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Madam Finds Love With Maid?

Posted by ulla on Monday, September 14, 2009, In : stereotypes

Yet another idiotic headline by South Africa's Daily Sun newspaper - and since their idiotic website is under idiotic construction, I couldn't find out anything about the story. And nope, I couldn't buy the newspaper, it was late on Sunday, driving through a rural bit of the Eastern Cape.

Given my country's history of apartheid and that old madam and maid concept, I would, in fact, be interested to know the story - but not from a snotrag tabloid's point of view. I also question the word us...

Yet another stupid newspaper headline

Posted by ulla on Friday, September 11, 2009, In : queer

Driving through the city the other day, one of the newspaper headline posters yelled, "TV'S GAY KISS!" from the side of the road. My rantometer just blew up instantly. It's not as if it was the first such headline, it certainly won't be the last. Every time there's a gay kiss on TV (here and in the UK, at least), the media has a field day.

Why?

Gay marriage is legal now. And surely it isn't news that queers kiss? Well obviously it is. For all the irritating heterosexuals who go around pon...

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Weekly columnist for Q back when it was owned by the Mail & Guardian, regular columnist for Queerlife in 2008, as well as contributing to MambaGirl, Cherrygrrl, Gayspeak and other websites, I decided it was about time I collected it all in one place, so I can see what I've done and hopefully keep doing new stuff.