I recently found myself embroiled with a couple of young women, millennials that I will refer to as A. and S., who seemed to defy all criticisms of millennials that I had experienced.
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Millennial ‘Ethics’
Posted in Pretensions toward cultural theory with tags culture, Feminism, ghosting, Glen Waverley, marxism, millennials, prejudice, racism, sociopathy, white guilt on July 24, 2022 by Jarrod Boyle
Why I Don’t Believe in the Patriarchy (But Still Consider Myself A Feminist).
Posted in Pretensions toward cultural theory with tags Easter Bunny, Feminism, patriarchy, Santa Claus, Satan, sexual assault, Simone De Beauvoir, The Beauty Myth, The Female Eunuch, The Second Sex on February 16, 2021 by Jarrod Boyle
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The patriarchy is like Satan, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus. Sure, there’s some kind of cause and effect involved, but the figure itself is bought into being by those wanting to explain more subtle and complex phenomena, but are happy to settle for an easy answer with a face on it.
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James Salter’s ‘A Sport and a Pastime.’
Posted in Reading with tags A Moveable Feast, A Sport and a Pastime, D.H. Lawrence, Ernest Hemingway, Feminism, James Salter, Lady Chatterley's Lover, Modernism, Paris on September 16, 2020 by Jarrod Boyle
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A Sport and a Pastime is considered – by Americans – to be an American classic. My first question, upon finishing the book, is, ‘What makes something a classic? What makes it ‘feel’ like one?’
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Julie Bishop’s Not a Feminist
Posted in Observation, Pretensions toward cultural theory with tags cunt, disgrace, Feminism, Julie Bishop, stupid on October 30, 2014 by Jarrod Boyle
What a fucking disgrace.
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My First Gay Porn Film
Posted in Film, Observation, Pornography with tags Chuck Norris, Feminism, Gender Studies, Pigs at the Troff on June 3, 2012 by Jarrod Boyle
A Small Skirmish in the War of the Sexes
Posted in Observation with tags Blah Blah Ginger, Bootsy Collins, Devil's Playground, feather boa, Feminism, Gary Larson on December 7, 2011 by Jarrod Boyle
Some weeks ago, I attended a dance party known as ‘Devil’s Playground’. Continue reading
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In Defence of Pornography
Posted in Pornography with tags Birth of Venus, Chloe, e.e. cummings, Feminism, First Time Videos, Gail Dines, Karen Pini, Martin Grimwood, Penthouse Magazine, Playboy Magazine, The Age Newspaper on June 8, 2011 by Jarrod Boyle
“There is no place for pornography in a just society.”
– Gail Dines, ‘How the Hardcore Porn Industry is Ruining Young Men’s Lives’, as published in The Age, May 18, 2011.
“Those magazines, they aren’t about sex. They’re about beauty.”
– Martin Grimwood, in reference to my collection of Penthouse Magazines, published circa 1970. Continue reading
Theme Park at its Darkest 