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.
Our privileged private schools: Entitlement protected by exclusion
While yesterday’s Shore School scandal made headlines, it also illuminated the divide between public and private education, and the conditioning it enables.
Australia’s poor old women
Despite women facing the wage gap, eventual poverty and possible homelessness, the government is quite happy to blame us for our fate.
Canberra’s recession response has been an exercise in refusing to take women seriously
Scott Morrison may have gone viral after he marginalised the concerns of pregnant women, but it is his androcentric approach to COVID-19 that is far more telling.
