B'Old opinions – B'Old doings – just B'Older, and loving it
I have just finished reading Clementine Ford’s new book Boys Will Be Boys - and boy, are there some truths in there to work up a fine head of steam over. After pumping a generous amount of it through my veins, I’ve still got enough spare to power a locomotive! Which is exactly what Clementine …
As age came knocking at my door, much of the drama that youth thrives on slipped quietly out the back door bit by bit. Once all that emotional and mental chaos departed - and I really wasn’t the biggest accumulator of emotional and mental chaos I knew - I got a clearer view of pretty …
You know how you think you know yourself, and then something happens that throws a spanner in the works? Maybe - like me - you’ve got a few hard-won years under your belt, and you’ve really worked some stuff out. Then you take a personality quiz. You try not to, because you know that a …
Continue reading Reinventing Ourselves the ‘Dungeons and Dragons’ Way.
Clementine Ford is an Aussie feminist who doesn't mince words - We don’t need to keep lamenting the loss of opportunities for men who squandered the privilege of that position in the first place. The rising tide of famous men named in the post-Weinstein era of the #MeToo movement has exposed what many of us …
I follow a feminist page on Facebook. Yep, it’s a minefield. It’s never not explosive. Never ever. Although I find the original posts thought-provoking for the main part, I rarely contribute, because I’m just not strong enough for the shit-storm that follows every time. Both feminists and anti-feminists - women and men in both camps …
Continue reading I Think I Kinda Get It Why Men Don’t Get It
My cousin wasn’t having a bar of it. She called me names that I’d never been called before. Well, actually that last bit is a lie - I have been called a sook, a woos, and a big baby plenty of times before, and not just during my baby years. Most memorably, from my point …
Continue reading Whereby I get off my Arse, and go to a Party
Women of America, know that you are in the thoughts of many women across the globe during these difficult days of seeing your hard won rights come into danger of being eroded. However, we also know that you will come out fighting like never before, and there will be new rules in place this time. …
