Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Sex and gender

  • Alesha, Who Smiles At Death and smashes geek stereotypes

    I’ve started using the word “nerd” to describe myself more and more recently. I used to be firmly a “geek”, because geeks were cool and nerds were those awkward people…

  • QOTD: Mansplaining in Macquarie

    Macquarie Dictionary has declared “mansplaining” to be its word of the year, and some people aren’t happy about that. Amy Gray responds in The Guardian: Of course there are criticisms…

  • Of gaming, boob armour, and smutty 13th century French fabliaux

    (Content note: almost definitely NSFW) A bit of a silly, non-political post for the weekend! This article on designing better women in computer games hit a bunch of my favourite…

  • 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…