Why does Catherine Deveny get her crap published in The Age?

[dekoyl]

yuck

If you were referring to the opening paragraph - Yes I thought the exact same thing. Yuck

"Deveny is sitting on a couch out the front of her house, her bare feet up on a stool. It's hot and windy, and her red cotton dress is billowing around her ears. After her fourth inadvertent Marilyn Monroe impersonation..."

[droodles]

i want to hurt costargh

[costargh]

i want to hurt costargh

kinky.
call me

[suenoga]

haha, I think she is a washed-up marxist.
 I don't agree with a lot of what she says but it's still great stuff!

[enwiabe]

Yeah I've gotta say, a lot of it is utter diatribe, but it still makes for good reading and certainly riles up debate on otherwise tame issues like a debutante ball etc.

[mark_alec]

I like her, she provides wholesome entertainment without meaning to

I also really like her. Her column at the back of A2 about the crap on TV is always entertaining. Regardless of whether people agree with her views, she *does* write well.

[bubble sunglasses]

   which piece was about debutantes?

[brendan]

   which piece was about debutantes?

http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/this-is-one-ball-that-should-be-dropped/2008/03/04/1204402450848.html?page=fullpage

[methodsboy]

yuck

I agree, she is FUGLY

[kurrymuncher]

yuck

I agree, she is FUGLY

Oh god, why is she in that pose??

[Eriny]

   which piece was about debutantes?

http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/this-is-one-ball-that-should-be-dropped/2008/03/04/1204402450848.html?page=fullpage

I don't agree with that article entirely, but she highlights some of the reasons why I chose not to do the deb. It's funny, I told some of my friends from other states about them and they report never having heard of them (they were all boys though).

[bubble sunglasses]

   which piece was about debutantes?

http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/this-is-one-ball-that-should-be-dropped/2008/03/04/1204402450848.html?page=fullpage

I don't agree with that article entirely, but she highlights some of the reasons why I chose not to do the deb. It's funny, I told some of my friends from other states about them and they report never having heard of them (they were all boys though).

I think for them to be an obligatory rite of passage, as was the case previously, is adverse, but I'm not sure if they're that harmful to girls in their current context.
 Also she argues that they're heteronormative and exclusive to those with particular inherent physical quatlities . Well, so are many pursuits and aspects of our culture.

[xox.happy1.xox]

yuck

I agree, she is FUGLY

Oh god, why is she in that pose??

Put more clothes on... Please?

[brendan]

heteronormative

wtf

[bubble sunglasses]

   this is interesting
 http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/dear-henry-a-little-bit-of-mentoring-on-how-the-world-works-20080826-42zz.html