Tag Archives: media
Quick hit: where are the fat facts?
There was a hateful article about fat in the Herald Sun this week (what a surprise). It was penned by Susie O’Brien, who has a long track-record of spewing forth vitriolic fat-shaming. I won’t go into any details because Bri … Continue reading
Filed under Body Image/Fat Acceptance
Blaming the mother and other plot devices
Sometimes I watch really bad television. Sometimes I watch quite-good-actually-by-disappointingly-low-standards television. Like last night’s episode of Lie To Me. If you don’t know it, Lie To Me is kind of like CSI would be if they just decided people were … Continue reading
Filed under Feminism
Dear Ms Freedman
Yesterday I received a comment on my blog from Mia Freedman. I wanted to respond properly, and at length, so it has taken me a while. Unlike Ms Freedman, I don’t make any coin from my blogging, and as someone … Continue reading
Filed under Body Image/Fat Acceptance
If only this were a real thing in the real world
We’re not big commercial TV watchers, especially in the morning/day, but I’ve seen enough to know that advertisements for toys have changed little in the last twenty years (although of course the toys themselves are quite different.) Everything is still … Continue reading
Filed under Feminism
Dishing it out.
Last night on the ‘reality show’ Masterchef, a contestant decided to forfeit her place in the competition in order to go home to be with her family. The contestant, Sarah, was a thirty year old mother – the youngest of … Continue reading
Filed under Feminism, Motherhood and Parenting
The daddy country
This article by Adele Horin appeared in The Age/SMH yesterday. Apparently new research by Lyn Craig of the University of NSW shows that Australian fathers spend more time with their children than those in other countries. Australian fathers, her study … Continue reading
Filed under Feminism, Motherhood and Parenting
This is a true story
*trigger warning for descriptions of violence against women* Scene I Setting: a classroom. Class has just finished watching Bowling for Columbine as part of a unit on documentaries. Cast: Me, the teacher (SM). About 20 students, average age 15, all … Continue reading
Filed under Feminism
Quote of the day
“You can leer at the 16-year-old as you would an adult woman, so long as you’re ignorant. Once you become aware of their age you must look away.” Mike Jennings for Stab Magazine, writing about putting a nude 16 year old … Continue reading
