The Global North isn't exclusively a geographical term –it includes Australia, NZ, Canada and Japan among others. That aside, there's still a lag between formal and social equality for women in NZ, and the country's rate of domestic violence is an ...
In addition to the terrifyingly imminent realities of climate change, there’s the spectre of mass chemical and plastics pollution, and species extinctions. On its own each of these threats is too huge and terrifying for many people to grasp, in combination...
The fact that we all know there are a mass of way more pressing issues to be talked about and to organise around, is arguably the most important facet of it. The questions that have fascinated me for the past decade or so are : Why has gender identity ...
"15 total NZ surgery transitions between 2020 and 2022." Not sure if you misread the article, Ad, or are deliberately misrepresenting that figure but it refers to the "15 genital reconstruction surgeries" that are funded under the centrally administered, ...
I distrust the pharmaco-surgical and symptomatic paradigms that dominate medicine, so a government putting the brakes on these treatments for kids is a good thing in my view but we shouldn't lose sight of all the wider political and economic agendas. If ...
There are some strange harmonies in the Russia- bad, NATO-good chorus.There’s a definite smell of old skool patriarchy on the wind more widely and it’s almost like some men feel out-testosteroned by Putin. I keep bumping into blokes who I assume to be ...
Sabine, much of the foundation for SSID was laid under National / ACT governments. This has been happening since 1995. What's happening now in relation to BCs is the last card in the hand of formal and social rights needed to trump biological sex with the ...
They may get what they deserve but do the people of NZ deserve it - especially the economically vulnerable.
I am pleased some common sense is returning in this issue. We are only moderately dimorphic as a species but the average performance advantage natal males have over natal females is significant - 10% over all sports and rising to 25+% in weight lifting. ...
You acknowledge the inclusion of M2F trans athletes in women's sports is unfair because the average performance advantage that men have over women is not all lost when T levels are reduced, but you think it's more unfair for those athletes to compete ...
The key to understanding all this is knowing who funded / armed / trained the Taliban. It may well be that a deal has been done with a view to unlocking the mineral wealth of the country - ideological/economic solutions become the preferred strategy when ...
It's great to see a socialist women's movement re-emerging from the liberal feminist hiatus.
A couple of years back there was a tweet from someone referencing TFM and that video, which I hadn't keep a link to. I copied the link again but have lost it somewhere in the vast amount of stuff I have archived. I can't face trawling through all the woman...
Well, it's good you've finally made a decision, Andre - the issue's only been floating around on the left since 1990 or so. I first blogged about it in 9 years ago when this most marginalised and sidelined of all minorities managed to get a tampon ad ...
I didn't know she'd been away let alone been bullied. There's a lot of that about. I haven't commented here in a while either and it was seeing the utterly shameful way a TS stalwart was treated by some leftist men on Twitter that reignited my interest. ...
I admire your passion. To address the points you make in the latter half of your first post - I agree that kids in NZ don’t have GA surgery although some people think they should be allowed to. The Dutch Protocol exists because minors are not allowed GA ...
For me - and I do hope others are reading these posts - the political game was revealed when there was a shift from Women's Studies to Gender Studies. In part that was down to Second Wave feminism's over-emphasis on the social construction of gender and a ...
I'm writing a piece about female incarceration in NZ. It’s very depressing. Between 63 & 68% of our female prison population is Māori. Highest per capita incarceration of indigenous women in the world - in a crowded field. And we’re still up there in the ...
I hear you. I once said to an earnest young thing that without the biological reality of dimorphic sex there wouldn't be gender and I was called a TERF and blocked. Not much scope for moderate and nuanced debate with someone as high on sanctimony as that. ...
Okay I'll play. I'm old-school left - Red left as opposed to what the Chinese call the White left which, it seems to me, increasingly busies itself with tidying up Neo-liberalism's mess or darting about sprinkling glitter on its worst excesses. Apologies ...
A friend of mine was ruminating the other day upon the fact that one of her girlfriends had a dick, while the other was considering getting one and becoming a boyfriend. I listened to her for quite some time over a cuppa That could be a recruitment ...
Ok, so that's confirmation that GC theory and Conservative Politics are linked ideologies. Well, that's an extraordinary logistical leap you've made there. Are you illustrating my point that critics of GCF are more interested in hyperbolic rhetoric than ...
You know I don't agree with hyperbolic rhetoric or abuse on either side or on any issue - but as someone who's been engaged with socialist feminism for over half a century and the transgender debate since the early 1990s, and having watched the on-line ...
I agree Rachel Stewart is amping this up in a way that is unhelpful - ably assisted by those who oppose her - and I'm not going to give her a pass just because she's been in receipt of a mass of hateful abuse in the past. These are issues, the political ...
What's that saying about sarcasm being the lowest form of wit? Okay, I'll accept low grade satire and I accept it's from someone who's on a high from being dealt a get-out-of-misogyny-jail-free card to add to his already trump-filled hand courtesy of being...
I know the people who started SUFW and most are leftwing feminists - a large number are lesbian. Ani O started out as what I’d call centre-left and it’s true she’s moved rightward. But she wouldn’t be the first person to find her commitment to left-wing ...
"TERF isn't a slur" - proceeds to demonstrate precisely how it is used as a slur. And that last paragraph - well, if there was a prize for the most egregiously patronising BS ever written on The Standard I'd say that was in the running. What do we get from...
Climate change combined with increased water draw mainly due to irrigation for dairying but also increased urbanisation with higher expectation of water usage is going to cause crises here in NZ that we are not remotely prepared for. Here in North ...
38% of NZ roads are unsealed. We have a rickety old single lane bridge over the Hurunui River on SH1. We have parents being driven into the arms of loan sharks to buy school uniforms and stationery. Kids go to school hungry and without adequate clothing. ...
You might find this amusing - I did. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/feb/05/daily-mail-calls-rightwingers-stupid
So - assuming you were being serious - is it your contention that Peters made a false declaration on his application form 7 years ago in order to get a few extra dollars, thereby taking the risk that at any point - given he does like the limelight, his ...
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