Will the daily body shaming and policing of women’s behaviour ever end? Apparently not.
The last few months have been particularly bad for the shaming and policing of women’s bodies in the media, both in New Zealand and globally.
Deconstructing Headlines
Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
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The mechanics of Cunliffe’s conference remarks
Americans call these deictic expressions. The effect is that DC is speaking on behalf of the audience, not to it. The technique is used to build a relationship with the audience. But it also goes further: DC is speaking as if everything he says is issued by “us”, the people. The heavy use of inclusive language opens the speech to the audience and lets them impose their own interpretations on it.
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Pretending to be Pacific
What I do know is that over the years there have been many forms of people wanting us to look at them and “pretend that they’re Pacific”. MP’s show up to church at precisely the 3-year election cycle.
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Declaring for Camp Cunliffe: here’s why
David Cunliffe could be a reconstructive prime minister and lead a big change government.