Posts by Craig Ranapia
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Hard News: Rape and unreason, in reply to Bob Dobelina,
If my daughter came home and said she’d been wandering around in a park at night I’d tell her it’s a dumb thing to do and it’s unfortunate that’s the reality of it.
Bob - I spent the best part of two weeks in Germany last year, and didn't retire to my hotel room as soon as night fell. Didn't find it at all "dumb" to be in cities like Berlin with a civilized night life where women aren't presumed to have targets glued to their backs.
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Hard News: Rape and unreason, in reply to Russell Brown,
It would’ve been Shayne Currie to do that.
You're quite right. Tim Murphy was promoted to "Editor-in-chief of Herald titles" a little under two years ago. I apologize for the error, and regret any offence caused to Mr. Murphy who has more than enough flaws of his own (as we all do) without getting pinned for anyone else's. :)
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Hard News: Rape and unreason, in reply to Graham Dunster,
Bob Jones, Michael Laws – I refuse to read their rubbish
Sorry to sound like a broken record here, but the real question is why Tim Murphy didn't pick up the phone and tell Bob Jones it wasn't going to run.
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Hard News: Rape and unreason, in reply to BenWilson,
Definitely don’t disturb the man when he’s fishing.
I'm being dead serious, Ben. More than one someone had to at least cast their eyes over that pile of shit before it was printed. And none of them are people I'd have any confidence in going to if I was assaulted by a source out in the field, let alone sexually harassed at the office, because I don't think I'd really be up for a grilling on whether I took suitable "precautions" (like going to ground at nightfall like a reverse vampire) or whether my ankles happened to be provocatively exposed.
But, hey... not so long ago one "reasonable precaution" for women in the newspaper trade was not letting them work on anything more risky than typing up scone recipes and hard hitting reportage on this season's hemlines. I'm sure Tim and Bob would approve.
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He made two young women complicit in their own sexual assault, and he essentially drew up the proposition of deserving and undeserving rape victims. I’m sure that many Herald journalists won’t be proud to have their work published alongside Jones’ crap. Perhaps it’s time to ask whether they should have to.
No perhaps about it. Bob Jones deserves all the contempt he's getting, but let's not forget that his copy wasn't set, printed and posted on the Herald website sight unseen by senior editorial staff. If editor-in-chief Tim Murphy is happy to have rape apologist bullshit like this published on his watch, then I think it's time for journalists and their union to start asking some pointed questions about what 'sensible precautions' female NZH staff are expected to take to avoid being assaulted out and about, or subjected to workplace sexual harassment.
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Hard News: Friday Music: The Story, in reply to Russell Brown,
Another of many very silly things in it is the declaration that harmony and tonal quality = white privilege. Um … waiata?
Or a little closer to home for an academic in Charlotte, North Carolina -- the long and living tradition of African-American church music and the near incalculable influence it's had on black music from the Blues, through Jazz to Hip-Hop. When it comes to "white supremacist" othering and erasure of African-American culture, someone needs to check herself before she wrecks herself - and it's not Lorde.
Well, to be fair, that’s not exactly how cultural theory works. In that the text can unconsciously reflect societal attitudes without necessarily deliberately setting out to do so.
Sure, but it actually helps if the theory is actually grounded in some culture. Bonus points if you're modest enough to acknowledge that not everything is going to fit tidily into your theoretical construct, no matter how hard you wave your hands at it.
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Hard News: Friday Music: The Story, in reply to Russell Brown,
For the sake of completeness, here’s that Marxist one:
Well, that was a remarkably pretentious, flatulent way to tell the uppity bitch to STFU while the menz be talking. Isn’t tertiary education grand?
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Hard News: Friday Music: The Story, in reply to Russell Brown,
The imputation of a racial message to ‘Royals’ is maddening. She was specifically writing there about the Jay Z/Kanye album, which really is end-to-end bling
Even there, if you find the whole no-homo bling-and-bitches strain of consumerist hip-hop macho bullshit somewhere between “deeply problematic” and “fuck that shit” you’re racist? I’m not even going to touch that with the proverbial barge-pole because, among much else, that’s just ignoring an enormously complex and long-standing debate.
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In case it fell through the Saved Daylight gap, Attitude TV has posted the complete episode really quickly here
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Hard News: Friday Music: The Story, in reply to Matthew Littlewood,
Incidentally, Guardian journalist Alex Petridis’s recent interview with Sly Stone is utterly jaw-dropping.
That's one way to put it - and with all due respect to Mr. Stone, I think he was doing more to " take away from the ridiculous racial tension" just by having a band with white folks (and women who weren't just there to sing backup and wiggle their arses, not that there's anything wrong with that) making incredible music. Yeah, it didn't eliminate racism and sexism. But I think you can make a pretty good case that Prince's best band - The Revolution - would have been a more monochromatic, testosterone-heavy beast without Sly and The Family.
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