Pathologizing disagreement is an intellectually dishonest way to cope with challenging arguments. The MTR blog is fast becoming something of a shrine to the work of prolific and award winning blogger Meghan Murphy. Here’s her latest, from Canada’s Globe and Mail. Meghan Murphy is a Vancouver writer and journalist and founder of the website Feminist Current. […]
Activist speaks out about mock twitter account, rape, death threats and police inaction By Caitlin Roper Earlier this year, Germaine Greer argued that women now are worse off than ever, citing the proliferation of pornography and the level of harassment and abuse directed toward women on social media as evidence. I tend to agree. For […]
Reading this made my weekend. I had to share it. ‘Hands up if you’re feeling any less revolting…’ Germaine Greer in the Canberra Times, Saturday. At an event in Amsterdam recently, I was ordered by a woman on the stage to take the hand of the woman next to me, who happened to be 76-year-old […]
“Apocalypse” and “Cage Fight on Crack!” – these were two of the many twitter predictions for Monday night’s ABC Q&A, with myself, Germaine Greer, Barnaby Joyce, Paul Barry and Joe Hildebrand on the panel. Another person predicted Germaine Greer would rip the arms off Barnaby Joyce and beat the rest of the panel with them. […]
