Hellish
Trigger warning for sexual assault, assholishness, and losing all faith in humanity. By now, you know all about the “funny” competition winner Hell pizza congratulated on its Facebook pages and its...
View ArticleDear Garth George, I Love You
No, seriously. I was getting really sad about the lack of complete garbage being written about marriage equality. I’d even been to NZConservative, and it’s a bit sad when you can’t rely on Lucia to...
View ArticleQuickie: Compare and Contrast
[I'm belatedly adding a trigger warning for child violence to this post.] Family First: “The popular public perception is that women and children need to be protected from men, but this ‘gender’ focus...
View ArticleToday in victim blaming
trigger warning for rape, victim blaming, and a healthy dollop of institutional sexism. This letter should have, actually, been titled “Women get dangerous message that it’s wrong to expect not to be...
View ArticleWell, obviously
Let’s play fatshaming bingo, shall we? The immediate inference that being fat is clearly bad. Using a model who is “not especially fat”, because clearly you’d never want to put an actual fatty on the...
View ArticleToday in Lady Rage
Do you hate men? Do you think they are all a bit useless and pointless, and now that you’ve got your “modern woman” accoutrements like a career and easy sex, wonder why they are still around? Do you...
View ArticleTen Things I hate about Lady-Hating Comment-Baiting Articles
Paula Joye is well known for her “fashion” “articles”, in which she likes to tell women everything that’s wrong with them, in the name of making them look better. This time, she’s excelled herself at...
View ArticleNot so sharp, Akshually
“We’d cover cripples, left-handers and all the rest of it.” Seven o’clock isn’t a particularly important time slot to me, darlings, as it’s the time of day I generally get out of bed and have my...
View ArticleRape Culture: You’re soaking in it
What’s important when you are writing a headline about a case of sexual assault? Making sure your headline isn’t triggering? Showing sensitivity to the alleged victim? Ensuring you’re not committing...
View ArticleComment of the Month II
You guys remember Brody, right? Good times. Apparently March is when the trolls come out, because just over a year later, Peter wants us to know he agrees with Brody about how much we women suck. It’s...
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