January 2011
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Girls On Film: It's Not About Sex And The City →
A couple of people have commented either here or on Facespace questioning what defines a ‘woman’s film’ in regards to Emily Maguire’s quote below. I suggest strongly that they read Maguire’s original piece as it examines the subconcious practise of gender stereotyping in far greater detail than that small excerpt could hope to represent.
Maguire’s (excellent)...
“I’ve heard many times that this is just how things are: boys won’t...”
– Emily Maguire, author/feminist/legend in Girls On Film
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Naughty women: Craft & Homemaking →
I don’t want to alarm you, but only 23% of Gen Y women can grow a plant from a cutting.
Are you worried? You should be. I’m worried. News Ltd is worried, and we know it’s serious when the mainstream media gets involved. Because do you know what this means? It means that traditional Female Skills are becoming endangered. They’re practically obsolete. The satanic lesbian...
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Fat People Cry
Published in the Sunday Mail TV Guide: Jan 30, 2011
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As any good TV executive worth their weight in ratings can tell you, there are few things more gratifying then a down-and-outer-comes-good reality outing. They appeal to our initial sense of Schadenfreude and then our desire to see ourselves as benevolent spiritual beings, bestowing our...
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Famewhores
My best friend Melissa and I often lament the fact that we don’t know any famous people. It seems that unlike so many of our peers, we both went to school with complete duds.
None of our former schoolmates or acquaintances have turned up on television. I’ve seen no one I know showering naked in a house with 14 other humans sourced from Mattel’s drones factory, or engaged in...
