Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life

If you haven’t checked out the distinctly full-of-attitude and piece-of-her-uncensored-mind given by Helen Razer, just in time for International Women’s Day called Louis Nowra Needs a Good Vajazzling then perhaps you should be clicking that link to learn exactly why Nowra’s snark is well and truly given the kicking it deserves.

Last Friday, Australian magazine The Monthly published an essay on The Female Eunuch to “commemorate” the book’s fortieth anniversary. Here was an opportunity to contextualise what is arguably the most popular work ever written by an Australian public intellectual.

What a shame that didn’t happen. What a shame they didn’t count on Razer having both a mind and female genitalia. Bad Hostess website gives you all the details on that, the puzzlement that is … I decline to use the word ‘vajazzling’, since I’ve already pointed out that pubic hair is not the vagina… and dyeing parts of one’s body for reasons I’ve yet to quite fathom, let alone figure out.

You can probably read it whilst listening to Professor Angelou reciting her poem, “And Still I Rise,” from her volume of poetry, published in 1978.

In the meantime, I’ll be getting back to writing on the philosophical and social issues that involve the notion of a utopia., something I’m currently teaching to my high-school classes.

Still got a long way to go, in my opinion.

From Femnisting.com:

The two definite highlights of the evening were Mo’Nique’s win for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Precious and Kathryn Bigelow’s win for Best Director for The Hurt Locker.

Kathryn is the first woman to ever win in the Director category, and as was pointed out by AnnaLeighClark on twitter last night, it happened just before midnight and the start of International Women’s Day. Also, as Shelby Knox pointed out, the statistics about this award were pretty stark: 82 years, 400 nominations, 4 women nominated, 1 awarded.

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