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.
Yes, Russell Brand is a sexpot. But he knows bupkis about politics, economics or any number of things that are necessary to effectively govern.
The real problem with Mia Freedman's statement on The Project was not that she mentioned homosexuality and paedophilia in the same sentence. The real problem is she said homosexuality was an innate characteristic, which it is not.
Amal Alamuddin changing her name to Clooney is not a feminist discussion. It's stupid celebrity gossip, and we need to move on.
The ABC's Mental As campaign made some celebrities feel very nice about themselves, but there was not a whisper about the inadequate healthcare to treat mental illness.
Labor used to "get" the internet more than the Coalition did. But now its social media presence is full of nice feels, while in parliament it votes for bombings and mass imprisonment.
ATT: Dawkins, Maher and Harris -- you've ignored the true locus of evil unreason, and you probably need to go away and learn how to think.
We abhor strip clubs but love burlesque, denounce the Legends (read: lingerie) Football League but watch equally scantily clad ladies play roller derby. We still want to masturbate to naked women, but now there is a mocking panache.
Yes, Jacqui Lambie made a dick of herself. But spilling thousands of pixels on the matter is helping precisely no one.
ABC1's soon-to-conclude Brilliant Creatures provides a much-needed opportunity to think about the limits of our civic conversation.
Let Miss America -- and celebrities of all stripes -- be light entertainment. That is what they are there for, and you can't talk about domestic violence in taffeta.
