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11:00AM Jess McGuire | Defamer Australia readers, I need your reviews. Because I am a busy lady, I have made the decision to follow only one reality television show this year and it’s MasterChef. Watching Julie nervously sweat into her culinary creations (or “dishes of flesh”, as one vegetarian letter writer to the Green Guide today referred to them) makes me extremely happy/nauseous. So I haven’t actually watched a single episode of BFF Sonia Kruger’s show 10 Years Younger In 10 Days. But a couple of my favourite lady-writers managed to catch it before it finished last week, and the reviews were not kind. More »
Was “10 Years Younger in 10 Days” Truly Awful?
11:00AM Jess McGuire | Defamer Australia readers, I need your reviews. Because I am a busy lady, I have made the decision to follow only one reality television show this year and it’s MasterChef. Watching Julie nervously sweat into her culinary creations (or “dishes of flesh”, as one vegetarian letter writer to the Green Guide today referred to them) makes me extremely happy/nauseous. So I haven’t actually watched a single episode of BFF Sonia Kruger’s show 10 Years Younger In 10 Days. But a couple of my favourite lady-writers managed to catch it before it finished last week, and the reviews were not kind. More » 
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9:28AM Jess McGuire | Readers of The Age would have noticed that striking columnist Catherine Deveny made a return to the paper yesterday. No doubt her supporters are pumping their fists in the air and her haters are cursing her name – and God saw that it was good. More »
The Dev Is Back!
9:28AM Jess McGuire | Readers of The Age would have noticed that striking columnist Catherine Deveny made a return to the paper yesterday. No doubt her supporters are pumping their fists in the air and her haters are cursing her name – and God saw that it was good. More »
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3:44PM Jess McGuire | Reader Annie got in touch with us this morning about her brief encounter “in the wild” with Catherine Deveny, the striking (in every sense) columnist from The Age. I think it’s worth reading what she has to say.
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Defamer Australia Reader’s Encounter With Catherine Deveny
3:44PM Jess McGuire | Reader Annie got in touch with us this morning about her brief encounter “in the wild” with Catherine Deveny, the striking (in every sense) columnist from The Age. I think it’s worth reading what she has to say.
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2:39PM Jess McGuire | Catherine Deveny Strike Update: it’s still going. Paul Ramadge, the editor of The Age, recently spoke to Jon ‘Faino’ Faine from 774 ABC Melbourne about the state of his paper, and exactly what’s happening with smart-mouthed underpaid columnist Catherine Deveny. Thanks to The Australian, here’s a quick transcript of the interesting parts.
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The Editor Of The Age Talks To Jon Faine About Striking Columnist
2:39PM Jess McGuire | Catherine Deveny Strike Update: it’s still going. Paul Ramadge, the editor of The Age, recently spoke to Jon ‘Faino’ Faine from 774 ABC Melbourne about the state of his paper, and exactly what’s happening with smart-mouthed underpaid columnist Catherine Deveny. Thanks to The Australian, here’s a quick transcript of the interesting parts.
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12:59PM Jess McGuire | Hope you enjoyed the article we pointed out in The Age last week by The Dev (as I like to refer to Catherine Deveny) as it might be the last one you get from her for a while. The Australian is reporting The Dev is on strike! More »
The Age’s Catherine Deveny On Strike
12:59PM Jess McGuire | Hope you enjoyed the article we pointed out in The Age last week by The Dev (as I like to refer to Catherine Deveny) as it might be the last one you get from her for a while. The Australian is reporting The Dev is on strike! More »
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12:48PM Jess McGuire | Read all of Catherine Deveny’s recent article in The Age please. It makes many valid points about women in the media, and I truly think you’re better off consuming the whole thing in your own time than having me knock out a summary that isn’t up to scratch, but I did want to point out this bit…
What does it say about Australian media and culture when the only loud, strong, funny and opinionated woman with any longevity in our country is Dame Edna? A man who lives in London. The gender battle is the mother of all wars.
Damn, she’s got a point.
