Posts by Emma Hart
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The Young Labour Twitter account has been publishing the candidates' answers to questions on universal student allowances, female representation, and decriminalising abortion. Note Robertson's "conservative" answer there...
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Hard News: Jonesing, in reply to Tom Beard,
catering to some vision of their supposed salt-of-the-earth misogyny and homophobia as an essentialised emblem of “true Labour” voters?
Extra 'out of touch' points, because you know who actually do disproportionately vote Left? Women and gays.
I am... let's say 'not a fan' of either Greer or the Women's Weekly.
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Up Front: The Missing Stair Part Two:…, in reply to TracyMac,
That relates to Cliff Pervocracy’s Just One Ally – someone else who shows they have your back, and/or are also witnessing just how fucked-up a situation is. Can make all the difference, a lot.
I was reading down this thread, knowing I'd read something like that somewhere, and unable to remember where it was. Thanks, Tracy. Because I'd recommend this approach to Jackie, and as much as possible given the cultural barriers, to Chris. Talk to other people. Jackie, do that Talk with the Creeper, but if possible do it with someone else with you. When it comes from just one person, it's much easier to dismiss, to frame as your problem, not his. Two people makes that so much harder.
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Up Front: The Missing Stair Part Two:…, in reply to Danielle,
I am so much more bolshy online than in person and it’s mainly because of this. “Oh goodness, if I get snotty about this then I am going to seem really impolite.”
Oh, hells, me too. People expect me to be more... forthright in person than I am, ergo if I'm not setting someone's arse on fire I must be okay. Not so much.
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Up Front: The Missing Stair Part Two:…, in reply to Cliff Pervocracy,
And the only people who could do that–the women he assaulted–have opted to leave town and cut off contact rather than try to go through the court system. I don’t blame them, given how little they have to gain and how much they have to lose if they go to the police with a story that begins “so I picked this guy up at a sex party, and…”
Yeah, this. The mountain in the way of the obvious solution seemed so obvious to me that I simply couldn't work out how to explain it. Give my friend his due, he did get there pretty quickly, but the reflex that this couldn't possibly be happening was telling.
But we must not place the burden for dealing with this on the people least able to carry it.
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Southerly: A Blog on Behalf of an…, in reply to Lucy Telfar Barnard,
Also agree with t’other Lucy’s previous comment about absence of mothers of young children, though the Junior Jury could include young mothers, particularly if the Jury was well set up with optimal childcare.
Indeed it could. This, and the "where to seat it" could both be helped by having them do most of their work virtually, from where they actually live.
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Southerly: Continuing After A Short Interruption, in reply to Bart Janssen,
Worth noting that in general older drugs (like the basic anti-inflammatories) have more side-effects for women than men because they were never originally tested on women, so it’s especially important for women to treat side-effects seriously and not get fobbed off (by males).
Huh. I knew I reacted really badly to some anti-inflammatories, in that I'd actually rather be in the pain thanks. I didn't know it might be my girly delicate flowerness.
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Hard News: So long, and thanks for all…, in reply to Rob Stowell,
They asked us a bit about policy, but far, far less about that than more pressing kinds of questions like what kind of things we think he’d wear and what kind of house he’d live in.
Wow. Hope they have all lost their jobs. Stupid, stupid stuff.
Fair dos, I was asked those exact same questions about two power companies in a focus group. What would they wear, where would they live, etc.
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Hard News: So long, and thanks for all…, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
Because everyone from the Islands is a god-bothering homophobe incapable of independent thought who gets their voting instructions from the pulpit on Sunday? Really?
It already doesn't matter. They're not going to vote Labour anyway, because of marriage equality. Remember?
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Hard News: So long, and thanks for all…, in reply to Stephen Judd,
The NZ public for better or worse wants leaders and prime ministers who come across as tough on TV and radio, and who can speak confidently impromptu.
This is where I start to feel like a weird sort of cuckoo-bird. Because yes the latter, absolutely, but the former? I’d rather have a leader who seemed like s/he could listen. Who could build coalitions around policy to get stuff done. Who seemed bright, not cocky.
I’m not Labour, I don’t vote Labour, and I’m clearly not typical of The Public. But I’d really like to see Robertson/Ardern. Cunliffe seems too much like trying to beat Key on his own Cocky Smug ground. And you won’t.