Tag: privilege

• In The End, We’re All Just Human Beans

  I had my second day-surgery last week; a procedure called an Endometrial Ablation, and the medical profession’s latest attempt to stop my uterus from going all Tarantino on me each month.  For any of you middle-aged women out there still suffering a Red Wedding-style of monthly – I’ll let you know if it works. In the…

  My Midlife Mayhem

  March 26, 2018

  Australia, Health, healthy eating, humor, Menopause, Midlife Observations

  birth, equality, equalrights, hospital, humanbeings, privilege

• 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…

  My Midlife Mayhem

  February 21, 2018

  equal rights, equality, humor, Midlife Observations, politics, social media

  golf, metoo, politics, president, privilege

• I’m Learning About ‘Privilege’

  ‘Privilege’ is a word that crops up increasingly in conversation at the moment – as it should – to make every one of us question our attitudes towards different races and genders.  As a middle-aged woman with some free time now that the kids are older, I have noticed a reignited hunger and enthusiasm for…

  My Midlife Mayhem

  October 15, 2016

  Ageing, Feminism, humor, Men, Midlife Observations, relationships, Women, Work

  domesticviolence, equalrights, Feminism, inequality, Men, privilege, sexism