April 6, 2008
It’s been reported that Australian fashion designers have criticised the Prime Minster’s wife, Therese Rein, for her apparent poor fashion sense. It’s unfortunate that in this day and age the number one thing an accomplished and high profile woman is criticised for is her clothes. It’s alright for the blokes, all they have to do [...]
March 13, 2008
News and magazine columnists across the western world are celebrating the rise of in-your-face sexuality as a sure sign that the modern woman is sexually empowered and liberated. From my point of view, I don’t see that much to celebrate. If we take a moment to look at what is underlining and motivating this in-your-face [...]
December 6, 2007
In a story on the Andy Warhol retrospective currently showing at a gallery in Queensland, The 7:30 report just incorrectly said that Andy Warhol was shot by a woman from a “bizarre group called the society for cutting up men’.
WRONG!
Valerie Solanas, the woman who shot Andy Warhol, did not belong to a group called The [...]
October 14, 2007
I was just reading a piece in The Age about Myf’s Waurhurst’s move to Triple M. Apparently, when Judith Lucy was doing breakfast on Sydney’s Today FM, she was “asked to produce “a light-hearted piece” about sexual assault, among other things.” Just another reason why my generic term for commercial radio in this country is [...]
October 7, 2007
More evidence for the fragility of men’s sense of masculinity - this report says a man killed an ostrich in order to restore his “pride”.
In a nutshell, two men trespassed on an ostrich ranch with some female companions. One ostrich attacked one of the men and knocked him over, the other man received scrapes and [...]
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