In today’s edition of Canvas, the free magazine that one finds inside each Saturday’s edition of The New Zealand Herald, one can find, on page 12, an article entitled “The F Word.” This article features interviews with five prominent New Zealand women on the issue of shifting perceptions of contemporary feminism.
Madeleine was one of the women interviewed. The other women were Auckland Regional Councillor Sandra Coney, the Hand Mirror’s Julie Fairey, 2009 AUSA Women’s Rights Officer Caroline Fergusson and Emma Joyce.
I have scanned the extract of the article that features Madeleine’s interview below; click on it to read it.
Canvas is not available online so if you want to read the whole thing you need to find a copy of today’s Herald.
UPDATE
It seems you can find a copy of the whole thing online over at Cactus Kate. Cactus was also interviewed for this story only she did not make the final cut. However, “thanks to the miracle that is blogging the ommission is irrelevant”; Cactus has put her entire emailed interview online alongside the entire article so that those interested in her thoughts on this subject can still hear them.
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The Inconsistent, Condescending, Paternalism of Left-Wing Feminism This is particularly worth reading if you thought the Canvas article made it sound like Madeleine has no problem with women engaging in pornography.
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Women need the handicapped entrance.
Classic
Love it Madeleine!
Cut and thrust!
Talk about rain on their little Lesbian Socialist parade!
Esp the bit that Sexist laws and institutions favouring woman is ‘Tokenism’ that is degrading to woman…just as special laws and institutions favouring Maori is Tokenism and degrading to Maori.
It is a contradiction of the principle of real social Equality…That Woman actually are the real equals of Men. (Equally capable of co existence and the pursuit of their own happiness in freedom, under the same laws as Men)
Socialist favouritism is another FAIL!
I read the article and caught your name Madeleine. You made good sense, which is more than I could say for the rest of the contributors.
“Women as moral equals to men?” but “Access to abortion is at the heart of feminism?” Wait, as a man if I decide that I don’t want a child and either engage in a post-natal abortion (justifiable up to age 2 or 5 depending on whether you’re listening to Mike Tooley or Peter Singer) or as a man a few years ago tried, attempt to cause a miscarriage through kicking a woman in the belly, I would be locked up (and rightly so). However if a woman decides she doesn’t want one then there are doctors and all sorts arranged to make sure she doesn’t have one.
I think that Jack Nicholson’s character in As Good as it Gets summed up the modern woman admirably when asked how he created effective and believable women. “I think of a man, and then I take away reason and accountability.”
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But the real worry – not all woman can just be stay at home mum’s, woman are needed urgently to play an active role in society and in government – it is vital, woman are passive by nature and thank God for that -if its left up to men to run the world from now on in- it will be history repeating itself, and we all remember history- the wars, the killings. Men’s handicap is testosterone (they are crazy). All wars are fuck ups and so for the future of humanity we woman have to play a part in all the important decisions.