Comments on: Feminism Failed according to AGE op-ed page (again)

By: matilda

matilda — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 10:42:46 +0000

Another titbit from the website of The Age, that great bastion of feminism, which continues to uphold the dignity of women to be more than their physical parts: A video of the world’s best bottoms! And this a day after a truly great opinion piece on ‘Media’s ugly obsession with women’s looks’ by Kate Seear. Nothing like promoting diversity of views.

The Age website has long featured soft-porn, it used to be preoccupied with Kylie’s bum. All in the cause of bumping up their page hits, no doubt. It’s time for female Age journalists to stand up and say ‘enough is enough! Andrew Jaspan, throw out the degrading images – i don’t want to get all preachy, but really, raunch culture has been glorified for long enough. It’s only teaching our kids that a woman is only as good as her sexy body.

By: Helen

Helen — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 18:53:41 +0000

NAILED.

By: Tony T.

Tony T. — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 09:33:57 +0000

“I can’t make up my mind on Hardy on tv yet but at least she has potential if she can stop trying being too hip and Brunswick.”

She could start by taking herself out of her reviews. Surely, SURELY!, not everything she writes needs to be prefaced with “Last week I found myself necking Cuervos and shots of Turkey on a scarlet ottoman with a too-cool-for-school (oooo, I’m such a dag) young drummer as we listened to Les Savy Fav when I turned on [insert shit show].

By: blue milk

blue milk — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 11:05:34 +0000

That was a long, long bow she drew in her thesis. Good on you for casting a critical eye on it.

By: Helen

Helen — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 12:49:47 +0000

Thanks folks, sorry you languished so long in the spamulator (except for FX, the spamulator knows him and just burps him out.) I was looking for the O RLY? owl, but I fell in love with the little… er… walrus, I think he is. Or she.

By: marymary

marymary — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 07:33:15 +0000

I’m so glad crikey had a link to this blog today. That article really annoyed me, then I come here and someone has typed what I was thinking (my thoughts were much less coherent though…) and as a bonus, there’s a I can has cheezburger picture! It’s all good!

By: george

george — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 07:02:08 +0000

I was also very puzzled by the Age article in that it addresses the Ja’mie character as if she were a participant in a “reality” show or a realistic drama, rather than a comic and satirical creation with a personality and moral framework that’s constructed entirely for, well, comic and satirical effect. Having watched all episodes (with much pleasure) it never occurred to me that she represented some by-product or outcome of feminism, monstrous or otherwise. Creative fictions of all sorts have been riddled with the Ja’mie type of egotistical and insensitive caricature for eons.

By: Brad B

Brad B — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 05:59:14 +0000

Great article.

I saw the headline to The Age article on their website, but didn’t think I’d click on it just in case the idiot author somehow profited half a cent per page view.

(Oh, but the author of this article is welcome to my two cents.)

By: Francis Xavier Holden

Francis Xavier Holden — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 03:00:55 +0000

The standard in the AGE these days sometimes makes me want to ring up Harry Clarke for a coffee on Saturday mornings while we read Quad-rant. At first it was just the inconsistent nonsense in films and tv from Schembri, then Sharon Gray went wobbly although she had excuses and a decent past record. I can't make up my mind on Hardy on tv yet but at least she has potential if she can stop trying being too hip and Brunswick. Deveney is a sloppy kneejerk Boltonian horror.

By: Bernice

Bernice — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 02:38:47 +0000

What is Jennifer Sinclair taking? I feel as if 20 years of sociological & cultural theory has bypassed her. Nay, make that 40. Goffman springs to mind for starters.
Oh for heaven’s sake, I’m still trying to think my way through the episode where Jam’ie dates a Year 7 boy…man plays teenage girl who dates child…male child….
Feminist? Jam’ie? yedda yedda yedda