After a few pints, our resident provocateur is ready to bust a cap in super and prop up the Australian porn industry. It’s another Crikey fantasy budget, with a slight twist …
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The Left has lost its way through symbolism and stupidity
The Left is dead — hopelessly lost in the minutiae of gestures, rainbow crossings, political correctness and confected outrage about the latest Geoffrey Barker piece. It’s time for the Left to think about material conditions and macroeconomics.
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Women in media? Destroy the Joint misses the point
Does the Destroy the Joint movement actually miss the point? In a fiery blog post that had social media abuzz over the weekend, feminist provocateur Helen Razer says the small-target strategy isn’t working.
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Misguided feminism finds offence everywhere — even a horse
The latest confected feminist outrage is over The Daily Telegraph naming a horse as sportswoman of the year. Here’s why that just doesn’t matter — while there’s plenty else that should.
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Jones is a twit, regardless of who he sleeps with
In many of the critical pieces about Alan Jones this week, there’s been a strong focus on his sexuality. Why can’t we just examine his actions?
READ MOREHelen Razer: Target’s ‘tramp’ gear just child’s play
Is Target creating a generation of young “sl-ts”? Or are children too busy learning how to spell to understand the more complex symbolism of raiment?
READ MORERazer: The Monthly‘s Louis Nowra needs a good vajazzling
Forget what Louis Nowra and The Monthly say, writes Helen Razor: Germaine Greer is a bright and occasionally charming old ratbag who should be revered.
READ MORETired? Eat too much? Irritable? Congrats, you’re depressed.
In 1994 the American Psychiatric Association published its fourth revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for mental disorders (DSM). Here, you’ll find the worryingly popular one-size-fits-most measure for Depressive Disorder.
READ MOREIt’s a Smaland after all
IKEA has done what many consider to be the unthinkable. The catalogue changed its typeface.
READ MOREDominick Dunne, the great gossip, is dead
The pre-eminent voice of American celebrity’s inner word is dead. There has never been a greater gossip than Dunne, reflects Helen Razer.
READ MOREMiss Universe’s celebration of Camp transcends irony
Somehow, the Miss Universe pageant has survived an ironic age. And a post-ironic one, too.
READ MOREHow the free market can save the free press
In order for news organisations to survive, the US government must grant them exemption from antitrust and price-fixing laws so that they can essentially “collude for survival”, argues Tim Rutten.
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And the Wankley goes to … Fashion Week coverage, belittling the big
For their championing of chubby, several media outlets have this week earned the Wankley.
READ MOREFacebook fail: privacy alert on uploaded minutiae
A law suit unfolding in California about privacy and Facebook, has been described, and possibly kindly, as a “jumbled mess”, thanks to discrepancies in national privacy laws.
READ MOREThe poker night I faced down Le Schiffre and made rent
Poker is becoming more popular and women are placing their bets with purpose. Helen Razer entered a tournament in the hope of improving her game, but then things got out of hand.
READ MOREJohn Hughes wrote who we thought we were
Director John Hughes will be remembered for his defining work The Breakfast Club, writes Helen Razer. Despite coy innuendos and jokes about sushi, the film remains an outstanding portrait of adolescence,
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