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This week, Australian Club, the long-standing male-only club has voted to continue to ban female memberships. Is it an outdated club in the current society? Or simply a club the offers 'safe space' for wealthy privileged white males to make inappropriate comments to oppress and exploit on others?  Art of apology. What constitute and apology, how should one express sorry that really means it? We look at how the celebrities issue public apologies in the contemporary world, are they effective if there is no further actions after saying 'I am sorry'? We also discuss the differences between culture and gender when it comes to apologies. No women members allowed: The Australian Club votes to remain open to only men Elite male-only ‘gentlemen’s club’ in Sydney votes to continue banning female members In Asia, 'sorry' can be lost in translation

What is the differences of perspectives in our society today between women and men? We explore the survey Australia Talk in issues about personal safety, feminism and discrimination, does the survey really reflect Australia's society as a whole? With the social progression, more women are choosing not to have children, why? Is there a reason required? What divides men and women? The Australia Talks survey reveals quite a list https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-10/australia-talks-reveals-what-divides-men-and-women/100195244 Australia Talks National Survey reveals what Australians think about marriage and children https://amp.abc.net.au/article/100146390 More Women Are Saying No To Motherhood. Will Society Ever Listen? https://www.huffpost.com/entry/child-free-by-choice-women_l_60b7e5c5e4b001ebd46d5601 Facebook | Asian Bitches Down Under Instagram | Asian Bitches Down Under  Email: asianbdownunder@gmail.com  

On this extra episode, Helen shares the memory June 1989, the history that Chinese Communist Party had been censoring. ‘Mourn June 4 in your own way’: Tiananmen Square events vanish amid crackdowns and Covid https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/03/tiananmen-june-4-events-china-hong-kong-taiwan-macao-crackdown-covid 六四天安門32年後，中國年輕人何以變成了「戰狼」與「小粉紅」？(TAIWANESE ARTICLE: 32 years after 4th June Tiaanmen, how young chinese citizens became 'wolf warring little pinks) https://www.storm.mg/article/3722525?mode=whole 1989 Tiananmen Square protests https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests Facebook | Asian Bitches Down Under Instagram | Asian Bitches Down Under  Email: asianbdownunder@gmail.com  

Happy Pride Month Bitches~ This week we look into the media's attack on a woman's choice of prioritising her mental health over her career, society's ever constrain on women's choice of sexual activities, and God of Rabbit, a deity that is specifically dedicated to give faith and guidance on relationships in LGBTQI+ community. Lapsed, by Monica Dux https://www.harpercollins.com.au/9780733340819/lapsed/ Under the Tuscan Sun https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0328589/ Cruella https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3228774/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 Rabbit God https://the-singapore-lgbt-encyclopaedia.wikia.org/wiki/Rabbit_God Naomi Osaka Quits the French Open After News Conference Dispute https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/31/sports/tennis/naomi-osaka-quits-french-open-depression.html Women still get judged harshly for having casual sex: Persistence of unfounded stereotypes at play https://www.firstpost.com/living/women-still-get-judged-harshly-for-having-casual-sex-persistence-of-unfounded-stereotypes-at-play-9668791.html Facebook | Asian Bitches Down Under Instagram | Asian Bitches Down Under  Email: asianbdownunder@gmail.com  

This week, we critic some Australian ads, especially the tourism ads, how these ads are still very white/wealthy centric. Diversity has been used as a tokenism for a lot of industries, advertising isn't an exception, utilising POC as a prop but never centres the perspectives of POC. Epic Holidays | Holiday Here This Year | Tourism Australia (90 sec) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lxhm3wDiVrE Stop dreaming about New Zealand and go. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqJbmAMngTE Victoria Tourism ad - "It's Easy To Lose Yourself In Melbourne" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypCrz_2jivw&t=21s Tourism Victoria: Play Melbourne https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYgz5ylq0Po Tourism Victoria - Romantic Melbourne https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBnSBH12f5U Unmute Yourself 60sec – Stop it at the Start television commercial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g4-puN2K9o Facebook | Asian Bitches Down Under Instagram | Asian Bitches Down Under  Email: asianbdownunder@gmail.com  

