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Eleanor Robertson
Eleanor Robertson is a fortnightly columnist for Guardian Australia. She also contributes to Daily Life, Frankie Magazine and SBS comedy.
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Artificial wombs, able to gestate a foetus outside the body, will completely upend feminism’s accepted arguments on bodily autonomy – for good or ill
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It’s not selfish to expect to breastfeed your child in public (or in parliament). Why do so many men think they can avoid having to deal with kids, though?
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Lena Dunham’s Lenny newsletter is billed as ‘Goop meets Grantland’. Great – it’ll fit right in with the rest of the sassy, individualistic feminist speciality media
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I’ve seen plenty of families inspecting grimy, tiny slum flats in recent months, while searching for a place to live myself. It’s heartbreaking
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The ubiquitous blue and brown backpacks are a genius of marketing that perfectly express the myth of the rugged individual
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It’s the debate that pops up like clockwork yet remains shrouded in misunderstanding. There are greater injustices to worry about than the ‘tampon tax’
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The pouting, playful girl next door has been Bonds’ archetype for years. Now they’ve switched to one of Australia’s most obnoxious exports – but why?
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Gender, race and subculture reinterpretations of Disney princesses are a staple of fan culture, not that you’d know from the live-action Cinderella film
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Beers should be the backdrop to a good pub session, not an expensive, mouth puckering and un-Australian distraction
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Kim Sears has joined the elite of public swearing, but we can all do better. Cover your children’s ears – this is what expletive excellence looks like
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Chimps will never be citizens of a human community, and that’s not a problem. We just need to think harder about how we justify their protection
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How can David Leyonhjelm support marriage equality on one hand and want us all to be armed on the other? His libertarian world view is alien to most Australians
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The detox diet provides a compelling narrative of individual virtue. Can scientific fact ever compete with the irresistible temptation of a green smoothie as a cure all?
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The Unicode Consortium, the equivalent of the Académie Française for emojis, is part of a shameful plot to destroy the institution of marriage
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Adults only like themes of adolescence that matter to us. Do the teens care? Who knows – adults are boring
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Eleanor Robertson: Since journalist Sarah Koenig is essentially re-opening a closed murder case, we are going on this journey with her – and it’s revolutionary
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Eleanor Robertson: What ambient conditions produced the widespread uptake of Crossfit, a sport that would’ve been considered indicative of possible pathology just a few years ago?
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Eleanor Robertson: Born into a bizarro world controlled by baby boomers who have comprehensively shafted us, it’s a credit to our resilience and adaptability that we’ve managed to get this far at all
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Eleanor Robertson: This fight has been on permanent loop for decades – and the feminists who fruitlessly perpetuate The Issue That Must Not Be Named are often unacceptably ignorant
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Eleanor Robertson: Where are feminists on the issue of sex-selection abortion? Probably helping women with problems that are actually happening, the radical harpies
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Eleanor Robertson: Writing a social media bio is a kind of work, and it requires a skillset that many of us don’t have
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Eleanor Robertson: Harebrained schemes like this one are supposed to die the morning after you get drunk enough to think they’re a good idea
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Eleanor Robertson: The reasonable expectation that your opinions will be dismissed is experienced by many women as a real hindrance to participation in public life – just ask Erin Molan
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Eleanor Robertson: Dawkins in 2014 is a man so convinced that he possesses God-like powers of omniscience that he can’t understand why everyone is angry at him for pointing out the obvious
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Language policing and Twitter wars: why modern feminism is failing us (again)