Wordwatch: gay, or ssam and ssaf?Apparently young folk don’t use the word “gay” anymore — it’s “same sex attracted males” and “same sex attracted females”. Should we now saw SSAM and SSAF? asks W.H. Chong. And will they have ssaf sex?
Political correctness
Offensive Halloween costumes: a Crikey round-up
Halloween is around the corner and there are plenty of racist, sexist and grotesque costumes to pick from. While traditional Halloween imagery revolves around death and monstrosity, there’s often also a suspension of ordinary morality.
Golly, the Hun should be black, white and red (faced) all over
A Melbourne toy shop has moved some of its products out of its display windows, and the Herald Sun was on hand to fan one of the oldest beat-ups in the book: “innocent children oppressed by PC killjoys”.
The Crikey Election Awards: We need your votes
Before we forget it all in the drunken haze of Election Night 2007, Crikey is today announcing its election awards. And the categories are…
Sparrow: The ALP is as right-wing as it claims to be
It’s a time-honoured Tory theme, trotted out in every election since the 1890s. The Labor Party seems moderate and respectable – but, actually, it’s a Trojan horse through which Fabian socialism, flouridisation and the black helicopters of the United Nations will emerge into the public arena.
Raimond Gaita: The moral force of reconciliation
More even than Margaret Thatcher was, John Howard is an ideologically driven prime minister. And while his ideological agenda may not have been part of his motives for the recent national emergency, Howard must have hoped that it would advance that agenda, writes Raimond Gaita.
Grog to become compulsory in the NT
There’s times when it’s no consolation to say that you read it in Crikey first. There’s some things you just don’t want to be right about.
