Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Society

  • The pay gap in Hollywood – and the rest of the world

    The Sony hack just keeps hurting, with revelations about the pay gap between male and female actors leading one leading lady to demand a raise: After leaked emails in the…

  • Rape culture and Jane Austen

    Another study has shown what many feminists and progressive activists have known for a while: that for a lot of very normal people, there’s a lot of confusion about what…

  • Watching our language on mental illness and disability

    [Content note: ableist language] It was probably inevitable that in a post on The Standard about the differences in commentary style between leftwing and rightwing blogs, someone would come along…

  • QOTD: What do words even mean?

    Quote of the day, from Every Internet Conversation With Dudes, Ever: Woman: Let’s talk about consent. Dude: What does “consent” mean? What do words mean? “Yes?” “No?” What does anything mean?…

  • QOTD: Morgan G on G Morgan and the Treaty

    From Gareth Morgan and the Pākehā Pathology at Maui Street: Thus the burden of compromise always falls to Māori – we can push only for what is compatible with their system –…