Better late than never...

Yahoo v. Google in Gay Pride Showdown from Queerty

Florida 'family campaigners' sought hour long 'infomercial' about the dangerous homosexual agenda

Bob Dylan fans will want to see this trailer for a film about AJ Weberman and Garbology.

ENCOUNTERS Film festival in Bristol, UK: you definitely want to learn more about this...

Little White Lies - awesome magazine about film and truth - do check it out!

McKinsey article: Centered leadership: How talented women thrive A new approach to leadership can help women become more self-confident and effective business leaders.

Getting close to the bone...

G20 WAGs - Jan Moir got it spot on: where were the husbands of Argentinean and German ladychiefs? Why was JKRowling (and other nobodies) invited to Sarah’s Soiree? As for describing this novelist as "looking like a half-shut umbrella as usual" - I roared with laughter - (@Daily Mail)

New Fame movie - SO excited.

Next time you hear the Electric Six song, try these lyrics - they might have quite an effect on the crowd: I wanna be a gay boy, a gay boy.

Clive Aslet's article on HRH Queen Elizabeth II rendered Her Majesty in a beautiful light, reminding her subjects that her power is in her steadfastness, her longevity, her familiarity with historical times and people, and above all the sense of 'Keep Calm and Carry On' - a useful reminder in these turbulent times: "Her ship sails beneath the flag of public duty." (@Telegraph)

Want to verify that the celebrity you are stalking/following on social media networking sites such as twitter, facebook, etc. are actually them and not some crazed imposter? Then Valebrity is for you!

Businessman is a model Sikh: Sonny Caberwal has modelled for Kenneth Cole and GQ - check out the photographs (@Telegraph)

Agony aunt aged 7: Mercia FM now provides advice for adult listeners from a wise child, Elaina Smith.
Her sensible suggestions to fix heartache have included a mug of milk, bowling with pals, High School Musical and changing your door locks! (@DailyMail)

Israel trying to protect feminine modesty by blanking out images of two polticians in cabinet line-up photograph. (@BBCNews)...Points for promoting female visibility: minus 5.

Random movie trivia moment: First mention of a dildo that comes to mind in the movies I watched during my formative years? "Sue Ellen, every girl over 25 should have a cucumber in her house!"

Controversial thought for today: men are just a step on the evolutionary ladder to a place where women rule and are the sole gender on the planet. New biological developments might be moving this along faster than expected.

Career options: working for smoothie company or Andy McCarthy's Mr Scruff tea product company, who also supply tea at music festival events. Who needs a toke and a tipple, when you can have tea?

Honesty month - pledge to tell the truth - this blog got a mention on a fabby website Blogging for Truth - I was hoping to add the badge, but I never managed it - hopefully next year I'll be more organised. I might start a wee thread called 'lesbihonest' for specific women-oriented truths... about lesbionics, for example.

Slowly but surely...

Men evolving out of use: part of the plan is to allow them to develop technologies that slowly turn them into apathetic vegetables - success nears as UK men find video games more alluring than sex with their better halves!

Until their use for genetic material stops, then we had better make sure that traditional access to their baby batter is hygienic and disease free, which is why it is a relief to finally read that scientists are advocating that young boys receive the HPV vaccine as well, to protect any women they might sleep with in the future. Now there are a lot of suppositions here: boys will be sexually active (not a monk, celibate), they would be willing to risk their own health (through potential adverse reaction to the vaccine) to protect some women they may possibly have unprotected sexual encounters with later on (after having had unprotected sexual encounter with someone who already has HPV and caught it off them), that they wont be entirely homosexual (with no female contact - men may carry HPV but don't -- as far as we know - develop cancerous disease from it - but the men with whom they do have sex may in turn pass it on to other women, but let's assume the responsibility stops with those with who you directly have consensual sexual contact). This is only the natural extension of my previous argument that girls are being vaccinated in the assumption that they wont be virgins until they engage in sexual contact with someone else who has remained a virgin, and whilst avoiding affairs and embracing monogamy they may never get a disease (STD, HPV, etc.)


Enough seriousness...

Sue Pollard - wacky dresser, feminist icon: these photographs brighten my day!

Hannah Betts - childless by choice vs. SI - Secondary Infertility - where one is not enough

Waiting for further sex after childbirth? - Helena Frith Powell compares France to UK - where the former provides medical care specifically to revive the mother's vajayjay so that she can hop on the good foot and do the bad thing...

My week as a Mad Men wife: Olivia Lichtenstein's return to the good old days acting as a proper housewife.

Now, I'm not normally a fan of La Knightley (eyes are too close together) but she has bravely starred in a new advertisement for Women' Aid to raise awareness of the very real danger of domestic violence.

Finally, UK government sanction to permit workers to have leave to care for (elderly) dependents, not just if you are a breeder and have progeny to care for. I was also always SO cross when told that career breaks, days off, etc. would not be extended to those who had other caring commitments (siblings, parents, other family, neighbours, etc. and those who do not have a directly caring role but who work/volunteer for a charity rather than those who produce their own children requiring their time away from their main job.) (@Daily Mail)

It's just getting ridiculous now...

