Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Society

  • QOTD: Andrea Grimes on what men can do

    From I Made a Joke About Guns and a Man Threatened to Assault Me at RH Reality Check: I don’t need men to individually and personally step up to protect me. I need…

  • QOTD: snark vs smarm

    From the epic On Smarm by Tom Scocca at Gawker: Snark is often conflated with cynicism, which is a troublesome misreading. Snark may speak in cynical terms about a cynical world, but…

  • QOTD: Annabel Crabb on feminism

    At the Sydney Morning Herald: I am a feminist because it bothers me that a woman gets killed by her male partner every single week, and somehow that doesn’t qualify…

  • QOTD: Pratchett on privilege

    The parents of two pupils from St Bede’s College got a court injunction so their sons could row in a competition. The school had cut them from the team after they…

  • QOTD: Aditya Mukerjee on the second-class languages of Unicode

    At Model View Culture, an article hilariously/depressingly entitled “I Can Text You a Pile of Poo, But I Can’t Write My Name“: The very first version of the Unicode standard…