Stephanie Rodgers

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

Tag: patriarchy

  • The importance of words

    Expanding on some thoughts I had on Twitter. It’s an interesting phrase, “language policing”. We all know what the police are. Even people with the good fortune/whiteness to have mainly…

  • The death-throes of patriarchy

    Another day, another panic-mongering, deceptive, anti-social headline from Family First, as reported on Twitter … This upsets me. Family First & Bob McKoskrie are horrendous. They have no idea what…

  • When are identities political?

    Morgan Godfery has a great post up at The Ruminator about the Auckland housing/Chinese surnames story. His last paragraph inspired me to start jotting down notes for this post on…

  • Newsflash: Men aren’t wolves

    One of the weird paradoxes of patriarchy is the idea that on the one hand, men are naturally the dominant group in society because they’re more rational, have bigger brains,…

  • International (Working) Women’s Day

    It’s hard to know what to write on this International (Working) Women’s Day. The issues facing women living under patriarchy remain pretty much what they always are: there’s a basic…