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Flesh-eating Zucchini Steal Magic 8 Ball!
I dislike courgette
[the same as zucchini, in fact]
not least because,
when I was small,
one bit me
and stole my magic 8 ball
By DruidX
This contribution to the world of literature was brought to you by our useless poetry contest. A new theme is published each week, and everyone is invited to join in the fun or vote for your favorite!
Australian psychologists, who believe that there is a significant link between child homicides and smacking children as punishment, want smacking in Australia to be banned.
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I personally think physically harming children is a horrible punishment, and as someone who was pretty much boarderline abused by my mother as a child, I think that smacking should be banned. There are lots of other effective punishments to discipline children, and I believe that parents should learn to start using them. My parents still use smacking as a punishment on my sister, and it never works as an effective punishment. In fact, she just hits other children, and I did exactly the same thing when I was younger ("My mummy hits me when she doesn't like what I do, so why shouldn't I do it to the other children?")
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(This is more of a light hearted rant)
Ever since doing work experience in a popular shoe store in the city, I am very, very aware of how employees in retail stores work. When I walk into a store, I pretty much expect to be acknowledged by an employee; it's what they're paid to do. It's basic customer service. Even just a smile, or a head nod, to acknowledge that they know I've walked in is fine. A, 'hi, how you going?' is even better. I know lots of people hate being approached, but seriously, it's basic. It's what you're paid for.
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A lot of adult and teen women in western society remove the body hair that comes with secondary sexual characteristics. They will shave or wax their legs, underarms and increasingly pubic hair in an effort to look how a woman 'should' look, an image fed by the media among other sources. Body hair is seen as manly, masculine, disgusting, and the ideal is to be free of all body hair excepting that on the head.
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I started hating the Taliban in the late 90s, long before it was cool to hate them for breeding terrorists. They weren't just a surprise 9-11 asshole group... they started off by hating women. And they still are. So I like to post occasional links and articles as a friendly reminder of just how horrible the Taliban is, why they make things suck for women, and why we should not wait for another major terrorist attack to get them back into the spotlight.
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Who here plays?
I love magic the gathering. I've been playing for a few months, but it's so easy to get sucked in. I'm totally addicted. My favourite combination is Black/Red, I have a black/red elemental deck, a black/red/green zombie deck, a black/red/blue undead deck, a green treefolk deck and a blue/white deck with elements of exalted.
We use D10s for counters, tokens and life totals so I'm also amassing a bunch of D10s. My boyfriend and I play a lot, and in uni between lectures we sit in the atrium and play. I love playing four player decks. The boyfriend likes playing blue/white, specially kithkin and board control. Recently I discovered telepathy (sorcery, opponents play with hands revealed for one blue) which is a fucking awesome spell. I also have some pretty epic rares, some of which the boyfriend is trying to convince me to trade because he wants them.
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There are four shopping days until Christmas. You're still looking for something small and lovely for your green-thinking friends. The mall is insane.
My solution? The tire gage!
If your tires are down 3 psi, you've just lowered your fuel efficiency by 1%. I know gas prices are lower but using more fuel for no good reason is bad for the earth. Plus, your tires wear unevenly if they're not properly inflated, which could lead to trashing them early. Ewe.
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I know what you're thinking. You love beetroots, you really dig the hell outta those pink little blighters. But the process of skinning and cooking a raw beetroot is long and frankly, you've got better things to do. There is the tinned option, but it doesn't prevent the pinkness from staining your fingers (not to mention your bread, if it's on a sandwich.) Well fear not, fellow beetroot fancier. There is a better option.
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My friend Liz just introduced me to a new concept, called the Awesome Day. Every once in a while, she says, she decides either the night before or as soon as she wakes up that she will have an Awesome Day, during which everything she does will be awesome. It's especially great on really normal days, because then everything that happens is automatically magnified without the added pressure of being amazing anyway.
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