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A lot of people have liked this page recently. Welcome! It's really good to have you here.
But in the interests of productive dialogue, I want to set down some house rules.
1. This is a feminist page. It is my page. I post about things that I'm passionate about or that interest me, or issues in society that I want to see change. These things include, but are not limited to, men's violence against women; exclusion of marginalised groups including disabled people, trans and g...
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I once shared a post written by a woman who said she witnessed some harassment in public transport. The story quickly morphed when someone who doesn't know the man claimed he was autistic (he isn't - not only did a family member confirm this to me but someone who works in the justice system also confirmed he had a long rap sheet) and I have since then been repeatedly accused by people who otherwise do not care about ableism of "bullying" an autistic man.
Well, here is an *actual* example of Internet vigilantes bullying a young man with an intellectual disability. Watch as silence ensues.
"Tara Brown's death was not a "tragedy" in the way Patea is attempting to frame it. This was a deliberate, horrific act of violence that formed the deadly culmination of increasing abuse perpetrated by Patea against Brown. I can tell him exactly how and why it happened – because no matter how much awareness we raise and feminist action we mount against family and intimate partner violence, there are still not enough people paying attention, and responses from law enforcement and the justice system are still not good enough."
This looks marvellous! I love midwives and without wanting to downplay the extraordinary work they put into achieving their qualifications and placements, I have often thought that midwifery would be another of my dream jobs.
Natalie (featured here) was my midwife at the Women's through the COSMOS program. She was the only point of contact I had medically throughout my pregnancy up to birth and I feel so grateful to have had her taking care of me and little babbity babbis. What an extraordinary woman she is, overcoming all those obstacles to get to where she is now!
If you're in Melbourne, go check out this exhibition. I can't wait for it.
Before commenting on this, I implore people to read the whole piece. This is not an attack on women who take their husband's name. It's an attempt at discussing how these choices are culturally conditioned and questioning what kind of free choice that makes them when they are neither equally reciprocated nor expected of men. If you are tempted to point out that women "just have their father's name anyway so what does it matter", please note that I address this in the piece an...d offer what I think is a reasonable argument to counter that. Finally, I'd like to acknowledge that it's frustrating that women still end up being the ones targeted by derision when it comes round questioning these choices when the critique should be almost solely reserved for the system itself with a good heft of the challenge being placed at the feet of its beneficiaries. Men, I literally do not care what you think about this or me or my marriagiability despite the number of you over at the Age page assuming that I do. Please note that your angry opinions on this will be pretty much ignored.
"In the case of marriage, there is historical impetus for the act of sacrificing your birth name to take up that of your husband's. That history is the transfer of property from one man to another - which included land, titles, and, yes, daughters. Continuing this tradition has implications for feminism that shouldn't be swept under the carpet because we've now decided it's a simple matter of choice.
Wanting to have this conversation and to discuss the possibility that it is cultural coaching and not "free will" that leads us to embrace these choices shouldn't be parsed as an 'attack on women'. Deeply held societal messages are delivered every bit as effectively as the most successful marketing campaigns, and it's absurd for any of us to pretend that this particular form of "aspirational life goals" advertising doesn't work on us.
Simply put, no choice is made in a vacuum, and wanting to interrogate why we choose the things we do is a sign of intellectual progress, not fascism."
CN: Rape, profiteering from rape, flawed justice system
These men *allegedly* raped that little girl. I believe her. I also believe that she felt too traumatised to be put on the stand because courtrooms are the least welcoming places for rape survivors to be.
And now an accountant claiming to represent these maggots is trying to negotiate a $250,000 deal to sell their story. Take note of where he works and boycott: Inca Partners. And if any media outlet takes this offer to buy their story, boycott them too.
Hey everyone - this is an organisation led by people of colour in Australia with the intention of fighting racism. They're only $550 away from hitting their fundraising goal with only 17 hours left. If you can chip in a few dollars, that would be amazing!
WOW. This is such great, loving parenting. When I was a teen, my parents always told me to call them after a party to be picked up no matter what time it was. This gave me the freedom to not to have to sneak home in cars with teens who may have been drinking. But this is a much better approach.
*files away for when babe is teen*
Read.
Maxine Waters is a boss. This write up her destroying the administration's inner circle is hysterically funny!
"One can't help but feel Riley is working out some of her own issues about motherhood in this piece. She implies that pregnancy, childbirth and motherhood are ordinary things that shouldn't be valorised. It's true that all of these acts occur in numbers enough to make it seem ordinary, but the trials and transformation that women endure on levels physical, emotional and cultural to ensure the survival of the human species is extraordinary. To witness the birth of a child is t...o understand this. Even while understanding that countless others might be at that very moment engaged in the same tussle between two worlds, the majesty of it all – the blood, the pain, the trauma, the fear, the love – feels so unique and monumental that the thought of it happening billions of times throughout history seems absurd. Beyond childbirth, the unequal labour demanded of women and mothers in particular is largely unsung despite attitudes that motherhood in the west is a hyper-revered state in which women who do not much of anything at all are unfairly fawned over. One of the things that's astonished me most about the responsibility of caring for a child is how so many women keep returning to it despite the dearth of appreciation that's shown for what is surely one of the most essential roles we can perform as members of an animal species.
