I always find it odd how politicians of both side of the fence feel the need to bring their families into what is essentially a work presentation.  I don’t recall ever inviting my husband and kids to watch me deliver a PowerPoint or conduct a conference call. I don’t care what she was wearing although she looksd awesome in that dress. 

So true.  My parents left the Australia when we left home and it did destabilise my sense of ‘home’ at the country level. I realised that home was where they were even if I didn’t live there. Then I had kids are now I am someone else’s ‘home’ for 20 years.  However my husband and I are downsizing to an apartment the moment my kids move out. 

@laura__palmer fair enough, I think it’s an individual decision and not a marker of feminism. I took the articles to be about keeping the maternal surname because the mother does most of the work and to be a feminist. I considered keeping mine because it was very ethnic, I liked it and my husband was Anglo.  I had a male colleague who changed his surname to a compilation of his and his wife’s / created a new family name. This was the most modern and mature option that I have seen. 

I do find it ludicrous that women want to continue a surname that that is ‘theirs’ when in most cases it come down their own patrilineal line. This is just tokenism mixed with a dash of misandry. 

First saw him in Berlin Station and fell in screen love

@tamb in the article it quoted him as talking abo it catching up with his dad on a morning TV show.  If he really wanted to mend bridges he would stop talking to the media about his family and just say no comment. 

Finally a school that does not provide excuses for terrible behaviour or blame girls for it. 

This is beyond the reach of average people. 

I  would not have a party as this seems a bit hostile towards guests. It’s not their fault that you went all out for your son. There is.no issue with doing birthdays differently as long as the son’s 3rd birthday is low key. If his third is an extravaganza then it would be odd

@yeahyepyes I actually think it does. It is illustrating a point which is a lot of women don’t feel safe around men. Making it literal mean that it has gone above your head.  Personally I would choose the figurative bear because I think it would leave me alone.

I can’t believe we are still having this type of conversation. I haven’t had home child help but I did feel shame for getting a cleaner for ages. Now I could not live without her- not happily anyway. My kids are past the nanny stage but if I had my time again I would have hired one too. 

This should not be happening in 2024. He equivalent would be a liquid paper colour for white skin. 

@mjte it makes me sad when I read  people explaining away the PM exercising his dominance over a woman. Isn’t male dominance the root of the problem l? Now I don’t know her politics but if she is able to gather 100000 people on an issue why should we pick apart whether she is for labour or liberal? I think you should check your own comments for political bias. 

I have mixed feeling about this issue. I think that rolling up shorts etc is not about practicality but about fashion trends. Schools could handle it better but some parents could too. It appears to be about girls but this is because boys don’t feel as much pressure to flaunt their skin. I imagine that they would the same reaction if they were walking around with their shirt buttons undone showing their pecs and sleeves rolled up etc. 

@laura__palmer I understand the sentiment but as a teenager I hated pants. I was chubby, had a big but and pants made me look like a middle aged US tourist in Bermuda shorts. There is nothing wrong with dresses. I used to wear thin bike shorts underneath and was comfortable and much happier.

@efffsteele this is a very biased opinion I had 4 children privately with no trauma fortunately. My BFF had 3 publically with multi day labours and Caesareans refused despite knowing that she had trouble in prior labours and no pain relief given apart from gas despite asking for it. Sometimes a traumatic birth can be due to hospital sometimes  it can just be circumstances but I would not write off public or private completely based on what you have stated.

@anonymous you can’t talk yourself out of schizophrenia. Therapy may help, but talk therapy is not going to stop a psychotic episode. 

@snorks it is a shame that she did not get a rape kit done or keep the dress for DNA samples. However I am with the judge on this one. When you see the evidence he refers to it is more likely that he took her back there to have sex with her rather than to annotate speaker notes. What happened after the media has to take some blame. They were so hungry for a political coverup that they ran with it irrespective of the consequences for Brittany and anyone else. 

@anonymous we need to keep the community safe first. Trauma can be processed while on medication. In fact i think that it is impossible to treat trauma while experiencing psychosis. 

I was glad for the result. However I think that the judges comments regarding a coverup were pertinent too.