Olivia Newton-John the sexual predator

I have been thinking carefully about an important matter – the sexist and basically confusing message of Olivia Newton John’s 1981 hit ‘Physical’. At the start of the song, she outlines classic elements of ‘studied charisma’ which...

Thoughts after a funeral.

On the day Lady Thatcher died, people in Dublin spoke to me with worry on their faces, as if I might spontaneously combust or ascend back to my starship. “Here is a man”, they probably thought, “who is upset about the death of someone I thought was a...
Slutwalks

Slutwalks

The idea of the slutwalk, that most postmodern and reactionary of protest movements, is absolutely indefatigably right: women have the right to dress and act however they wish, and there is never a circumstance when it is acceptable for a woman to be attacked. As one...