MORE: A shot across the bows in unending battle of the sexes More »
Vagina Bullet Blues
12:48PM Jess McGuire | Read all of Catherine Deveny’s recent article in The Age please. It makes many valid points about women in the media, and I truly think you’re better off consuming the whole thing in your own time than having me knock out a summary that isn’t up to scratch, but I did want to point out this bit…
What does it say about Australian media and culture when the only loud, strong, funny and opinionated woman with any longevity in our country is Dame Edna? A man who lives in London. The gender battle is the mother of all wars.
Damn, she’s got a point.
MORE: A shot across the bows in unending battle of the sexes More »
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11:01AM Jess McGuire | Have you seen The Age’s feature on Catherine Deveny today? Quite the raunchy picture accompanying it, I’m sure you’ll agree. The Dev has a new book out featuring her best columns (”An oxymoron, surely?! Barbarians at the gate, Horatio on the bridge!” – Andrew Bolt) and the stuff Fairfax wouldn’t publish, and she’s doing a book signing at 12:30pm at Readings in Carlton, so if you’re around and you’re a fan, you should pop in.
Anyway, back to The Age article. It is revealing!
“If I’d been allowed to bonk at home, I never would have left,” she explains. Of course, she was not allowed, so she moved into a Fitzroy terrace with three mates. It remains the happiest time of her life. She grew vegies in the back yard, smoked dope and had lots of sex. She had her heart broken. She stayed out late, slept in and listened to her housemates’ Pixies records.
She merrily throws criticism at the direction of the ABC – and she works for them! More »
Well HELLO THERE, Catherine Deveny!
11:01AM Jess McGuire | Have you seen The Age’s feature on Catherine Deveny today? Quite the raunchy picture accompanying it, I’m sure you’ll agree. The Dev has a new book out featuring her best columns (”An oxymoron, surely?! Barbarians at the gate, Horatio on the bridge!” – Andrew Bolt) and the stuff Fairfax wouldn’t publish, and she’s doing a book signing at 12:30pm at Readings in Carlton, so if you’re around and you’re a fan, you should pop in.
Anyway, back to The Age article. It is revealing!
“If I’d been allowed to bonk at home, I never would have left,” she explains. Of course, she was not allowed, so she moved into a Fitzroy terrace with three mates. It remains the happiest time of her life. She grew vegies in the back yard, smoked dope and had lots of sex. She had her heart broken. She stayed out late, slept in and listened to her housemates’ Pixies records.
She merrily throws criticism at the direction of the ABC – and she works for them! More »
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9:55AM Jess McGuire | The other day (week, maybe?) we borrowed a friend’s dictpahone and marched off to a local cafe to interrogate controversial (well, while we haven’t actually checked his blog, if history is anything to go by then we’ll dare to assume her recent piece about Lollipop Ladies/Gentlemen probably riled up Andrew Bolt into a frothy metaphor-spitting fury) columnist for The Age, Ms Catherine Deveny.
FACT! Deveny is actually Catherine’s married name!
FACT! We are clearly shitting you. Feel free to LOL or ROFL in your own time at our great wit.
Anyway, we indulged in some Serious Journalism and then happily toddled off home. And realised we’d returned the dictpahone too early and in this technologically advanced era of iPods (OURS BROKE ON SATURDAY, SEND A NEW ONE IMMEDIATELY) and CD players, we don’t actually have a tape deck to listen – and thus transcribe for your reading pleasure – our no holds barred Catherine Deveny piece.
The good news is, we’ve finally wrangled back our mate’s dictaphone!
The bad news is, we haven’t transcribed it yet as we’ve been a bit under the weather!
The good news is, we’ll get onto it either this afternoon, or tomorrow.
