Faced with our righteous fury, they gave us the ‘consent’ app
On Monday, women angrily marched for justice. Yesterday, we endured Mick Fuller’s ‘consent app’ idea. Clearly, we’ve evolved. Men have not.
How she remembers it/How he remembers it
This week has reinforced that the weight of memory is carried by the victim. The perpetrator can choose not to remember.
The discrepancy between ‘cancel culture’ and actually being silenced
Those who decry ‘cancel culture’ are actually highlighting the power they hold, and the dissimilarity between being cancelled and being silenced.
Women as prey: Footballers evoking the ‘bad sex’ defence is telling
This week, despite the horrific details, two NRL players accused of rape claimed that consent was present, and the women were to blame.
Oh, for the confidence of a mediocre white male vice president
The Vice Presidential Debate boiled down to yet another extraordinary woman being comprehensively patronised, lectured and interrupted by yet another deeply mediocre man.
