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Well it has been a shocking couple of weeks for blokes. We have denigrated women. We have assaulted women. We have allegedly raped them. The two buffoons pictured below, Howard Sattler and Piers Akerman thought that it was somehow OK to talk about rumours about the first bloke. We men have, through our public representatives, shown ourselves to be quite odious.
Well what is your view?
Is my gender just a heart beat away from brutality?
Is my gender so insufferably hopeless that it should be marginalised?
Should all men be blamed for Corey Bernardi who links LGBTI marriage with evil?
Over to you. I will not be blogging on this merely soliciting views.
Dick
Don't forget this effort:
ReplyDelete"“I don’t think it’s appropriate for a Prime Minister to be showing her cleavage in Parliament,”
Oops, my mistake, that was from a female idiot, so it doesn't count.
I don't accept the notion that men have a monopoly on stupidity, and refuse to be considered as responsible for the idiots you mention just because I happen to be part of the same gender.
Yes - the name Ann Coulter pops into mind as well.
DeleteAnd I recall that Margaret Thatcher's, when asked to comment on those killed and maimed in the Falklands action would only say "Rejoice!"
And, like LJS, I refuse to be considered responsible for the behaviour of idiots on the basis of a shared gender.
Quite, it's like saying all Ozzies are racist based on a few representatives or religious nuts based on Ralph's ramblings.
DeleteNot to forget Germaine Greer's reference to Julia's big arse :)
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DeleteTakimag made a similar point a few days ago.
From:
http://takimag.com/article/the_week_that_perished_june_16_takimag/print#axzz2WXWLqqxs
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This isn’t to suggest that the world isn’t crammed with horrible, irresponsible, and loathsome fathers. It is. But it is also teeming with cold, cruel, and sadistic mothers who use their kids as props and their sperm donors as ATMs. There are countless mothers who are verbally and physically abusive to everyone within striking distance. There are also innumerable children who suck the lifeblood out of both parents and drive them to early graves.
What we want to know is: Why do we only hear negative stories about fathers and never about mothers and children?
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Why is that now?
Zed wrote: "Why is that now?"
DeleteGood question. I have been disturbed for a while at the attitude that encourages self-loathing in men based on the actions of certain individuals.
"Good question. I have been disturbed for a while at the attitude that encourages self-loathing in men based on the actions of certain individuals"
DeleteAnd your answer is...?
It also turns out the photo Grace Collier was referring to was from 2006, while Gillard was in opposition...it just goes to show that misogyny isn't limited to men, crazy women can be afflicted too.
Deletehttp://www.crikey.com.au/2013/06/17/human-booby-trap-grace-collier-obsessed-with-pm-cleavage/
"Why do we only hear negative stories about fathers and never about mothers and children?"
Clearly you've never sat and listened to a Mothers Group chatting over a coffee. If you want to hear stories about terrible mothers, join a parenting website.
This whole sexism/misogyny thing is frustrating as hell. Aside from the fact that it diverts from actual political debate, it's ridiculous that in Australia in 2013 gender even needs to be on the agenda or that Australia can't accept that Julia Gillard HAS been treated appallingly by both the media and other politicians solely based on her being a woman, the last ten days have just seen it done more publicly than usual. Even the whole 'leadership challenge' beat up by the media is proof...same party, same policies, female leader? Election failure. Replace her with KRudd and suddenly they have a shot at winning.
http://annesummers.com.au/speeches/her-rights-at-work-r-rated/
The vitriol directed at Julia Gillard is disturbing to say the least but worse is the view that she somehow deserves such criticism or has brought it on herself and in the current political climate I most certainly would not want my daughters aspiring to be PM one day.
Thanks Pirate. Interesting points. Dick
DeleteDear Paddy Irish Girl,
DeleteAgree with everything you have written.
Dick
"We have denigrated women. We have assaulted women. We have allegedly raped them... We men have, through our public representatives, shown ourselves to be quite odious"
ReplyDeleteThere is no defense to such a false collectivist claim!
"We" doesn't exist!
Only individuals exist and we are all different.
Personally, I have no intention of accepting such an unearned guilt.
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Delete"We" doesn't exist!
Only individuals exist and we are all different.