The bad news is, we cried at an episode of Undercover Angels last night and now we want to bludgeon ourselves to death due to the shame of it all. Stupid sign language choirs and separated lovers and distant relatives and our hatefully sensitive Piscean nature…
CATHERINE DEVENY, IF YOU ARE READING THIS RIGHT NOW – YOU’RE STILL GOING DOWN. ALRIGHT? WE ARE GOING TO “BLOW” THE “LID” OFF YOUR COMMIE WAYS, AND THEN WE’RE GOING TO LAUGH ABOUT IT LATER WHILE WATCHING THE ENTIRE 7TH HEAVEN DVD BOXSET AT ANDREW BOLT’S HOUSE.
PS: We also went to Spicks and Specks the other night and will write about that too. In time. We must repair ourselves slowly, people! More »
We Will Be ‘Serious Journalists’ Quite Shortly, Swears
9:55AM Jess McGuire | The other day (week, maybe?) we borrowed a friend’s dictpahone and marched off to a local cafe to interrogate controversial (well, while we haven’t actually checked his blog, if history is anything to go by then we’ll dare to assume her recent piece about Lollipop Ladies/Gentlemen probably riled up Andrew Bolt into a frothy metaphor-spitting fury) columnist for The Age, Ms Catherine Deveny.
FACT! Deveny is actually Catherine’s married name!
FACT! We are clearly shitting you. Feel free to LOL or ROFL in your own time at our great wit.
Anyway, we indulged in some Serious Journalism and then happily toddled off home. And realised we’d returned the dictpahone too early and in this technologically advanced era of iPods (OURS BROKE ON SATURDAY, SEND A NEW ONE IMMEDIATELY) and CD players, we don’t actually have a tape deck to listen – and thus transcribe for your reading pleasure – our no holds barred Catherine Deveny piece.
The good news is, we’ve finally wrangled back our mate’s dictaphone!
The bad news is, we haven’t transcribed it yet as we’ve been a bit under the weather!
The good news is, we’ll get onto it either this afternoon, or tomorrow.
The bad news is, we cried at an episode of Undercover Angels last night and now we want to bludgeon ourselves to death due to the shame of it all. Stupid sign language choirs and separated lovers and distant relatives and our hatefully sensitive Piscean nature…
CATHERINE DEVENY, IF YOU ARE READING THIS RIGHT NOW – YOU’RE STILL GOING DOWN. ALRIGHT? WE ARE GOING TO “BLOW” THE “LID” OFF YOUR COMMIE WAYS, AND THEN WE’RE GOING TO LAUGH ABOUT IT LATER WHILE WATCHING THE ENTIRE 7TH HEAVEN DVD BOXSET AT ANDREW BOLT’S HOUSE.
PS: We also went to Spicks and Specks the other night and will write about that too. In time. We must repair ourselves slowly, people! More »
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3:48PM Jess McGuire | It would be fair to observe that Catherine Deveny isn’t all that into Channel Nine’s The Footy Show. In fact, one might even go so far as to claim she hates them with a white hot passion of a thousand suns, as the saying goes.
I have just watched three episodes of The Footy Show and I feel like Sammy Davis jnr at a Ku Klux Klan rally, like Dannii Minogue at a Mensa convention, like George Pell in 2007.
I’m not into plants but I like Gardening Australia, I’m not into quiz shows but I like The Einstein Factor, I’m not into cars but I like Top Gear, so not being into footy isn’t the reason that I’m repelled by this destructive, small-minded, morally bankrupt orgy of chauvinism. The Footy Show is a celebration of the very worst that television, sport, Australia and human beings can cook up. It’s offensive, toxic, corrosive, encouraging viewers to
So wait, you’re saying you don’t like the show, Catherine? Be clear about your feelings!
The Footy Show is nothing more than media-sanctioned misogyny. And so much less. Tune in and you’ll feel you’ve woken up in 1952. A man in a full body condom, men dressed as women, girls in bikinis, guys stuffing toilet paper down their jocks, dickheads, wankers and yobs. The few women that I did see were leered at, one called “a bitch” and another told to “get f—ed” (both by Sam Newman). I heard the word “sheilas” and could sense that the words “poofters”, “wogs”, “slopes” and “spastics” were just below the surface.
