Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Society

  • The Police Commissioner and the Streisand Effect

    The Streisand Effect describes when someone’s attempt to cover up or censor something only leads to it getting more attention – the exact opposite result they intended. Someone should tell…

  • Ports of Auckland: still totally not arrogant

    Oh my god. I thought Chevron’s condescending “We Agree” ad campaign was the peak of companies-talking-down-to-people-and-ignoring-the-actual-criticisms-levelled-against-them. But Ports of Auckland – whose CEO Tony Gibson was protesting only days ago…

  • Paid parental leave back on the cards?

    I suspect the media are going to get a lot of mileage out of “the Winston effect” over the rest of this parliamentary term – but you can’t blame them,…

  • How the Dirty Politics machine continues to do its work

    “There are a few basic propositions with negative campaigning that are worth knowing about. It lowers turnout, favours the right more than the left as the right continue to turn…

  • Mils Muliaina, rape culture, and sharpening my pitchfork

    The news that a former All Black had been arrested in connection with a sexual assault case did not surprise me in the slightest. It cannot surprise anyone who pays…