Today I read an ABC News report on an incident where a man with cerebral palsy says he was refused entry to the Adelaide Casino last month because the bouncer thought he was drunk. Mark Thiele had been out with friends in the city and walked a few blocks with them from Hindley Street to [...]
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Online Integrity: Edits and Updates
Yesterday, someone on my Twitter feed linked to a post on the Media Diary section of The Australian website, written by senior writer and columnist, Caroline Overington (who is also the editor of Media Diary). I’m not providing a link to that just yet, for reasons that will become apparent, but here’s a screenshot: That [...]
4 February 2011
Categories: (Anti)Social Commentary, Miscellania . Tags: Caroline Overington, news, online ethics, The Australian . Author: Kirstyn McDermott . Comments: 2 Comments
I have my cranky pants on today
Yes, someone is wrong on the internet. Yes, I should simply ignore it and go about my day. Most of time, this is just what I do, which is why this blog isn’t filled with ranty angst. But sometimes I put on my cranky pants. In this appalling article from the Courier Mail yesterday, Dr [...]
17 November 2010
Categories: (Anti)Social Commentary . Tags: gay marriage, homophobia . Author: Kirstyn McDermott . Comments: 5 Comments
Is that a link I see before me?
A thought-provoking post over at Cat Valente’s blog about our fascination with the end of the world and our need to be part of a story: No one wants to miss out. On the End Times, on the Singlarity. On Peak Oil, which I see certain folk talking about in the same eager terms, looking [...]
9 July 2010
Categories: (Anti)Social Commentary, Books & Reading, Writing & Publishing . Tags: Angela Slatter, eschatology, gender, Madigan Mine, post-apocalypse, reviews, Years's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror . Author: Kirstyn McDermott . Comments: 2 Comments
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Not so much walking, as talking . . .
So I read this article about the “SlutWalk” phenomenon today in the Sydney Morning Herald. I wasn’t going to blog about the whole SlutWalk thing, because my thoughts are complicated and the issue deserves some fairly nuanced treatment and I really don’t have a day to spare writing a complicated, nuanced blog post right now. [...]
12 May 2011
Categories: (Anti)Social Commentary . Tags: feminism, gender, SlutWalk . Author: Kirstyn McDermott . Comments: 2 Comments