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THINKING WOMAN INTOLERANT
The Age’s Traceeee Hutchison rejects sexist Australian football:
I still love the game but as a proud, thinking woman I just can’t tolerate the increasingly absurd pre-occupation and propping up the blokes’ world that is AFL football any more.
Rise up, pre-resistance! Do not tolerate the pre-occupation! Happily for sports fan Traceeee, she can now follow the new Indian Premier League cricket competition - it’s multi-faith, ethnically diverse and impressively inclusive of women. All that remains is to select a team:
That last title is slightly improved; Mumbai Indians is too bland a brand to survive in this crowd. I’m partial to the Chennai Super Kings myself, mainly because they have the best-named player in sports history. Early IPL reviews (from Cheryl Morgan and a Teletubby) are mixed.
UPDATE. It seems Age editor Andrew Jaspan was the only person in Melbourne who shared Traceeee’s dredging obsession. As with Jaspan’s support for Earth Hour, this has hurt him:
According to a statement endorsed unanimously by 235 staff members, Jaspan had “pursued an undeclared campaign” against the Victorian Government’s dredging of Port Phillip Bay.
“The paper’s news reporting and analysis of this issue, as well as the selection, emphasis and presentation of stories, has been aggressively directed to reflect the view that the dredging is a mistake,” the statement said. “This is an issue on which our readers expect fair and objective coverage. Instead, the roles of editorial advocacy and reporting have become confused.”
For Melbourne’s so-called top end of town, and those who walk the corridors of power on Spring Street, the condemnation by The Age staff vindicated their long-held concern that Jaspan had devoted enormous resources to wage a vendetta against the channel-deepening project.
UPDATE II. The Age reports:
The Victorian Government has been accused of letting industry decide environment policy ...
The government is just following Jaspan’s policy-outsourcing example.
UPDATE III. Nic looks at the facts.
blokes’ world
Don’t you Mexicans have sad female groupies who watch the boys train? ... get a life!
Want ratings for wymmins’ sport?
Try WWF mud wrestling and jelly wrestling championships ...I still love the game but as a proud, thinking woman I just can’t tolerate the increasingly absurd pre-occupation and propping up the blokes’ world that is AFL football any more.
Then get in the fucking kitchen and make some sandwiches, you whining harridan. It’s football, for Christ’s sake. If you’re so goddamn determined to emasculate everything you see, get a job as a veterinary assistant and leave us the fuck alone.
When a woman has a “brain snap” and kills an abusive husband, it’s justice.
When a footy player has a brain snap and punches out an annoying twerp, the world comes to an end.
Posted by mr creosote on 2008 04 19 at 12:59 AM • permalinkSadly, those few things not owned by Traceee are destined to collapse without her support.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2008 04 19 at 01:02 AM • permalinkI do know Traceee’s channel has been dredged to the point of no return.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2008 04 19 at 01:25 AM • permalinkNow for something completely different, who here knows their movies? Yesterday I was reading the letters page (The Advertiser) a letter yet again from serial letter writer pest Dallas Fraser. In it he claims that whilst serving in the Vietnam (which I doubt) a popular saying amongst the men was “I love the smell of napalm in the morning”. Then he went on and waffled about how we are over reacting to what he alleged was a non existing terrorist threat bla bla bla..vintage Fraser stuff. Anyway my point is I believe he is actually making this up and this quote is from a movie, a Vietnam war movie made after the war, name escapes me on the tip of my tongue…Anyone??
AFL VFL should follow Reg Reagan “Bring back the Biff”. Then Tracee will really see something. IPL is wham bam thank you mam, so cheerleading does help.
Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 04 19 at 01:37 AM • permalinkTraceeee reminds me of the woman who was the equal employment officer of the NSW Water Resources Department when I was there in the 1980s. This woman decided her first task would be to rid the department of sexist language. After much researching and networking with feminist groups, she issued guidelines. We were told, in all seriousness, that from now on we were not to use the term “cave man”. It was to be “cave dweller”.
Why it reminds me of Traceeee is that she too sees a sexism problem where none exists. AFL is played by blokes because they are better at it. Just like women are better at pole dancing.
Traceeeeee’s dislike for anything she considers obviously macho, should find her screaming for her pen when she sets eyes on this believer in gender equality.
Traceee’s an utter mong. Lets look at some FACTS:
The Victorian Women’s Football League is focusing on attracting more players to the sport following the appointment of the state’s Minister for Women’s Affairs, Maxine Morand, as Victoria’s inaugural patron for female Aussie Rules Football. Morand said that more than 40 per cent of spectators at AFL matches are women and many more women work tirelessly behind the scenes at a community level to keep local footy clubs alive.
with the number of female players increasing three times in the last seven years to almost a thousand players. There are 27 teams and 20 clubs in the senior state-wide competition.
