On a high-school trip to Central Australia in the early 1980s, we paid a visit to a camel farm. The cameleer was very an old-school Territorian bushie, all leathery skin, beard and no-bullshit attitude. When someone asked about Aboriginal culture, his answer shocked all of us. “A lot of people’
New figures regarding domestic homicide in Australia contain both good and bad news. The good news is that domestic homicide has declined dramatically, to its lowest-ever recorded levels. The bad news is that it persists particularly in two key demographics. Both of those are very bad news for the feminist
Kaitlin Bennett tells the story about how she went from a biology major to a viral internet sensation. If you have a great Youtube or Vimeo video to share send it to videos@thebfd.co.nz
I have never known of a person who does so little and yet gets so many accolades. Jacinda Ardern, our laziest and most ineffective prime minister of all time has now been given yet another award. She has been named ‘Pacific Person of the Year’… although exactly what she has
I never watch the awards shows nowadays. I used to love them. The glamour, the emotion, the suspense, wondering if your favourite movie will win ‘Best Picture’ – it all used to be a fascinating part of the entertainment industry. I particularly loved the gowns. No ordinary person would ever dream
Most excellent news last week out of Australia: the fightback against dodgy pretend females taking over women’s sport seems to be starting. You may recall seeing Callum (Hannah) Mouncey back in 2017 when SB wrote about him being denied the opportunity to play Aussie Rules in their Women’s
In a recent case involving an Australian woman who murdered her children, there was something particularly notable about public commentary. Almost every commenter expressed sympathy for the murderer, with much sorrowful head-shaking about mental health. Compare that with the response to, say, the man who threw his young daughter to
At the present time, the IOC has changed their guidelines to say that self-identified women can compete against women, so long as their testosterone level remains below 10 nanomoles per litre (nm/l) for 12 months. On average testosterone levels are; * Men between 7.7 and 29.4 nm/l,
Writer Germaine Greer spoke to Loose Women today on the recent news that students are shunning free speech on university campuses. She also talks about the criticism she has faced for her writing in the past and feminism in 2019. From series 22, broadcast on 13/11/2019 If you
Talk is cheap but ACT leader David Seymour has put his words into action. An organised group of Trans activists has bullied and twice now, deplatformed a feminist women’s rights group, preventing them from holding a feminist event with an overseas speaker. Initially the feminist event was going to
A branch of KFC has converted it’s toilets. Previously it had a toilet for men and a toilet for women. It’s kept the men’s toilet as men-only, but now the women’s toilet is also for men. ( source Twitter)
When interviews go wrong (or right, depending on your viewpoint), they’re genuine car-crash entertainment. Sometimes it’s a grandstanding interviewer pulled up short, as Margaret Thatcher famously did, when she demanded that George Negus name the “people [who] say”, or when Jordan Peterson famously humiliated Cathy Newman by refusing
PA Pundits – International Katrina Trinko Katrina Trinko is the editor-in-chief of The Daily Signal at The Heritage Foundation and co-host of The Daily Signal podcast A friend of mine has an amusing tale of a heated fight she got in as a child with her then-teenage brothers that culminated in
It´s convenient that Greta Thunberg is from Sweden so that the politicians here can ignore the real issues for a moment. If you have a great Youtube or Vimeo video to share send it to videos@thebfd.co.nz
No Face Just when I felt a scrap of sympathy for Speak up for Women because Massey University deplatformed them… I joined their mailing list to read some of their articles. The first article in my mailbox pissed me right off and I was once again reminded why I dislike
