Reading some of the replies has me wondering why the same undoubted land whales who are clueless about surf swimming claim to be so shocked by Tony Abbott's Speedos.

The Aussie iconic Speedos were designed expressly for swimming in surf. I prefer them and shorts, top too, which are easily shed. Women wear their Speedos, which again are very practical. Yes, I have done triathalon for years too as have practically all of my SLA friends, men and women.

In all honesty the very worst, most persistent perves and nuisances on the coast are from cultures that treat women as second class citizens, while claiming to 'protect' them from themselves (take that both ways I suppose).

The jealous, censorious feminists, interfering purse-lipped old trout left over from the last Millenium, say they want to 'protect' women too. Yeah, right!

Who can forget that silly old feminist hen Premier Anna Bligh and her feminist Police Minister Judy Spence sooling the Queensland Plod onto young women sunbathing topless on high rise balconies on the Gold Coast? Feminist Anna must have had keen sight indeed to spot that young competition! The chauffeur-driven Anna was supposed to be inspecting a Formula 1 track at the time.

Aussie women can decide for themselves and do what they want, thank goodness.

There are topless 'girls' (infantilise women to control them eh, feminists?) on page 3 of a tabloid? Gosh, you don't say! Next?

Perhaps the publishers should do a run of two or three copies, with page three removed, so the prudes can enjoy their paper without being offended.

I suppose the author was held at gun point and forced to buy the paper as well.

Don't like it, don't buy it!

Poirot <<Give us a twirl, runner?>>

LOL i thought she was asking him for a dance

Miss America Pageant in 68. While they weren't allowed by the Police to burn their Bras they did throw them in a big 44 Gallon Drum.

The Jeannette Rankin March, in 68. While I can't find any reference to Bra burning, you know what the Prudish yanks are like, there was a bra burning & many notable women did pose on the Capitol steps without bras. It was on Movetone News, TV & the papers.

Another big one was the women's Strike for Equal Rights in 1970.

Pro-family campaigner Connaught Marshner blames feminists for creating their own negative public image:

Feminism projected a new image of women: a drab, macho feminism of hard-faced women who were bound and determined to save their place in the world no matter whose bodies they have to climb over to do it. This image provided the plot line for such cultural weathervanes as Kramer vs. Kramer. Macho feminism despises anything which seeks to interfere with the desires of Number One. (The Selfish Feminist. Marshner 1982, 1, 3)

Bottom line is this. The author is suggesting that there's something exploitative, coercive, abusive, socially unjust, and ridiculous if not despicable about men because of an ordinary incident of male sexuality, namely, liking to look at women who aren't wearing clothes.

So it's hate speech.

You might have seen recent pictures in the news of Islamic State 'executing' a homosexual by throwing him off a tall building. It never seems to occur to them that they could or should react any other way to that person's sexuality than by hating him.

That's the moral, mental and emotional level that the author and anyone who agrees with her, are operating at. The only difference is that instead of hating homosexuals for their sexuality, they hate male heterosexuals for their sexuality. And like the Islamists, they persuade themselves that they are acting from a position of moral superiority, of pained solicitude for their erring fellow human beings.

You need to understand that you spewing hate speech in public; you wrongly think it's clever or morally superior because you have swallowed an ideology of bigotry and intolerance; and you need to learn to understand that what you are doing is offensive and abusive. Feminists are just the West's inversion of the Taliban. Like the Islamic State, they don't recognise that the violence they advocate is violence if it's done by the State.

JKJ, that's an excellent comment.