Feminism
What does a lie cost?
I recently heard that Contrapoints (Natalie Wynn), a transgender youtuber, has been schooling JK Rowling on womanhood. I tried to watch it, but this type of saccharine play-acting, packaged as political debate, is more than I can cope with. Feminists I usually watch, rarely deliver opinion from a candle lit bath. She is more frequently…
Read MoreReturning to Feminism
I am on a journey back to a form of feminism that I am not sure exists. Many women like myself, stopped identifying as a feminist when our suburban lives ceased bearing any semblance to the goals spouted by the angry weirdos at the forefront of western feminism. While I was busy running a grown…
Read MoreWe need to talk about Karen.
Karen is the stigma, not of the woman, or even the white woman but the wrong voting white woman. Burdening the term “karen” with distasteful connotations, makes her not just the person nobody wants to be, but a target of legitimate harassment and violence.
Read MoreThe Criminals, Sluts, lunatics and Bastards I call my Mothers.
I have been reading Ruby Hamad’s theories that white women are complicit it in colonisation[i]. It didn’t bother me at first because what is colonisation but living in a colony and making a life and sure, white women did that. The title of the article was “White women were colonisers too. To move forward, we…
Read MorePowerful Women Abandon Child Protection
In the great gender debate, it is probably unquestionable that women are better communicators, more compassionate and are generally more empathetic. The very existence of Oprah and her massive success and wealth testifies to this. She is a woman that has built an empire on listening to people, really hearing their story. By doing so…
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