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hehe... it all looks different when it's your own daughter, doesn't it?

Naomi Wolf's book on female sexuality, Promiscuities, tells what's commonly known as the reclaim-your-inner-slut argument. It seems it now has a catch: 11-year-olds like her daughter don't count.

"It's interesting how the slut you want to reclaim as an ex-teenage girl is not the slut you want your daughter to reclaim," she told ABC Radio's Sunday Profile last night.

"As the mother of a soon-to-be-teenage girl, you know, it's like - honey, my slut is fine, but, you know, keep your slut in the closet!"

After helping Bill Clinton in his re-election campaign - and Al Gore in the one where he got more votes but still lost - she's now raging against the "disgusting" raunch marketing culture aimed at teenage girls.

This "psycho teen-obsessed luxury culture" is best represented by Paris Hilton, the famed example of fame-based fame, and Wolf thinks raunch culture is bad.

"I don't think it transgresses, any more, for teenage girls to reclaim their inner slut," she said. "It's incredibly conformist and conventional. Unfortunately, they are all being raised and pushed to produce someone else's slut. It's not their own inner slut."

(Be you rude or prude, you can hear her this month at the Sydney Writers' Festival.)- SMH

In Which Nomi Has A Proposal of Marriage

Ms Nomi Rabeeya of the Women's College respectfully declined a proposal of marriage this week, from Gentleman on the Street, Newtown. Although admitting her desire to remain in Australia, Ms Rabeeya felt that Gentleman on the Street was not a suitable husband for a woman of her age. Gentleman on the Street kindly offered to find her a husband more to her liking, asking if she preffered academics. Ms Rabeeya condescendingly replied that she had no particular preference, and Gentleman on the Street gave her his card that she might contact him to discuss her future spouse in further detail.
Ms Rabeeya returned to the Women's College in state of ladylike distress, as is appropriate for a woman having recieved her first proposal.

The Standing Committee For Appreciation of Kris

Quis has enquired as to why the uniting church machinery in newcastle has suddenly developed a great concern for him.

It is necessary to uncover the existence of the Standing Committee For Appreciation of Kris (well, not uncover, this is the Uniting Church and there are committees for everything).
The Minutes of the first meeting of the Standing Committee respectfully acknowledge that there are two points of view on Kris, and diverse standpoints on what to do with him. Their aims as a Standing Committe are to appropriately care for Kris, to determine the importance of Kris to the Uniting Church and its members, and to encourage dialouge between those who appreciate Kris, and dissidents such as the Alliance of Kris Haters.
The Standing Committee in subesquent meetings have formed the Task Group for Finding Out What's Wrong and the Panel for Suggesting Solutions- their activities are what has alerted Kris to their existence.
The Standing Committee however has faced great turmoil from within, largely coming from the Board for Leaving Kris Alone, who believe that they should, well, leave Kris alone. Despite this the Task Group have ploughed ahead, using their chosen weapons of Minnie and passionfruit cake.
The Alliance of Kris Haters, incensed by this, have begun talks with the Board for Leaving Kris Alone. What the outcome of this may be, only time will tell.