‘Kids are just cruel anyway’: Lesbian and gay parents’ talk about homophobic bullying by Victoria, Celia and Potter (2004) which links nicely to the Scottish mail article that gay parents make kids take homophobic bullying on the chin and the Scottish government not releasing a report they commissioned into this matter. But as far as I can see being ugly, fat, short, hairy, unemployed, drunk or wearing untrendy clothes get parents bashed as well... so kids are just cruel anyway.

(@Daily Mail) by Amanda Platell - Skinny's not a sin! Turning back the tide of acceptance over over-weight people which has moved into an alarming backlash against those with a naturally lithe physique, for example, the recent contestant in Miss Universe who was told that she was too skinny to compete.

Unruly senior citizens are making a meal of it at the local cinema: Free biscuits for OAPs led to an ugly ruckus when customers were shoving handful ls into their pockets and bags - value for money, eh?

Sprightly seniors are getting more out of life and not just on the free food front: Bette Calman is 83 but can practice yoga better than most people half her age and isn't afraid to prove it.

...and if that wasn't enough for today, how about a compilation of cultural knowledge held by lofty institutions? I give you: World Digital Library - ta da!

Tortoise or the hare?

Initial thought: The Leaf Blower - most useless item ever.

AfterEllen: Clementine Ford wants her mom, Cybill Shepherd to date Jane Lynch (lately of Glee) - how marvellous!

Jade Goody increased cervical cancer awareness and encouraged thousands to get tests, but means women are waiting longer for results (@DailyMail).

Wife gifted her husband daily nookie for a whole year and learned that regular love-making is helpful to actually enjoying your marriage and sex life. (@guardian)

Coincidence: I was looking for books on female masculinity for Laura, my genderqueer pal, then rooted through the other books near them on the holding shelf; I spotted a 1920 Arabella Kenealy book on Feminism and Sex-extinction - fascinating so I headed to the book's usual place on the shelves - but what was more fascinating was that the Miller book that had been missing for ages (which I desperately needed) was placed next to another Miller book that was on the shelf next to Kenneay! Amazing!

If you have spare time on your hands, check out a book by Elisa Sobo about the women who deliberately run the risk of getting AIDS: Choosing unsafe sex: AIDS-risk denial among disadvantaged women. This made me think about the women who are deliberately endangering one's health (by having unprotected sex, for example) so that there is no need to make decisions about one's life, the choice is taken away by providence, evolution, fate, nature, God, in the conception (or not) of a child after unprotected sex leading to pregnancy, then marriage or at least some sort of stability, after which there is no need to search for a job, your career is defined - you are a mother. A plethora of articles in the UK highlighted the council estate kids, mostly girls, who wanted nothing more than to get knocked up so that they could have a house provided for them and a regular income of benefit hand-outs. I wonder if there are now middle-class or middle-income girls who just cannot be bothered having a career or fighting the glass ceiling, so willingly get pregnant by one-night stands or a relationship with a reasonably affluent gentleman who could take care of her and her child's needs... A kid and cash - doesn't sound so bad, does it?

Also, the very excellent book by Norah Vincent: Self-Made Man - about being a man for a year... fascinating, truly fascinating.

Are we nearly there yet?

Question of the day: Is there racism in blind people? Does not being able to see the colour of one's skin make you less likely to be impeded by prejudice?

Conceptual Artist and Political activist: careers 117 and 118 in my list. Apathy was SO cool and passionate engagement was SO gauche and a bit too try-hard American, if truth be known, but know... what kind of political engagement is socially acceptable?

Polari magazine is super- check out the gay animal listing; the chronicle of gay magaziness, plasticene models of indeterminate sex, The House of Homosexual Culture

Sunday thoughts...

Amazing new technology allows pre-birth bonding with baby.
@Queerty has awesome flowchart of arguments for/against gay marriage.
Eye-tracking posterboard allows viewer interaction.
Kodak stops supplying an old-style film product - end of an era?
Women in Iran and shoes

The new curtailments of expression are for our benefit, or are they?

• Burqhas are unnecessary concealment of women, or a protection from sexual oppression?
• Kissing banned in schools is a safety net for too-young sexual activity, or stopping expression of self?
• Avoiding swine flu risk, or denying people religious expression with no more communion wine?
  

Something for Summer...

So there are fears over blondes dying out (our recessive genes are going to be useless if we don't starting breeding with other blondes to ensure our luxurious locks live on! Ayrian race reinvention?). However, to give us courage, there are friends in the animal kingdom willing to show us the way.

Big Brother's queerest year yet! All sorts of gender and sexuality explorations are anticipated - shame that it is such an appalling show, but at least there is more visibility, even if the context is not entirely positive...

The Day after Tomorrow comes true! Summer snow - what else...

So exciting! Sue and Giles are back for more gastronomic greatness!