Posts by Hilary Stace
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Russell, Emma: I know these things can be tricky, especially when time is tight. But I haven't come across anyone in the Wellington networks who was even asked for suggestions. And who would have guessed that Chris Trotter would have to be the champion for feminism on a panel about academic women's studies?
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Belatedly, just watched the whole Media 7 programme last Thursday and even though it was good to highlight the issue about the GWS programme in Wellington closing I'm a a bit grrrrrrhhh about the portrayal of WS generally. It was a bit like having a discussion on autism and only asking psychologists. Why couldn't someone have been invited who at least knew about the Wellington situation? That young journalist hadn't even checked her facts. People continued to enrol in GWS in 2010 and again in 2011 in spite of it not being in the university calendar either year, and in spite of official notification of closure last year. They had to search it out. And still enrolled.
There has been a very active group making submissions and presentations for the last year who could have been contacted to provide information through the university students' association, Facebook page or union. Many work in media related areas. There are several retired prominent feminist lecturers who might have been available. And as I mentioned above, current students cover a range of demographics and are certainly not dominated by middle class women. It is a course where you learn about lots of things including countering otherness, discrimination, oppression. So relevant to many disciplines, occupations and policy areas. End of rave.
Now late for Giovanni's birthday.
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Up Front: Say When, in reply to Russell Brown,
Russell, thanks for that interview with John Campbell. Those of us who fought the imminent closure of the Gender and Women's Studies Dept at Victoria all last year thought it would to be great to get JC to comment, as he is well-known as a former student. Such as a sad decision to close it as anyone with the experience of being female would know. So much more to do. It was small, cost effective and had a wide-range of students across age, ethnicity and gender.
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Bernard Beckett was my son's year 9 form teacher. He taught a range of subjects from maths to drama, and could explain something scientific in a way that could captivate an adult audience. Don't know where he found the time for writing but he's written several, mostly for young adults. Genesis is worth reading. Lester, his first, is good too.
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Thanks for that fat-affirmation Jackie.
I've noticed the occasional older woman lately on TV. When Cher and Dawn French were on a chat show together, 90% of the attention and questions were to the skinny, plasticised and ever youthful Cher, even though Dawn is much wittier. Last night on Glee, Carol Burnett, as Sue Sylvester's mother, showed she could still command an audience and sing. But her face was so pinched and tightened it just looked painful. Message - women must not age naturally. -
That's exactly right Jackie. Older women are particularly invisible in places where there are a lot of young people around. I don't mind as I quite like the idea of being invisible. I also agree there are some even older women who are not so much rude as incredibly assertive in their effort to be noticed, as if they are fed up with being invisible and ignored.
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Why was Julian Assange (or his twin) tracking Hone Harawira on the television news the other day?
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I agree with Jackie that it might be best to leave this discussion to the men, but a question. If you do want more children, why not be a relief carer for a disabled child, or a foster father for a child without one? Or does it have to be your biological child?
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I also wanted to say thanks to the men who do have the vasectomies. It must be traumatic on many levels, and I didn't mean to minimise that.
My friend (not mentioned on this thread) who is a vasectomy doctor is lovely, gentle and funny, and I recommend him. But I think they must all be like that.
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It wasn't the pain so much as the big deal it seems to be for some to go to a doctor about intimate parts of your body. That's what doctors are there for. And nurses if you are talking about smear tests etc. But it seems to me that men are a bit phobic about even a simple prostate check. Women have to endure mammograms which are much worse. Vasectomies are, after all, a very simple and straightforward procedure for healthy men, and prevent women from having to endure much worse.