When you first see Rebecca Shaw’s neon-coloured book, ‘No to Feminism: 70 Reasons Why Femism is Bad for You’ on the shelf, do yourself a favour and don’t judge too soon. Take a copy down, hold it in your hands, and flip through a couple of pages. Better yet, peruse Shaw’s witty, tongue-in-cheek introduction and…
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Claire Van Ryn is a pro-life Christian blogger and writer for The Examiner, with a reputation for writing controversial articles that incite heated responses. And her most recent article is no exception. The piece is titled Women’s Rights Confusing Men, and in it Van Ryn talks about traditional gender roles and urges men to be…
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Dear Old Man at the train station, Thank you for sharing your Anti-feminist Manifesto with me, I have summarised your points as follows so we can keep track: That it is Feminist Marxists like Julia Gillard who have ruined families. That Tony Abbott has been unfairly maligned because he is a Catholic and male. (Feminist…
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I have never before given a shit about a fish. I grew up with goldfish after goldfish and even named some of them, but barely cared or even noticed when they died. I had somewhat more sentiment for my rabbits, but my reaction to their deaths was also pretty cavalier. The prospect of my dog…
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In her maiden Assembly speech on Tuesday, Liberal MLA Giulia Jones spoke out against feminism. Jones was elected to the ACT Legislative Assembly representing Molonglo this year, and is the new shadow Minister for Women. She began her speech by stating ‘As a confident, aspirational woman with strong traditional family values, I see myself as…
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What would we do without Google? Well I for one would be slightly lost, given that I receive alerts on anything to do with anti-feminism published on the Internet. So what does an alert on anti-feminism send to my inbox several times a week? The answer is lots of articles expressing disgust and hatred towards…
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The Melbourne Writers Festival has come and gone for another year. For three wonderful days I listened to ideas, discussion and debates about all manner of things. But the favourite was seeing and hearing Germaine Greer. I didn’t go to the keynote she presented but thought an individual session would be more about her own…
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#getlaid and #findaman were hashtags that accompanied a tweet from @louchambers who wrote that she ‘can’t cope with those feminists who refuse to shave their armpits to prove a point.’ The relationship between feminists and what they do or don’t do to their bodies has always been a point used by antifeminists to define the…
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