Tag Archives: condescending bullshit

Mansplaining encapsulated

Posted on May 5, 2013 by

Ah, Twitter.  I knew exactly what I was getting into when I posted links to the most excellent Mansplained Tumblr, but this one is just so perfect. Because @otherdavidsmith, after seeing a retweet on this post – which involves an … Continue reading →

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Evil transexuals bully innocent white cis lady!!!!

Posted on January 15, 2013 by

[Content warning: transphobia, silencing, white cis women's tears] Note:  since drafting this piece, the Observer and thus the Guardian have taken down Burchill’s piece with this editor’s note attached: We have decided to withdraw from publication the Julie Burchill comment … Continue reading →

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Protect marriage! No, really

Posted on July 29, 2012 by

Yep, in no time at all Bob McCoskrie and all his little friends have put up a vomitously saccharine anti-marriage-equality website, full of all your favourite memes: Marriage is about babies! Yet we let infertile couples marry.  We let trans … Continue reading →

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Antichoicer shockingly fails to provide “full information”

Posted on June 15, 2012 by

Well, would you look at this little tidbit from the Southland Times, an organ which surely I’d never thought would warrant one, much less two posts from my Wellytown-centric blog … Dr Norman Maclean, a former Southland Hospital obstetrician and … Continue reading →

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Ready your bingo cards: antichoice opinion in the Southland Times

Posted on June 13, 2012 by

Courtesy of Bryce Edwards, who thoughtfully compiles and categorises links of Kiwipolitical interest so other people don’t have to, I have come across an absolute doozy of a primer on antichoice rhetoric from the Southland Times. I will pause for … Continue reading →

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Fighting the patriarchy in lipstick vol. 2

Posted on April 14, 2012 by

Part 1 of this post was published yesterday.  Check it out, ’cause it’ll probably make this post make more sense. 3.  A life lived in stress is a life half-lived Let’s assume, for this section, that one completely rejects the … Continue reading →

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Fighting the patriarchy in lipstick vol. 1

Posted on April 13, 2012 by

This post got a little long, so tune in tomorrow for part 2, in which I reserve the right to manage my own spoons, we note that a life conforming ain’t perfect either, and I get to the point.  Kinda. … Continue reading →

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Several interesting things

Posted on October 14, 2011 by

1.  Jordan Carter and Scott Yorke both post about Trevor Mallard’s historic “Tinkerbell” comments, targeting Stephen Wittington, ACT candidate, and David Farrar, National pollster, for raising said comments following the announcement of Labour’s policy on same-sex adoption. 2. Apparently neither … Continue reading →

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Pregnant teens deserve privacy and the SST needs a remedial journalism class

Posted on May 22, 2011 by

As a friend tweeted, remember the time I got trashed because abortion was a dead issue and no one really cared about it and our laws weren’t going to change any time soon so why didn’t I get back into … Continue reading →

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Way to dispel that “condescending Papa Bear jackass” rep, Chris

Posted on March 25, 2011 by

It’s okay, ladies, we can stop now. We can put down our keyboards and go back to our kitchens, tie a picture-perfect bow in our polka-dot pinnies, and get to baking some cookies to reward a man who truly deserves … Continue reading →

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