Stephanie Rodgers

Feminist, leftie, green māmā from Te Whanganui-a-Tara

Category: Society

  • Beware, creepy men of the right: Rawshark returns (briefly)

    An old handle flickered back into life briefly this afternoon: In 2014 I dumped: https://t.co/UhZSYEYyar — Whaledump2 (@whaledump2) September 14, 2016 Rawshark – presuming the account is still held and operated…

  • A great few days for sexism in New Zealand

    Team, I can’t. https://twitter.com/bootstheory/status/773346276314230784 But who needs feminism any more? Let’s just lean in, amirite? If you haven’t been keeping a keen eye on the ongoing I’m talking about this…

  • Lefty book reviews: Don’t Buy It

    Where to start with Anat Shenker-Osorio’s Don’t Buy It: The Trouble With Talking Nonsense About The Economy? This review seems redundant, because literally every person I’ve encountered in the past…

  • Rugby culture does not have to be a toxic dump of bigotry

    Sigh. Chiefs players also hired a stripper on the night one of them was caught chanting a homophobic slur toward teammates. Franchise bosses have confirmed a stripper was engaged by players for…

  • Steven Joyce and policy-by-Twitter

    It would be a perfect episode of The Thick of It, but it’s real: today, the Minister of Fixing Things Steven Joyce fundamentally altered government policy by trying to get…