Dyson Heydon has spent more than half his life with the banner of “brilliant legal mind.” What are the perks of being labeled a “brilliant legal mind”? In Australia, it apparently means you can harass and violate young women without any accountability.

This week, we chat about male judges like Heydon and Brett Kavanaugh and Alex
Kozinski, and their criminal behaviour.

In this country’s most powerful legal institutions, the perpetual unmitigated acclaim that powerful men give each other ensures the systemic harassment and assault of the industry’s most vulnerable members – young women – continues. It effectively ensures women are kept out.

Powerful men target a woman’s most vulnerable (and, according to society, her most valuable) asset: her sexuality. They know by doing this, women are reduced to pieces of meat. It’s a strategy – to exert power, keep us out, to destroy every other part of us. And, often, they succeed.

Also discussed: being a follower is boring, capitalist advocacy, Fleabag.

Articles
Johnson & Johnson Will Stop Selling Skin-Whitening Lotions (NYTimes, June 2020)
Dyson Heydon Says addressing Liberal Party Fundraiser Does Not Mean He Supports The Liberal Party (Sydney Morning Herald, 2015)
Two High Court judges 'knew of complaints against Dyson Heydon' ( Sydney Morning Herald, 2020)

TV Shows
Fleabag (Seasons 1 & 2) Amazon Prime

Books
Eggshell Skull (Bri Lee, 2018)
She Said (Jodi Kantor & Megan Twohey, 2019)
The Education of Brett Kavanaugh | An Investigation ( Robin Pogrebin Kate Kelly, 2019)

Dyson Heydon and the bad shit some male judges do