Just a Girl by Tammie Adele

    You held me down, but I got up Already brushing off the dust You hear my voice, you hear that sound Like thunder, gonna shake the ground You held me down, but I got up Get ready 'cause I've had enough   I don’t like discussing politics too broadly. This is Australia and we all have the right to vote for who we wish without intimidation and, quiet frankly, it’s my business who I vote for, not yours.             As such, the only time I’ve waded into politics in this blog has been when: communicating the original inspiration for the blog ( Post 1 ); pondering the issues that the media decided to focus on during the period of Australia’s first female PM ( Post 2 ); considering that famous misogyny speech in the Australian parliament ( Post 6 ); a recent similar speech in the American parliament ( Post 16 ); and, finally, the recent rape of Brittany Higgins in Parliament House ( Post 19 ). Okay, so maybe politics do feature pretty high in my thoughts of gender di

Hey girl, hey girl We can make it easy if we lift each other Hey girl, hey girl We don't need to keep on one-in' up another    I know, I know, . . . I know. I’m going to carry-on about women in sport again (have you read Post 14 yet?). However, in my defence I aspire to be a competitive endurance horse rider and endurance, like many other equestrian disciplines doesn’t separate the genders - horses or their riders - for competition purposes. Anyhow, I’ve already carried on about the situation of netball being the single highest participation sport in Australia ( Post 14 ), yet it’s an amateur sport that isn’t broadcast on TV or reported in the news like cricket, surfing and the various footy codes that men dominate. So now I’m going to carry on about the gender pay-gap in professional sports. Professional tennis players, both male and female, can earn a bomb (again, my rantings about Ash Barty and others in Post 14 ). However I feel, as a women, we’re imposing a dou