A collection of 6 posts
Australia is among the least violent countries in the world. There are things we should do to make women safer, but we should not succumb to a crisis narrative.
The firing of the AIC docents was only possible because unpaid staffers are not covered by its provisions, and the MMA was able to circumvent equal opportunity requirements by exclusively recruiting from local black colleges.
The logic of the status game dictates that humiliation must be uniquely catastrophic.
The evidence that men are more violent and more criminal than women is overwhelming, and yet it doesn’t imply that all men are violent, deserve to be incarcerated, or are undeserving of our sympathy or compassion if they are imprisoned.
The ordinary challenges of life now are being reinvented as trauma, and words are conflated with violence.
Make no mistake, we should be wary of the effects that beliefs might have.