We’ve seen a number of twitter “scandals” over the last year or so, all beaten up by the old media by: Taking the tweet out of context; Reconstructing the 140 characters in whatever harshest light can be put on them; Pretending that it was broadcast to a wide audience when it’s the newspapers’ beatup that [...]
READ MOREFairfax vs Deveny; gutless paper bends in the wind
The record shows that we’re not particularly big fans of Catherine Deveny’s writing here at Pure Poison, but on what we can see, her summary sacking today by The Age for some remarks she made about the Logies on her personal Twitter feed over the weekend seems both extreme and disturbing. Extreme, because off-colour or [...]
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Wingnut Bingo
In the comments of an earlier post was this request from Ross Sharp. I’d like to think that we at Pure Poison are nothing, if not receptive to the needs of our readers, as such I’d like to present for you, Pure Poison’s Wingnut Bingo.
READ MOREPrivate Schools are unfair and greedy.
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 [...]
READ MOREDeveny: people who go to shopping centres are stupid and backwards
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”, [...]
READ MORESuburban women are stupid and backwards
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 [...]
READ MOREMarried people stupid and backwards
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 [...]
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