Mantrol and Manghurt?
One of the great traditions of New Zealand advertising is that no portrayal of masculinity can be too over-the-top or too ridiculous to sell beer. However, recently beer’s place as the pinnacle of...
View ArticleWhy does no one seem to remember or care that President Zuma of South Africa...
I’m not AVAAZ’s biggest fan at the best of times. I’m wary of activities that make people feel like they’re doing something, without encouraging any sort of collective action that could actually create...
View ArticleThe promotion of drivel
I heard this on Checkpoint (a news programme on NZ’s equivalent of NPR) last Thursday, as part of a story about research that had found a correlation between strokes and living close to a road The...
View ArticleDear Sandra Coney
As readers may be aware New Zealand decriminalised prostitution in 2003. At the moment a bill has been introduced that would allow a single local government council too designate areas where both...
View ArticleThe week isn’t ending
Last week was a week of feminist rage – this week was supposed to be something new. I wasn’t quite expecting a week of feminist revolt and joy, but I was hoping to rage about something else for a...
View ArticleThe Minister in charge of police and upholding rape culture
I haven’t written about, and don’t feel capable of writing about, the earthquake in Christchurch. I am too close, and too far away (I am OK, everyone I know is OK). Other people have written about the...
View ArticleIs there anything left to us but to organise and fight?
(Wisconsin protesters singing Solidarity Forever) They’ve changed the laws in Wisconsin, but we only lose if people stop fighting. And it is a we. ‘An injury to one is an injury to all’ is not just a...
View Article#thingsfatpeoplearetold
Sometime on the weekend I started seeing tweets like this (summary from Brian: @mymilkspilt: Your body sends a bad message to your children. #thingsfatpeoplearetold @red3blog Apr 9, 2011 10:20 PM GMT...
View ArticleWhy is this wrong? Because grammar
I am only going to respond to half a sentance of Dita De Boni’s ridiculous article about slutwalk, because life is too short to pay attention to the rest. She says: I can’t see the value in putting...
View ArticleA day of protests and babies
he weather forecast had been ominous. But it was the perfect winter day – the sky was blue, the sun was shining, the sort of day that they made up the slogan ‘You can’t beat Wellington on a good day’...
View ArticleScarlet Road
I have seen this trailer posted on tumblr and blogs a few times: Scarlet Road Video from Paradigm Pictures on Vimeo. Something about the way it was posted as an awesome exciting and sex positive...
View ArticleOn Change and Accountability: A response to Clarisse Thorn
Note for those who don’t read Feministe. Clarisse Thorn posted an interview with Hugo Schwyzer. People objected to Hugo Schwyzer being given this space on a feminist blog as he had, among other...
View ArticleJunk Science that supports Health at Every Size is still Junk Science
A few months back, over at Big Fat Blog there was a report on this study. The study was basically examining four ‘healthy’ habits (moderate drinking, not smoking, ‘exercising’ and eating 5 plus fruit...
View ArticleA Likely Feminist
I don’t think Tulisa Contostavlos is a household name in New Zealand (or the US). Certainly the only reason that I’d heard of her is because I spent last winter developing a my knowledge of British...
View ArticleOn atheism
On Saturday the 17th February 2001, I realised I had no faith in women’s magazines or God. I was at the hospital – I wasn’t sick – I was visiting my best friend (she’ll be known as Betsy for the...
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