I totally understand the hesitation re links I put that one in because it's so very relevant and recent
... coherent. Happy for your comments Lara but be careful about use...
Gidday everybody from Panama, where I landed when the music stopped and everybody had to sit down in the nearest chair (just to be clear, I'm here to find warm water surf). My profession is as a technical market analyst. I have been doing this now for over...
Thinking that idea trough: If banks write off debt, that means the people who took out the loans do not need to repay those loans. As they're written off. Which may improve the % of equity they have in the property. And so leave them in a stronger position...
It's exciting and uplifting today to be a woman in NZ. There are still myths and stereotypes to be busted, and this birth busts a few. A few big ones. For a woman to be in the most powerful position in our country, and give birth while holding that ...
"Clearly you have no experience of dealing with the aftermath of abortion" I'm guessing you probably don't have experience in this. And even if you did, not every woman experiences it in the same way. For many women, finding themselves pregnant when they ...
IMO "gas the Jews" is pretty hateful... even if it gets a cute dog to give a salute and when it comes from a young white non Jewish male, it's not exactly punching up, is it?
"But maybe I misunderstood your original comment, and you were merely commenting that you are tired of confronting stuff you perceive as being (in this case) racist." Correct. That's all I was saying really. With the added thing that when I see this ...
It's subjective isn't it. As a woman who has a lifetime of harassment and abuse, I simply do not find funny sexist jokes that seek to keep me in my place. Making a dog raise it's paw to "gas the Jews" may be funny for plenty of people, but I'm pretty sure ...
I understand the concept of free speech. It's vital to a functioning democracy. AFAIK it's the freedom to speak truth to power. Most especially (but not confined to) the freedom to openly disagree with our government. To protest, to have published our ...
This is a chilling example of silencing. This is dangerous for our democracy. And no, that's not putting too much weight on it. Experienced, professional, qualified woman speaks out on an issue with which she has experience and qualifications and on which ...
NO and NO. When will it end? What population density would we like to end up at? Our birth rate is now just below replacement rate, and so our population is only now going to grow through immigration. We have the opportunity to control the population ...
God I love Al Bartlett. As an ex science teacher I have shown this in classrooms. I agree, it should be required viewing. For every high school, and every single person in a local or national political body. Because they're the ones making decisions re ...
Too many tenants are forced to move too often. The landlord wants to put the rent up again... kick out existing tenants and get new ones at higher rent. Land lord wants to have family move into the property... kick out existing tenants. Land lord wants to ...
1. Possibly for many landlords. But how much rent they can charge is more a function of supply and demand. It's currently in favour of LLs at this time, but not in all parts of NZ. And it won't always be in their favour in the future. Supply and demand ...
About bloody time. I've long hated letting fees. When rentals have sat empty in the market I've tried as a tenant to negotiate the letting fee, but the agents rarely consider it. They'd rather leave the property empty for a while and get their $$ from ...
Or... they could charge the landlord. The person who contracts with them and who benefits from their service. Who should pay the fee.
LMAO love this comment
"And that’s bollocks as well. It’s not about the strongest but about the fittest. The strongest aren’t the fittest as they tend to destroy everything." Well... not quite. Please see my comment to Tricledrown above. It's about fittest GENES. Not individuals...
As a Biologist, I'm so very tired of people who have only a passing understanding of Darwin's theory of evolution and the survival of the fittest mechanism, misusing it in relation to economics. Survival of the fittest refers to fittest GENES. Not ...
Really? Plenty of women manage to continue to raise families, hold down jobs, run businesses... and cope with menopause. IMO your comment does a grave disservice to all women, and perpetuates a BS myth that women's hormones make them unreliable / crazy / ...
It was a revelation to me when I came across this book. And I'm sincerely hope that it can be a revelation to others too, particularly cis white males. Kristin Schist wrote "Just One Of The Guys?" Link here. There's a small group of people in our society ...
Yeah, thanks gsays
I completely agree with you. Modern day online porn is very different to what was available before the internet. It's mostly filmed from a male POV. Very often it involves violent acts to women. There is rarely realistic depictions of female pleasure. Hair...
John, I'm so sorry that happened to you. It sounds like rape. And from one survivor to another, I send you a big hug. However, it's rather a stretch to be sure that a lot of men have a similar story. The research I am aware of would say otherwise. It's ...
No I did not ignore the context at all. More BS Anon. In this context it is even MORE important that moderation is heavy. Very heavy.
Like Patricia above, I too have been abused. I was a child and the adults who should have cared for me allowed it to happen. It's had a life long impact on my sexuality and life. From the most traumatic to garden variety every day sexual harassment, I've ...
Bullshit Anon. A lack of moderation allows the lowest common denominator to reign. And pushes out the voices of more vulnerable. Which for the topic of sexual assault and how we talk about it, is a very relevant fact. I have my own professional websites ...
I think you may be putting the issues of male violence and violence against men together? What I'm trying to get at is I'd like to see them separated. Most violence in NZ, particularly domestic and sexual violence, is perpetrated by men. But trying to ...
FFS what bollocks. I see this as just another attempt at what about the menz. Another women do it too argument. Women are afraid to come forward when they're sexually assaulted. Everyone, women, children, men and trans gender people are all afraid to come ...
IMO the #metoo movement is the most exciting thing to happen to women in a generation. Since NZ made it illegal to rape your wife (in the 1980's). It's long overdue. It's oh so necessary. Because our justice system is fucked and does not offer justice to ...
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