- Debutante Ball Tuesday, November 6th, 2012
MARCH 8 is International Women’s Day, a day when middle-class women, like myself, squat over mirrors and reflect on how far the sisterhood has come and what challenges lie ahead. My two cents worth? It’s 2008 and we still have debutante balls. How wrong is that? And on how many levels? The answers are a) ...
Read more - Politicians Wives from Kevin O7 election Sunday, October 7th, 2012
I’VE HAD a few good laughs this week. One of them was driving through Malvern and seeing large photos of Peter Costello’s face in people’s front yards. “Well, that’s an effective way to deter intruders,” I thought. But I wondered why people would spend all that money on landscaping, an automatic watering system and a ...
Read more - Erotic Fan Fiction Clementine Ford and Catherine Deveny by Canbebitter Friday, October 5th, 2012
I was sitting round a table at Albert Food and Wine with Clementine Ford, Stella Young, Emilie Zoey Baker and my boyfriend last night lsitening to Benjamin Law do a live reading of the Erotic Fan Fiction he had just done involving Corey Bernadi and a large dog at the Wheeler Centre.
Clem and I then ...
Read more - Alan Jones, Catherine Deveny. What’s the difference? Wednesday, October 3rd, 2012
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Read more - Jill Meagher. I thought my information was inconsequential Wednesday, September 26th, 2012
It was not an attack, or a near rape or an attempted abduction. Well it certainly didn’t seem like it at the time. Just a nuisance.
In July. I thought nothing of it. I mentioned it to my boyfriend a day or two later in passing. We shrugged. I’m a big girl, I live in the ...
Read more - Cunt. It’s an intelligence test Saturday, September 22nd, 2012
Cunt is a homophone. Like rose and rose, root and root, tacky and tacky and tender and tender.
Language changes.
Hilary has one. Trump is one. Got it? Good.
It’s just a word. Like cabbage, carrot or faggot. And you all know it. Stop being uptight white honky offence sniffer pigs in an attempt to look virtuous. It ...
Read more - Leadbeater’s Possum. YOU. ME. CARPARK. NOW! From Melbourne Zoo Debate Thursday, September 20th, 2012
Last night I did a Comedy Debate to celebrate the 150th birthday of Melbourne Zoo
To be honest I wasn’t thrilled to get the Leadbeater’s Possum.
I thought to myself, “How the hell is Melbourne’s noisiest atheist going to convince a bunch of inner city, latte drinking, Monthly reading, sarong wearing, ’let’s go out to a debate on ...
Read more - ‘Defending Deveny’ by Chrys Stevenson on QandA with Peter Jenson Thursday, September 13th, 2012
The stereotyping of atheists as ‘militant’ has now become so common it’s even used as a perjorative by atheists against other atheists.
“No, I don’t believe the state should fund religious schools,” I said at a recent meeting of the Sunshine Coast Atheists.
“Oh, so you’re a militant atheist, then?” responded one of our more elderly members as I sat before ...
Read more - Raising Emotionally Articulate Boys Wednesday, September 12th, 2012
Catherine Deveny has been busy of late, featuring in the recent SBS series Go Back to Where you Came From, and appearing on ABC Television’s Q&A program this week. She’s also preparing to have her first novel ‘The Happiness Show’ released in November.
In this piece for Sheilas, Deveny looks at the processes involved in raising emotionally articulate boys – a ...
Read more - Birthing. Don’t upset the doctors! Sunday, September 9th, 2012
Mothers and babies are dying in childbirth for reasons that could be prevented.
WHEN I mentioned to people that I was going to write an article on the large number of unnecessary caesareans, I was amused and alarmed by the extraordinary number of first responses that were, “You know that you’re really ...
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MARCH 8 is International Women’s Day, a day when middle-class women, like myself, squat over mirrors and reflect on how far the sisterhood has come and what challenges lie ahead. My two cents worth? It’s 2008 and we still have debutante balls. How wrong is that? And on how many levels? The answers are a) ...
