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Private Schools are unfair and greedy.

November 18, 2009 – 2:05 pm

I’m afraid that society has once again completely failed The Age’s Catherine Deveny. Rather than more lashings of pity for the poor bogans who are completely lacking in self awareness, Deveny instead treats us to an exposé of the horrors of private school values.
The first egregious value that Deveny highlights is the way that people [...]

By Dave Gaukroger | Comments (74)

Deveny: people who go to shopping centres are stupid and backwards

October 21, 2009 – 8:51 am

Catherine Deveny still doesn’t like shopping centres. After a vacuous turn around Northland last week (revelation: “Norfland” is a “Palace of Shoplifting and Festival of Mullets”), this week she visits Chadstone. Turns out the shopping centre there is a “a metastasised tumour of offensive proportions”, an “abattoir of souls” , a “soul-destroying cathedral to emptiness”, [...]

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Suburban women are stupid and backwards

September 30, 2009 – 2:28 pm

Catherine Deveny this week ventures out to view a performance by Australia’s own Manpower in suburban Doncaster. The question that doesn’t ever seem to be answered is why? Deveny clearly holds both the performers the rest of the audience in contempt and the entire article drips with sneering classism.
It is interesting to compare the tone [...]

By Dave Gaukroger | Comments (49)

Married people stupid and backwards

September 16, 2009 – 12:32 pm

Catherine Deveny unleashes a torrent of anti-marriage arguments on Fairfax Digital today.
I AM against gay marriage. I’m against straight marriage. I’m against marriage full stop. Why are we hanging on to this relic of an anachronistic system (which still reeks of misogyny and bigotry),
Ms Deveny seems to be arguing that women who choose to [...]

By Dave Gaukroger | Comments (80)