“Last year alone, the number of woman playing competition football nationally increased 23 per cent to 46,412 players including 24,145 girls participating in AusKick.”
involvement in the game and promote women players and traditional women’s sports. It was great to see VWFL players Shannon McFerran and Daisy Pearce playing in this year’s EJ Whitten memorial game at Telstra Dome – the first women to play in this annual all-stars event.”
Fuckwit.
O/T but Bolta is doing a Cricinfo of the 1st day of the 2020 gabfest.
With each update you just scratch you head and say “Who the hell are these people? Where are they from?”
Posted by Toiling Mass on 2008 04 19 at 02:53 AM • permalinkShame on The Age journos. It is only when good people stand by and do nothing, that Traceee’s channel reaches unimagined depths. Just the thought of it leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2008 04 19 at 03:12 AM • permalinkNapoleon Einstein is indeed a great name, but does he have a Russian sidekick with a name to match Ilya Kuryakin’s?
Posted by AlburyShifton on 2008 04 19 at 03:18 AM • permalinkTraceeiieeiio seems to be set and determined to prove to the world that she is a bigger idiot than even the Margronk of Kingston.
I think she is succeeding.
MarkL
canberraPS: #27 Toiling Mass, did not you know from where the 1000 uber-idiots were obtained? A hint. Go outside and find any convenient flat rock. It will have Krudd’s fingerprints on it, and it will have been turned over recently.
#27
Here’s a linky to Bolta’s live blog of Kevstock 08Boomerang Dave West comes back.
He said plastic bags were only a small part of Australia’s waste problem, but became a potential wildlife killer once they became litter.
Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 04 19 at 03:47 AM • permalink#31 I was pleased to see you there, kae. Also spotted MarkL and, I believe, the inimicable Habib.
I think that all the trap-flappers at Kevstock08 should be held responsible for what they say especially if it is put into practice.
If this foul thing is going to be used to justify policies then it will be useful to have the people involved (and who legitimise it with their celebrity) rubbish it publicly later (to defend their celebrity).
They might yet be our useful idiots, at least once.
And on that note I return you to your regularly scheduled thread.
Posted by Toiling Mass on 2008 04 19 at 04:05 AM • permalinkThose jokers at webdiary are teasing us by not running a single item about KevFest. The anticipation is killing me!
Posted by Margos Maid on 2008 04 19 at 04:47 AM • permalinkStone the flamin’ crows! Traceeee’s such a drongo. She must’ve had a miserable childhood. What must her parents be thinking?
Now she doesn’t even like AFL! And she’s from Victoria!
Very un-Australian, T. Maybe time to GetUp! and depart these shores. Try Iran, for a start. Ooops - maybe try it for an end.
O/T Just reading the paper…
Then, against the advice of a senior member of hospital staff, a 26-year-old social worker decided to return Elizjah to the care of her homeless mother. Eight days later, dressed in a pink jumpsuit, Elizjah was found dead, her tiny face buried in a pillow on a filthy, torn sofa in the home of her Maori grandmother, an alleged alcoholic and former drug abuser.
#37
Kev Comedy Fest
non-corporate sponsor: the voters.Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 04 19 at 05:59 AM • permalink“Who do you follow? It’s the most unambiguous question in Melbourne.”
I am still wondering what this means. Are “What’s your name?” or “What’s your star sign?” more ambiguous question for Melburnians?
Traceee is still struggling to convey meaning, and none of this is made easier by the fact that she still cannot construct a sentence.
For months she has been writing sentences truncated with dashes, and reading her column was like being dragged behind a flatulent horse running over potholes.
Now she has abandoned this method, and is instead starting sentences with “And” and “But”. This makes it read like the stream-of-consciousness ramblings of someone with a more-than-passing empathy with Ben Cousins.
Traceee can’t write, so why on earth is she being paid to do it?
Posted by Margos Maid on 2008 04 19 at 06:27 AM • permalink“watching poetry in motion on the half-forward flank”
Indeed!
You wouldn’t, not since Garry Ablett retired!I have never commented on Traceeee’s writing before, simply because I never bothered to read them, now that I have, I wish I hadn’t.
Not being a cruel sort of a bloke, my opinion is, that she has nothing to say and takes a thousand words to do it!#41 Kae,
a 26-year-old social worker
And no doubt still chock-full of whatever lefty crap her (I assume) lecturers spouted. On the topic of social workers get a load of this trainee youth worker.
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Posted by richard mcenroe on 2008 04 19 at 02:11 PM • permalink
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