Just another attempt to emasculate the Australian male. Now we are even encouraged to speak up against our mates for making jokes. To show that I still have my balls heres one of my favorites: what do you say to a women with two black eyes? ....Nothing shes already been told twice.

The White Ribbon Campaign has run its natural course and Flood is now trying to expand definitions and making a plea for a new sinecure. He says:"We’ll also need education campaigns to undermine the dodgy gender norms which feed sexual harassment of women: women are sexual objects and men are women’s superiors. Men are less likely than women to perceive incidents as harassment and more tolerant of harassing behaviour, particularly if they have traditional attitudes to gender."

Oh really? Who do you think you might recommend to write and run these re-education programs, Dr Flood?

Violence against women in Australia is overwhelmingly an Aboriginal issue arising out of poverty and social displacement, not the huge and widespread problem that the white ribbon mob tried to pretend it is and harassment is not violence just because Flood wants a new job. It's not even harassment a lot of the time and rarely intended that way when it is, I suspect. A (very) recent survey (of my friends and work colleagues)found that none of those surveyed had ever intended to sexually harass anyone.

See, I can do "qualitative research methods" too...

<< A minority of men treat women with contempt, and it is up to the majority of men to help create a culture in which this is unthinkable. >>

I agree with Michael Flood, but I'd suggest that a cursory examination of comments on gender-related issues posted to OLO would indicate that contempt for women is far from unthinkable in this forum's culture.

Ah CJ, aren't you just the Alf Stewart of OLO.

Hi CJ, nice to see you back. Mate I have to take issue with you on that comment, but what else would you expect?

Perhaps many of these ladies are only getting back a little of what they have dished out for years.

Out here in the “acreage” belt I see so much of it. She, compelled by biology or some other force wanted to breed, & grabbed the best bloke she could get. You can see that for many years, if not always, he has been a necessary evil. She has nothing but contempt for him, basically because he puts up with the hand life has dealt him, & her.

She on the other hand is highly frustrated, although she has the life she chose, it offers her little satisfaction. A new bathroom or kitchen, costing heaps, will distract her for a little while, but it’s not the answer. The expectation was much greater than the realisation. It’s not the women’s mag life she dreamed of.

She’s probably getting ready to dump him, but at the time that will give her the greatest percentage of the assets.

I can quickly become enemy No1 with these ladies, when I invite their blokes to drive one of my old cars to a show for me. It’s the only way to get a couple of cars to a show. Watching the lift these blokes get is great. When they pour over an early Holden, like the one their family had, & talk to the owner, they come alive.

From then on, I can feel the frost from these ladies at fifty yards. She is dead scared I'll get him interested in a life of his own.

So CJ, I reckon there are more downtrodden blokes, than harassed women, at least out here where I live, & probably everywhere.

C J Morgan,
Your back. Where have you been, and why dd you go?

The way the article is worded, all men carry out sexual harassment of women and dominate women, and that includes you.

So you should be ashamed of yourself. Or the author should fell ashamed of himself for writing the article.

One or the other.

But I don't think the author will feel ashamed of himself. I somehow think he gets paid to make the statements he does.

Or his employers haven't actually corrected him as yet.