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. […]
‘There was no discussion of the pressure girls like Amanda experience to measure their worth through their sexual desirability’ By Meghan Murphy The tragic story of Amanda Todd has been covered widely by the media and has impacted people across the continent. Todd was only fifteen years old when she killed herself last Wednesday after […]
Four months ago, live on 2DAY FM, breakfast radio’s out and proud bad boy Kyle Sandilands verbally attacked News Limited online journalist Alison Stephenson. For commenting on his new poorly rating television show A Night with the Stars, Sandilands let forth with: Fat slag, bitch, troll, ugly, piece of shit, not much titty. “Watch […]
War of Words Christine Jackman, The Weekend Australian, June 04, 2011 THIS much Nina Funnell knows about the man who held a box-cutter blade to her throat on an autumn’s evening in May 2007. She knows he had an olive complexion. She knows he had bushy eyebrows and a five o’clock shadow. She knows – […]
