Vanessa de Largie

Dead-celebrity market worth US$2.25 billion

10 September 2023 4:00 am

‘Deleb’ (as in dead celebrity) is a label used in show-business to describe a deceased star, celebrity, or artist whose…

The Woke can’t handle Queen: Fat Bottomed Girls axed from album

23 August 2023 12:20 pm

Only yesterday, I was reading about the website Worth it or Woke created by cinephile James Carrick, whose mission is to…

#MeToo: the creed of hypocrisy

20 December 2022 10:00 am

Australian actress Margot Robbie recently revealed in an interview with E! News that she gave Brad Pitt an unscripted kiss in a…

Stop infantilising victims

19 October 2022 11:00 am

Everything in this current era appears to be about feelings. There is feelings-based feminism and feelings-based hashtags. If the fembots…

Sesame Street makes us the muppets

23 November 2021 4:13 pm

Big Bird from Sesame Street has just had his Covid 19 vaccination and we can all rest easy in the…

The faux feminism of the orgasm gap

27 October 2021 5:40 pm

Feminists use ‘The Orgasm Gap’ as an excuse to dump on men. For those of you who may not know…

Why male feminists are deeply dodgy

18 October 2021 3:58 pm

Male feminists are suss. Always have been. Always will be.  They spend their days defending girl-power and, in exchange, they…

Come fly the gender neutral skies

12 October 2021 3:05 pm

The gender-neutral brigade are getting a bit much.  Last week I wrote an article for SpecOz about how women are…

I am a woman – and proud of it

7 October 2021 5:14 pm

I am a woman.  I am not a uterus-holder, a vulva-owner, a person with a front-hole or a body with…

Why the Jess Rowe Big Talk Show Podcast is too small to include Pauline Hanson

30 September 2021 12:00 pm

The Jess Rowe Big Talk Show Podcast is BIG but not big enough to include alternate views, apparently. Journalism is…

The amazing return of Captain Australia

22 July 2021 2:13 pm

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

28 June 2021 4:55 pm

#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

21 June 2021 7:01 pm

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?

20 June 2021 12:01 pm

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

9 June 2021 4:00 pm

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

6 May 2021 2:56 pm

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

28 April 2021 12:11 pm

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

22 April 2021 1:36 pm

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?

16 April 2021 3:56 pm

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

18 February 2021 6:09 pm

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?

14 February 2021 6:00 pm

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?

17 October 2020 3:44 pm

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

31 May 2020 6:40 pm

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

21 May 2020 1:46 pm

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

17 March 2020 11:30 am

For many years now, the world has been slowly moving towards working remotely.    Recent studies conducted by the International Workplace Group…