"Twee and retro have been seeping into feminism for a couple decades now, gaining potency. It’s all about cute dresses, felten rosettes from Etsy, knitting, kittens, vintage lamps shaped like owls, Lesley Gore. And yes - a lot of cupcakes." This reminds me of a phrase coined by Ken MacLeod in The Star Fraction: "femininism". Anyway, possibly worth a look.

Raina Lipsitz: [[ "This movie would never get made today," sighed one of the panelists, and the audience members murmured their assent. It's shocking enough that it was distributed in 1991, but at least back then American women were experiencing something like momentum ]]

Interesting. Depressing. Hopeful. Well worth reading.

Long, but it looks like it should be worth a read. It's always been a bit of a source of bafflement to me that women could not want rights; maybe this will help me understand some of the motivations.

"Dietrich passed the same battery of physical tests as the men chosen by NASA to become America’s first astronauts. But Dietrich [...] never flew in space - indeed, [she was] never allowed to complete [her] training"

Prompted by a line in the Icelandic universities piece ("women in leadership positions provide higher long-term financial return") I thought I'd post this Slate article as well: women make things better but poll worse.

"At Reykjavik University, 95% of staff are happy at work and each year the finances get healthier. Could that be because of all the women in top jobs? Anthea Lipsett reports"

Covers a bunch of stuff I've seen candace mention (the two body problem, mentoring, etc), but still nice to see in the mainstream press.

Piers Cawley on Russ Micheals, a ColdFusion developer who's completely incapable of understanding why "tequila slammer girls" might put people off attending a conference.

"An immoderate interest in chocolate has, over the past few years, become a defining female quality." Catherine Bennett on (recently?) acceptable modes of gender identity. The comments seem to be full of idiotic male bigots.

Monbiot on his expulsion from Greenham Common. The comments seem to be full of idiotic male bigots.

"Out of the Shadows provides an accurate and authoritative description of the women who made original and important contributions to physics in the twentieth century, documenting their major discoveries and putting their work into its historical context."

I never liked that maddox crap anyway

Sad. But somehow not entirely surprising.

I'm not sure whether it's terrifying or great that the war on science is getting into women's glossies. Probably both, really.

"Breasts on buses and respectable lap dancing clubs obstruct our real erotic imagination" - Libby Brooks on raunch culture