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Unless of course its the "randian collective", ya warbling idiotic gimlet.
"randian collective"
DeleteLike the great "we" there is no such thing. Only individuals exist.
That includes you dopey :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objectivist_movement#The_Collective
DeleteRepeat after me.. WE..ARE..ALL..INDIVIDUALS.
Have you ever considered the possibility that when your mother doesn't disagree with you, this doesn't necessarily indicate that you're good at lying?
After all, its far more likely that she just cant be arsed ;)
DeleteMy apologies for missing this one
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"We" doesn't exist!
Only individuals exist and we are all different.
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"we" are all different?
lol. Stoppit mallypoos. My tummy hurts
Loonyhead, thanks for the link, which I haven't read for years, and which confirms my position that only individuals exist. There is no such thing as the Objectivist movement but, if you come across same, please let me know as I would love to make contact.
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DeleteLoonyhead,
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Who?
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There is no such thing as the Objectivist movement but, if you come across same, please let me know as I would love to make contact.
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Why? Lonely in your little basement? Looking for someone to "we" with are we? ;)
idiot feline impersonator: ""Lonely in your little basement? Looking for someone to "we" with are we?"
DeleteAll the people I "we" with are individuals - and highly independent ones at that.
Isn't it time for dependent parasites such as yourself to crawl from your collectivist anthill?
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DeleteIsn't it time for dependent parasites such as yourself to crawl from your collectivist anthill?
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rofl
Well I used to have a collectivist anthill, but I split it into strata titles and flogged it off to a bunch of highly independent I-we termites when the market was at its peak.
Funny. When they aren't busily boring through the walls and cutting off each others water and power, they're hanging out in the common foyer whining about the marxist ideology of the body corporate.
lol; Honestly: If stupidity were sunshine there'd be tomatoes growing out your nose... Ya dingus.
Dear Zed,
DeleteThat is a confronting statement. Dick
Mal: Only individuals exist and we are all different.
ReplyDeleteThen how do you explain phenomena like fashion, finacial bubbles and crashes, and ideological fads like objectvism?
"Then how do you explain phenomena like fashion, finacial bubbles and crashes"
DeleteWhat on Earth made you think I was trying to?
"What on Earth made you think I was trying to?"
ReplyDeleteYour comment "Only individuals exist and we are all different."
We also had the offensive menu and the blue ties.
ReplyDeleteThe gender agenda has conveniently replaced more substantial issues like party policy.
"The gender agenda has conveniently replaced more substantial issues like party policy"
DeleteIn fact it *is* the Clayton's party policy where "substantial issues" no longer exist. It's all that remains for the Left intelligentia since the embarassing collapse of the "noble experiment" in the USSR slaughterhouse. Socialism is bankrupt and cannot recover from that one.
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DeleteIt's all that remains for the Left intelligentia
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So what are you dweezil? The right intelligentsia?
FFS, dont make me laugh.
You cant even SPELL intelligentsia. ROFLMAO
MalcomS wrote: "Socialism is bankrupt and cannot recover from that one."
DeleteNot at all. One of Australia's major parties is going into the election with a policy to redistribute wealth from large companies to working women and also with the policy that centralised government planning is more efficient than market forces.
That's right - Socialism is alive and well and living in the Liberal Party.
Idiot feline impersonator: "You cant[sic] even SPELL intelligentsia. ROFLMAO"
DeleteEr.. please attend to syntax :)
FYI "intelligentia" is a recent word in the language and is actually borderline slang. As such, intelligentia, intelligentiae and intelligentsia are all in use and acceptable.
Now, please desist from your floor rolling, stand erect and poke yourself in the eye. Feel better? Hope that helps.
Robin: "Socialism is alive and well and living in the Liberal Party"
DeleteWhich in no way contradicts my position.
Every conservative party in every Western country, to my knowledge, is socialist. The notion "that centralised government planning is more efficient than market forces" is false whether uttered by Abbot or Gillard. That is why the USSR collapsed. It's why the USA, Britain and the EU is on the verge of collapse. I am old enough to remember idiot Menzies "domino theory" argument in which he maintained that the communists would come down through SE Asia and take over unless we increased our socialist program and he proceded to do so. Similarly idiot Howard's GST was implemented predominantly because the welfare state would be bankrupt without an increase in taxation. None of these worked and we are now in the position whereby tax increases are impossible and have been substituted by credit and the printing of fiat money. It can't go on much longer. The West either reverses course or another dark age will be upon us.
