I think VII might be wings. They can blur (hummingbird) or they can be rigid (like a soaring eagle) and the smallest wings (like a fly) are less substantial than a ghost. And you can't fly with one wing.

No problem! My private FB is like a refuge. The public one occasionally flares up with a pustule of douchebros determined to prove harassment doesn't exist....by harassing me.

It's not my personal account, it's a writer's page.

Oh thank you! I'm actually very privileged to write for an Australian feminist website called Daily Life. My editors are excellent, and have given me free reign to write a lot on rape culture, harassment, men's violence against women and casual everyday sexism. Hence all the Facebook hate from petulant…

You can find it here: http://www.dailylife.com.au/news-and-views…

In the past week I've heard that self defence argument at least five times. And it's bullshit. In my Australian inner city suburb, a woman called Jill Meagher was raped and murdered just over two years ago. Her case really did mobilise a lot of discussion around men's violence against women, but at the same time it…

Yes, I did and quoted almost the entire thing in the description. First comment was from a guy who regularly trolls the page to complain about feminism and women overreacting about men.

Exactly. I wrote an article about Tugce Albayrak a couple of days later, and included this which basically sums up my feelings on the impossible situation women are placed in:

UGH THIS. I posted a status on my FB the other day about an incident on a train - one of those moments where nothing violent happens, but your space and privacy is intruded upon and you have to make a split second decision about how you're going to respond because you know FROM FUCKING EXPERIENCE what the possible…

Wow. So many layers of fucked up in that comment.

MIZANDRYS.

Maybe you should sit down and have a think about why that might be.

Yes, because when someone commits a crime it's obviously the fault of the victim of that crime.

"If the plot lends itself to that — if one of my viewpoint characters is in a situation, then I'm not going to shy away from it — but you can't just insert things because everyone wants to see them."

"No, we all know what your pet issue is. Indeed, it is refreshing to see you write something without forcing it in, thus weakening your many good points about fat shaming."

And the other interesting thing about Belle Knox is that she's relatively new to the industry and is still very much enmeshed in it. There's no guarantee that in five years time, she's going to reflect on the experience as an 'empowering' one. (She may also spend the rest of her life feeling like it was positive, in…

Yep, it's just you.

'We forget that she still has a huge ego and this is the kind of mainstream recognistion that appeals to egomaniacs'.

In addition to the horrible racism, I'm glad that E! has given its readership the opportunity to comment on Lorde's developing cellulite. How else will she know that she's a disgusting manatee who needs to "hit the gym sweetie and tone up the chassis a little bit"? Or that she has a "weird bottom half" because her…

OMG SHE DOESN'T EVEN BOW HERE.