Helen Razer
Writer and broadcaster @HelenRazer
Helen Razer is a writer whose work appears in The Saturday Paper, Daily Review, SBS Online and Frankie. She has previously worked as a columnist for The Age and The Australian.
Julia Gillard would be wise not to conflate political battles with gender warfare. Sexism is a fundamentally different beast in the top echelons of society.
If Q&A is, as its tagline suggests, “democracy in action”, then democracy has become little more than the opportunity to enjoy strong feelings.
After 150 years of mistreatment by the state and its juridical and mental institutions, many homosexual people, and their new “allies”, continue to believe that the state can save them. But it cannot, and marriage is not the way forward.
The real fight is not about whether the GST should apply to feminine hygiene products. The real fight is about whether the GST should exist at all.
The philosophy underpinning She Leads, a new feminist conference to "inspire" women leaders, is total pants. It ignores the basic truth about inequality and supply-side economics.
More than anything, last night's Mad Men finale was a powerfully depressing reminder that the mechanism of the market is now the mechanism of the self.
Our only current hope for real revelation and proper address of social problems, from obesity to mental illness, lies with science and scholarship.
Far from being of benefit to people with extreme mental illness, awareness campaigns around eating disorders can actually cause harm, and are really more for women who "just feel a bit shit about their bodies".
Wills and Kate are about as "natural' in their new parent photos as you are in your filtered selfie-stick Instagram profile pic.
Whether it is celebrities trying their hand at international diplomacy or the insistence on racially diverse emoji, we focus on the symbol and ignore the real.
