The Blood is the Life: 19-1-2011

• Penny Red: Filthy assistant required: please help!
  Laurie is after an assistant. I happen to think she is worth the effort, so if you have some spare time on your hands and think you can fit the bill, why not apply?
  (tags: feminism)
• Ladies Making Comics: Creator Poll
  Go vote Posy Simmonds in catagory 3! Go! Click! Now! Also Gail Simone in category 1, but I reckon she's going to win anyway...
  (tags: comics voting)
• Talking Loud and Clear
  Are you a person who tosses around the word "rape" with gay abandon? Oh dear. I used the words "tosses" and "gay" in dubious contexts there. Perhaps we ALL need to think about how we use language, myself included, all the time.
  (tags: language sexism gender comics)
• The evolution of rape? : Pharyngula
  It does a body good to see a proper scientist ripping into misogynistic evpsych bollocks. Trigger warning for discussion of rape.
  (tags: badscience science feminism)
• Caligula's tomb found after police arrest man trying to smuggle statue | World news | The Guardian
  Caligula! Little Boots! Hee!
  (tags: ancientstuff)
• Nick Clegg promises 'properly flexible' system of parental leave | Politics | guardian.co.uk
  Nick Clegg trumpets the idea for parental leave that was first worked out at the childcare consultation session chaired by Susan Kramer that I went to at my first ever LDConf; also in attendance were Susan G and Jo Crispy-Strips, as I recall. Girls, we've made not just government policy, but legislation. I think we can be proud of that.
  (tags: libdemmery me!itwasme! government)
• Won’t be fun - Chicken Yoghurt
  Justin is unimpressed by David Laws
  (tags: libdemmery)