Aging is an extraordinary process, where you become free to be the person you always should have been – David Bowie.
When a right-wing pale male politician in Australia in 2016 called a senior female journo a “mad fucking witch”, there were some women who thought “well, that’s one thing you got right”. And they created a group with that very name (https://www.facebook.com/MadFckingWitches/). Double, double toil and trouble, is exactly what they intend to bring down …
Continue reading Hail to the ‘Mad F8cking Witches’ of Australia.
Just when we thought that there had been enough outcry over ‘talented’ rapists being let off with light sentences, and that judges will now think twice about it, a New Zealand judge does it again! An eighteen-year-old sportsman sexually assaulted a fourteen-year-old girl, and then a few months later raped another girl. Who knows how …
Continue reading Here We Go Again! NZ Rapist too “Talented” to get more than a light sentence.
In a move entirely in keeping with their customary practise, the new English bosses of Aotearoa New Zealand forced the Waiohua Māori off their land, because in 1863 that’s what the English did. They then sold that land to another English person. The English weren’t the only Europeans to give indigenous people in newly occupied …
I recently read some rather astute words by a writer of an opinion piece, who had heard them from someone else (who probably heard them from someone else): “Do whatever you want with your life – but don’t have kids with a dickhead.” Actually, feckin amazing words! And, one of the best pieces of advice …
Continue reading Do whatever you want with your life – but don’t have kids with a dickhead.
What a hoot it was when a couple of young women gave up their bus seats for us. Sis and I were holidaying in Sydney, in fine fettle, and were amused to get the first indication that we were ‘old’. It’s not like we were delusional about our ages – we knew that we appeared …
Let’s be clear on how a pregnancy doesn’t happen: a woman’s eggs don’t invade a man’s testicles, take his sperm hostage, and fertilise themselves with their unwilling victims. Unless a man is the victim of a sexual assault by a woman, he freely ejaculates into her, and one of his sperm takes up residence in …
Continue reading Sperm Control – or, how to prevent abortion.
I have to admit that I’m very much liking the e-bike I have a loan of at the moment. Being of ‘wiser’ years now, accompanied by a distinct unwillingness to thrash myself into fitness anymore, this e-bike is proving to be rather a joy. Any day is a good day for biking, because I know …
So, the US couldn’t spare anyone to attend the Christchurch Call conference in Paris. Quelle horreur - the very thought of signing up for something that might actually be progressive! “Good idea,” they said diplomatically, “but just not our cuppa tea (sub-text: not really a good idea - it might take us forwards instead of …
Continue reading The USA has a Clever Plan to Combat Online Extremism: Tots and Pears.
We cackle together in cahoots at our joke. My sister and I have known each other for sixty-one years, and we can say the sort of stuff to each other that we can’t say to anyone else, and expect them to get it. I’m in Westport on the West Coast of the South Island, population …
Today, I “arsed off” my foot scooter. That’s what we say here, when the involuntary dive to the ground is spectacular. And spectacular it was. Not least because it was right near a busy intersection with a hundred-thousand-million spectators, which caused as much hurt to my pride as it did to my sixty-one-year-old body. Although …
Continue reading How to do a Really Unsuccessful Dive off a Foot Scooter
Aging is an extraordinary process, where you become free to be the person you always should have been - David Bowie.
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