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Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/all-men-and-women-were-not-created-equal/ True equality is impossible. We are not born equal, and we cannot be made equal. But equal opportunity for all is a noble and realistic goal. In a fairly short time – say, a century – women’s position in society has altered dramatically. This time one hundred years ago women had few rights. They were second-class citizens. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Antony McMullen) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/all-men-and-women-were-not-created-equal/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/all-men-and-women-were-not-created-equal/#item5415 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:00:12 +0000 Ugh. I can barely be bothered raising the requisite outrage to talk about the latest sexism in sport scandal. Read all about it here. Salient point: UK Sky Sports commentators Andy Gray and Richard Keys have been stood down after they joked a female linesman (woman?) wouldn’t know soccer’s offside rule. What dinosaurs.  Sure, it was meant to be off air. Sure, jokes among friends and all that. Reality: What they said both reflects and perpetuates ridiculous myths that exist in society. Which is why it still deserves a response despite being tiresome and predictable. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/more-men-saying-women-are-crap-at-stuff/ Ugh. I can barely be bothered raising the requisite outrage to talk about the latest sexism in sport scandal. Read all about it here. Salient point: UK Sky Sports commentators Andy Gray and Richard Keys have been stood down after they joked a female linesman (woman?) wouldn’t know soccer’s offside rule. What dinosaurs.  Sure, it was meant to be off air. Sure, jokes among friends and all that. Reality: What they said both reflects and perpetuates ridiculous myths that exist in society. Which is why it still deserves a response despite being tiresome and predictable. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Antony McMullen) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/more-men-saying-women-are-crap-at-stuff/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/more-men-saying-women-are-crap-at-stuff/#item4966 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:00:12 +0000 Ugh. I can barely be bothered raising the requisite outrage to talk about the latest sexism in sport scandal. Read all about it here. Salient point: UK Sky Sports commentators Andy Gray and Richard Keys have been stood down after they joked a female linesman (woman?) wouldn’t know soccer’s offside rule. What dinosaurs.  Sure, it was meant to be off air. Sure, jokes among friends and all that. Reality: What they said both reflects and perpetuates ridiculous myths that exist in society. Which is why it still deserves a response despite being tiresome and predictable. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/angry-boys-club-needs-a-bex-and-a-good-lie-down/ In his deservingly scornful review of the book Iron John, Robert Bly’s absurd bible of the men’s movement in the United States, British author Martin Amis describes the comical pilgrimage made by maladjusted men into the American woods to sniff each other’s armpits, channel negative energy into circles of hate and howl at the moon at the fact that mum had them circumcised. Happily, this quest to unleash what Amis ridicules as “the hairy satyr within” does not appear to have any formal and organised equivalent in Australia. This is probably because most Australian men have nothing of any real magnitude to get off their chest, or simply find that the odd night at the pub or the occasional fishing weekend provides ample therapy for any lingering sense of gender injustice. That, and the fact that we’ve got too wry a sense of humour and too much self-awareness to engage in anything that silly. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Antony McMullen) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/angry-boys-club-needs-a-bex-and-a-good-lie-down/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/angry-boys-club-needs-a-bex-and-a-good-lie-down/#item1608 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:00:12 +0000 Ugh. I can barely be bothered raising the requisite outrage to talk about the latest sexism in sport scandal. Read all about it here. Salient point: UK Sky Sports commentators Andy Gray and Richard Keys have been stood down after they joked a female linesman (woman?) wouldn’t know soccer’s offside rule. What dinosaurs.  Sure, it was meant to be off air. Sure, jokes among friends and all that. Reality: What they said both reflects and perpetuates ridiculous myths that exist in society. Which is why it still deserves a response despite being tiresome and predictable. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Sports-stars-do-not-have-the-right-to-be-boneheads/ As the media cycle turns once more to appalling allegations against one of our sport stars, it provides a timely opportunity to talk about a new phenomena that seems to be connected to the recent spate of indiscretions by sports people. It’s a phenomena that I like to call the “let boneheads be boneheads” movement. You may have heard the movement’s devotees out in force. They’re the ones calling in to talkback radio and defending the behaviour of their heroes by arguing that we should only focus on what happens whilst on the sporting arena. