An excellent letter in today's West Australian newspaper states what many intelligent women have been forced to conclude"Rather than advance feminism Julia Gillard has set it back a decade." Actually she, and her clique, have set it back by more than a decade - try about thirty or forty years! Not only has her lust for power resulted in an abandonment of fundamental principles of decency and morality, she bleats sexism and misogyny from those who chastise her.

Many mature women - who don't condone the practice of masquerading behind makeup, high heels and seductive clothing - are increasingly supporting male politicians because elitist females have shown that they lack the egalitarian qualities of true statesmen or stateswomen.

And yes, I am a proudly grey haired woman who has encountered far more discrimination from generationally younger women than I ever did from chauvinistic men.

Oh you're over 60? Perhaps you should update your photo.

But for God's sake man! Perhaps you think that now you're reaching the end of your career you'd like to share your pearls of wisdom with the rest of the world?

Please just drop it, because from my perspective all you're doing here is demonstrating to everyone that you're still a long way from getting over your divorce. Oh your poor ex-wife must be both mortified and vindicated at the same time!

Or as they say in Blighty, "takes all sorts dunnit?".

This article states that- <Single mums are an oppressed class but ironically they are oppressed by their Goddess-in-Prada sisters.>

Agree totally and I am not a single mother.

I fail to see how taking $100’s a week off the meagre income of single mothers does not highly disadvantage their children,(Australian children).
It is the children who suffer when their mother can’t afford to feed and clothe them properly. It is a nasty, shameful, policy.

CHERFUL,
based on what I recall of your posting history, you only object to which party came up with this "austerity" measure. In other words you're a bloody hypocrite; beating up on single mums is beloved of conservatives and you resent Labor's cutting your turf.
I can trump that; I despise them for it.

Whilst shopping with my husband and sometimes my father, they both at times make derogatory comments about women walking past, like-“ she’ll have to get her weight down, or criticism of the way they’re dressed or something. Meanwhile there is a passing parade of men walking past with their stomachs hanging over their trousers and as old and ugly as any woman I see going past, plus they are sloppily and appallingly lacking in any kind of dress sense.

I find this annoying and think to myself, “bloody men! so judgemental. “Now I notice men
sitting on seats in supermarkets especially those over 40 or 50years and I can see them doing the same thing all the time.
It is well known that men will often only hire young beautiful women over highly qualified older women. Then men blame women for their obsession with their looks.

But hey girls, why do you read articles in womens magazines, that say , “you must do this, this or that if you want to find a man?
I think to myself who cares! and immediately switch to more sensible reading. But then I am in the older woman brigade myself and I love it and have embraced it fully.

Nobody tells me what I should wear or not wear, I dress the way I like. When I go out I look the world straight in the eye. If I want to wear a feather in my
hat I will. I have an underlying amusement for younger people and their foolishness but also an understanding and compassion for their youth. There is a strength of character,wisdom, and power that comes with aging.

I love my imperfections and blemishes. I earned every dam one of them on my journey through life. Embrace the power and beauty of old age and realize you are inferior to no-one. They are are merely young, foolish and unenlightened who do not see this.

based on what I recall of your posting history, you only object to which party came up with this "austerity" measure. In other words you're a bloody hypocrite; beating up on single mums is beloved of conservatives and you resent Labor's cutting your turf.
I can trump that; I despise them for it.
Posted by Squeers, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 8:25:37 PM

Dear Squeers,
I am no blind follower of any side of politics, I see them all as representing the
Upper end of town given that most of them are lawyers and Uni graduates these days since
the working classes were able to send their children to Uni. There is nothing wrong with
having a Uni education but it does mean that the Labour party struggles these days to
truly represent Labour and not the elete. Failing to be able to identify so much with
the working classes anymore, they identify with the Hippie Utopian ideas they learn at Uni
about saving the world’s masses.

The Labour party showed me way back in the 1970’s
that they were less of a friend to mothers in the home than the Liberals actually were.
This was the time when Daycare was being fought for and won by the then Labour Party Women’s
Electerol Lobby. They opposed any kind of financial assistance to one wage families
with children at home. It was Malcom Fraser whom I never liked, who paid the first family
Payment directly to Mother’s with children and not to the Fathers. I always give him credit
For this.
The treatment of single mothers in this country is right across the board(not just Labour or Liberal) and it is based on ill feelings from ex-husbands and jealous new girlfriends or wives, especially of the ex-husbands financial responsibilities to his children with his former wife. I would have given the Liberals an equal serve if they had done it too.