An excellent essay.

The not-grouping-all-into-one-label methodology applies equally to Muslims.

With muslims being a chronically grouped label by so many commenters on OLO.

Think how unhelpful it would be if the Media and State agencies (regarding tax, welfare, police, asio and politicians, etc)

grouped all Christians into one group!

OR all Secular people into one group!

A rule of thumb - anyone who blames the dreaded "marxists" for the decline of "traditional" values etc has not even begun to understand the complexity of human culture - especially in the now time of 2020.

Meanwhile I quite like the recent book by David Leser titled Women Men and the Whole Damn Thing which provides a very sane comprehensive overview/study of the politics of sexuality.

I also quite like the truth-telling work of the ever marvelous Susan Griffin especially her books Woman and Nature The Roaring Inside Her, plus Pornography and Silence.

And then there is the book Gyn/Ecology The Metaethics of Radical Feminism by the always outrageous myth-busting Mary Daly.

Hi Leslie,
My assertions are about intersectional Marxism which is a bastardised child of Marxism and postmodernism, mainly calling itself a form of critical theory these days. I do not accept the patriarchy is imbedded in capitalism because patriarchy is just the rule of fathers which predates all modern economic systems and in fact I don't see patriarchy as a bad thing. It exists side by side with matriarchy in my own family.
Cheers,
Chris

SteeleRedux my sins seem to be that I am right wing (new for me) a Christian and a small businessperson. I’m not sure what your point is about domestic violence, but I do agree that men are a risk to women.
Aidan. I am sure that if you give me any progressive journalist in this country I could give you their opinion on pretty much any issues based on the rules of intersectionalism
Daffy Duck I don’t recall mentioning traditional values and my argument is that a version of Marxism is mixed with postmodernism is dominating popular culture and repressing issues that put women and girls at risk, like rape in indigenous communities or solutions that involve policing or non cultural indoctrination
Thanks for your feedback everyone, I really appreciate it
Edie

Dear Eide,

I'm a little bemused about why you wouldn't think people taking a quick run through your twitter feed would decide you were anything else other than right wing.

Also as a fair chunk of my extended family is evangelical I know from long experience right wing sensibilities are most certainly part of the territory.

Having a right wing perspective is certainly not a sin in and of its self, nor is being a small 'c' christian. However combining the two, especially of the big 'C' toxic American version, is almost inevitably, most definitely, sinful.

As to being a small business person I have been one most of my working life. I do know how much an economic rationalist mindset has pervaded the demographic. It isn't pretty and it has served to strip dignity from the people we employ.

Nothing in what you have written has indicated you are not the person those three indicators would flag.

But for you to flag indigenous communities without acknowledging the deep and irreparable harm your faith, particularly the leadership within, in destroying countless thousands of lives of raped and buggered Australian children really holds you as just another hypocrite.

Look to the log in your own eye.

And it wouldn't go astray to acknowledge just how Marxist your Lord and Saviour was.

Edie Wyatt- Thanks for your article. Take care.