Posts by Kerry Weston
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It's great that a number of academics are publically debating the issue - we so need more quality, informed public debate. It's been very worthwhile to read, listen and follow links to relevant information.
It's also fascinating that a 20 year old medical enquiry should still provoke such intense reponses. Still some slow-burning feelings there.
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Martin Luther King on agape
"Agape means nothing sentimental or basically affectionate; it means understanding, redeeming good will for all men, an overflowing love which seeks nothing in return. When we love on the agape level, we love men not because we like them, not because their attitudes and ways appeal to us, but because God loves them." (Bk: Steger, Manfred: Judging Nonviolence). -
No wonder it was possible for my mother-in-law to have her baby swapped, and no one believe her.
Fair dinkum? That would be mind- blowing.
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Kudos to Hilary for your enlightened, patient responses on this.
The alacrity of some to leap on Bryder's book as the evidence long awaited to prove the UE an hysterical exaggeration by feminists gives me the creeps. I don't want to believe it's happening. And I agree with Danielle and Sacha -
Matheson, Cartwright, Coney and others have been quite deliberately demeaned, and it's part of a larger backlash discourse that is happening largely un-named.
The backlash is about minimising, discrediting, dismissing, marginalising and ridiculing the sort of dissent and free thinking that characterised the 70s-80s. Wouldn't want it to take hold when there's more important things to do like catching up with Australia.
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Wow... so what the hell does all this have to do with the substance (or otherwise) of Bryder's argument, as opposed to dog-whistling that Bryder's a misogynistic skank beating up on an old, sick (but still feisty) lady?
Yeah, i guess the Herald could have just skipped the Real Life effects on a woman harmed by the Unfortunate Experiment and whose story forms a big part of the book Bryder's hoping will enhance her reputation. What does she matter, eh Craig?
Bryder hasn't availed herself of primary sources - Matheson, Coney, Bunkle, Cartwright - which doesn't seem historian-like to me. For Example - from the Herald:
"MATHESON wants to ask Bryder where she got her information - especially details about how her tumour was apparently "so small and localised that it was completely obliterated by the radiation".That was news to Matheson, and was not in her medical file. Who, she wondered, had - in breach of the Privacy Act - been discussing minute details of her medical history? But when she tried to contact Bryder, the latter refused to speak to her."
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if Hill hadn't spent so much of it trying to bait Bryder (repeatedly) into saying "feminists suck" or "Coney was a liar" -- and thankfully, Bryder wasn't playing.
Well, that's not how it registered with me - it came across more as Hill trying to pinpoint exactly where Bryder found her points of contention - in the evidence presented (or not) to the inquiry, in particular statements made by those involved, in comparisons with other country's contemporary practice in public health with regards to cervical cancer treatment.
The impression i got was that Bryder found Green's work to be less of an "experiment" than the Cartwright Inquiry found, because it wasn't so out of line with some overseas practice at the time.
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Interestingly, in Ireland the Air Corps does air ambulance work, as well as SAR and police support.
Now that would be a useful thing to do with our own air force and their shiny new helicopters.
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I had a look around the alt ed offerings (for kids who didn't make it in mainstream) in Manawatu a couple of years ago - underfunded, under-resourced, with the underlying theme that this wasn't meant to be "real" education, because that only happened in proper schools.
You know, one size does not fit all and the ones who don't fit mainstream are stigmatised. Non-conformists - oh dear. It's such ancient thinking that it's hard to believe it still has credence.
The only thing I agree with Tolley about is that literacy matters, but it won't be improved by her testing regime. Where's the curriculum for digital literacy?
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Dude, I cut that out and pinned it to my wall. Oh, hang on. This isn't the rock journalism thread is it?
Did you make a copy and iron it?
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yes, Sacha - and look who has the biggest sense of entitlement - MPs. It's okay for them to use the system to full advantage for themselves, somehow they are owed such largesse. Somehow they deserve it because they are just so fantastic. Outrage is reserved for mothers who have the temerity not to have husbands.
We are slipping back into the Dark Ages.