What more can be said about the idiocy of the cultural vandals.
Why even give them oxygen?

This article does that unfortunately, and thus falls into a trap.

Dan

'intersectionality' …. "the interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender as they apply to a given individual or group, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage".

Everything is the fault of white, privileged, male supremacists - particularly Australians of that ilk. Just ask the ABC. I've been confined to regional Australia for a few days, where the ABC is the only radio. I don't know how rural Australians survive with all that self-hatred and negativity. Negativity runs neck and neck with left-wing bias. On second thoughts, the negativity is the bigger danger.

Without the ABC, we wouldn't have all this intersectionality and negativity.

But, the ABC does do a good line in British drama (Australian very occasionally), and these whinging women should should be paying more attention to the fictionalised but truth-based treatment of young women and underaged girls by Romanian sex trafficking gangs in the series 'Baptiste'. But, the lefty 'ladies' would probably have difficulty speaking out against non-Anglo Saxon baddies. Racism!

I think this is one of the most interesting, thought-provoking and common sense pieces -especially around issues of sexuality and gender -I've read for a long time.

It deserves a thoughtful and reasoned response. I doubt I can write one just now. But congratulations.

Most of us would be glad to support people who may or may not be a lot like us. That means good fathers, caring and decent women, sensible people who are gay or straight, people with different nationalities and cultures, and many people from many walks of life.

This article gives me hope for a better national discussion. I wish we had this quality of debate in Australia more often.

A reasonable discussion of “intersectionality” and the harm inflicted on women; but either she has not read Marx or understood his concept of class, and how patriarchy is an element of exploitative capitalism. Marxism is opposed to identity politics.

> According to progressives, the diagnosis of all societal inequality and injustice is due solely to
>institutional and systematic sins of patriarchy, racism, homophobia, islamophobia and transphobia.

Can you name even one progressive who makes that claim? Because it looks very much like a strawman to me.

Hi Leslie,

Can you elaborate on your assertions that

" .... patriarchy is an element of exploitative capitalism. Marxism is opposed to identity politics."

One thing doesn't really follow from the other. I agree that patriarchy, like pretty much every other form of social and economic organisation, is a huge element in capitalism - and that Marxism is, for all sorts of other reasons, opposed to both capitalism AND identity politics. Perhaps you could through some light on all this ?

Joe