The Roast Busters actions shocked the nation, so what can we do about it?
I know this might be a paradigm shifting perspective for some, but violence against women is first and foremost a men’s issue.
Author: The Daily Blog
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Appointing King Kapisi – squeezing the real stories
The mainstream media is squeezing the real story. And the real story is that the Left are showing the much-needed signs of a force to be seriously reckoned with.
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#SurvivorPrivilege: because being raped earns you status
Conservative American journalist George F. Will claimed this week that being a survivor of rape on college campuses is now some kind of “coveted status that confers privilege” to the point where “victims proliferate.”
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‘Abortion Barbie’ is proof women’s bodies are still a battleground
Last Thursday, conservative street artist Sabo plastered parts of Los Angeles with posters he had designed – life-size images of a nearly naked Barbie Doll complete with a plastic foetus inside her abdomen.
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Guerrilla Girls call bullshit on Pharrell
The Guerrilla Girls, an all-female anonymous feminist artist collective, were invited to form part of an exhibition at the Galerie Perrotin in Paris called G I R L S, curated by pop singer Pharrell himself which opened on Tuesday. The show claims to “celebrate women who are above all free, liberated by artists and their boundless, unfettered imagination”.
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Fluency in the language of violence: The toxic masculinity of the Isla Vista Campus massacre
I have spent the last few days shedding tears and ringing my hands over the Isla Vista Campus Killings. I am horrified and angry, but I am not surprised by it. One of my earliest memories is of a man touching me without my permission because he thought he had ownership over my body; he thought I owed him something. I was only 3.
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Dads “ogle” young girl at prom… and she gets kicked out?
Making females responsible for the naughty or impure thoughts of others feeds into a culture that polices women’s behaviours. It shames them when they fail to act or dress in a way that adheres to entrenched expectations of how a women should behave.
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Reframing gang culture: humanising the inhuman?
I am not saying white people should not make work about other cultures that happen to be brown, what I am saying is there needs to be some moral accountability if you do.
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Poor people: they just need to buck up their ideas and change their attitude… oh wait minute
The New Zealand Herald recently posted the opinion piece, ‘Poor’ should stop playing the blame game by Eva Bradley a highly successful young business woman. In her article she offers a diatribe in relation to poor people blaming the government for, well, their poverty.
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The PI vote and political stunts
The mainstream media got quite excited a couple of weeks ago when a number of Pasifika church leaders were photographed at the Manurewa markets wearing blue, Key-people t-shirts.