With Japan's COVID state of emergency, shouldn't IOC call the Olympic off? Is it competition or money drive? We look into why there hasn't been much Asian Australian's participation in local sports and question is it the environment or simply the parents' preference of academic achievement over sports achievements? This week we'd like to share aTaiwanese documentary about plus-size women, their heart wrenching experience of being the marginalised people in Taiwan. Liz Cambage: Australian criticises Olympic team photo shoot https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-57020386 Sports Meant So Much to Me. Why Wouldn’t My Son Play? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/16/magazine/sports-children-kids.html AFL's roots are partly Chinese, but Chinese Australians are now fighting underrepresentation https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10-31/chinese-australians-australian-rules-afl-multicultural-faces/12825538 Are There Fat Asians? Yes. I’m One of Them.https://thebolditalic.com/are-there-fat-asians-yes-i-m-one-of-them-the-bold-italic-san-francisco-c405247ec535 Fatbulous Me (YouTube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2EKF0wfXiY&t=1s Facebook | Asian Bitches Down Under Instagram | Asian Bitches Down Under  Email: asianbdownunder@gmail.com  

Helen begins this episode about the podcasts she listened to the past week, conversations around sperm donor and infertility industry(stay tune we will have a massive episode about this topic), the representation of disability and fat community, how each is trying to reclaim the rights of language usage. Helen highly recommend The Saturday Paper's podcast 7am on the subject of right-wing terrorism and how people with power gets to decide what and how to label terrorism. Sarah Dingle — finding my donor dad https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/conversations/sarah-dingle-sperm-donor-global-fertility-industry/13316010 Live from the Sydney Writers’ Festival, baby! https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/stop-everything/carly-findlay-sam-van-zweden/13331892 The Price of Salt (Carol) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52258.The_Price_of_Salt The Ripping Tree https://www.harpercollins.com.au/9781460751992/the-ripping-tree/ Three Times https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVUIV-TA1Z4 Yi Yi (2000) [HD] - Edward Yang movie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U089cG2BqR8 Apologies that "Three Times" does not have English subtitle, if any of our listeners can find any VPN that offers this movie with subtitles, let us know! Facebook | Asian Bitches Down Under Instagram | Asian Bitches Down Under  Email: asianbdownunder@gmail.com  

On this episode, we did a little gossip about Bill and Melinda's divorce news, along with the discussion of why women choose not to have children, how having children impacts women's life. And, another year, another Mothers' Day rant from Helen CIA estimates Taiwan's fertility rate to be world's lowest https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/04/21/asia-pacific/social-issues-asia-pacific/taiwan-birthrate-children/ Taiwan with Lowest Fertility Rate in the World https://www.bignewsnetwork.com/news/268777997/taiwan-with-lowest-fertility-rate-in-the-world  

Thank you to all the listeners who sent us questions, we had a blast having such a fun conversation answering your question! Gritty Nurse Podcast https://www.grittynurse.com For the listeners who are concern about racial micro-aggression https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/how-to-respond-to-racial-microaggressions  

This week we catch up with news about Jessie's win at the ABIA, Asians winning at the Oscars, and our experience at last Saturday Stop Asian Hate Vigil. Our main topic is the lesser spoken of Asians in ANZAC, the rejections many asians faced during WWI enlisting. The Barbizon https://www.booktopia.com.au/the-barbizon-paulina-bren/book/9781529393033.html The forgotten Chinese Anzacs https://apac.news/the-forgotten-chinese-anzacs/ Uncovering the forgotten stories of our Chinese-Australian Anzac soldiers https://www.sbs.com.au/news/uncovering-the-forgotten-stories-of-our-chinese-australian-anzac-soldiers Chinese Anzacs https://anzacportal.dva.gov.au/resources/chinese-anzacs Anzac Day 2018: The Chinese-Australian woman who worked as a decoder in WWII https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-04-24/the-chinese-australian-woman-who-became-a-codebreaker-in-wwii/9683878 Get your tickets for Women Revue now! https://www.seymourcentre.com/event/womn-s-revue-2021-a-noughty-new-year?fbclid=IwAR15ax669ux4Fe2dsmr668DwgxPymc0GdA9dsZErrg12U5DieEylha2RqyY Facebook | Asian Bitches Down Under Instagram | Asian Bitches Down Under  Email: asianbdownunder@gmail.com