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	<title>Comments on: International Women&#8217;s day: A day without feminism</title>
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	<description>A blog by an opinionated mother of two, which might lie idle for a while sometimes. The blog, that is.</description>
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		<title>By: Helen</title>
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		<dc:creator>Helen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:42:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>There were quite a few festivals on in the Yarra valley this weekend. Joint was jumpin&#039;!</description>
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		<title>By: Oz Ozzie</title>
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		<dc:creator>Oz Ozzie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:20:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>So that&#039;s why traffic was so appalling in Healesville today?</description>
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		<title>By: genevieve</title>
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		<dc:creator>genevieve</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Mar 2008 11:59:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well, I&#039;m reading this a bit too late! would have come and listened if I&#039;d known. Brekky in Healesville is never something to be sorry for either, hope you had a nice one Helen.
That Shanahan piece was appalling. Haven&#039;t seen KN&#039;s.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, I&#8217;m reading this a bit too late! would have come and listened if I&#8217;d known. Brekky in Healesville is never something to be sorry for either, hope you had a nice one Helen.<br />
That Shanahan piece was appalling. Haven&#8217;t seen KN&#8217;s.</p>
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		<title>By: Helen</title>
		<link>http://castironbalcony.media2.org/2008/03/07/international-womens-day-a-day-without-feminism/comment-page-1/#comment-4554</link>
		<dc:creator>Helen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Mar 2008 02:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Angela Shanahan is always annoying! Actually, what got up my goat on Saturday was Kenneth Nguyen in the Age. If they&#039;re gonna give space to a bloke writing on feminism on IWD (and there are quite a few blokes who could do the job well, some of them are in my blogroll)-- they might at least pick someone who doesn&#039;t choose that opportunity and that platform to scold us for opinions he imagines we hold.

Sistafest gig was great fun - if you ever get the chance to see Vardos then grab it. M-H, I know what you mean - sometimes us oldies can get a bit anachronistic if we don&#039;t watch out. But (and this is where KN dropped the ball) if you read the feminist blogs you know there&#039;s a lot of good stuff out there.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Angela Shanahan is always annoying! Actually, what got up my goat on Saturday was Kenneth Nguyen in the Age. If they&#8217;re gonna give space to a bloke writing on feminism on IWD (and there are quite a few blokes who could do the job well, some of them are in my blogroll)&#8211; they might at least pick someone who doesn&#8217;t choose that opportunity and that platform to scold us for opinions he imagines we hold.</p>
<p>Sistafest gig was great fun &#8211; if you ever get the chance to see Vardos then grab it. M-H, I know what you mean &#8211; sometimes us oldies can get a bit anachronistic if we don&#8217;t watch out. But (and this is where KN dropped the ball) if you read the feminist blogs you know there&#8217;s a lot of good stuff out there.</p>
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		<title>By: Caroline</title>
		<link>http://castironbalcony.media2.org/2008/03/07/international-womens-day-a-day-without-feminism/comment-page-1/#comment-4552</link>
		<dc:creator>Caroline</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2008 07:44:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I just clicked onto Tess&#039; myspace site.  Lovely voice and wow  Helen, you&#039;re a woman of many talents eh?  A drummer?  Fantastic.  Hope you had a fine old time. 

Oh and appropos of this and the last post,  I read an annoying piece by Angela Shanahan in today&#039;s SMH,  (who I haven&#039;t really paid terribly much attention to, so have no opinion about one way or another, or perhaps simply, am underwhelmed).. Anyway she argues that feminism is irrelevant.  She ought to consider the Paul Robinsons&#039;s of the world, with whom the battle lies.  Unfortunately it is an ideological battle and people such as he will never be able to see any point in rethinking his own.  If it was good enough for Dad, its good enough for me etc.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I just clicked onto Tess&#8217; myspace site.  Lovely voice and wow  Helen, you&#8217;re a woman of many talents eh?  A drummer?  Fantastic.  Hope you had a fine old time. </p>
<p>Oh and appropos of this and the last post,  I read an annoying piece by Angela Shanahan in today&#8217;s SMH,  (who I haven&#8217;t really paid terribly much attention to, so have no opinion about one way or another, or perhaps simply, am underwhelmed).. Anyway she argues that feminism is irrelevant.  She ought to consider the Paul Robinsons&#8217;s of the world, with whom the battle lies.  Unfortunately it is an ideological battle and people such as he will never be able to see any point in rethinking his own.  If it was good enough for Dad, its good enough for me etc.</p>
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		<title>By: M-H</title>
		<link>http://castironbalcony.media2.org/2008/03/07/international-womens-day-a-day-without-feminism/comment-page-1/#comment-4551</link>
		<dc:creator>M-H</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 22:11:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I went to a depressing lunch at my (university) workplace. Pretty much no-one talked to anyone they didn&#039;t know and virtually all the attendees were Asian women and therefore ignored by the organisers (the entirely while middle-class HR department); the speaker couldn&#039;t be heard five feet from where she stood at one side of the (large) gathering; and one woman was sporting a badge that said &quot;A woman&#039;s place is everywhere&quot;. I resisted the urge to ask if it was vintage. There was no indication that feminism has moved one centimetre from 70&#039;s cultural feminism and don&#039;t-rock-the-boat, women-are-so-wonderful, claptrap. ::sigh::</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I went to a depressing lunch at my (university) workplace. Pretty much no-one talked to anyone they didn&#8217;t know and virtually all the attendees were Asian women and therefore ignored by the organisers (the entirely while middle-class HR department); the speaker couldn&#8217;t be heard five feet from where she stood at one side of the (large) gathering; and one woman was sporting a badge that said &#8220;A woman&#8217;s place is everywhere&#8221;. I resisted the urge to ask if it was vintage. There was no indication that feminism has moved one centimetre from 70&#8242;s cultural feminism and don&#8217;t-rock-the-boat, women-are-so-wonderful, claptrap. ::sigh::</p>
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