But I have the privilege of taking this stance when reading mean-spirited and ungenerous words such as Riley's. White bodies like mine and Adele's and Katherine Heigl's (whose prudish comments about pregnancy Riley enthusiastically quotes in the opening of her piece) will never be subjected to the particular hatred that is executed against the bodies of women of colour such as Beyonce, especially when those bodies engage in the revolutionary act of bringing more children of colour into the world. When Beyonce stands before the world and defiantly owns her pregnancy, she isn't just challenging a basic misogyny about "women's work" but the white supremacy that differentiates between white women having babies (good) and women of colour – particularly black and Indigenous women – having them (bad)."
This is in response to Naomi Schaefer Riley's snide piece in the NY Post in which she taunts Beyonce for being proud of her pregnancy while remaining ignorant to the fact that the bodies of women of colour are not afforded the same respect as those of white women.
This is a brilliant, brilliant piece of writing about Milo Hanrahan. And why am I calling him that? Because it's his birth name. I assume he changed it to his grandmother's for a particular reason. But given he insists on calling trans people by names they have discarded, he can be treated with the same contempt.
By the way, it's long been obvious that this man believes in nothing but his own fame. His defenders - the ones with no sway or influence - are too naive to realise he not only doesn't care about them, he ardently believes they are beneath him. He's always craved the attention of the same establishment "Daddy" pretends to reject. His time with them is done though and frankly, it couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.
Wellington! This is happening in your fair city on Saturday night with proceeds going to Women's Refuge Wellington!
"In light of recent events, JAI Thai Boxing Gym will be hosting a class ‘Fight Like A Girl’ - a beginner's self-defence / Muay Thai class empowering women and men feeling defeated and low-spirited having to fight for equality, even though it’s 2017. We want women and girls who participate in this class to leave feeling stronger, more confident and with a renewe...d sense of love for who they are - and to have fun! All “nasty women” are welcome! 
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It’s appropriate that proceeds from this class will go to Women’s Refuge Wellington. Even if you don’t participate in the class you can make a difference by donating to this event through this link. Alternatively, you can come along just to watch the fun unfold!
After the self-defence class, I will be raising money the way I know best. I’ll do 30 rounds of Thai boxing, fighting for causes I strongly believe in. I want to show that as women we are tough, determined, and defiant in the face of injustices from wherever they come. I’ll be fighting like a girl, and very proudly so.
So it would be much appreciated if you could get on board and help me make a wee difference. Don’t sit there and think there’s nothing you can do - don’t underestimate the power of a community! Come dressed in pink, rainbow, black or whatever; look as glamorous as you feel. All welcome.
Date: 25th February (Sat) 12pm for the self-defence class, 1pm open-sparring of 30 rounds
Where: JAI Thai Boxing Gym, Victoria Street, Wellington.
Phone: 0211706387"
Content note: pedophilia, advocation of pedophilia, child sexual abuse, Milo Yiannopoulos, internalised homophobia
So, footage has emerged of Milo Yiannopoulos defending "cross-generational relationships" (not my words) in a recorded video conversation. In the segment, Milo argues that adult men should be allowed to have sexual relationships with 13 year old boys, and that these experiences can be enormously positive and formative for the boys involved.
Please note that a 13... year old is a child and an adult cannot have a consensual relationship with a child. This is not a 'sexual relationship' - it's rape, coercion, exploitation and child abuse.
For some time now, Milo has been the hero of the white supremacist movement and the Men's Rights Movement. Like many public feminists, I am frequently visited by MRAs who try to demand that I 'debate' Milo. I have no interest in legitimising the monstrous, abusive behaviour of a chronic narcissist like Yiannopoulos, nor do I care to give him yet another platform to share his lies and bullshit. He is an abusive bigot. He's racist, transphobic and misogynist and it's absurd that he's ascended as high as he has in the public's awareness. Now we also know that he endorses child rape and the grooming of young boys by adult men.
What I want to see happen now is the MRAs who have gleefully endorsed him up to this point not just distance themselves from THIS statement but condemn him outright and stop hailing him as a hero. There are some in the men's rights movement who, for better or worse, believe themselves to be there for the betterment of boys and men. Tell me, how does it help boys' lives to have one of your heroes advocating for adult men to prey on them and help them 'discover their sexuality'?
But I suspect there's going to be a lot of silence about this from them, which just goes to prove once and for all that they really do have no morals and no ethical framework.
A warning: the video contained here is likely to be triggering to survivors of childhood sexual abuse.
ETA: I thought it would have been impossible for Milo's fans to continue supporting him given his endorsement of paedophilia but nope. Turns out there's literally nothing they stand for at all. If you had any credibility at all before as people who at least claimed to believe in the protection of children, you've completely annihilated that credibility now. Good job! We didn't even need to do it for you. Give someone enough rope and they'll hang themselves.
I've just been alerted to this, which makes the Wicked Camper business model even more reprehensible. That gaffa tape slogan on one of the Wicked Campers? It had a human target.
"But when another journalist, Lucy Clark, then writing for the Sunday Mail and now a senior editor with Guardian Australia, took Wicked Campers to task in print in 2008, the company’s aerosol response took it to the brink of criminal charges.
The slogan “Dear Lucy… I can already imagine the gaffa tap...e on your mouth” was put on a van sent down to Byron Bay where Clark lived. Police told her this was grounds for a charge of threatening to harm. Clark instead decided to lodge complaints with the ASB."
For all those still arguing this is just a joke and 'freeze peach!', consider exactly what measures the company took to make a woman who was exercising exactly that feel threatened and surveilled because she spoke out against them.
#wickedcampers
#wickedcampervans
#notbuyingit
#sexismisntfunny
