Posts by Julie Fairey
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In regard to local job creation - that's one of the things I'd love to talk to HNZ about but they aren't interested in that dialogue sadly. I expect they won't be doing anything directly anyway - it'll be contracted out to companies like Fletchers.
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So depressing. As is HNZ's entire (Ministerially directed) shift in focus from being a social agency to just being a landlord. We have a lot of state housing in Mt Roskill and have tried to initiate some dialogue with HNZ about planning, zoning, etc, in the interests of encouraging developments that meet the needs of as many interested parties as possible. HNZ owns a lot of contiguous sections, especially around Three Kings, and the Puketapapa Local Board wanted to work with them to ensure more re-developments like the one at Ernie Pinches (wide range of housing, focus on creating a community e.g. they planted a fruit tree on each townhouse's lawn, but different trees on each so the neighbours can share fruit etc). But seems anything of that nature is now off the agenda, and they are being funnelled very tightly into Just Being Landlords.
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I'm be really interested to understand how ownership models impact on editorial decision-making. I know there are a lot of people here, not least Russell, who know a lot about the working of newsrooms, but it's quite foreign to me. How does a story get into print/on screen? And what does squeezing editorial resources actually mean? I realise these are really basic questions to a lot reading/writing here, so I appreciate your forebearance.
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Hitler was nice to dogs - genius!
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I heard a bit of it and was concerned that we always always seem to talk about the behaviour of the person raped, prior to, during, afterwards, but never the behaviour of the rapist. I didn't hear all of it though, so was hoping that there was some bit I didn't hear that addressed that, or at least mentioned the limitations of this way of looking at it.
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Also we can positively model consent. And communication. If we can teach people, especially our kids that actually talking about sex, actively seeking and giving consent, is the way to go about it, then theyhopefully start thinking about sex as something intrinsically and explicitly consensual.
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In terms of things we can do, I have to think back to my teens, mainly, when I used to annoyingly referee the drinking games because there was one guy who used to rig then to get one young woman v drunk (not the same one each time). I'd point out his cheating and generally annoy him (and not really make any friends) until he gave up that ploy, at least when I was around. I didn't really understand what I was doing at the time; thinking about it now chills me a bit.
So I think about acknowledging our gut instincts; that when we think there is something not right we follow it up. Even when that's awkward and unpopular I guess. Give people an easy out - if they don't take it that's ok, you gave it a go. Maybe they'll know you're a safe person to go to if something goes wrong.
In terms of that looking back thing - it is hard. I was helping run an anti-date rape workshop in uni hostels one year when I suddenly realized that one of the scenarios we were discussing and naming, correctly, as rape, matched something one of my friends did to another one of my friends a couple of years previously. I was still friends with both of them., and they were still friends too. How could I call it rape when the victim didn't? But it was.
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Up Front: Respectably-Dressed Sensible…, in reply to Steve Parks,
What an interesting quote. The rapists I know off the top of my head all had present fathers. Which has as much scientific validity as the original quote's point.
Emma, thank you for this. I'm intending to go to the Auckland event. Not sure what I'll wear, hope I have the time and inspiration to make up a wondrous sign of wit and beauty.
I've wavered back and forth slightly on the "slut" aspect of SlutWalk, to a point where I've decided that if I'm ok with what it means for me then it doesn't matter so much what it means to other people. And what it means for me is that no one, ever, asks for or deserves rape. Neither those who appear sexually available (whatever that means) or who appear unfckable.
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Smilin': ur doin it wrung.
Me too apparently.
Orthodontists the world over are weeping into their spit bowls.
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Yet again there seems to be this complete disconnection from thinking about WHY people commit crimes, and thus how we should address those needs ahead of time to avoid crime itself. Far easier just to think of it in an Us and Them sense - They being the crims who are almost all beyond help and thus need to be corralled somewhere away from Us. When actually they're really being other members of the Us group with different circumstances; a disability, a different upbringing, got laid off when we didn't, etc.
Sorry if Ihaven't explained that very well, been a long time since commenting.
Where is the compassion? Where is the genuine commitment to addressing bad stuff that happens in our society by trying to stop it from happening, rather than just locking people up (and in this case beating someone up) afterwards?
(And I'm not saying that taking some light fittings when you have a compulsion to do so is "bad stuff" by the way, very clumsy in my thinking tonight I'm afraid)