MalcolmS wrote: "Which in no way contradicts my position."
DeleteYes it does you said: "ocialism is bankrupt and cannot recover from that one."
In the light of what you said you should amend it to: "ocialism is bankrupt and keeps on recovering".
You missed a bit. Allow me to assist
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"intelligentia" is a recent word in the language and is actually borderline slang. As such, intelligentia, intelligentiae and intelligentsia are all in use and acceptable...
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... according to my grandfathers dictionary
Fixed
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Deletecentralised government planning is more efficient than market forces
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Why are centralised government planning and market forces the only two options in twerpworld?
In twerpworld, what constitutes a market force?
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The West either reverses course or another dark age will be upon us.
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Reverses course? Don't know if you noticed this twerplet, but there's a dark age or two back that way as well
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Deletecredit and the printing of fiat money.
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So a jubilee, followed by the implementation of a barter system is what you're proposing?
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DeleteBilly the Magic Cat wrote: "Why are centralised government planning and market forces the only two options in twerpworld?
DeleteIn twerpworld, what constitutes a market force?"
It is a little rude for you to call the Liberal Party "twerpworld", but perhaps it is accurate.
In answer to your first question, I don't think the Liberal Party are suggesting that these are the only two options, only that centralised government planning is the better of these two options.
In answer to your second question, I don't know the exact definition that the Liberal Party have for market forces - I had assumed that they used the general definition.
Robin: "In the light of what you said you should amend it to: "ocialism[sic] is bankrupt and keeps on recovering""
DeleteWhy should I do that?
Robin: "I don't know the exact definition that the Liberal Party have for market forces - I had assumed that they used the general definition?"
DeleteSo, what is *your* definition of "market forces"? Remember that the USSR had market forces [euphemistically called the black market].
What is the "general definition"?
Have you ever heard of "free market forces"?
idiot feline impersonator: "So a jubilee, followed by the implementation of a barter system is what you're proposing?"
DeleteWhere did I propose that?
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DeleteWhere did I propose that?
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Forgive my impudence in suggesting this, O' Great Twerpling. I was merely trying to make some actual sense of your random giggle-warblings
Please ignore me and continue to dazzle your fellow grossian collective membersip with the power and glory of your escrow-nomic tweenius
"... according to my grandfathers dictionary"
DeleteI think you mean . . .
... according to my grandfather's dictionary
Fixed.
(I'm OK with other males being mysogynist mrons, but I refuse to be part of the same gender as someone who fails to use an apostrophe correctly.)
OK, so that should have been "mysogynist morons". Bloody pedants!
DeleteHi Jane
DeleteSoooooooo...
Whatcha wearin'?
idiot pirate: "OK, so that should have been "mysogynist morons"
DeleteDid you mean *misogynist morons*?? :)
If so you are still incorrect! :)
Misogynous is the adjective.
Er.. according to my grandfather's dictionary that is!
ROFLMAO
Thanks goblin, I did miss a few of the recent atrocities. Dick
DeleteOK, unlike you I am able to concede that I sometimes make errors - my brain doesn't function properly when it's deprived of caffeine.
DeleteAs a dyslexic atheist, I did go through a time when I refused to believe in dogs.
"Only individuals exist and we are all different."
ReplyDeleteI'm not.
I'm not either.
DeleteAlthough it must be said that I'm not different in a different way to how you're not different.
But apart from that, I'm exactly the same
Actually:
DeleteThe more I think about it the more I realise that everybody is not different in a different way to everybody else.
Its just one of the many ways we are all so amazingly identical.
Dont you agree?
I am sorry Pirate and Zed but you are both "different" but in a good way. Dick
DeleteI'm different to Long John . . .
DeleteNot convinced LJS
DeleteBlunty covers the same ground:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.theage.com.au/opinion/blogs/blunt-instrument/a-shameful-week-to-be-a-man-20130617-2oemq.html