It’s long faded from the collective memory, but 35 years ago, the “Ormond College Affair” was a hot-button issue for Australia’s chattering classes. It was also a precursor of the whole “MeToo” witch-hunt: vengeful harpies weaponising anonymous – and, as a court later decided, false – allegations of
One thing I’ve wondered about is what the “T” is doing in LGBT. “Lesbian”, “Gay” and “Bisexual” refer to sexual orientation, who you prefer to sleep with. “Transgender” has nothing to do with sexual orientation. Further, someone who is transgender can be gay, lesbian or bisexual. “So what?” you
When Yassmin Abdel-Magied bellowed that Islam, to me, is THE most feminist religion, an idiot’s chorus of the Australian left-media honked agreement. “She is right,” barked The Guardian. The Bible of bourgeois, Double Bay feminists, Mamamia, almost broke their Jimmy Choos in their rush to defend Abdel-
Information Opinion It wasn’t so long ago that we saw Auckland’s mayor de-platform speakers who had views that he didn’t like by taking away the council facilities that they had booked. He did it at the last minute, making it almost impossible for them to find
Lainie Anderson University of South Australia Lainie Anderson is writing a murder mystery novel based on the policing career of Kate Cocks as part of a PhD in Communication at the University of South Australia. She’s been a columnist with Adelaide’s Sunday Mail since 2007. In 1915, an
I won’t name names, but for many years the local football was on a years-long losing streak. Their response was to repeatedly sack coaches after a season while keeping the same roster of players. When I raised this over a beer or two, a friend responded, “Cos it’
“Dumbing down” is a concept first applied to education. It’s the too-often-demonstrated reality that, if students find their lessons too hard, educators opt to make the lessons dumber, because it’s easier than trying to force students to think harder. But “dumbing down” has come to be
Information Opinion One of the paradoxical aspects of Abraham Lincoln’s presidency was the strong criticism he received from the Anti-Slavery League (of all people!). Many members of that league had earned a good living and received a great deal of attention, which was unlikely to otherwise be directed
Anyone who thinks that women aren’t being erased from the public sphere is just not paying attention. In a particularly egregious example, a recent awareness campaign for ovarian cancer featured… drag queens. That’s right, men in misogynistic blackface were the public face of an illness that can by
Apparently nobody ever explained to Charlotte Kirby of Cambridge what “unisex” means. The British event manager was, she says, shocked — shocked! — when she used a unisex change room in an outlet of fashion retailer Primark, and two men walked in. The event manager, 25, took to her TikTok @charlottemkirby to
In a 1972 cartoon, graphic novel master Will Eisner satirised the hippy “Underground Comix”, portraying them as a bunch of low-brow, scatological neanderthals, accusing each of other of “Establishment Tendencies”. But, in a corner of the cartoon, one of the drooling Morlocks scrawls, “I have just discovered a horrible
As I reported recently, the dismantling of the Tavistock clinic in the UK is just another sign that the tide is turning on the gender wars. The Stonewaffen is suffering yet another defeat: their right to bully and cancel is slowly, quietly, being withdrawn. And now, The Guardian is turning
Talk about ‘Simpsons did it!’ In one episode of the venerable TV show – back in the halcyon days before it jumped the shark – Springfield Elementary tries to empower the girls by separating them from the boys. In the girls’ ‘maths’ class, Lisa is dismayed that the maths lesson” consists of
Truth and activism rarely go together. In fact, as ex-Muslim activist Sarah Haider recently pointed out, rigorous truth-seeking is anathema to activists. Because an activist’s primary motivation is to advance whatever their goal is: if the facts contradict that goal, then flagrant disregard for the truth is
And, just like that, all the “transgender” athletes melted away like snowflakes. In one of the biggest rebukes of the nonsensical notion that men can become women just by saying so, Fina, the world government body for swimming, has ruled that “transgender” athletes will be barred from competing in women’
Kimberly Ells mercatornet.com Kimberly Ells is the author of The Invincible Family: Why the Global Campaign to Crush Motherhood and Fatherhood Can’t Win and is a policy advisor for Family Watch International. Matt Walsh’s documentary What is a Woman? exposes the fact that many people, at least
