Tag: Feminism
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Why Doesn’t Gillian Triggs Leave? #IStandWithGillianTriggs
Last night’s ABC Q and A on domestic violence and the ongoing bullying of Gillian Triggs by the LNP would appear to have little to do with each other. But to me both events are more synchronous than coincidental. Last night Q and A exposed some of the private stories of domestic violence. Today the Senate […]
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My Brisbane Storm
Much like the other day in Brisbane, and 2008 storms in South-Eastern Queensland happen fast. Perhaps faster now. This one from over a decade ago didn’t leave me much time. Thie storm began with a small white grey cloud. It seem to tumble and twist like flying cotton candy. I watched it for a while fascinated and distracted. […]
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Mark Latham v Lisa Pryor (Feminists Are Parents Too)
Like Mae West, when Mark Latham is good, he’s very good. Witness his eulogy to Gough Whitlam. Unlike Mae West, when he’s bad, he isn’t better. Witness his garbled article stating that left feminists hate children. After several reads and re-reads of this, I may have worked out the gist of what he’s saying. He […]
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Do It In A Dress : More Than Educating Girls
When I walked into my gym I got a pleasant shock. The receptionist was wearing a school uniform. I started laughing. I knew why. Last time I saw someone in a school uniform, it was for the same cause: Do it in a Dress. Do It In A Dress is a fund raising campaign for the One […]
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Sex and Vacuuming : A Game of Mutual Selfishness
Kathy Lette’s If Your Wife Doesn’t Want Sex Then Try Doing the Vacuumming article echoes the Annabel Crabb‘s The Wife Drought re having it all and needing a wife. Like the old expression, “Love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage“, there isn’t much of that anymore. Yes, unfortunately, I’ve heard this all before. In the throes […]
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Sexism and Feminism
I mean all I did was just repeat to the missus what was said on the radio. Yep one of those shock jocks was sayin’ that women is destroying the joint. Too right I thought! Got home and the missus wasn’t going to be much fun I think. So I had a go at her. […]
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Just Stick to the Stereotype And Everything Will Be Fine (Sorry Heidi Victoria)
Recently here was a twitstorm over Heidi Victoria (the Victorian Minister for Women’s Affairs (Yes that is her real name!)) who made some comments assuming that only women were nurturers. As a man I took some offence and added my two cent’s worth to the discussion with the following: Now it looks like I‘m a feminist. Or […]
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What Do I Call You Again?
Some terms for addressing women and the pitfalls thereof: • Girly? Is this rural Australia in the 1950’s? • Madame? No I’m not the proprietor! • Mistress? No I’m not one of those! • Missy? Am I a spoil brat throwing a tantrum? • Princess? Nice try but you’re no Prince! • Miss? I’m not […]
Andrew James Whalan 