Your Mom Had Groupies


by Jennie Rigg    
June 9, 2008 at 11:10 am

Michelle Schwartz was incensed by some very sexist adverts for Canadian Club Whiskey. She did a parody of the advert from a feminist perspective, and then lots of other people joined in. This link is graphics-heavy, but brilliant. I think I like Your mom was a pilot best…
Lib Dem Jo has been listening to Hazel Blears on the radio. She’s a braver woman than me. I can’t listen to Blears for more than a few seconds without falling into a frothing rage, but Jo managed it for a whole phone in!
Snuffleupagus, an inner city teacher, talks about her incredulity that one of her colleagues is blithely indifferent to her daughter going to a school in Special Measures.
Stephen Glenn has news for the Northern Irish health minister: the “treatment” that she advocates to “cure” gay people doesn’t work. He knows, because he’s been through it. Three times.
Brad Hicks is a big ball of hope and fear when he listens to Obama speak, and thinks that people calling it a “cult of personality” dismissively are missing the depth of his generation’s feelings on the matter.
Cobalt warns American women not to be seduced by the siren song of McCain, with reams of reasons.
And finally, Charlie Stross has posted a “how to behave” guide for commenters on his blog. It’s good general advice for how to behave on the internet.

· About the author: Jennie is a barmaid with a law degree and has been active on the internet since the early nineties. She dabbles in Web Design, works for AQA on the side, and thinks the world would be a better place if we all just listened to John Stuart Mill a bit more. Her blog, The Yorksher Gob, has been featured in the Lib Dem Voice Golden Dozen several times.

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at 11:41 am on June 9, 2008
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     Stephen Glenn

Wow! Is that two Monday mornings on the trot I’ve been featured in your round up Jennie?

Just glad I’ve been provided good copy.

at 11:43 am on June 9, 2008
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     Jennie Rigg

LOL I dunno; I should keep track, really, and then it doesn’t look like favouritism. I link to Brad a lot, but then, Brad does post such good stuff.

But yeah, I thought your post was very apposite to a discussion we’d been having on here anyway, and people who have experience of a given thing are always worth listening to IMHO.

at 12:17 pm on June 9, 2008
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     sarah

people who have experience of a given thing are always worth listening to IMHO.

Very true!

at 1:26 pm on June 9, 2008
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     Aaron Heath

*realises he sent a link to the wrong person*

(Sorry, Sarah)

at 5:11 pm on June 9, 2008
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     sarah

lol! oh well… maybe tomorrow!

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