The Hand Mirror

Big thanks to Deb for sending this in - very topical!  It had all the ingredients of a classic myth. The young, astonishingly beautiful ...

Trigger warning - Discussion about rape  My first post for The Handmirror was going to introduce my pseudonym and give readers a bit...

A thought-provoking guest post by Sophie B. Today someone on the internet asked me about 'benevolent sexism', and I was pleased ...

UPDATE:  The awesome quote below turns out to be by the super awesome Chally, at Zero At The Bone , who wrote these wise words in a post fr...

50s style black & white photo of a mother and daughter in aprons with various cooking-related implements.  Mother:  Dreams and goals a...

Trigger warnings for rape, sexual abuse, violence, exploitation of power: The other day Stef and I were having a chat about the Omar Hame...

Cross posted Chris Trotter's most recent column is a dispiriting analysis of why cost-cutting, beneficiary-bashing, privilege-defending ...

Cross posted In July 2010, NZ "left wing" political commentator Chris(opher) Trotter wrote this in respect of Labour MP Steve Chad...

Psycho Milt is a leftie who blogs at right-wing blog No Minister, and he's been playing devil's advocate around the issue of pay equ...

I'm not one of your trendy types with glamorous shoes. I almost never wear heels as a matter of principle - they're bad for the body...

Please note: there was an error in the formatting of this post originally - if you read it on the main page of the blog (thehandmirror.blog...

The idea that feminism is simply the ladies' branch of socialism makes me chuckle. (When I hear it, I imagine myself behind the barricad...

Be honest, Steve. That's all I ask of you. I don't approve of Boobs on Bikes. I think it makes a mockery of the women who participa...

When the news broke that Winston Peters had accepted a donation from Bob Jones via the dubious Spencer Trust, I wondered aloud at work, ...

i read deborah's latest post and this one from chandni*, and was reminded of an incident that happened to me in saudi arabia a couple ...

i was so hoping to avoid this issue ; hoping that the fierce debate raging * in australia would somehow bypass nz, so that i wouldn't h...

Was there ever a venture so obviously phallic as Dunedin 's proposed stadium? If you're not up to date with this unfolding provinc...

Ages ago I put up a link to a clever advertisement about our inability to notice something really obvious , when we are focused on something...

Over at Public Address , David Slack has written about the quandry of naming people, particularly for children , prompting this interesting...

Cross-posted on In a Strange Land After all the struggling and difficult arguing and talking and trying to understand each other, and somet...