Editors’ Rant - Feb 2012
- February, 2012 ![]() If you’re a Tribune fan (and we guess you must be since you’re reading this and if you’re not reading this then we... |
Preface to a Counter Protest
- February, 2012 ![]() Defence of the Fertility Control Clinic The front gate of the Fertility Control Clinic in East Melbourne is a frontline of... |
I’m not a climate scientist but...
- February, 2012 ![]() Anyone who’s ever been in a car with children will know that when they’re not crying, pulling each other’s hair or... |
What We Talk About When We Talk About Socialism
- February, 2012 ![]() The taxi driver in Maui picked the accent straight away. “Look out!” he said. “The Aussies are here!” Turns out he used to... |
Science
- February, 2012 ![]() First of all, let me make it very clear: I do not have a problem with science. Secondly, let me make it even clearer: I... |
Intelligent Design - It's NOT Science
- February, 2012 ![]() Perhaps I should preface this article with “I’m not a scientist, but…”. A long time ago, people used to believe that it... |
Getting Rid of the Ute
- February, 2012 ![]() I never used to drive my car. It sat outside my house, different random parts either rusting or drying out depending on... |
Why I Can’t Get Behind Soften The Fck Up
- February, 2012 Soften The Fck Up is an initiative aimed at breaking down the “tough Aussie bloke” façade and getting men to open up to... |
Weddings
- February, 2012 ![]() In the last six weeks of 2011, I attended six weddings. Week after week I found myself donning a suit to spend the day... |
On SOPA
- February, 2012 ![]() I imagine most of you reading this have a blog or your own little website, a place where you’ve invested time and energy... |
A History Of Stupidity
- February, 2012 ![]() In 1796 a very special and very dangerous kind of idiot was born. Smallpox was running rampant throughout Europe until a... |
Gaming is for Grown Ups
- February, 2012 ![]() As a full-time technology journalist who has specialised in the critiquing of video games for over a decade, you’d be... |
Simulation
- February, 2012 ![]() Oh yes, I’m the great pretender |
Nigella, The Antechinus Family, And The West’s...
- February, 2012 ![]() I used to love watching acclaimed kitchen goddess, the luscious Nigella Lawson, when she first appeared on the small... |
Political Affiliation
- February, 2012 ![]() Some people hold political affiliations with an almost religious fervour. Their political beliefs shape everything, from... |
Lessons from A Caravan Park
- February, 2012 ![]() Most of us have memories of staying in a caravan park. Whether it was as kids, parents, schoolies or backpackers, the... |
Resurrecting the Hors d’Œuvre Course
- February, 2012 ![]() An hors d’œuvre course to the French, like antipasto to the Italians, is the start of the midday meal. Individual, small,... |
Wine Online
- February, 2012 Wine retailing, like the rest of the retailing world, is going through a bit of a seismic shift from bricks & mortar to... |
Cryptic Crossword - Feb12
- February, 2012 As always, first correctly completed cryptic crossword sent to |
Political Affiliation
- February, 2012 ![]() Some people hold political affiliations with an almost religious fervour. Their political beliefs shape everything, from... |
Preface to a Counter Protest
- February, 2012 ![]() Defence of the Fertility Control Clinic The front gate of the Fertility Control Clinic in East Melbourne is a frontline of... |
On SOPA
- February, 2012 ![]() I imagine most of you reading this have a blog or your own little website, a place where you’ve invested time and energy... |
Australia’s School Funding Quagmire
- January, 2012 ![]() Australia has one of the most complex, inconsistent and opaque school funding arrangements in the developed world. You... |
What We Talk About When We Talk About Socialism
- February, 2012 ![]() The taxi driver in Maui picked the accent straight away. “Look out!” he said. “The Aussies are here!” Turns out he used to... |
I Have A Question And My Question Is This:
- January, 2012 ![]() Who the fuck am I meant to vote for at the next Federal election? This is not a rhetorical question. I really want to... |
Lessons from A Caravan Park
- February, 2012 Most of us have memories of staying in a caravan park. Whether it was as kids, parents, schoolies or backpackers, the... |
A Conspiracy Of Feathered Simpletons
- January, 2012 And then, of course, there’s the question of the evolutionary future of pigeons. A while ago, through a series of... |
Weddings
- February, 2012 In the last six weeks of 2011, I attended six weddings. Week after week I found myself donning a suit to spend the day... |
Thank You, Batman
- October, 2011 Time is a mighty river, and I am an ominously unpiloted rental kayak floating past the picnic area. It’s my first day at a... |
Science
