Category Archives: Sex & Sexuality

Rape in Australia: highest reported number of rapes by men of women per capita in the world?

Posted on October 29, 2013 by @ndy

Today, Van Badham has a really good piece in The Grauniad (Australian online edition) on ‘How not to raise a rapist’. Leaving to one side the important points she makes about the existence of a culture of violent woman-hating, I … Continue reading →

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wow. notes on the deeply racist bad feminist Lorde. like, wow.

Posted on October 13, 2013 by @ndy

blah blah blah — so a blogger in the us has argued, rather poorly, that lorde’s song ‘royals’ is “deeply racist”. i can find very few, if any, who agree with her, but whatever. she concludes her post on the … Continue reading →

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Sado-workism: the new culture of work in Australia [Boris Frankel]

Posted on October 2, 2013 by @ndy

Gillard snubs UN on single parent welfare, The Australian (AAP), March 4, 2013 | PM’s pay to crack $500k as part of MP salary rise, Stephanie Peatling, The Sydney Morning Herald, June 13, 2013. Former prime minister Julia Gillard defended … Continue reading →

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University of Sydney : Vaginas? NO! Violence? Er… (Open Day Action, August 31)

Posted on August 23, 2013 by @ndy

VAGINAS. There. Now that I’ve got your attention… The University of Sydney is having an Open Day on Saturday, August 31, and as part of the celebrations concerned students will be taking part in a variety of exciting actions to … Continue reading →

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(What happened to) Anarchist Memes?

Posted on August 7, 2013 by @ndy

The Facebook page Anarchist Memes (AM) has (temporarily?) closed, seemingly as a result of a decision by its creator. Before it deaded, the page had attracted something in the order of 80,000 or so ‘likes’ — a very large number … Continue reading →

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Julia Gillard ~versus~ Preston KFC

Posted on June 21, 2013 by @ndy

I’ve been mucking about on Twitter today, trying to track down a story about a poster. It seems that once upon a time, a few months ago, a poster appeared in the window of the Preston KFC (128 Bell Street). … Continue reading →

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[War is the health of the patriarchal state]

Posted on May 11, 2013 by @ndy

I thought that this passage from Terry Eagleton’s book Reason, Faith & Revolution (2009) — summarising Susan Faludi’s observations on 9/11 and US culture — was neat. It also helps to explain, I think, the mentality of many on the … Continue reading →

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The Christian Brothers & child sex abuse : An accident of history (including GST)

Posted on May 8, 2013 by @ndy

The leadership of the Christian Brothers in Oceania appeared before the Victorian state government inquiry into child abuse yesterday on Friday, May 3. Given before a packed audience, their testimony was enlightening in some respects, contradictory in others, but otherwise … Continue reading →

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International Clitoris Awareness Week + ClitorAid = Raelian wEiRdNeSs?

Posted on May 6, 2013 by @ndy

Credit where it’s due. In a publicity coup, a mob called Clitoraid [ClitorAid.org] have launched ‘International Clitoris Awareness Week’ (May 6–May 14), asking the public to donate money to the charity in order for it to conduct reparative surgery on … Continue reading →

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Stella Artois : She is a thing

Posted on April 23, 2013 by @ndy

What with all the excitement over the fabulous redecoration (above) of the Tory Party’s hateful and deceitful billboard about asylum seekers I was naturally drawn to the Billboard Liberation Front website. There I came across the Stella Artois advertisement. Y’know, … Continue reading →

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