These pics (and those in the following two tweets) are a TINY number of the deluge of quotes we found yesterday which were publicly said by members of the Australian media (and a few equally-horrific politicians), witches. There are dozens and dozens more such quotes we could publish, mostly aimed at women politicians but some aimed at women journalists, women activists, and even women sports and entertainment stars. Read these, and weep: It’s ironic beyond belief that the reason MFW haven’t posted on the terrible attack on Helen Haines before now, or on all the other issues relating to outrageous violence towards women for some time, solely because we’re currently under attack ourselves legally, administratively, and personally. It’s ironic beyond belief we still have two of our main Administrators mostly living away from their own homes because of repeated violent threats towards them personally, and even more ironic that not only will no Australian authority (including any police force) assist with these threats, but that our own PM still appears to be besties with the depraved and verbally violent Kyle Sandilands. And it’s ironic beyond belief that our disgraceful media cohort (and most of our politicians) have already jumped to blame social media for all this shocking violence instead of even mentioning, in most cases, the FAR GREATER threat posed by our mainstream legacy media, who insist on defending and employing the men (and women) who said the quotes we’ve listed above. Of course there are negative issues in social media and much unacceptable content, but that behaviour has grown largely from the relentless attacks on women started by corporations led by people such as Murdoch and copied by so many other similar hateful men who want women silenced and, if necessary, harmed. Anything for link clicks, and damn the fucking consequences. We don’t yet know just why the perpetrator of the terrible attack on Helen Haines has hurt her so badly. But what we do know is that the PATTERN of male violence against women in Australia is very clear and plain to see, and it’s not only out of control but it’s relentless. Unacceptable. And shocking. Yet apart from our successful MFW campaigns to get some of these creeps off air for good, few others with the power to act appear to be doing anything (or at least anything worthwhile) to stem the violence. What the fuck will it take? Who will control the media oligarchs and their punch-down hate model of doing business? Anyone? (We send all our good witchy wishes for strength and healing to Helen and her family, and we desperately hope she gets better - as far as that’s possible - soon.) 1/3 #ToYourBrooms

Controversial take: DIGGER is the most feminist film this viewer has ever seen. WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD. Why? Because most feminist films come from the viewpoint of women, who are (in general) begging men not to harm us, kill us or oppress us. And because the only men interested in such films are already (to some extent and notwithstanding that all men benefit from maintaining patriarchal control) are men who already don’t knowingly harm women. That is: telling men who don’t already knowingly harm women not to harm women is both reductive and (in many cases) even harmful because it leaves such men confused and even angry at women. In contrast, DIGGER explicitly sets out how men endlessly harm women, and does so in ways men can’t ignore or wiggle their way out of. It clearly demonstrates how men have controlled the world for many centuries, and how this male power is destroying the planet (and will continue to do so). Nor is this feminist commentary accidental: there are so many outright clues in the film that this is what it’s doing (there are more clues than these, but these are some of the main ones): 1. The deliberate joke told at Rockwell’s mansion during the meeting with the President about there being no women in the room; 2. The women in the “play within the film” are heavily subservient or at least a minor part of proceedings, yet while some of the women outside the “play within the film” have more power, all still exist as part of the play/film only insofar as they’re forced to react to the actions of the men; 3. The allegory of Digger Rockwell adoring his cat and his alter-ego Curtis Markson adoring his daughter and both being terrified of the deaths of those two females: this demonstrates how men (even terrible men) often adore the females in their lives (human or otherwise) while still not seeing them as equals, and that this predilection often confuses people into thinking such men care about the female as a gender (newsflash: many or perhaps most don’t); 4. The constant references in the play/film (both visual and verbal) to penis-coded objects and actions, cementing male-led power and destruction; 5. The monologue scene in the parliament clearly showed that nine out of ten politicians in the audience were male, and that this representation of women wouldn’t seem note-worthy to most as we’ve come to expect political power to be largely male; 6. The cruel protagonist (Digger, the climate-destroying mining magnate) in the movie was male, and the cruel protagonist (Kenny Rockwell, who runs a sinister Palantir-like surveillance operation as well as using ill-gotten mining profits to finance a play which diverts a post-apocalypse audience from doing something constructive about ongoing planetary destruction) in the play was also male; and 7. The constant annoyances and confusions embedded in the film are hugely reminiscent of the constant annoyances and confusions feminist women have with men in general in our everyday lives, and this felt like a deliberate comparison. There’s a lot more to unpack and this tweet is already too long, but this is a deeply feminist movie which seems designed to show MEN how it’s their own gender which is destroying humanity itself as well as making the planet miserable for less-powerful women. And as stated earlier, it does this in a far more effective way than movies which instead beg men to care more about women. It also seems Cruise and all involved in DIGGER must have fully intended this message, tho how this all fits with Cruises’s Scientology beliefs (in particular) remains a bit of a mystery. For this reason, the film is indeed a masterpiece. And everyone should see it. Particularly because a film now condemned as a box-office failure by a thoroughly misogynist cohort of billionaires, corporations and the media must have something important going for it. Go see it if you can, ASAP.