Nov. 22nd, 2008

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Every Christmas for the last few years, my extended family has decided not to exchange presents. Instead, we've each made a donation to charity. Mine has been to Care, in one of those dealies where you buy a pig or well or such.

My personalised Care catalogue came the other day and so did a similar but unsolicited one from Oxfam. I have just found myself looking through both of them, thinking, 'Ooh, their pigs are cheaper!'... which isn't really the spirit of the thing, is it?
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I'm not sure why the people who organise the Australian media's Golden Ernies for most sexist public comment of the year do so in November when there's still a good six weeks of the year left, but they do. Our old friend, the chair-sniffing politician, won the political Ernie, for both the chair-sniffing and snapping the bra strap of a female staffer.

The big winner was the mayor of Mount Isa (a mining city with a huge difference between the numbers of men and women living there), who invited ugly women to move to the Mount where they couldn't help but find a man desperate enough to love them. When local women objected to the comment, he added that they were just blaming him for their looks. Classy.

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