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I did something awful
Yesterday I did something awful, and I did it for you. I bought a copy of NW. I had to buy it at a place I don’t normally shop, so they wouldn’t recognise me. And I had to hide it inside the newspaper...
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Beyonce’s body and bad re-writes
I was going to blog about the constant policing of women’s bodies in the mainstream media, and how celebrity weight changes are now considered News, not just Entertainment News, and about how women are...
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A new low in journalism
The third top story on News.com.au tonight is a photo of the dining table inside Whitney Houston’s hotel room. [Update: I originally published this post with a screengrab of the story, but having that...
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Agony Uncles looks like a pain in the arse
After QandA last night (oh Germaine, it was so disappointing to see one of Australia’s most prominent feminists criticise Julia Gillard for her body and her clothing, what are you, the Daily...
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Germaine Greer and body-shaming
Germaine Greer is a professional shit-stirrer. She wasn’t the only feminist in the 70s (and onwards) yelling loudly about the need to treat women like real people, but she was one of the loudest. And...
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Madonna, never put it away – unless you want to
Oh goody, we have another prominent Australian feminist telling another woman what she can and cannot wear. Didn’t we do this last week? The front cover of today’s Sunday Life features the question: “…...
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I need your help
Ok internet, I need some help with this one. In the 80s my parents had a timeshare in Coffs Harbour (Nautilus Resort) and we’d send my older brother to the front desk to request movies that we’d never...
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How to be a good female celebrity in the first half of 2012
Ok, ok, I’m going to do it. I’m going to blog about Samantha Brick. Well, sort of. I don’t have a lot to say about Samantha Brick’s article, other than to say there will always be people who don’t like...
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In Lara Bingle vs the MSM, I am on Team Lara
The 697 people (so far) who’ve found my blog in the last 24 hours searching for “Lara Bingle nude on balcony” alerted me to the fact that someone has taken a photo of Lara Bingle nude on a balcony and...
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The Feminist Supremacy? The Feminist Supremacy!
This post is dedicated to the wanker who got in front of the mic at The Feminist Supremacy? on Saturday night and, instead of asking an intelligent question of the intelligent women on stage, demanded...
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Elle of a way to write a ridiculous story
I keep an eye on the entertainment sections of news sites, a la Caitlin Moran, even though sometimes it’s hard to tell which bits are the entertainment section, and sometimes I don’t know who the...
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We’ve reached peak stupid
Which, of course, means that from now on there should be less stupid. A good friend sent me a link to what is quite possibly the dumbest thing I’ve seen on a news site in a long time. The. Dumberest....
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Daily Telegraph: We decide which girlfriend is better
This is one of the main stories on dailytelegraph.com.au today: Michael Clarke’s batting average is an advertisement for a happy home life: MICHAEL Clarke is the best advertisement for marriage and a...
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The Sydney Morning Herald’s problem with women
There are two main images on smh.com.au this afternoon that are indicative of the way most online journalists write about women. In one, the woman is ignored. And in the other, something she did a long...
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What’s with the body-shaming, Paula?
My name is Kim Powell, so if a headline mentions Kim Jong-un, Kim Jong-il, Kim Kardashian, Colin Powell, Julie Powell, Baden Powell or Powell Peralta, I’m gonna notice it. So of course I noticed this,...
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Ah Mia Freedman, it all makes sense now
Hey look everyone, look what I did for you. I read Mia Freedman’s latest piece of shaming nonsense so you don’t have to: Are you a mother or a porn star? Because porn stars are bad, donchaknow, and...
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