4 month ago
Anil : "Where did this boat come from?" - Peggy Whitson is a 48-year-old biochemist who fell from space and landed in the steppes of Kazakhstan. The eight people who greeted her didn't quite understand that they had encountered a spaceship gone astray, and asked about the origins of her boat. Af
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4 month ago
Anil : "Where did this boat come from?" - Peggy Whitson is a 48-year-old biochemist who fell from space and landed in the steppes of Kazakhstan. The eight people who greeted her didn't quite understand that they had encountered a spaceship gone astray, and asked about the origins of her boat. Af
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11 month ago
nelson : People keep stealing our stewardesses - Creepy old sexist add; I love how he's got his hand over her mouth
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12 month ago
plasticbag : I can't quite believe that I'm linking to the Daily Mail, but there you go - a series of ridiculously appalling sexist adverts from (mostly) the first half of the 20th Century - When I was at University I met a lot of people who found the idea of feminism silly and gross and couldn't imagine why anyone would be such a weird radical. This is why! That we've come so far as a culture is down to them.
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19 month ago
gleuschk : Whedonesque: Let's Watch A Girl Get Beaten To Death. - Joss Whedon
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22 month ago
plasticbag : Eric Meyer writes about the gender imbalance at conferences - I've written about this before myself. We should be aware of the possibilities of bias and not be complacent, but at the same time we have to accept that there aren't enough women in the industry as a whole for 50/50 conferences to be vaguely plausible...
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29 month ago
gleuschk : Joan T. McKay, John T. McKay - the last para is the kicker
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31 month ago
Steve Cook : On superhero comics and the objectifying gaze - The Batman cover made me laugh out loud.
deusx : Like Scratches in the Sand - This would have been easier if I could draw. - "Depicting [women] as an ass, a pair of tits, some gorgeous thighs is doing them a disservice."
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40 month ago
plasticbag : "Newsreader Michael Buerk has said "almost all the big jobs in broadcasting are held by women" who "decide what we see and hear"." - "All [men] are is sperm donors, and most women aren't going to want an unemployable sperm donor loafing around and making the house look untidy."
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