Posts by Megan Wegan
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Hard News: How much speech does it take?, in reply to Russell Brown,
Typing classes would have been a lot more use to me than bloody woodwork ever was. OTOH, being rubbish at something was probably salutary, little smartarse that I probably was.
Whereas I got in trouble at school for refusing to participate in sewing classes because they were outdated and reinforcing gender norms. Snotty little 13 year old that I was.
Now, I wish I could sew. Also, type.
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Hard News: How much speech does it take?, in reply to Carol Stewart,
Breivik’s grudge against society appears to have its roots in the humiliation he felt at being forced to learn to knit at Smestad primary school in Oslo.
Oh, hell yes. EVERY time I offer to teach someone to knit, I am attempting to feminise them. Was that meant to be a secret?
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Hard News: How much speech does it take?, in reply to Emma Hart,
Yes, and where the bloody hell are you? Living in a whole different city to me, that's where.
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Hard News: How much speech does it take?, in reply to Bart Janssen,
This is what I'm saying. What I want to know is where is my non-critical metro soul mate?
That being said, Kiwiblog is several orders of magnitude worse.
Oh, very much so.
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Hard News: How much speech does it take?, in reply to Rich Lock,
This take on the Norway events comes at it from a male-threatened-by-female approach, which is an interesting perspective.
Not to be flippant, but
In that setting, men are not men anymore, but metro sexual and emotional beings that are there to serve the purpose as a never-criticising soul mate to the new age feminist woman goddess.”
Fuck, I wish.
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Hard News: How much speech does it take?, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
a sliding scale for sexist or downright misogynistic fuck-wittery as long as (of course) the women concerned are “the enemy”.
Oh, hells yes. It's OK to comment on a female politician's appearance, as long as she sits on the wrong side of the house. To repeat myself, actually, it's not.
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Hard News: How much speech does it take?, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
On the Standard, you will find very few people supporting views at a similar extreme of the left (e.g. spiky anarchists / revolutionary maoists and the like). The snark at the Standard stems from the large number of right-wingers trolling the site and the righteous abuse they attract.
That has absolutely not been my experience of The Standard. My experience there has been one of astoundingly nasty commenters telling the "ladyees" to sit down and shut up about our issues, because nobody cares about them.
I avoid both Kiwiblog, and TS, because I don't have the energy for that kind of rhetoric. And my issue with David in particular, is that he baits his commenters, and he sets them up to say exactly what he knows they are going to say. And that's vile.
On a much much worse scale, it's like Pamela Geller arguing that she is utterly innocent in the Norway massacre. Which is not to say she's responsible, but when you spew bile and hatred, you can't be surprised when someone listens.
“It’s like equating Charles Manson, who heard in the lyrics of Helter Skelter a calling for the Manson murders,” Geller said in an exclusive phone interview. “It’s like blaming the Beatles. It’s patently ridiculous.
Actually, it's not.
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Southerly: Things to be Grateful For: A…, in reply to webweaver,
I can confirm that more than one flake of snow was seen in Kelburn - it snowed at my place for oooohhh, 5 minutes at least!
I can corroborate that in Highbury, there was snow for, oh, less than 5 minutes, on and off. It was kind of pathetic, but not something you see in Wellington every day.
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Up Front: How About Now?, in reply to Danielle,
I started bawling at the photo at the *top of the page*. That’s speedy even for me.
I haven't been able to bring myself to look at the photos yet. I just _know_ I am going to cry.
One thing that apparently never occurred to me in this whole "becoming a celebrant bizzo, is that I've cried at ever wedding I have ever been to. Problematic.
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Oy, that river looks cold. I hope Miss Polly is wrapped up warm inside there. :)