http://www.thepunch.com.au/author-bios/anthony-levin/ Anthony Levin is a lawyer who has also written for Men’s Style, FHM and Prospect Magazine (UK). He has written comedy for TV and his work appears regularly in the magazines of strange lands such as New Zealand and Finland. He is currently working on his first novel. en Copyright 2012 The Punch penberthyd@newsltd.com.au penberthyd@newsltd.com.au Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:49 +0000 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:49 +0000 Politics, opinion, world news, sports news, latest news, views, Barack Obama, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Nathan Rees, Malcolm Turnbull, Peter Garrett, Barnaby Joyce, Australian, federal politics, opinion polls, election, The Punch, thepunch, punch ExpressionEngine 1.6.7 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 15 http://www.thepunch.com.au/images/punch-logo-rss.png http://www.thepunch.com.au/ 144 70 Politics, political opinion, world news, sports news and the latest news and views updated live, daily on The Punch - Australia's best conversation. Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/misogyny-didnt-end-with-the-era-of-mad-men/ As Season 5 of Mad Men approaches with the promise of more excoriating social commentary, it’s fitting to reflect on the media, gender roles and misogyny. Especially when we have Sky Sports (UK) commentators making sexist gaffes about female referees. But good thing those mad men, Andy Gray and Richard Keys did, or else we wouldn’t know we were still living in the decade of Don Drapers. If you’re unfamiliar, Don Draper (Jon Hamm) is the central character of Mad Men – a series about Madison Avenue’s elite 1960s admen. Draper, creative director of fictional Ad agency Sterling Cooper, is a figure of philandering, pinstriped machismo. In short, he is at the heart of the Mad Men phenomenon. The title of a recent op-ed by magazine jezebel.com said it all: ‘The Don Draper Effect: Why Do Feminists Still Love Assholes?’ The operative word, some might argue, is still. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Anthony Levin) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/misogyny-didnt-end-with-the-era-of-mad-men/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/misogyny-didnt-end-with-the-era-of-mad-men/#item5033 Fri, 18 Feb 2011 19:50:35 +0000 Anthony Levin | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Were-killing-the-internet-with-our-own-triviality/ Since its inception in the 1990s, governments have long since recognized the democratising functions of the web. But control has always seemed impossible, even for a tool created by government. Attempts to curtail online freedoms have come off looking like a girdle on a Leviathan. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Anthony Levin) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Were-killing-the-internet-with-our-own-triviality/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Were-killing-the-internet-with-our-own-triviality/#item4653 Wed, 08 Dec 2010 20:00:35 +0000 Anthony Levin | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/without-beauty-in-sport-we-might-go-looking-elsewhere/ “Beauty is not the goal of competitive sports”, wrote author David Foster Wallace, “but high-level sports are a prime venue for the expression of human beauty. The relation is roughly that of courage to war.” Although Wallace was writing mostly about tennis, the principle of beauty in sport applies equally to football. And when tennis stars like Serena Williams are called on to comment on matches at the World Cup, from Wimbledon, we sense the relationship between beauty and courage may have gone awry. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Anthony Levin) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/without-beauty-in-sport-we-might-go-looking-elsewhere/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/without-beauty-in-sport-we-might-go-looking-elsewhere/#item3411 Thu, 24 Jun 2010 19:44:06 +0000 Anthony Levin | Author bios | The Punch