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Antony McMullen) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Sports-stars-do-not-have-the-right-to-be-boneheads/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Sports-stars-do-not-have-the-right-to-be-boneheads/#item892 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:00:12 +0000 Ugh. I can barely be bothered raising the requisite outrage to talk about the latest sexism in sport scandal. Read all about it here. Salient point: UK Sky Sports commentators Andy Gray and Richard Keys have been stood down after they joked a female linesman (woman?) wouldn’t know soccer’s offside rule. What dinosaurs.  Sure, it was meant to be off air. Sure, jokes among friends and all that. Reality: What they said both reflects and perpetuates ridiculous myths that exist in society. Which is why it still deserves a response despite being tiresome and predictable. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Defending-the-right-of-Mums-to-have-a-safe-home-birth/ The two greatest experiences of my life occurred in a birthing suite. The birth of a new baby is an exhilarating experience that produces emotions from deep within your soul. Yet somehow I think the emotions that child birth produces in woman are even more significant.  Obviously pregnancy causes massive physical change but less obvious is the enormous emotional change having a baby ushers in. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Antony McMullen) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Defending-the-right-of-Mums-to-have-a-safe-home-birth/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Defending-the-right-of-Mums-to-have-a-safe-home-birth/#item758 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:00:12 +0000 Ugh. I can barely be bothered raising the requisite outrage to talk about the latest sexism in sport scandal. Read all about it here. Salient point: UK Sky Sports commentators Andy Gray and Richard Keys have been stood down after they joked a female linesman (woman?) wouldn’t know soccer’s offside rule. What dinosaurs.  Sure, it was meant to be off air. Sure, jokes among friends and all that. Reality: What they said both reflects and perpetuates ridiculous myths that exist in society. Which is why it still deserves a response despite being tiresome and predictable. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/ooo-er-lets-hear-it-for-the-saucy-english-hens-night/ Staring out at the ocean with a surfboard under my arm, I wondered if I had truly lost the plot. This was no Surfers’ Paradise. I could feel neither my hands nor my feet, my nose was a block of ice and even my eyelashes were freezing. Breathing was becoming a challenge, too. No, this was not some kind of extreme sports challenge - I was on a hen’s weekend on a glorious spring morning in Cornwall, England. On this day, however, the seaside town of Newquay more closely resembled a freezing winter’s day alongside the Great Australian Bight. Confused? Let me explain. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Antony McMullen) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/ooo-er-lets-hear-it-for-the-saucy-english-hens-night/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/ooo-er-lets-hear-it-for-the-saucy-english-hens-night/#item678 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:00:12 +0000 Ugh. I can barely be bothered raising the requisite outrage to talk about the latest sexism in sport scandal. Read all about it here. Salient point: UK Sky Sports commentators Andy Gray and Richard Keys have been stood down after they joked a female linesman (woman?) wouldn’t know soccer’s offside rule. What dinosaurs.  Sure, it was meant to be off air. Sure, jokes among friends and all that. Reality: What they said both reflects and perpetuates ridiculous myths that exist in society. Which is why it still deserves a response despite being tiresome and predictable. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/no-women-no-cry-hottest-misognyist-poll-of-all-time/ One of the least fascinating things to come out of Triple J’s Hottest 100 Of All Time is that Nirvana’s grunge anthem Smells Like Teen Spirit is still considered to be THE cornerstone for Gen X & Ys musical landscape, and that “alternative” music has jumped so far over the shark that it should win an Olympic medal for both high and long jumping. And while taking pot shots at the uninspired and predictable musical tastes of the new bogan elite who have taken over the Triple J airwaves is just as predictable as the contents of the Hottest 100 in the first place, the more intriguing aspect of this gigantic rock census comes down to a question of chromosomes. Soon after the list was finalised, the penny dropped over the Twitterverse that apart from a guest female vocal on Massive Attack’s trip-hop ballad Teardrop and Jeff Buckley singing like a whiny bitch, not one artist in the list for the ages was forced to sit down to pee. