The Hand Mirror

Very quick post on this breaking news today, here are some links if you have no idea what this is about: The guest post on The Daily Blog ...

1.  Why is it only the people who aren't straight white men who have a judgement based on something about their identity, something ...

There's a new campaign by one of my least favourite lobby groups (Family First in case you were wondering), which is encouraging people ...

NB:  These points may already have been made, and made well, elsewhere. I've been largely keeping away from the Roast Busters stuff as I...

Anger, oh how often you have visited me lately, let me count some of the ways: The frequently women-hating reaction to Labour daring to...

Things that have riled me today: 1.  Mis-reporting of Julia Gillard's speech calling out Tony Abbott's misogyny - The speech did ...

Good friends of mine - I'll call them Hazel* and Catherine - are buying a house together. They're both women in their twenties; this...

This post contains sarcasm. Now now lefties and assorted progressive types, John Banks becoming Minister of Regulatory Reform, for S mall ...

Public meeting, stage has panel with five men in suits, audience is mixed gender.  Chair of panel:  "The subject of tonight's dis...

Circulating on Twitter last night was a spectacularly absurd conclusion of a highly erroneous nature;  namely that no country with a female ...

When I was 16 I worked in a take-away store that sold fried chicken, and on Saturdays things were invariably slow and quiet during the day....

In an attempt to innoculate about concerns over the lack of women on National's list , released yesterday, David Farrar points to the th...

Lately there's been a daily misunderstanding I've been striving to overcome.  Most days someone will assume I am in the NZ Labour Pa...

Observation the First - If kids are going without breakfast their mums probably are too I get really fed up with the narrative that seems t...

Newstalk ZB has interviewed Family First's fax machine spokesperson Bob McCoskrie on the Slut Walk events coming up in Auckland and W...

ARGH the first, was the news, via Russell Brown on twitter (@publicaddress), that Bronagh Key is down on the royal wedding invite list as ...

The Welfare Working Group has a discussion document out today ( links to what they've released ) and it shows they are still asking the ...

From the Herald this morning : A review of new rules for sexual abuse counselling has come too late to save a South Auckland mother who died...

The Kiwi Party want a law against "offensive behavior ." They're primarily concerned about the Boobs on Bikes parades that St...

Oh I had such plans for today. There would be some nice things in the morning with Wriggly and my Mum, and some blogging this afternoon whi...