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Seated from left: Lauren Sanchez and Kerianne Flynn. Standing from left: Amanda Nguyen, Katy Perry, Gayle King and Aisha Bowe.

I’ve got a rocket for these space cadets and their pantomime of feminism

The whole exercise was emblazoned with such drippy femininity that all womankind was implicated. It was a test of the implicit feminist pact to Support Women. I suspect I failed it.

  • Jacqueline Maley

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Are boys really toxic or are we in a moral panic?

A crisis in masculinity? Young men should get off the internet and meet women in real life.

  • Jacqueline Maley
Gerard Depardieu, left, arrives at his trial this week for the alleged sexual assaults of two women on a film set in 2021, with his lawyer Jeremie Assous.

Gerard Depardieu is standing trial for sexual assault. He says he doesn’t know what that means

The French actor, 76, told a court that placing a hand on someone’s buttocks isn’t sexual assault and that the #MeToo movement is “a form of hysteria”.

  • Juliette Jabkhiro
Jane Caro found that confronting the illusion of safety helped her stop fearing danger.

The ordinary moment that changed Jane Caro’s career

Looking the worst-case scenario directly in the eye helped this unlikely anxiety sufferer move on.

  • Kerrie O'Brien
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. In their pursuit of profits, social media platforms have fostered harmful environments where social discord, misinformation and disinformation flourish.

The tell-all memoir Mark Zuckerberg tried to stop you reading

It’s hard to know whether the Facebook boss’s symbolic ways of currying favour with China are more remarkable than Meta’s apparent plan to let the Communist Party snoop on users outside the country.

  • Nick Bonyhady
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, at the SXSW conference in Austin, is busy building a media brand.

I was wrong about Meghan. Hustling, humourless Meghan deserves respect

It’s time for me to make a mea culpa to Meghan. While we’re eye-rolling about her trad-wife cosplay we’re missing the plot twist.

  • Kate Halfpenny
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There’s a broad selection of new books to read this March.

A controversial artwork, a reckoning and a posthumous release: 12 new books to delve into

The weather may be starting to cool down, but the books are heating up. Here are some of the best being published in March.

  • Jason Steger
Former Australian of the Year Grace Tame wore the t-shirt at The Lodge.

Tame Grace? Good luck with that. I delight in her brave belligerence

As a lifelong feminist, witnessing the blunt and precise advocacy of women like Grace Tame fills me with joy.

  • Jane Caro
Nikki Gemmell: “He’d envisaged me as the woman who’d look after the kids...He didn’t see me as a creative equal.”

Nikki Gemmell’s new ‘feminist’ novel has baffled me

Wing features a cast of truly awful, nasty people. What is Gemmell trying to achieve here?

  • Helen Elliott

Wicked unveils the tyranny of feminine niceness – and that’s why your daughters must see it

The new blockbuster movie of the stage show Wicked calculates the cost of female niceness and has radical things to say about the way women are cast into rigid roles.

  • Jacqueline Maley

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