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Antony McMullen) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/no-women-no-cry-hottest-misognyist-poll-of-all-time/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/no-women-no-cry-hottest-misognyist-poll-of-all-time/#item616 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:00:12 +0000 Ugh. I can barely be bothered raising the requisite outrage to talk about the latest sexism in sport scandal. Read all about it here. Salient point: UK Sky Sports commentators Andy Gray and Richard Keys have been stood down after they joked a female linesman (woman?) wouldn’t know soccer’s offside rule. What dinosaurs.  Sure, it was meant to be off air. Sure, jokes among friends and all that. Reality: What they said both reflects and perpetuates ridiculous myths that exist in society. Which is why it still deserves a response despite being tiresome and predictable. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/pommy-style-hens-night-the-ultimate-form-of-stimulus/ Staring out at the ocean with a surfboard under my arm, I wondered if I had truly lost the plot. This was no Surfers’ Paradise. I could feel neither my hands nor my feet, my nose was a block of ice and even my eyelashes were freezing. Breathing was becoming a challenge, too. No, this was not some kind of extreme sports challenge - I was on a hen’s weekend on a glorious spring morning in Cornwall, England. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Antony McMullen) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/pommy-style-hens-night-the-ultimate-form-of-stimulus/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/pommy-style-hens-night-the-ultimate-form-of-stimulus/#item675 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:00:12 +0000 Ugh. I can barely be bothered raising the requisite outrage to talk about the latest sexism in sport scandal. Read all about it here. Salient point: UK Sky Sports commentators Andy Gray and Richard Keys have been stood down after they joked a female linesman (woman?) wouldn’t know soccer’s offside rule. What dinosaurs.  Sure, it was meant to be off air. Sure, jokes among friends and all that. Reality: What they said both reflects and perpetuates ridiculous myths that exist in society. Which is why it still deserves a response despite being tiresome and predictable. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/carlton-legend-john-elliotts-after-dinner-rape-gags/ AIN’T rape a hoot? It seems like the good old boys at Carlton Football Club just can’t stop laughing about former president John Elliott’s claim that at least four women were paid not to pursue rape allegations against players in the 80s and 90s. ``We just sort of said, `Righto, here’s five grand, off you go’ and they’d leave,’’ Elliott told a charity event in Hobart last week. ``There’s some very ordinary people out there.’‘ Onya, Johnno. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Antony McMullen) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/carlton-legend-john-elliotts-after-dinner-rape-gags/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/carlton-legend-john-elliotts-after-dinner-rape-gags/#item461 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:00:12 +0000 Ugh. I can barely be bothered raising the requisite outrage to talk about the latest sexism in sport scandal. Read all about it here. Salient point: UK Sky Sports commentators Andy Gray and Richard Keys have been stood down after they joked a female linesman (woman?) wouldn’t know soccer’s offside rule. What dinosaurs.  Sure, it was meant to be off air. Sure, jokes among friends and all that. Reality: What they said both reflects and perpetuates ridiculous myths that exist in society. Which is why it still deserves a response despite being tiresome and predictable. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/ramsays-attack-was-many-things-but-sexist-wasnt-one-of-them/ Here’s an oldie but a goody: Why do women wear makeup and perfume? Because they are ugly and they stink. Some would say that joke, like Gordon Ramsay’s behaviour in recent days, is pretty offensive. But that personal favourite differs from the celebrity chef on two important fronts. The first difference is arguably it’s funny. The second is obviously it’s sexist. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Antony McMullen) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/ramsays-attack-was-many-things-but-sexist-wasnt-one-of-them/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/ramsays-attack-was-many-things-but-sexist-wasnt-one-of-them/#item309 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:00:12 +0000 Ugh. I can barely be bothered raising the requisite outrage to talk about the latest sexism in sport scandal. Read all about it here. Salient point: UK Sky Sports commentators Andy Gray and Richard Keys have been stood down after they joked a female linesman (woman?) wouldn’t know soccer’s offside rule. What dinosaurs.  Sure, it was meant to be off air. Sure, jokes among friends and all that. Reality: What they said both reflects and perpetuates ridiculous myths that exist in society. Which is why it still deserves a response despite being tiresome and predictable.