The amazing return of Captain Australia
Eighty-one years ago, comic book writer Joe Simon created Captain America, an agile and resilient superhero who represented the American…
Covid cavaliers forget the elderly
#GladysClusterFukup was trending on Twitter yesterday. That was no surprise. Like most of Twitter, it was driven by malice. But…
Crikey, it’s the Irwins
The biggest takeaway from Andrew Denton’s 2003 interview with Steve Irwin on Enough Rope was how much Steve idolised his father Bob.…
Good. Gooder?
For decades, Australian men have been caricatured as foolish idiots in advertising. Men are presented as stupid, useless or otherwise…
It’s erotic if you use a feather. It’s only perversion if you use the whole peacock
Sensuality boutique Honey Birdette has come under fire for one of their video advertisements on display outside their stores in Australian shopping centres. …
Snow White and the intellectual dwarves
Snow White and her handsome prince are the most recent victims of the humourless woke scolds on the Left and…
It can’t be a supermoon if it’s not gender inclusive
Were you aware that only two per cent of moon craters are named after women? Neither was I, until I…
That crackers consent ad? Blame the left for sanitising sex
Once upon a time, many moons ago, sex was sex and a milkshake was a milkshake. Now we’ve moved into this…
Sailors and half-clad women? No! Whoever would have thought of it?
To twerk or not to twerk? That is the question. I wonder what the Bard would think? Australia has its…
Facebook gives our already battered creative industries another belting
In response to the proposed media bargaining laws, Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook have banned Australian publishers from sharing and viewing…
What’s wrong with a nice little bit of consensual kink?
Fifteen women have accused American singer and songwriter, Marilyn Manson of horrific sexual abuse. Manson has responded to the sexual abuse…
Will the #IStandWithDan brigade still unbutton for Sutton?
In August, Victorian Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton speedily catapulted to cult status as Australia’s most lusted after silver fox.…
The upside to my lockdown
We have a lot to be thankful for. Not only has the global pandemic given us Coronavirus Porn but dick…
The most important issue of 2020: sexist kids water bottles
Coronavirus seems to reveal the best and worst of humanity. Most Australians have spent the last two months adjusting to…
Self isolation? Working from home? Some of us have flourished for years doing it
For many years now, the world has been slowly moving towards working remotely. Recent studies conducted by the International Workplace Group…
Sick, sad and confused
I feel tormented this week. I want to drink. I want to suck dick. I want to self-destruct. I’m fighting an…
Stuff woke. Be practical
There has been enough social commentary on our bushfire crisis and climate change to fill Lake Eyre, so I’ll refrain…
When journos join the thought police, God help us
Is 2019 the death of satire? Because it’s most definitely the death of comedy. A comedian’s role used to be…
Clem goes gooey over dead white male
Just when I think Clementine Ford couldn’t get any more hypocritical she has managed to outdo any previous effort. At…
Leunig and the loon brigade
The ‘martyr mother’ archetype sums up motherhood in 2019 succinctly. The outrage over Michael Leunig’s illustration ‘Phoney Love’ is proof…
This is bullying with help from a professional media manipulator, not news
Philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer once said, “compassion is the basis of morality.” Perhaps the Australian blue-tick warriors could learn something from…
A metaphor by any other name…
When did metaphors become offensive? Seriously? American billionaire and investment analyst, Ken Fisher is in deep shit for remarks he…
Pornography: neither a culprit nor a cop-out
Jaymes Todd, the Melbourne man given a life sentence last week for the cowardly rape and murder of Eurydice Dixon…
Sex and the Sydney stabbing: preach PC, print prurience
The good-girl-gone-bad narrative peddled by the Australian media following the stabbing murder of Sydney sex-worker Michaela Dunn last week —…
Nightmare feminism
#MeToo is like a malignant cancer that multiplies and spreads. It attacks the white blood cells. It attacks the immune…
