Do you see what I see?

The SMH is at it again. This is what I’m getting at:SMH front page clip showing an article about eliminating bingo wings (for women) in the Life & Style section

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I buy hardware supplies…

… and it looks like Selleys doesn’t want my business. I saw this ad on television this evening: Transcript:

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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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Catholic school suspends student for shaving head

The title of this post says it all. See the SMH’s article for more detail. (By the way, SMH, I fixed that passive-voiced headline for you!) Look, I’m not pissed off that the Catholic school has suspended the student for shaving her head as a fundraiser for cancer. I’m pissed off that the Catholic school [...]

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18th Down Under Feminists’ Carnival!

Welcome to the 18th Down Under Feminists’ Carnival! (And apologies for the delay.) This Carnival has an optional caring theme, thanks to Australian Carers’ Week (which was October 18 to October 24). The theme for this year was “Anyone, Anytime, Across Australia”, which I modified to “Anyone, Anytime” for the purposes of the DUFC. There [...]

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Why caring is a feminist issue

It’s Carers Week this week – it started yesterday – and as I’ve mentioned a few times, I’m hosting the Carers’ Week-themed DUFC early next month. I’m not going to have the time to do a blog post on caring every day this week, but I thought it was important to write a post about [...]

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Because woman = commodity…

I saw the headline for this article, that headline being “Naomi Watts is world’s most profitable actress” and thought: “Hmmm. ‘Profitable’ is usually used to describe to a thing, an object, a commodity. Fuck.” Then I thought: “Please tell me that’s just the sub-editor, and that the article is actually about women AND men, because [...]

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If women can do it, women should be permitted to do it

Wow! Another person in authority espousing another radical* notion! That’s two this week! As per the following extract from an article in The Australian: Mr Combet, a former ACTU national secretary, told parliament yesterday the Defence Science and Technology Organisation would develop a new set of physical employment standards for the army that would accurately [...]

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