Jacinta Tynan is asking. Before I unpack this article, I just want to say that I’m very happy that Jacinta is enjoying being a Mum. That is fantastic. However, she is only one woman and her experiences do not reflect those… Read More ›
parenting
Baby kissing
Image credit: PM Julia Gillard and Treasurer Wayne Swan holding some babies. You know when you pick up someone’s baby you have that pleasedon’tcrypleasedon’tcry chant running through your head? I don’t feel it quite so much now that I have… Read More ›
Oh please, give us some credit
Bettina Ardnt is trying to whip up a panic about our unmarried but partnered Prime Minister moving into the Lodge, after being elected, with her bloke. It could be a bad role model for young women she says. I say, complete crap,… Read More ›
The lamb roast roundup: Mums and censorship
Feminist criticism of the “It’s Time to Tell Mum” anti-filtering campaign has shown up on several blogs:
So simple, even your mother will be opposed
My four month old has explained a lot of things to me. To date it’s been things like “it’s been four months and you still can’t tell the difference between tired and hungry? HERE LET ME SHOW YOU.” But I… Read More ›
A little bump in the road
Anti-immunisation doctor banned in the UK. As he is now in the US this will do little to slow him down. Appearing on NBC’s Today Show, Wakefield described the decision as “a little bump on the road.” He claimed the… Read More ›
Reconciling abortion with my motherhood
At some point during my own pregnancy I knew I would confront my pro-choice politics, not because I had had an abortion in the past but because I could have, and because I believe so strongly in my right to… Read More ›
Go on, ask me about the History of Metals
I just won’t answer for another hour or so, until we’ve got this Year 11 (!) Assessment Task (!) presentation (!) which I was first told “wasn’t quite ready” (!) about at approx 11:30pm last night handed in (Period 5).
Quickhit: Ex-magistrate dismayed by sex offender visit
A former Children’s Court magistrate says she is dismayed by a decision to reunite two young girls with their father, a registered sex offender.
Not friends again
This article in The Australian by Rosemary Neill is more a report on the lay of the land than a way forward but what it does do is spell out nicely the latest split to occur in feminism. Once again… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 