Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: Fix up, young men, in reply to Russell Brown,
He certainly shouldn’t have said “twat” to a woman.
agreed.
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Hard News: Fix up, young men, in reply to Joanna,
Ah, that. Only time I've ever used the word in public. Here's how it happened.
I RTed a tweet by a (female) (Wellington) GP complaining that the 6pm TV news was running a non-story about Kim Kardashian. The declining state of our media was hardly a cold topic at the time, so I agreed with her.
Someone then accused me of only saying that was because KK was a woman and I was a nasty sexist. As it happens I find Brit princes equally irrelevant as 'news' and I said no, that was not where I was coming from.
Outraged students intervened that I was surely missing her brilliance as a media entrepreneur. A short while later the same person then had *another* go at me for being sexist, and the screencap shows my exasperated response - though you have left out the tweet I was actually responding to. Champion editing, there.
A minor pile-on ensued. Queen Stephanie Rogers triumphantly declared that see, I'm a horrible sexist man.
I subsequently blocked a handful of fuckwits, and made it clear I do not tolerate people accusing me of bad faith. I also apologised to all my followers for my lack of grace, and noted that tired tweets do not serve any of us well.
I trust the people who know me to apply some context. I trust eveyone else to be grown-ups about how language, politics, and their feelings interact. If you can't do that then feel free to ignore me. I'm not that important, really.
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Hard News: Fix up, young men, in reply to Deborah,
There's a great comic that explains this here: What men need to understand about sexual harassment.
That is wonderful. Thank you. Recommended read.
I'd add that people who seek to control or attack others always do so out of feeling weak, not strong. That's why they are invariably cowardly bullies who only pick on people they see as less powerful. Sexism, racism, ablism, etc does the rest.
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Hard News: Fix up, young men, in reply to Ali Gill,
Thanks for the link. Sweet article. The way TV adverts portray dads has always appalled me.
I've realised the instructions below are a bit geeky. If anyone wants to just put the whole address in like that, just paste it and the site will turn it into a link automatically.
It's only if you want to tuck it beneath some text that you need to use the square brackets and put the http address ('url') on the left of the vertical bar and the displayed words on its right. Hope that helps someone. :)
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Access: Disability as a wicked policy problem, in reply to Hilary Stace,
Quite. I see a few strategic people and a lot of practical ones.
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Great wero. Would never be broadcast on Maori TV nowadays.
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Hard News: Fix up, young men, in reply to Ali Gill,
this culture still exists because 'what makes a man' is still the same
Yes. We have not invested the energy into transforming men's understanding of ourselves as women have theirs.
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Hard News: Fix up, young men, in reply to raena,
You raised them.
as did all of us. #village
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Hard News: Fix up, young men, in reply to Joanna,
reducing to women to genitals
eh?
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Hard News: The CRL and the nature of change, in reply to Matthew Poole,
However it's still not an actual cost-recovery basis
Any evidence for that statement?
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