Welcome to a new Open post on Monday mornings where you can come and vent/share about your weekend. What you did, who you saw, what you watched, what you loved and what annoyed the pants off you (Man-Flu ANYONE?)
Did you watch TV last night? Howzat? Big Brother? 60 Minutes? Everybody Dance Now? Howzat was our pick – so many moustaches, an incredible performance by Lachy Hulme as Kerry Packer and a delightful cameo by Rhona from the AAMI ads as KP’s secretary Rose which sent Twitter into meltdown with many confusing references to Katut in the #Howzat stream. AND it had 2.09 million viewers.
Some seriously good Aussie TV on at the moment – between this and Puberty Blues (made by the same production company and by the genius John Edwards who is also behind Offspring), it’s the best ratings season in memory.
So what else happened on your weekend? How are you feeling about the week ahead? Go.
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I'm loving the slightly more political and sexual tone MM is taking these days. Encouraging readers to submit their short stories, writing on interesting political topics - it's great guys, thank you!
On a slightly different note, it's driving me kind of crazy how often particular (male) commentators are jumping up and down at particular articles about how much men are being discriminated against (e.g. the airline/children policy, the Pussy riot article etc). Sure in some specific instances (not mentioned above) men might be unfairly treated or talked about unfairly (although I don't find that common at MM), but for these commentators to go on and on about men being discriminated against in these kind of reasonable articles is just so short sighted. White males are traditionally and universally the oppressors doing the discriminating, not the other way around. So if you're in that category, just be thankful for it, don't have a cry if you feel for a second that you're not validated enough. Their behaviour is the equivalent of me (as a white woman) going onto some african american forum and having a whinge that white people/white people's issues aren't given enough attention or fairly represented on the site. Get the heck over yourselves!
I note that this rant (and it is a rant, sorry) is really only directed at one or two people, not at the majority of the male commentators on the site (who are often extremely interesting and insightful). To those I'm talking about, please get some perspective!
This isn't related to this post, but rather to MM in general. I don't always love/agree with Jamila's articles (different strokes for different folks and all), but I always appreciate reading her comments & responses to other comments. Perhaps it's just the political trainining, but I always feel that she thoughtfully responds to people in a respectful manner - which goes above and beyond basic civility and diplomacy (and I love it for this).
Thank you and keep up he good work x