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The words people cling to

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The important point here is that we shouldn’t accept superficially casual dismissals of ‘vocabulary wars,’ ‘fetishization,’ or ‘language policing.’ We should look closely at the words people cling to with the most tenacity, even as they try to sound blas? about it..

Media Circus: Thatcher Dies edition

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I despised everything Margaret Thatcher stood for and used her power to achieve, but I’m finding some of the gleefully vindictive misogynistic epithets being chucked around by purported progressives is acting exactly as such micro-agressions are meant to act –… Read More ›

Friday Hoyden: Bernadina van Tiel

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I was watching a repeat of Schools Spectacular 2012 the other day, and folks, this girl. This girl. Her name is Bernadina, she was eighteen when she performed this, and she is about to blow your socks off.

Sexless frumps

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Australian men become, after a certain age, sexless. It’s as if they give up on their appearance once they’re into their fifties and they just look awful. So says comedian Lawrence Mooney and I don’t think he was trying to… Read More ›

Headshot of Zerlina Maxwell, wearing a black and white scarf

Friday Hoyden: Zerlina Maxwell

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I think that the entire conversation is wrong. I don’t want anybody to be telling women anything. I don’t want men to be telling me what to wear and how to act, not to drink. And I don’t, honestly, want you to tell me that I needed a gun in order to prevent my rape. In my case, don’tt tell me if I’d only had a gun, I wouldn’t have been raped. Don’t put it on me to prevent the rape.
Content note: discussion of rape, violence and threatening behaviour.