When a couple is so dysfunctional, so mad or evil and stupid, as to starve their twin babies to death in their own house (besides letting the preschoolers roam free in the street begging for scraps), guess which member of the equally culpable pair is made to carry the can, even now, in the 21st century? Read more »
Here’s a real head-scratcher for you: This article, by Elizabeth Farrelly, author of Blubberland.
After following a winding path through contemporary women artists (narcissists), feminists, who have “often wanted it both ways” (contradict themselves, don’t know what they want) and Germaine Greer (”Owns” the subject of feminism and sexuality), Farrelly ends with Mills and Boon and the bodice-ripper genre in general: Read more »
Shakesville has a series on bad advertising, or badvertising, too, called Assvertising. Here’s a post on the Hungry Man series in the US, picking up on the very real problem of girly food turning big manly men into girly-men!
Read more »People have been writing about the glass ceiling for years, but some women need to worry more about a glass floor. Read more »
After sitting on the decriminalisation-of-abortion report for some months, the Victorian Parliament has reported that it’s set to vote sometime soon on decriminalisation.
There are three options. The AGE report on Friday, annoyingly, didn’t put the details on the web, just the news report, so I’ll transcribe them here: Read more »
I have no personal reason to defend Caroline Shahbaz, outgoing change management consultant for the City of Port Phillip. I’m prepared to believe the report that she’s much too fascinated by new-agey woo (like thousands of other people both in and out of management circles), and vastly overpaid (like thousands of other management consultants the world over.) Read more »
The idea for this post is lifted shamelessly from Tigtog’s Images from the Mailbag post.My mailbag contains an invitation for a corporate night of fun and motivational speeches, like the one I wrote about here. Read more »
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