Category Archives: Children

What has happened to Greer’s feminism?

August 16, 2008 – 9:52 pm

I read Tracee Hutchison’s critique of Germaine Greer, and although I often don’t agree with Hutchison, this time, I think she’s spot on in her criticisms of Greer. In Greer’s essay On Rage, she says:
In considering the desperate condition of Australian Aboriginal people after 200 years of abuse physical and mental, we should not be [...]

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The Wisdom of Solomon

August 15, 2008 – 5:07 pm

And the king said, Bring me a sword. And they brought a sword before the king.
And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.
Then spake the woman whose the living child was unto the king, for her bowels yearned upon her son, and [...]

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Pregnancy is not an illness II

August 14, 2008 – 3:16 pm

I’m going to have to go on maternity leave early. Today was my last day of teaching. That’s the thing; pregnancy is not an illness, but it does put a lot of strain on the body, and it’s undeniable that it affects one’s capacity to work effectively. I had to finish early last time too, [...]

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Tantrums

July 29, 2008 – 7:02 am

My daughter is usually really good when we’re out and about. She loves to have an adoring audience. Yes, she’ll throw the occasional small tantrum, but it’s usually quickly resolved.
Yesterday was the exception. I really needed to get groceries because the cupboard was bare after our overseas trip. Things started out fine until we left [...]

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Thomas the Tank Engine and Hayek

July 15, 2008 – 7:40 pm

Now, you never thought to see those two in the same sentence, did you? Believe it or not, a law professor has analysed Thomas the Tank Engine as “a pro-market show, but a genuine, Hayekian coordination-of-information free-market type of capitalism…”
The poor fellow is recovering from an operation and his two-year-old daughter has commandeered the TV [...]

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Art Monthly stirs the pot

July 8, 2008 – 12:38 am

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, and all the crapola about Bill Henson and his nudie pics had died down, some hippie art mag decides to (a) piss the Prime Minister off and (b) bite the hand that feeds it by (c) sticking an arty nude pic of [...]

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It’s a boy…I can prove it!

May 31, 2008 – 10:12 am

In comments on the Bill Henson post, Deus Ex Macintosh said:
Pr*n is a definition of taste rather than fact (see my previous comment). Nowt wrong with naked kids and in the bath is fine, just don’t flash the ones with their legs wide open in public. Thanks to digital photography it’s now easy to delete [...]

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The Left Hand of Darkness

May 26, 2008 – 9:03 am

The other day I was reading Ursula Le Guin’s novel, The Left Hand of Darkness. I hadn’t read it for 10 or so years; I had forgotten what an excellent book it was.
Shortly, the book involves a male human diplomat and explorer arriving in a world, Gethen, where the sentient inhabitants are humanoid androgynes. For [...]

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Legal Eagle, Planet Slayer…

May 20, 2008 – 9:17 pm

On the ABC children’s television website, there is a page for a show called Planet Slayer, involving a girl called Greena and her dog Schpinkee who save the world by defeating evil woodchippers, using “non-chemical cleaners” and being vegetarian. [I always wonder when something is billed as "non-chemical"...what IS it made of then? The space between electrons?]
Well, [...]

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Belated Mother’s Day post

May 13, 2008 – 11:17 am

I don’t feel like the best mother today. My daughter was sick last week, and didn’t have to go to creche. I don’t think she had quite realised that she would have to go back this week now that she was better. She screamed “NO CRECHE, WANT TO STAY HOME WITH MUMMY!” and kicked the [...]

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