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The Vocabulary of Misogyny 
commentary current affairs

The Vocabulary of Misogyny 

Vera FignerOctober 27, 2024December 17, 2024
The NSW Parliament crumbled to the trans lobby on 17 October and passed Alex Greenwich’s ghastly ‘Equality’ bill.  Jeremy Fernandez, trans-lobby moonlighter, heralded the imminence of this triumph for misogyny...
AND THE WINNER IS … 
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AND THE WINNER IS … 

Melissus28September 16, 2024September 16, 2024
’Twas a hotly contested competition, as Vera’s and Emma’s goggleboxing demonstrates, but in the end it’s sports journo Samantha Lewis (‘she/they’) who takes gold for Worst ABC Piece on the...
Paris Goggleboxing: News at 7
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Paris Goggleboxing: News at 7

Melissus28September 4, 2024September 4, 2024
Vera Figner and Emma Peel react to the ABC TV coverage of the boxing scandal at the Paris Olympics.  Wednesday 7th August ABC TV News NSW 7 pm Jeremy Fernandez,...
Paris Goggleboxing: ABC Offsiders
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Paris Goggleboxing: ABC Offsiders

Melissus28August 27, 2024September 4, 2024
Vera Figner and Emma Peel react to the ABC TV coverage of the boxing scandal at the Paris Olympics.  Offsiders - Sunday 4th August Kelli Underwood, presenter, to guest reporter...
If Vera were the ABC Ombudsman
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If Vera were the ABC Ombudsman

Melissus28June 3, 2024June 4, 2024
If Vera Figner were the ABC Ombudsman, the outcome would’ve been very different for a complaint about an online article ABC News published on 16 April.  Said article is kind-of...
Leaky bathroom more newsworthy than gender trouble
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Leaky bathroom more newsworthy than gender trouble

Vera FignerApril 21, 2024April 22, 2024
Good on you, Women Speak Tasmania! This is what we like to see: alert ABC News listeners/viewers/readers who recognise censorship and poor judgment when they see it.  Last month, an...
Under the Carpet 
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Under the Carpet 

Vera FignerJanuary 28, 2024January 28, 2024
When, back in August 2022, Media Watch blasted the ABC for ignoring the Tavistock dramas in the UK, senior ABC journo Julia Holman commented that she’d ‘rather hear about what’s...
One of these things is not like the others … 
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One of these things is not like the others … 

Vera FignerJanuary 4, 2024August 19, 2024
It looks like whoever runs the ABC News webpage just wasn’t paying attention when they watched Sesame Street on the ABC as a four-year-old. Otherwise, they would’ve picked up that...
Tampons: ABC News ignores the bleedin’ obvious
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Tampons: ABC News ignores the bleedin’ obvious

Vera FignerDecember 13, 2023December 17, 2023
Who uses tampons? Women. What word doesn’t appear in this 1,808-word on-line ABC News article about tampons? ‘Women.’ Instead the journo, one Paige Cockburn, adopts a chatty tone – unusual...
RN BREAKFAST: GOTCHA MOMENTS GO WRONG
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RN BREAKFAST: GOTCHA MOMENTS GO WRONG

Vera FignerNovember 19, 2023November 19, 2023
The ABC goes to remarkable lengths to avoid giving airtime to opponents of gender-identity ideology. Trouble is, one can pop up anywhere. Look what happened on RN Breakfast on 10...

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