Tag: women
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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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The Parent Trap (Who Are The Best Parents?)
It was a great party. I’m mingling with strangers asking them how they knew the guest of honour. It was easy. All I had to do was be quiet and let them talk. I was having a very enjoyable time until… The conversation turned to parenting. Initially it was easy to listen. I’m a parent…
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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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Having It All?
Imagine that you’re being interviewed for an executive high-level management role. And you’re asked the question, “How do you manage being an executive and running a family?” And you reply, “I’ve shown its possible to have it all.” And the interviewer asks you to expand on that. So you say, “I hold down a busy…
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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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Men Shopping with Women : The Unwritten Taboo
I wrote before about being a stylist in training for my partner. And I had my successes and mainly failures. But I learnt lots. Especially about shoes. I now know good quality from bad. I know what does and doesn’t work fashion wise. And still stumble and fall. But unwittingly I stumbled on a taboo…
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Whatever You Do: Don’t Sit Down!
I don’t stand outside the dress or shoe shop when my partner enters. I follow her in. It is the option of least boredom. I feel quite silly hanging out like I’m loitering with intent or stalking or something. But it has some advantages. One or two occasions I chose a dress or coat which…