Have you ever finished reading a book that was so moving you had trouble knowing what to do directly after finishing it? You hold it a little bit longer and contemplate the fact that you can’t start another one right away because it seems like some kind of betrayal and you can’t really listen to…
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Hi Nicole, Yep, your phone conversation was a spark. >We think Ms. USA has accomplished less than say a >similarly aged woman who has a PhD. Even though I can >make the argument that Ms. USA has probably spent as>much time and effort into looking like she does as the doctor has in studying and…
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My sister and I have been debating about beauty as a means to power. She emailed me after reading the raunch culture article I wrote in the mag. I thought I’d post our first two emails here as a way to continue the discussion. First email from Nicole: R, I am slowly making my way…
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I was reading somewhere, can’t for the life of me remember where, about Disney and their sexy cartoon girls and how boys find the Disney heroines really erotic and that Disney does not make cartoons for women. I really have to beg to differ here. If you like your men boyish, then you can’t really…
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During Easter weekend, Exhibition Park in Canberra once again becomes home to the National Folk Festival. This year the National not only celebrates its fortieth birthday, but also introduces a brand new youth venue: AXIS. Following forums with young festival goers invited to discuss what they would like to see in a dedicated youth venue,…
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There’s a great article on teenage sexuality by Julia Baird at http://smh.com.au/news/opinion/theres-fun-to-be-had- between-the-flags-in-the-choppy-seas-ofsexuality/2006/04/ 05/1143916591654.html
Does anybody else sometimes find writing such hard work that you can only spend an hour or so at a go – get a paragraph or two written and then leave it until next time? Obviously I have times when an essay just pours out easily, but a lot of times it’s a real struggle….
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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?
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…
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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…
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Did anyone see the show on SBS about sex between a man and his non-human? I missed the beginning, but the cybersex stuff was creepy. The women were so fake looking I couldn’t figure out why that would be remotely attractive. The dolls, on the other hand, both life-size and doll size, were interesting. I…
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Check out this article: http://smh.com.au/news/opinion/the-tills-are-alive/ 2006/01/06/1136387622246.html It’s about magazine editors paying millions of dollars for the stories and photos of the stars. Sometimes I am impressed at how naive I can be or, at least, really unaware of how the whole publicity/popularity/starmaker thing really works. I had contemplated certain things, such as: 1. Has Kirstie…
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Well, working in the Office for Women and reading Germaine Greer has my mind going whir, whir, whir. Here’s what I think today: Feminism has really fucking changed the world. There’s so much we still have to do, but damnit, we’ve come a long way. All these arguments about abortion, contraception, IVF – its all…
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I should be doing more mailouts/consignment stuff, but I just hate this part so much, I’ve got to force myself to keep going. Thursday, Thursday I’m off work, so I can spend all day doing boring crap distribution shit. But that’s not what I want to blog about. I’ve finished watching the two seasons of…
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