The New Zealand Herald published “The F Word” in their online lifestyle section today. No need to head over to Cactus Kate’s now to read the whole thing online… ["The F Word" was an article on the shifting perceptions of contemporary feminism published in Saturday's Canvas (NZ Herald magazine insert). At least six women were [...]
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The New Zealand Herald prints “The F Word”
March 30th, 2010 No Comments
Tags: Cactus Kate · Feminism · MandM in Print · New Zealand Herald
The F Word UPDATED Cactus Comments
March 27th, 2010 5 Comments
In today’s edition of Canvas, the free magazine that one finds inside each Saturday’s edition of The New Zealand Herald, one can find, on page 12, an article entitled “The F Word.” This article features interviews with five prominent New Zealand women on the issue of shifting perceptions of contemporary feminism. Madeleine was one of [...]
Tags: Cactus Kate · Canvas · Caroline Fergusson · Emma Joyce · Feminism · Julie Fairey · New Zealand Herald · Sandra Coney
The Inconsistent, Condescending, Paternalism of Left-Wing Feminism
February 25th, 2009 24 Comments
What do these two pictures have in common? The Hand Mirror oppose both as forms of oppression against women. In the first one the woman is being “belittled”, “denigrated”, made the subject of “idiot chauvinism“, in the second, the woman’s clothing choice is “silly” and her “sexuality is being controlled by her father“. Now look [...]
Tags: Bad Reasoning · Feminism · The Hand Mirror
Why Do Feminists not seem to Care?
July 13th, 2007 2 Comments
I found this excellent article on Iranpressnews. It asks the insightful question why does the fate of Muslim women suffering under oppressive regimes not appear to matter to western feminists? And offers an insightful critique of the banalities and trivialities of western feminism.
My Body, My Choice? Yep, but not your Breasts…
July 1st, 2010 7 Comments
All the hoo haa over the article by Kathryn Blundell, deputy editor for Mother & Baby, entitled “I formula fed. So what?” has does nothing but simply further the image of women as irrational beings who cannot reason consistently. On the one hand we have the mantra “my body, my choice,” which is typically chanted the [...]
Tags: Bad Reasoning · Breast Feeding · Feminism · Kathryn Blundell