RObert, for the Judith Sloan articles, try Googling:

"Oh Man Gender Agency Should be Given Nudge"

"Surge in red tape gives gender equality a bad name"

or else refer hard copies of The Australian of 29 January 2014 and 4 March 2014 respectively.

Suseonline "So you think there is no need for any changes in our society? Lucky you."

I never said that (and "progressive" is a technical label, not a compliment).

Any changes needed in our society should happen spontaneously and genuinely.
All the "rights" movements started that way (though not with majority support).
They have all become bureaucratically/legislatively dictatorial.

Jottiikii, is right. The West is the least of your problems.

Yet you no doubt support our overwhelmingly non-Western immigration policy.
How on Earth are we to improve the West's social issues, when we import so many less-socially-evolved people?
We'll not simply stagnate, we'll go backwards!

Shockadelic,

I love the way you congratulate us on our social evolution.

"... when we import so many less-socially-evolved people?"

Here we have a population which both major parties wooed on policies of locking up desperate people in the harshest of conditions, taking advantage of our poor neighbours to do so.

The Abbott govt, sure of it's mandate, brags daily in parliament of its border protection, which involves frisking people, taking their property, stuffing them into orange pods and dumping them offshore from Indonesia...all with a supposed mandate from "socially evolved" Australians.

When one of our badly run concentration camps(no processing being done) hosts an atrocity, the Minister or Immigration lies and spins and cries crocodile tears over the fact.

Just shows you, doesn't it, that our social evolution isn't all you crack it up to be.

Poirot, "When one of our badly run concentration camps(no processing being done) hosts an atrocity"

You are having another of your hysterical 'turns', Possum.

Do sit down and have a glass of cold water before you swoon. A Bex, as well?

No one could seriously believe that Australia runs 'concentration camps'. That is a huge offence to Holocaust survivors as well, trivialising their dreadful suffering as it must do.

Poirot, you know very well that most immigrants are not (claimed) refugees.
Immigrants with the appropriate permission/paperwork don't spend a single second in custody.

This was a thread about "gender equality".
My reference was to that and other "rights" movements like gays, children, the disabled and the mentally ill.

Ask your friends in the camps what they think the "rights" of these groups should be and see how touchy-feely you are.

Women? Must wear a tent, lest they develop social interaction with infidels.
Gays? Hang 'em.
Children? Whip 'em if they speak out of turn. (Girls can just be killed).
The mentally and physically disabled? Let them beg in the street.

Look at what happens in their homelands.
They will bring the same attitudes with them.
No thank you.

otb,

They meet the definition of confining and persecuting minorities or aliens, because there appears to be no processing going on there.

And spare us your faux offence on behalf of those tragically lost in the Holocaust. (I'm wise to your common tactic of angling for outraged sensibilities)

What's going on in those camps is offensive and should be seen as such. I'm ashamed to think Australia, 2014 treats asylum seekers such.

Your comment: "No one could seriously believe that Australia runs 'concentration camps'" hits the nail on the head, because when I was growing up, that's something we learned other people did or had done - something diabolical which we as a people would abhor.

Interestingly, we're still coming to terms with the dreadful events that occurred in one our "camps" on Manus - a blood bath....and you accuse me of trivialising the issue.