Archive for November, 2008
Posted by Irresponsibility This shit ain’t right. Seriously. I’m wearing myself thin saying it but what’s going on with Britney and Jamie Spear’s conservatorship is a violation of human rights. Disgraceful. Free Britney! Share It del.icio.us Digg Facebook Google Live Spaces MySpace Newsvine Reddit StumbleUpon Technorati Twitter Yahoo! My Web
Posted by Irresponsibility In Australia every year there is an all-woman awards show that hands out ‘Ernie’ awards for revoltingly sexist behaviour (presumably the spend the other 364.75 days of the year trying to whittle down the long list). Consciousness raising is important. Hurrah sisters. Except for this: “The good Ernie went to Wallaby [rugby] [...]
Posted by Irresponsibility Dear god. Laura Bush, when asked if she had shared any advice with Michelle Obama during their White House meeting, shrugged and said, “I showed her the closets. I showed her all the things women are interested in.“ Speak for yourself, Mrs Dubya. I’m guessing Obama, a Princeton and Harvard-educated lawyer and [...]
Posted by Irresponsibility The general feminine simpering in blogland in response to Malcolm Gladwell’s latest ‘ooh, look at me, ain’t I clever?’ tome Outliers is maddening enough. Worse still, the shrieking fact that thus far seems to have escaped the critics, feminists and fawning profile writers alike: not only is Gladwell’s theory unoriginal, it is [...]
Posted by Irresponsibility It isn’t often the NME website yanks at my heartstrings, but its latest Britney Spears news is the most poignant thing I’ve read in a long time. Excerpted from the pop princess’s forthcoming ‘For The Record’ documentary (1 December, Sky One) Britney sounds desperate – and desperately sad. She says, of her [...]
Posted by Irresponsibility “Gotcha!” journalism is morally questionable in any case, but it especially sticks in my craw when it’s directed at 16-year-old brides whose family saved up to give her a fantasy wedding. “Missy Quinn’s just had a £100,000 white wedding with her 17-year-old now-husband Thomas. Even though her family live on a caravan [...]
Posted by Irresponsibility Another to file under close but no cigar: Rape Crisis Scotland has a new ad campaign out that most laudably intends to challenge our victim-blaming rape culture. The pictures are eye-catching and on-message, the whole thing drips sincerity but why, for the love of peter paul and mary, did they have to [...]
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