In the late 1960s, Blue Mink wrote a song called Melting Pot, which yearned for a world where there were no differences between us: What we need is a great big melting pot Big enough to take the world and all it’s got And keep it stirring for a hundred years or more And turn […]
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Tag Archives: Gender equality
Through the rose-coloured looking glass
July 9, 2013 
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Anne Summers, in her new online magazine Anne Summers Reports, is very proud to have conducted Julia Gillard’s last major interview and clearly still very angry over how appallingly our recently ousted Prime Minister was treated by ‘so many in this country’. But before I come to the content of the interview, I will say […]
Continue readingAll sexism is offensive but not all that is offensive is sexism.
June 18, 2013 Comments Off on All sexism is offensive but not all that is offensive is sexism.
You will often hear uttered, from women who don’t subscribe to the whole feminism package but who nevertheless wish to add their voice to the gender equality debate, that well known phrase ‘I’m not a feminist, but…’ You are less likely to hear, however, the phrase ‘I am a feminist, but…’ This is because the […]
Continue readingBugger Off, Feminist Movement.
February 22, 2013 2 Comments
Yesterday I read on Daily Life a transcript of an interview between regular contributor Clementine Ford and feminist stalwart Anne Summers. During this interview, Summers laments the fact that only 38 per cent of educated Gen X women are in full-time jobs compared to 90 per cent of educated Gen X men. Why aren’t more […]
Continue readingMEN SOLD FOR FOOLS
July 28, 2011 Comments Off on MEN SOLD FOR FOOLS
VB’s ‘Real Men’ campaign It is often said that media reflects and influences the cultural attitudes of the day. To date, there has been much talk about how women are portrayed in the media. Much analysis of the media has been influenced by the second wave of feminism, or the ‘women’s liberation’ movement, which came […]
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The Bowditch Pitch 