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"Because our society, New Zealand society, Western society in general, has been hijacked by a conspiracy of Silly Little Girls. They’...

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

Very quick post from me on the Issue of the Morning - Alasdair Thompson's incredibly sexist comments that women are paid less because of...

If you are a fan of Curb Your Enthusiasm, as I am, you may find this post slightly confusing, so I'm going to start out with a definitio...

Garth George does it again . ( Warning, possible triggering around rape and sexual assault in his column) His key points appear to be: Andy...

Beware, this post contains sarcasm. We've been a little busy here, arguing about abortion - too busy to turn our attention to the incred...

There's been a lot of discussion recently, as there seems to be whenever we have a Tory government, about those who are receiving the do...

Last night TV3's attempt at a news bulletin was shameful. I could not believe the prominence given to a story that is so totally Not Ne...

Whether you agree with Cactus Kate or not (and I generally don't), this email from Tau Henare to her contains some unacceptable sexism ...

Further to the Quick Hit yesterday about The Egalitarian Index , I was pretty unimpressed by the "house husband" Checkpoint called...

Earlier this year, the aesthetic marvel that is this ad appeared in D-scene, a Dunedin newspaper, and was kindly emailed to THM by Keely, a...

Readers who made complaints to TVNZ about Paul Henry's on air treatment of Stephanie Mills have probably received their responses from T...

Dominion Post curmudgeon Karl du Fresne dedicated a third of his column yesterday to the horror that is the bad bad sound of lady broadcaste...

For the second time in recent history, Paul Henry has shown he's more interested in what a woman looks like that what she says or does....

Thanks very much to reader Ms Giraffe for emailing this to me for publication. My own complaint was quite short and less comprehensive, so ...

Because it's Henry and his ilk who make women fearful to speak in case their looks are picked apart. Because a woman who is interviewed ...

There's been rather a lot of Blogland writing about this, including (in reverse chronological order): *Paul Henry's views - james, ...

We've had quite a lot of contact from readers about this matter and one lovely soul, Gina, has offered up a guest post on the issue. Yo...

Over the last twenty years or so, beauty pageants of all sort have gone steadily out of fashion, in NZ at least. People have realised that,...

I feel like David Farrar and I have been playing blog-chicken for a while. Sooner or later one of us was going to have something on our blo...