HeyJaredBronwyn's adventures in fallacyland
Relentlessly seeking to realise feminism's potential to make sense. (And to transform Minerva's owl into a magpie.)
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The coercion of kindness (opens the original)
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My day today started with the news of Dolly Parton’s death. I have never been a fan of country music, but I had a lot of respect for Parton: her extraordinary musical and performance ability; her wonderful sense of humour; her philanthropy; her active support for children’s literacy; and her support for vaccination. When I think of her I still sing “Vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, vacc-i-i-ine” to the tune of her celebrated song “Jolene”, which she sang in her 2021 support video for vaccination again
Barking! (opens the original)
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*Yes, it’s messy.Dog GateThis week, Australian political news has been all agog with that seriously weird gift that just keeps on giving, so much so that it has now acquired the epithet “Dog Gate”. No, readers, I am not talking about some opening in a fence or door through which one may admit one’s canine. I am talking about the incident during Barnaby Joyce’s interview on Monday 20 July last with Sarah Ferguson on ABC Current Affairs program 7.30 (formerly The 7.30 Report), named
Freedom from Amnesty! (opens the original)
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Readers, this 60th of my Substack posts takes my adventures in Fallacyland into their third year and what better topic to announce the beginning of Year Three than an exploration of one of the latest in full blown (one might even say flamboyant) fallacies reported in recent news. There are so many of them that it is hard to choose which one to focus on at any given time, but Maggie* and I agreed that the prize for preposterous propositions must go this month to Amnesty International (UK). Yes, I
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