"In the same way that critical race theory has turned our children into racists, continuous talk of gender makes decent men accidental misogynists (female writer and commentator, Alexandra Marshall. "Women are dangerous", Spectator 7/4/21).

"Without sex and race, loser wannabes would never get their 5 minutes of fame" (Anon).

Niki Savva (The Australian) “There was a moment a couple of weeks ago when even Scott Morrison’s Labor opponents felt sorry for him. It was the day he declared Marise Payne was the ‘prime minister for women’. Poor bugger, they thought, can’t take a trick. It was the latest in a long string of gaffes by Morrison, each one showing despite the fact he is the son of one, the husband of another and the ­father of two, he was struggling to work out how to talk to or about women.”

Pete Comment

Marise Payne, Minister for Women, is a meek little thing, who doesn't like making speeches. But she's an unquestioning follower of ScoMo - that's the main thing it seems.

Has anyone heard from Marise Payne since ScoMo made her "Minister for Women" 2 weeks ago?

Were there any of the strident speeches from her about all ScoMo's women problems including the wrongly sacked Australia Post CEO?

I haven't heard Marise make a notable national speech, or heard her kick arse in a Cabinet still dominated by Scottie's Band of Blokey Brothers.

Just by appointing a Minister for Women, ScoMo thought he had quickly fixed the concerns of 51% of Australia's population.

Should Scottie have kept on the excellent Foreign Minister Julie Bishop AND made her Minister for Women http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Bishop

Or was Julie too much of a political threat: a leader, with her own base, her own mind and prepared to speak words not cleared by ScoMo?!

I commend Shirley on her article. It takes courage to speak up and I think that Shirley has taken a stand which many men and women will support. My family lived in Toowoomba for 14 years; we only moved to Brisbane three years ago as our children found work in Brisbane, as there was insufficient opportunities in Toowoomba for our three girls.

All strength to your cause, Shirley!

Shirley spends some time complaining about porn. Perhaps she doesn't realise that the majority of nude photos are of silly little very average girls, posting nude photos, often selfies of themselves on free sites. I can only assume this is average girls, non lefty feminists, wanting to feel sexy.

Then education. Surely even someone of average intelligence would have noticed that education standards started slipping as more women got into teaching. Then fell off a cliff when the feminists got control of the syllabus, & then the whole system. They still have subjects called math & physics. but they had to remove all the hard stuff. How else would the girls out score the boys.

I guess she has also failed to notice the majority of kids costing tax payers a fortune in universities are girls studying womens studies or some such guff, but will still qualify them for a high paying job in the bureaucracy.

Then how could she have failed to notice the catastrophe that Queensland has become, since the girls club got into office. Queensland is now ruled by the feely feely principle. we don't have cost value analysis, but feel good reactions, god help us.

Then she goes crook that another has been added to the national cabinet. Guess she wasn't a radical ratbag feminist, so doesn't get the nod of approval from Shirley.

I wonder if Shirl would care to comment about the shellacking men get from the Family Court? I guess not.

Show me a girl that does not scam and scheme for advantage.

Go for it Shirl, but you’ll find all blokes don’t roll over for it like the porn Queens do.

Dan

When I was a schoolboy there were no porn movies available just a few
nude photos and naughty magazines.
I have never seen one of those internet porn sites but as an adult
I can imagine some of what is on there.
It would be harmful for young boys to see this stuff and think it was
normal activity and something to copy.
The web porn sites should be treated the same way as terrorist sites.
There is already a law against it all so it should be easy to find them.

As far as women in general the idea of equality is natural enough and
has been largely implemented. However the noisy pushers never seem to
take account that they as women are different to men.
They have different interests, especially once they have children.
Anyone that says they are not different has rocks for brains.
That is the nature of things and anyone who pushes against nature is
doomed to failure. I can tell you anyone who argues against that has
never been married to one.