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This is a blog about SCIENCE (er, and tech, and geek stuff and politics). Feminists need to engage with scientific and medical research on gender issues because they can lead to spurious claims and bad science reporting. And we should engage because science is on our side. Plus this blog will be funny, because science hasn't yet proven that all feminists have no sense of humour.
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Vagina Dentata

English - Science, Feminism, Geek
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Vagina Dentata · 2M ago

Women popping the question. Careful now.

The British Isles started the tradition of women only being allowed to propose to man on February 29th of a leap year. Interestingly, particularly for these austere times, if the proposal was met with a refusal, then it was traditional for men to pay a fine to the woman in the shape of £100 or [...]
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Vagina Dentata · 3M ago

Guardian: Slogan T-shirts that help you spot a moronic misogynist, from Uni Lad

Writing a humourous piece still will not save you from being called humourless. But at least I get to make the point in the comments that I’M GREAT AT PARTIES. *proudface*
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Vagina Dentata · 5M ago

Guardian: Is the Muff March such a cunning stunt?

I have now set the bar for number of fanny euphemisms you can get in one article on the Guardian. *bows*
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Vagina Dentata · 5M ago

Guardian: Pippa Middleton turns party planner – for the wrong decade

You know what is the important issue for feminism today? Pippa Middleton. (This isn’t true but I get to make a bum joke)
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Vagina Dentata · 8M ago

Leaked memo on support from women for the coalition government

SOMEHOW, a policy document from No.10 on womenfolk’s attitudes to the Coalition Government has been leaked… RESTRICTED – POLICY The problem After extensive polling we have found that women don’t seem to like us. Cuts in public services will impact on women disproportionately and from the focus group
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Vagina Dentata · 8M ago

Guardian: How to close the pay gap (may involve arm-wrestling)

Me on the Guardian with some strategies for closing the pay-gap. Involves Dolly Parton.
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Vagina Dentata · 1Y ago

Where are the women in the ‘population control’ debate?

I wrote for the Guardian Science Blogs on the obsession with ‘population control’ by some in the green movement and the need to take a women’s rights approach. Read it here.
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Vagina Dentata · 2Y ago

Amnesty ad on Shell pulled from the FT

Amnesty International press release explains what happened: Amnesty ‘disappointed’ by FT’s decision to pull ad targeting Shell Posted: 18 May 2010 Financial Times’ late call thwarts Amnesty’s campaign Amnesty International UK expressed its immense disappointment today at the Financial Times’ decisio
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Vagina Dentata · 2Y ago

Danny Dyer advises cutting women’s faces in Zoo

I don’t think I have the requisite expletives for this. But those fucking wankers at Zoo have published an ‘advice’ column suggesting that a guy who can’t get over his ex should cut her face “so then no one will want her”: The good people of Twitter got very angry about this and ‘Danny Dyer’ [...]
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Vagina Dentata · 2Y ago

Logos Vaginas

You’ll all be aware of the Phallic Logo Awards (right?). Well, it starts right here, right now: the Vagina Logo Awards. It is both big and clever. First up, a shop in Stoke Newington.
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