauredhel A few questions for Hoydenizens by Guest Hoyden Now th...

It’s a while since we’ve done a fictional hoyden, and I’m enjoying the series Trueblood, in which Sookie is the primary character, so far (Episode 4 of Season 1, based on the Southern Vampire series of novels by Charlaine Harris). Firstly, here is an author-approved fanlisting̵...

Kate Harding dissects Germaine’s latest blithering (Germs doesn’t always blither, but I cannot think of a better description for this particular effort) in Salon. Great job. I was having the “why aren’t there more women working in stand-up?” conversation with a comedian...

Star-studded and in a good cause. “Prop 8 - The Musical” starring Jack Black, John C. Reilly, and many more… from Jack Black Similar Posts: Rudd govt anti-same-sex-discrimination bill depends on the Senate balance of power by tigtog Arsehats of the week by tigtog News from the ACT ...

For once here’s some relationship advice which talks about the way the men and women are TRAINED from an early age to act differently in response to life’s annoyances and pains. That’s a refreshing change from all those articles which try and paint gender-differences in emotional r...

Seeing as Facebook has decided to claim that they own rights to any content on a website that has a “click to share on Facebook” style button (along with all the rest of their new claims over User Content), nearly everybody will be removing that particular button ASAP while they leave th...

OK, a selection from the last week of memorable and topical posts that have turned up in my feed-reader. There’s quite a few links, so I’m putting them behind a cut so as not to clutter up the front page of the blog. Add your own links to posts you recommend in comments: Violence Against...

Specifically aimed at fuck-knuckles above A Certain Age: “may Karma gift him with a disfiguring allergy to Viagra.” THE doctor who sparked the scare over the safety of the MMR vaccine for children changed and misreported results in his research, creating the appearance of a possible link...

Optimistic title, but I aim to do it. Below is a sample of posts that I’ve shared this week on my Google reader: * By Their Own Hand from ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES * Mr. Manners: David Brooks on Polite Behavior from ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES * You Can Run, But You Can’t Hide, from the Fat-Hating...