Careful there OTB, I started a thread on that very subject and got roundly abused for it, one must not question feminist orthodoxy since the very fact that you do demonstrates your (insert insult here), and it goes rapidly downhill from there, simply put it would appear that rational feminism is now an oxymoron.

Rusty Catheter makes a good point.

The most provocative sentence in this essay, the one about the NSW Teachers Federation publicity officer, is neither properly cited nor linked. Neither is the woman’s statement given any context. Was she responding to a leading question? Was she playing devil’s advocate? Was she quoting from someone else? Was she joking? Is the statement incomplete, i.e. is there a qualifying statement missing?

More importantly … did she even say it? I’ve searched online and cannot find any reference to the statement at all.

I work in publishing and I know that an indirect quote of this type, especially one so provocative, would never be allowed to pass without proper context and direct citation. This is the second time in the last few days that OLO has dropped the ball in terms of editorial integrity (the other being the 'Letter to a daughter' thread).

Lift your game, Graham.

On the beach

‘The only ones who haven’t had much to say are the feminists …’

Like this site that had nothing to say:

http://www.thefword.org.uk/blog/2014/08/addressing_the_root

And this one:

http://jezebel.com/new-details-emerge-in-case-of-horrifying-british-sex-ab-1629539480

And this one:

http://feministing.com/2014/09/02/daily-feminist-cheat-sheet-400/

And several more if you know where to look - that is, if you look up actual feminist sites and read what they say, as opposed to anti-feminist sites that say whatever they choose to say about what feminists say.

‘It is disgusting and [feminists] are shameless. They are superficial and trivial too.’

About as shameless, superficial and trivial as people who use forums like this as viral marketing tools to smear and discredit dissident and social justice groups they don’t like.

The political 'Progressives' aka Fabians aka International Socialists, with whom feminism is intertwined, are directed by a smug, privileged, educated middle class elite. All with their noses firmly planted in the trough of taxpayers' money.

Fat chance of them ever caring about anyone or anything outside of themselves and their own interests.

Feminists who can easily find misogyny in some fellow looking at his watch, and would pillory a dutiful husband and father for being wed and having a loving wife and family. Their vindictive jealousy makes them go after the wife and children too.

Case in point, a short of neighbours, shows a woman committing interpersonal violence against a male.

She slapped his face, after she sexual assaulted him.

Killarney, I too searched for this supposed quote from a publicity officer about The Teachers Federation spokeswoman.
If such a comment was really publicly made, it would be shouted from the rooftops of all media outlets for a start......so where is it?

These days, adverts are reported to the TV stations for very menial reasons, so if there was all these rampant anti-male adverts flooding our screens, wouldn't all the boys out there be madly reporting them?
If not, why not?

Or, is it only a few overly paranoid laddies who feel aggrieved?