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week six semester two 2013 honi soit honi A critique of right- wing commentary p 7 Sex work and social media p 10 First Person: Group Sex p 12 Revue Reviews: Education and Arts p 16 DISCONTENTS The art of listening COKE IN THE 4 BUBBLERS As easy it is to become apathetic about rience that we may never be unlucky individual threads are loathe to be sev- the current state of Australian politics enough to have scarred onto our bodies ered. The warmest fabrics are built from Hannah Ryan and give up altogether, your vote will and minds, but that we may be trusted the collaboration, peaceful coexistence help lessen the possibility of an Abbott- enough to share. If you are trusted with and reciprocity of the threads that com- MALE POLITICIANS’ led government. Use it wisely. But of them, treat the fragments kindly. Some- prise it. Of we, the threads, that hold course, you’ve heard this all before, so times they flicker with structural oppres- the fragile balance of power in our 8 DAUGHTERS I’ll leave it here. Don’t let him win. sion, institutionalised discrimination, daily weaves, that collectively dictate the Matilda Surtees Now, onto more practical matters. and daily struggle. structural integrity of the fabric. Being wrong can be a useful experi- Ask questions. Considerate, relevant And lessons learnt in fraying threads THE JOB ence. When we are wrong, we learn. questions. Listen for the answers that are not fast forgotten. 11 But only if we listen. Last week, a par- explain better than wilful ignorance, Listen for knowledge and understand- INTERVIEW ticularly saddening Facebook argument bigotry, projected insecurities and the ing, empathise with grief, and ask for Anonymous I was lurking got me thinking. I don’t paternalism that mimics arrogance consent. when you think you’re right. mean this to sound like the jacket blurb In a sense, other people are all we of a mid-80s self-help book, but: you In a sense, other people are all we have. But to truly appreciate this we FUNERAL learn more by being quiet and wrong have. Connections to friends and lovers, must first employ the art of shutting up. 13 ETIQUETTE 101 than you do by being loud and right. to families and classmates, are forged And listening. Blythe S Worthy If someone raises a concern - shut for a reason. You wouldn’t willingly hurt up and listen. If you ask for someone’s the feelings of a loved one, so consider opinion and legitimately want to hear it, how you treat the loved ones of others. MUCH ADO ABOUT shut up and listen. If you get pulled up Whether we are having sex with three 15 STUDENT POLITICS on racist, sexist, transphobic, homopho- at a time (p. 12), or paying our final Adam Disney bic, or otherwise oppressive language, respects to them (p. 13), our interactions shut up and listen. Then seek, read, with others tend to define us as social and learn. The only person who has a actors, as whole as we may be within 16 REVUE REVIEWS responsibility to educate you about why ourselves. Almost inextricably, we are Various you’re being offensive is you. bound to the fabric of collective ecsta- Privileges should be checked every sies and griefs, even if the level of our step of the way. Listen to stories and binding varies greatly throughout our lives. THE SOIN anguish, laughter and memories. The 21 tears you didn’t exude, but that moisten So treat the fabric well; take care of it, Mariana Podesta-Diverio your skin. The fragments of lived expe- borrow from it, and lend to it, because Editor-in-chief Editor-in-chief: Mariana Podesta-Diverio Editors: Rafi Alam, Bryant Apolonio, Max Chalmers, Avani Dias, Nick Row- botham, Hannah Ryan, Xiaoran Shi, Nina Ubaldi, Lucy Watson. Reporters: Bernadette Anvia, Georgia Behrens, Benedict Brunker, Ariel Castro- Martinez, Adam Disney, Nick Gowland, Nina Hallas, Georgia Kriz, Patrick Madden, Alexandra Mildenhall, Felicity Nelson, Ellen O’Brien, Sean O’Grady, WOULD YOU RATHER... Justin Pen, Nick Richardson, Lane Sainty, Max Schintler, Cameron Smith, Harry Stratton, Matilda Surtees, Max Weber, Blythe S Worthy, Evan Van Zijl. Have medium-sized bamboo Contributors: Kyol Blakeney, Michael Gemmell, Shannen Potter, Alex Tighe. knitting needles for fangs? 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Anyone can write for Honi Soit ! @honi_soit Email all letters and submissions to: http://www.facebook.com/honisoitsydney [email protected] www.honisoit.com letters Morris loudly informed her friends that our friends in the cast, crew and band. thetical-Western-profile-of-what-Jesus- SOUND& it was the “worst fucking revue” she had I have personally contacted members probably-didn’t-look-like thing. It’s ever seen, having made similar remarks from the Revue and they assured me unbiblical, and, frankly, weird. #some- fury throughout the show, and upon being that they found the Board’s conduct was thingsomethingREFORMATIONso- asked if she should at least wait until all in good fun and that it did not dis- methingsomething exiting the theatre to voice such com- tract from their performance. 2. In the unlikely event that you actu- ments, politely replied that it couldn’t To those members of the audience we ally wanted a sincere answer to your LifeChoice is no choice wait- evidently it was that urgent. may have caused offence to however, we implied question (“Why does the EU Dear Editors, I’m glad to see that the students sincerely apologise. The USU Board will throw free BBQs all the time?”), here’s I want to thank Ellen for looking at elected to represent the union, explicitly continue to support the passion of stu- an answer: We’re the Evangelical Union. the choices facing student parents at in the role of ‘supporting and fostering dents that has kept the Revue program Evangelical means ‘of the gospel’. Gos- Sydney Uni. Or, in fact, the lack thereof. student life’, take such a hands-on role running strong for many years. pel means ‘grand announcement’. The Women are the victims of a system that in contributing to the student commu- Hannah Morris, JD II grand announcement (NB: not ‘private nity. conviction’) we’re on about is specifi- says they have no choice: their baby or USU President Being the only ones in the theatre cally the one that Jesus of Nazareth died their education. Ps. On a personal note, I would like to to drunkenly heckle, and openly criti- to reconcile humanity back to right She shared Bridget’s story of being clarify that the worst Revue experience cise, I wonder why we didn’t see more relationship with God, and was raised forced to leave university after falling of my life was actually Law Revue 2011 of this when they were campaigning to again to life, defeating death – and is pregnant with her second child. when I saw my best friend naked for the be elected, as obviously it is what they now risen & reigning Lord of all (not first time. Nothing could be more scar- I see a picture of a society that tells consider to be the appropriate action just those who believe in him), holding ring than that. women when it is acceptable for them to for board directors, elevated as they out the promise of bringing restora- have children, and under what circum- are above the regular student body. I tion to everything that has been broken. stances. Governments and universities remember during her campaign, Morris, Far left groups not so utopian So, yes, we kind of do want people to only support a woman who has made the in her brightly coloured shirt, escorting know about Him, and if free food is ‘right’ decision about her reproduction: Rafi Alam’s article, ‘Rape apologism me to Manning to assist me in voting for and the far left’ raises many issues and what it takes, is that really a problem? to have children when it is convenient to her, and actually asking me how my day We wanted to give you free food the them.