{"id":9060,"date":"2011-12-16T09:00:50","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T09:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.badreputation.org.uk\/?p=9060"},"modified":"2011-12-16T09:00:50","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T09:00:50","slug":"in-the-bleak-mid-links-ter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/badreputation.org.uk\/2011\/12\/16\/in-the-bleak-mid-links-ter\/","title":{"rendered":"In
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    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tarabooks.com\/blog\/?p=791\"><strong
      >Sita&#8217;s Ramayana: The Many Lives of a Text<\/strong> (Tara
      Books)<\/a><\/li>\n
      <li>
        <a
        href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/tv-and-radio\/2011\/dec\/07\/cagney-lacey-sharon-gless-tyne-daly\"><strong
          >Cagney and Lacey reunited<\/strong> <\/a>(and talking feminism in the
          <strong
            >Guardian<\/strong>)<\/li>\n
            <li>
              A long <a
              href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/v33\/n24\/jenny-turner\/as-many-pairs-of-shoes-as-she-likes\">essay
              on contemporary feminism<\/a> from the
              <strong
                >London Review of Books<\/strong>, which we haven&#8217;t
                finished yet as we post it, and you might not agree with all or
                any of it (we&#8217;re not wildly convinced here at BR Towers)
                but worth a read, and worth discussing. (Make tea
                first.)<\/li>\n
                <li>
                  <strong
                    >ComicsAlliance <\/strong><a
                    href=\"http:\/\/www.comicsalliance.com\/2011\/12\/08\/marvel-women-comics-editors\">grabs
                    Marvel staff, asks them about the lack of women<\/a>. Gotta
                    love ComicsAlliance. (Nil points to DC, who declined to
                    comment.)<\/li>\n
                    <li>
                      <strong
                        >The Mary Sue <\/strong><a
                        href=\"http:\/\/www.themarysue.com\/best-breaking-dawn-review\/\">reviews
                        <strong
                          >Breaking Dawn Part 1<\/strong> with
                          illustrations<\/a>.<\/li>\n
                          <li>
                            <a
                            href=\"http:\/\/kittenswithmittens.com\/category\/kwm-originals\/awesome-women-of-occupy-philly\/\"><strong
                              >Awesome Women of Occupy Philly<\/strong><\/a>, by
                              Kittens With Mittens. A nice response to the
                              &#8220;hot chicks of Occupy&#8221;
                              business.<\/li>\n
                              <li>
                                Science toy company <a
                                href=\"http:\/\/blog.scientificsonline.com\/2011\/11\/girlsboys-novelty-kits\/\">scraps
                                gender segregation<\/a>. Woo!<\/li>\n
                              </li>
                              <li>
                                <a
                                href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/magazine\/lego-is-for-girls-12142011.html\"><strong
                                  >Lego<\/strong>, meanwhile, look a bit like
                                  they&#8217;re pandering to stereotyping in an
                                  effort to get more girls
                                  interested<\/a>.<\/li>\n
                                  <li>
                                    But <a
                                    href=\"http:\/\/liberalconspiracy.org\/2011\/12\/13\/success-hamleys-change-gendered-signs-after-campaign\/\">Hamleys
                                    scraps those annoying gendered signs!<\/a>
                                    Hurrah again!<\/li>\n
                                  </li>
                                  <li>
                                    And
                                    <strong
                                      >Doctor Nerdlove<\/strong> talks <a
                                      href=\"http:\/\/www.doctornerdlove.com\/2011\/11\/nerds-and-male-privilege\/all\/1\/\">Nerds
                                      and Male
                                      Privilege<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div
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