Body Shop Boycott

I recently heard in the news (ABC and SMH) that Anita Roddick, founder of the Body Shop, has sold her company to L’Oreal for over $3 million.

‘A couple of years ago she attacked L’Oreal for employing only “sexy” women on its sales counters. Any differences appeared to have been ironed out on Friday. Ms Roddick [...]

feminist comes in Pink

Check out this article about Pink:
http://www.smh.com.au/news/people/
no-shades-of-grey-with-pink/2006/03/
26/1143330915834.html
She’s a feminist.
What’s her music like?

problem solving

This evening I jotted down psychological things I have been thinking about for a while. Questions such as: “Is it okay to allow someone to make your life easier and do what you want or is that irresponsible, infantilising, unfair and wrong?”
It seems to me that novels and short stories answer questions such as this. [...]

the email I sent to Tropfest

Dear Tropfest,
First of all, I’d like to say that I enjoyed my first Tropfest thoroughly and was very impressed by the quality of films – much better than most of the feature films I’ve seen this year.
However, I was annoyed and disappointed at the Tropfest advertisement with Vince Colisimo. The sexualisation of women in order [...]