For as long as I can remember I have struggled with mainstream media’s power to influence people with their biases. When I was living in Shepparton in the 1980’s we only had two TV channels – the ABC and WIN TV which was the Nine Network. Teaching social studies I liked to watch 60 Minutes […]
Have you ever been told that you just have to love yourself more and your life will get better? It was told to you as if this simple instruction was the solution to all of your problems, right? But the truth is if it were that easy for you, and all the rest of us, […]
Originally I had a sub-heading titled “Everyone Thinks They Are Nice” in the Injustice of Emotionality, Making Sense of the Insensible. It got lots of response at my workshop. I wanted it to get that response because I was making a point. I have never met anyone who has declared themselves as intentionally horrible. Don’t […]
This was a huge discussion for the men I interviewed and I am truly grateful for their openness and honesty. Men and Sex Depending on our influences the role of sex in our lives varies. But we are all aware of the stereotypes of the seductive, philandering man who uses sex as a medal of […]
Having watched #SundayNight and the segment about football codes in Australia on Sunday March 17, 2019, the thing that stunned me was the two main women interviewed went out searching for penis. They treated the men like star-meat. They just wanted a piece of fame in their vaginas. They didn’t care about who or what […]
After completing the first draft of Making Sense of the Insensible I attended the Hay House writer’s workshop in Sydney. I discovered that there was a page limit on books and I had 40,000 words too many! When I began my author journey it was to write a book about our cultural influences on gender. […]
Until I read the article in Sunday Style (April 13, 2014) about Charley Drayton, The Divinyls and Chrissy Amphlett’s anthem ‘I touch myself,’ I had never considered the intention behind what was taken as a raunchy song about a taboo topic at that time. While it stands as a great song, sung by an amazing […]
Freud got it wrong! Well, he was right about little girls having envy towards little boys. But it wasn’t their penises that we wanted. It was their personal power. This has been my theory for as long as I can remember because I can remember thinking this when I was about four years old. In […]
I was born in the decade feminism and the Beatles launched a revolution, entering my teens in the late 70’s, I absorbed the cry for change. By the 1980’s I was working with the by-product of family dysfunction, and lent my voice to educating people about the taboo of incest. Today, it’s not even questioned […]
Enough is enough! It’s time for society to learn its lessons and change what doesn’t serve children.