Angela Shanahan mercatornet.com Angela Shanahan is a Canberra-based freelance journalist and mother of nine children. She has written regularly for The Australian for over 20 years, The Spectator (British and Australian editions) for over 10 years, and formerly for the Sunday Telegraph, the Sydney Morning Herald and the Canberra
Dane Giraud Free Speech Union The Free Speech Union is writing a ‘please explain’ to Christchurch City Council and its libraries after the feminist group ‘Speak-up for Women’ was banned from holding an event to discuss a controversial piece of legislation relating to sex identification. “This decision totally ignores the
Green list MP Golriz Ghahraman has managed to offend even more people with her latest round of Hamas Hugging. It was during those Iranian protests that a woman who removed her hijab on top of a pillar was ‘disappeared’ to be either executed or suffer a re-education. Back then Golriz,
Anne On Mother’s Day, it occurred to me that a biological man cannot recall the memory of morning sickness because he has never experienced it. He cannot know the nausea of pregnancy or the terror and love of squeezing a live human infant from his body. The labour of
In words that Jacinda Ardern would surely approve, to really achieve global peace and justice, we must come together to fight discrimination wherever we find it. Especially gender discrimination. Wherever and in whatever form we find it. Thankfully, Queensland’s crime and corruption commission is coming down hard on a
Michael Cook mercatornet.com Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet Dispatch from the Reproductive Revolution. Like the coronavirus, eugenics keeps morphing and mutating to adapt to new environments. In China, for instance, the government has been accused treating women “as the reproductive agents of the state, as instruments of
The governing conceit of the left’s now-default ideology, identity politics, is that a person’s identity determines everything about them. Most especially what and how they should think. So, naturally, when one of the left’s favoured identity groups steps out of line, the denunciation is as punishing and
Back in the bad, old days, women knew their place – which meant keeping their pretty little mouths shut and not interrupting the menfolk. Men took care of the serious business, while women obediently had babies. We’ve come a long way since then, though. Nowadays, we’re firmly on the
Forget the gender pay gap, the gender superannuation gap or the glass ceiling: there’s a real and urgent gender gap that demands redress. The gap in question strikes right to the heart of the wellbeing, indeed, the very lives of one half of humanity. The gender gap in question
The idea that the best person to catch a thief is a thief has been explored in countless stories and films, from The Stainless Steel Rat to To Catch a Thief. It even has real-life counterparts: hackers have been recruited to participate in anti-hacking initiatives. Still, those are the exceptions.
It’s obvious that Australia needs to urgently adopt gender-based employment quotas in order to address the growing gender imbalance in our workforce. As the economy begins to struggle out of the self-inflicted disaster of the Wuhan plague, it’s clear that one half of the population is being left
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past month or so, you’ll have been deafened by the outraged screeching of women. Well, not all women: just the tiny coven of permanently-outraged frightbats. Despite being amongst the wealthiest, most privileged people in the land, these shrieking fishwives
Dorothy Parker famously said that “Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone”. By which she meant that, while physical beauty might be on the surface only, a person that is an ugly, unpleasant miserable human being is that way all the way through. As we’
We live, as Orwell might have said, in a time of universal deceit. We live surrounded by lies about everything from race to climate. In keeping with Goebbels’s dictum, the biggest lies are the most fervently believed by a great many people. One of the Big Lies of modern
