So I’ve been spending some time listening to YouTubers talk about gender. I spent an hour last night listening to a video posted by Blair White, a popular conservative transgender YouTuber.  In the video, she debated with a person who identified as ‘gender queer’ who calls themself ‘Contrapoints’. [1]  Seeing these twenty something kids debating…

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Lately, I have been feeling a bit like we have a sexual politics version of ‘McCarthyism’ emerging in our culture.  McCarthyism is named after U.S Senator Joseph McCarthy, and his post war campaign to weed out communists from positions of influence, the entertainment industry and business. McCarthyism is also used “more generally to describe reckless,…

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Earlier on this evening I was getting the feeling that this country despises me and those I worship with. I started writing a sensitive article about how deeply wounded I was, but then I just got grumpy again. My new sensitive self, started to emerge this week with Israel Folau coming out in favour of…

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I woke up this morning in horror at the realisation that I am a right wing fundamentalist Christian. This has come as a great shock to me as I know that “fundies” are hateful, stupid, ignorant people, of more dogma than morals. Why today? Why am I today such a scorned and terrifying creature?  And…

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