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Douche bags: Justin Trudeau takes on the manosphere in Melbourne
6+ hour, 52+ min ago (806+ words) April 25, 2026 " 2: 31pm Former Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau is increasingly worried about the rise of the manosphere, warning of its growing influence on young men. Perched on a bright red couch shaped like a giant pair of lips in Mecca's Bourke…...
I was cancelled from a feminist rally. I've got a strong hunch as to why
5+ day, 5+ hour ago (682+ words) April 20, 2026 " 3: 32pm Last Saturday, I got cancelled. I was on my way to give an invited speech at a feminist rally in Sydney's Hyde Park on sexual assault prevention. But before I had a chance to speak, I was disinvited. Evidently,…...
Right-wing tradwives have some advice for women " do what they say, not what they do
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (832+ words) Updated March 18, 2026 " 7: 29pm, first published 7: 00pm Something is happening with the tradwives of America. The stars of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives " who rose to fame by peddling the traditionalist lifestyle to a new generation via social media and are now…...
Why are people still scared of the word feminist?
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (360+ words) SMH. com. au March 11, 2026 " 4: 00pm Why are people so scared of the label "feminist? Why is feminism so aggressively and gleefully demonised? A majority of people in Western countries embrace fundamental concepts inherent to women's rights, yet a roughly equal percentage…...
Here I am, yet another woman wrecking the joint
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (651+ words) Have you heard? Women have been on the march, wrecking stuff with horrible traits like empathy. I've been so busy ruining things that I barely had time to file this column. But then if I didn't, I'd be passing up…...
Fifty years ago, I wrote a bestseller about sexism in Australia. So, what's changed?
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (539+ words) When the subversive and iconoclastic ideas of women's liberation began infiltrating Australia in the late 1960s and early '70s, women like me were thrilled. We eagerly absorbed these notions of rebellion. We were glad, grateful even, to have a counterweight to the…...
Kim Kardashian's latest controversial product may be hailed as feminist, but I don't buy it
6+ mon, 1+ week ago (916+ words) When you work in media, there is very little that shocks you. And so on Wednesday, when Kim Kardashian released a line of underwear crowned with faux pubic hair via her brand Skims, I was hardly surprised. I was, however,…...
People don't want to have this conversation': Virginia Tapscott's uncomfortable crusade
7+ mon, 2+ day ago (1167+ words) By Parnell Palme Mc Guinness Virginia Tapscott began to re-evaluate society's expectations of women after the birth of her first child. Credit: Edwina Pickles Tapscott has a "tradwife" vibe, but she's not easy to pigeonhole. Tapscott has written a book,…...
A dark satire of girlboss feminism and the cult of beauty
10+ mon, 2+ week ago (599+ words) Despite our best efforts, the pursuit of beauty for women feels like an inescapable project of distraction. Case in point: we're not entirely sure if the overpriced lash serum will deliver on its promise of longer, lusher lashes, but we…...
Erica Jong is a feminist icon, but to her daughter she's "an alcoholic narcissist'
10+ mon, 2+ week ago (635+ words) MEMOIRHow to Lose Your Mother: A Daughter's Memoir Molly Jong-Fast Picador, $36. 99 Molly Jong-Fast is the "only child of an alcoholic narcissist. As it turns out, that narcissist is a second-wave feminist icon: American author Erica Jong. In 1973, Jong published Fear…...