Category: social media
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WTF is wrong with some men? And why are we letting them get away with it?
I’ve reached a point where I hardly dare open the news apps on my phone each morning. Not because it is necessarily bad, but because of the increasing number of stories about men murdering, belittling and shaming women (or others that oppose their views). Found on Pinterest from movemequotes.com I dread to think how this…
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Is It Normal To Hate People Who Go On Exotic Holidays All The Time? Asking For A Friend
This is a follow on from my last post in which I discussed my chances of dragging my husband away on an exotic holiday this year. Thank you for the abundance of awesome recommendations (for anxious, middle-aged couples, with zero interests in common) that you kindly left on that post, and which have since been…
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How To Cope With An Internet Outage With Millennials
My sympathies lie with the businesses that were affected by Telstra’s latest outage last week. My own family has been at their mercy for the past two weeks, effectively in lockdown. Any parent will tell you that there is no greater pain than watching a child suffer, and that is exactly what we have been…
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A Day In The Life Of Donald Duck… Erm Trump
It’s so discriminating when all you want to do is play a round of golf with some celebrity or white supremacist and minor events, like the funerals of the latest teenage shooting victims, get in the way. And then there are those persistent (and frankly, annoying) rumors about being in bed with the Russians and…
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The Power Of The Voice
I shared an article on my MY Midlife Mayhem Facebook page the other day, written by Clementine Ford, called “We need to move past the idea that everything is up for debate”. For those who don’t know Clementine, she is a writer, a leading feminist and advocate for equal rights in Australia, as well as…
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Can I Blame Menopause For My Lack Of Concentration As Well?
‘Just call me a homing pigeon,’ said the old man smugly as he traversed the narrow streets of our neighbourhood, Italian Job-style, to avoid the traffic on the main arterial road to the city. I’ve never had and homing skills, a fact that was proven only a few days before when I got a bus to…
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Ageing, Cosmetic Surgery and Harmful Vacuousness
As I lay on my bed nursing my hangover and reading the papers on Sunday, I knocked my phone onto the camera setting accidentally and got the most horrific above the shoulder shot. Sometime recently, it appears, my chin has sought sanctuary within the very generous folds of my neck. All About Cosmetic Surgery by…
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Why Women Are Owed Celebrity Dick Pics
It’s a penis, FFS! In case you haven’t heard, the actor Orlando Bloom – the very same hunk of gorgeousness who sparred and smouldered his way through LOTR as Legolas, went on to marry Miranda Kerr, and is now dating Katy Perry – got papped with his kit off last week. As in FULL FRONTAL.…
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Feminism, Body Image And The Curse Of A Big Gob
And in other news to (WHAT THE FUCK?) Brexit…I’ve noticed this week and am very proud to announce that (in spite of our dysfunctionality), we’ve managed to nurture this raving feminist for a daughter, someone very close to Germaine Greer on the radicalism scale. You see, unlike her vanilla mother when it comes to fighting…
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Parenting Smugness, Social Media and Learning To Let Go Of Toxicity
One of the greatest things I’ve taken away from middle-age so far is the necessity to eliminate toxicity from my life. The toxicity that culminates out of everyone’s idea of how best to parent is one of the most offensive. Because I read many blogs, a lot of articles about raising and parenting young children…
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How Does Facebook Know Me Better Than My Husband Does?
It’s kind of spooky just how perceptive Facebook has become about my personality. The choice of articles, memes and funny/cute dog videos that flood my homepage each day accurately paint a picture of my character (and all its flaws), as well as pander to my quirks and interests far more intuitively than the old man…
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LOUISA SIMMONDS 