Is it the program, the network, the culture of Australian television, or just Newman that is so offensive? It’s all of them.
We’re still confused about whether or not you think Sam Newman is a great televisual talent, Ms Deveny. Please, make your case.
But Newman really needs to be singled out for his extraordinary contribution to this tragic, puerile, adolescent show that degrades the culture of football, alienates women and teaches boys that females are slaves, trophies or bitches.
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Newman is vain, ugly, a megalomaniac, a bully. I can’t help feeling that deep inside he would be happy for women to have their brains removed and replaced with a bar fridge. He’s a dangerous bloke who’s paid a lot of money to defile our culture and undermine our intelligence in the most putrid of fashions. For any of you who have sat surrounded by people laughing at this maggot and found yourself thinking there is something wrong with you, there isn’t. There’s something wrong with him. And them.
We quite enjoy Catherine Deveny’s work, perhaps more so now that we understand Andrew Bolt directed his brilliant blogging mind toward her column’s contents back in April.
His brain has probably exploded with disgust at her latest outburst. Will her chorus of hate ever stop ringing in the ears of the nation? Will we ever see an end to the age of “group think”? What about the barbarians at the gate, and the beacons of truth, and Horatio at the bridge etc?
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Catherine Deveny Unlikely To Recieve A Christmas Card From Sam Newman
3:48PM Jess McGuire | It would be fair to observe that Catherine Deveny isn’t all that into Channel Nine’s The Footy Show. In fact, one might even go so far as to claim she hates them with a white hot passion of a thousand suns, as the saying goes.
I have just watched three episodes of The Footy Show and I feel like Sammy Davis jnr at a Ku Klux Klan rally, like Dannii Minogue at a Mensa convention, like George Pell in 2007.
I’m not into plants but I like Gardening Australia, I’m not into quiz shows but I like The Einstein Factor, I’m not into cars but I like Top Gear, so not being into footy isn’t the reason that I’m repelled by this destructive, small-minded, morally bankrupt orgy of chauvinism. The Footy Show is a celebration of the very worst that television, sport, Australia and human beings can cook up. It’s offensive, toxic, corrosive, encouraging viewers to
So wait, you’re saying you don’t like the show, Catherine? Be clear about your feelings!
The Footy Show is nothing more than media-sanctioned misogyny. And so much less. Tune in and you’ll feel you’ve woken up in 1952. A man in a full body condom, men dressed as women, girls in bikinis, guys stuffing toilet paper down their jocks, dickheads, wankers and yobs. The few women that I did see were leered at, one called “a bitch” and another told to “get f—ed” (both by Sam Newman). I heard the word “sheilas” and could sense that the words “poofters”, “wogs”, “slopes” and “spastics” were just below the surface.
Is it the program, the network, the culture of Australian television, or just Newman that is so offensive? It’s all of them.
We’re still confused about whether or not you think Sam Newman is a great televisual talent, Ms Deveny. Please, make your case.
But Newman really needs to be singled out for his extraordinary contribution to this tragic, puerile, adolescent show that degrades the culture of football, alienates women and teaches boys that females are slaves, trophies or bitches.
…
Newman is vain, ugly, a megalomaniac, a bully. I can’t help feeling that deep inside he would be happy for women to have their brains removed and replaced with a bar fridge. He’s a dangerous bloke who’s paid a lot of money to defile our culture and undermine our intelligence in the most putrid of fashions. For any of you who have sat surrounded by people laughing at this maggot and found yourself thinking there is something wrong with you, there isn’t. There’s something wrong with him. And them.
We quite enjoy Catherine Deveny’s work, perhaps more so now that we understand Andrew Bolt directed his brilliant blogging mind toward her column’s contents back in April.
His brain has probably exploded with disgust at her latest outburst. Will her chorus of hate ever stop ringing in the ears of the nation? Will we ever see an end to the age of “group think”? What about the barbarians at the gate, and the beacons of truth, and Horatio at the bridge etc?
(insert other Bolt cliches here) More » 