Language is behaviour. In this new series, we'll look at a different word each week from the perspective of what it means and how it is used with reference to women. And this week's word is very suitable for a brand spanking new series.

Because I'm a masochist, and because I kept seeing references to it on Twitter, I read Bob Ellis' opinion piece on The Drum about The Iron Lady, a new film about Margaret Thatcher starring Meryl Streep. It inspired me to look at the word "experiment".

Bob Katter has a bit of a funny-old-Granpa feel. The kind of bloke who is relegated to the corner of the room, to be left alone with his beer and his muttering. Whether or not he shares the same love of casual racism that the older people in my life sure seem to enjoy is a question I can't answer, but it is undeniable that BobKat is dangerously socially conservative.

The other day I was in my car unusually early and caught the first part of drive-time radio. The show was doing a survey (of over 18 year old women) about whether or not they found it flattering or gross when they caught someone perving at them. Every single woman who I heard call in said something about context but the show clearly didn’t care about context (or content of what women said, really) and instead boiled all their callers’ comments down to “they find it flattering.” In fact, they closed the section with ringing bells and a call to all men to feel free to perve as “100% of callers find it flattering.”

I am fed up I am fed up of; Not being taken seriously because I am a young woman

I'm not too sure when exactly I started speaking like the missing Kardashian sister. It certainly wasn't on purpose. But there I was a few months ago, collecting my change from the cashier and letting loose a 'thank yewww'. The long, lazy drawl isn't all that much different from the standard Australian accent I've always had and these slight Kardashian influences that have begun peppering my speech fit in nicely next to my occasional uptalk (the 'high rising terminal') and the Gilmore Girls-style rapid fire conversation that for some reason only women seem capable of following.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for quite some time now, you’ll have noticed there’s been a lot of talk about misogyny and sexism in Australia. It began when respected broadcaster Alan Jones was unfairly targeted by militant extremist feminists for daring to discuss on air the views shared by millions of our fellow reasonable and rational Australians. The organisers of the witch-hunt say they want to “destroy the joint”, and yet ASIO have as yet been unwilling or unable to lock up the terrorists who so clearly wish to wreak violent destruction on an ageing and vulnerable man. Perhaps ASIO are actually a front for the Socialists? Time will tell.