Just a Girl by Tammie Adele

  To the other men that respect what I do Please accept my shine Boy, you know you love it How we're smart enough to make these millions Strong enough to bear the children Then get back to business   It’s been almost a year since America voted in its first female Vice President, and the sky hasn’t fallen. @KamalaHarris has clearly inspired a generation of women by reaching the second highest office in American politics, and she may yet reach the highest office. However, before Kamala Harris became the Veep she had a distinguished legal career - the first Black district attorney in California, the first Black and South Asian American attorney general in California, and the first South Asian American woman and second Black woman in the U.S. Senate. Meanwhile in Australia . . . I really can’t say much more than this excellent article by @Dr_KMcLoughlin , so I’ll just highlight my key take home points from it. When eminent and obviously appropriate men judges are ...

  My heart is achin' to see you play And I can't wait Till another day   Ummm, I don’t know how I feel about this one. A couple of weeks back Netball Queensland had their state titles, and never before has a winning team caused so much controversy. They had parents abusing players and officials. Not because of some wrong doing. The team that won, won fair and square. The team was being abused because they were boys . . . Sorry, but isn’t the general lack of respect being applied on a gender basis exactly what ‘ Oh my God! Women! ’ have been fighting against for generations? The one decent article I could find on this issue - which has been regurgitated by many other online media outlets - did raise the very fair point that the boys team was a sate (representative) team, while all other (girls) teams were regional (community) teams. This situation is on the nose. Now, I know I’ve never really played netball (see Post 14 for an account of my limited experience ...