Talking about mansplaining…

… I ran into a charming mansplainer this week. I have just acquired a new computer for work, so I thought I should go best practice and get some surge protection, too. I dropped into my local hardware store a couple of weeks ago, and was shocked at the price difference between the top and [...]

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Was that really necessary? Misogynistic headlines and catchphrases

Peter Hartcher, the SMH’s international editor (by which I assume they mean editor of international news) is a pretty good columnist. His articles tend to be interesting and thought-provoking. They are about politics, international politics and economics. So when I saw the headline “Attractive French model bears close watching” on Hartcher’s column today, I assumed [...]

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Trying to get it right

As I said in a recent post, I’m going to be writing more posts which are explicitly in support of groups I don’t belong to. As I also said in that post, I’m sure that sometimes, I’m going to get it wrong. At the beginning of this month, I wrote a couple of posts about [...]

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Humourous feminism in the MSM

I’m rather happy about this: a few times in the past week or so, the SMH’s Heckler column has had a feminist overtone. Today’s column is probably the most obvious (although if there was a comments section, I’d be expecting many comments that showed many people missing the sarcasm). There have also been two recent [...]

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And it started out so well!

I was going to write a warm fuzzy post about what a wonderful milestone it is to have, for the first time in Australia, a woman elected Premier of a state (yes, we have had female Premiers before, but apparently none of them have won elections as leaders). That was a fact I didn’t know [...]

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Whingeing as a feminist act

I’m feeling a little bit proud of myself. In the past 24 hours, I’ve made two complaints to supervisors about the marginally (ie socially) acceptable behaviour of young men, and been taken seriously. (Incidentally, both of the supervisors I spoke to were named Rachel. So: kudos to Rachels!) There are descriptions of the complaints I [...]

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Yoga – inappropriate touching and healthism

This post covers couple of thoughts about a yoga class I just attended. The two thoughts are really only related because they relate to the same person, so please bear with me. I love yoga, but I’m not really into the WHOLE philosophy (I turn off when I hear “chakra”). I love it because of [...]

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Feminist jokes

Feminists do so have a sense of humour! When the jokes are funny, that is. Some women on an online discussion group I’m part of were sharing some jokes today. The group has a slight feminist bent, as it is for women who travel independently. The heading of the topic was “A feminist joke”, and [...]

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