Feminism
‘Hamas Hugger’ of the Day
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
We Need to Talk about ‘Laurel the Lifter’
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
Ending Gender Discrimination in the Queensland Police
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
‘Uterine Morality’: Feminist Eugenics in China
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
Stoker Takes Stand against Late-Term Abortion
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
Female Olympians Told: Shut up and Know Your Place
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
Light a Durrie for Equality, Girls
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
UN’s Dirty Little Secret Vote
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
Australia Desperately Needs Workforce Gender Quotas
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
The Latest Feminist Lie About Women’s Earnings
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
More Standards Than Chins on the Left
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’
Pink Imperialist Hunts for ‘Broody Lesbians’
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
3 Post-war Innovations That Liberated Women
Simon Sarevski fee.org Simon Sarevski is a research assistant at the Austrian Economics Center. He holds a bachelor’s degree in financial management from Ss. Cyril and Methodius and is involved with European Students for Liberty. In ancient Greece Plato could be found advocating women’s rights, arguing that
Quotas Only Float Rubbish to the Top
Like it or not, Margaret Thatcher must surely rank as one of the most successful women in modern political history. With 11 years in office, Thatcher was the longest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century. But beyond that, she fundamentally reshaped politics in the Western world for decades.