Welcome to the Dollhouse Episode 7: #MeToo & Mastectomies with Kit Kowalski and Edie Wyatt. This week we talk chicken shawarma, #metoo, the self-harm/self-love duality.
We tried something a little different this week - covering fewer topics at a more relaxed pace. Let us know how we did.
The Genderverse Collides With The Mainstream Media
Kara Dansky, US radical feminist lawyer and activist, goes on Dr Phil. Wow!
Kara keeps cool as she faces off against ‘Danny The Non-binary Birthing Person’ and an aggressive trans-woman. We hear how infertility is “queer”, and makes women and men into equals.
Well worth a watch.
Check out Kara Dansky’s running update on the Dana Rivers case.
Australian Politics
Sarah Ferguson interviews outgoing Sex Discrimination Commissioner, Kate Jenkins about her work reporting into sexual harassment in Parliament.
Edie brings up the 2021 instance where ABC censored Liberal MP Nicolle Flint from talking about rape culture in disadvantaged Aboriginal communities. Spending millions of taxpayer dollars on cleaning up sexual harassment in a single workplace (the Parliament) is laudable, and we should all have access to this treatment.
There’s a class component here - spending big on the most privileged of professional workplaces, and silencing women with inconvenient things to say.
#MeToo
We talk about the Brittany Higgins case, and the class aspects of the #MeToo movement. Kit brings up the class & collusion arguments from Germaine Greer’s controversial take on #MeToo.
From the Rainbow Files
Find out why 1 in 67 Muslims in the UK is transgender. It’s absolutely nothing to do with migrant populations with lower English competency misinterpreting a convoluted question about gender identity.
Stonewall UK’s Nancy Kelley crows about the surprisingly high number of transgender individuals living in her suburb of Newham. She even links the phenomenon to age…but it’s not a social contagion or a fad.
Aunty in the Spotlight
Our dear Aunty is platforming self-harm. Oh sigh.
We talk about the challenges facing young women, whether or not our souls have breasts. This story shows how Olivia was influenced by social media, and in turn influences others via social media.
On the flip side, biological males take “titty skittles” and “breast mints” to grow breasts and fully embody gender stereotypes. We kid you not.
Lipstick ‘Lesbians’
Edie laments that ABC does not celebrate womanhood, challenging Kit to find a story where ABC platforms the joy of womanhood. Here’s the Lipstick Lesbian Power Couple (lesbians not included)…
Women Supporting women:
Peter Credlin interviews Holly Lawford-Smith on Sky.
Interesting to learn that Credlin was a student of Sheila Jeffreys. Do check out her excellent research on bimbofication porn.
The Bad Ole Days
Kit recalls the ‘bad ole days’ of sexist advertising and the personal impact that it had on girls. Today’s advertising of non-binary surgeries sends a similar message about standards of body image and cultural identity.
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Episode 7: #MeToo & Mastectomies