- February, 2012 First of all, let me make it very clear: I do not have a problem with science. Secondly, let me make it even clearer: I... |
From Swords to Soundbites - HENRY I
- October, 2011 King Henry I of England, known to later generations as Henry Beauclerc, the Lion Of Justice, succeeded his flamboyant... |
Simulation
- February, 2012 Oh yes, I’m the great pretender |
On SOPA
- February, 2012 I imagine most of you reading this have a blog or your own little website, a place where you’ve invested time and energy... |
Gaming is for Grown Ups
- February, 2012 As a full-time technology journalist who has specialised in the critiquing of video games for over a decade, you’d be... |
Why I Can’t Get Behind Soften The Fck Up
- February, 2012 Soften The Fck Up is an initiative aimed at breaking down the “tough Aussie bloke” façade and getting men to open up to... |
A History Of Stupidity
- February, 2012 In 1796 a very special and very dangerous kind of idiot was born. Smallpox was running rampant throughout Europe until a... |
Credentials & Democratic Decline
- October, 2011 ‘People should be aware of what’s out there. And not believe what they read just because it’s written.’ Astro-turf... |
Well, I’m only a woman...
..so of course I don’t have anything else to think about.
Thank God for Mia Freedman and her blog. If it wasn’t for her I would never have heard about My New Pink Button, which is a wonderful new product for women whose lady bits are just not quite that perfect shade of pink.
My New Pink Button (such a cute little name, isn’t it?) is like lipstick for your down-there lips and stops you having to feel all self-conscious about your lack of pinkness when you are out shopping or making biscuits or darning your husband’s socks.
It was lucky I saw it too; I don’t usually read Mia's blog because even though she’s got children and a husband, she still does all that silly writing and thinking about things. I don’t understand why she needs to bother, she’s married now, she doesn’t need to prove anything anymore, and, as I keep telling my daughter, you can have brains or you can have nail polish, but no self respecting woman can have both.
I know this because I am very well informed on Women’s Issues - I read Cleo and Cosmo and Marie Claire. I know how important it is to travel and buy clothes and, by the way, STOP EATING, and how I should feel really good about myself as a woman even if I’m fat (which is disgusting) or older than 22 (which is only ok if I don’t have any wrinkles because wrinkles are worse than cancer) and STOP EATING and that every woman should know how to swing from a trapeze, naked except for a python and a diamond encrusted g-string because men need lots of variety in the bedroom to keep them interested.
I also know all about how important it is to be a totally independent woman and be able to go on holiday by myself and not care about how pointless life is if you’re single, because that is the best way to catch a man and also, STOP EATING. I even know about how every woman should have a proper career - as long as it’s fabulous, if it’s not fabulous then there is just no point turning up to work every day and women who are not totally fabulous should stop work and start their own blog (which even the most illiterate and talentless of women can do) because all those pesky rent and bills problems don’t matter to women at all.
My goodness, I am getting all scattered and disjointed here, aren’t I? But that’s ok, being illogical and over-emotional is how I prove to men that I have heaps of womanly charm.
Now, where was I? Oh yes, the latest thing on my very long list of Why I Am Not Good Enough: my whisker-biscuit is the wrong colour. Well, good, because I was starting to get a little bored with only having the size of my arse and my shoe collection to worry about, and truthfully, I don’t know why I hadn’t thought of it myself. My skin, my hair, my eyes, my teeth and my nails are all the wrong colour, so why wouldn’t everything else be too?
At least I can paint my last remaining naturally coloured bit an unnatural colour myself, because between all my spray tan and anal bleaching appointments I just don’t know where I would find the time to see a Professional Paramedical Esthetician (which is the very reassuring and impressive title of the inventor of My New Pink Button).
The only problem is that My New Pink Button is being sold through Amazon, which I think is a little bit intimidating. The government should insist that there is a woman’s only Amazon, so I don’t have to feel threatened by all the men asking belligerent questions and demeaning me all the time. How can I be a properly independent woman if there is no-one there to protect me from being demeaned?
It’s all just so oppressing; maybe I’ll just put my feet up and read the new Cosmo, that will make me feel much better.

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