Morgonzola,

I'm not sure what you're on about, but it seems as though you're suggesting that this journal ought to ignore a debate that is happening because part of it is being promoted by one side of politics.

That ignores the purpose of this journal which is to be an open forum where issues can be debated. As part of that process we try to ensure that all sides of the debate are represented, and accordingly tried to get agreement from Wayne Sawyer to republish his editorial. When that wasn't available we solicited the article that appears here from AATSE.

Graham Young

Hi Grace
well I'm having an epipheny now.. or is it just the 30+ temperature after a week of pseudo winter ?
I think its the temp.
I'm very ANNOYED right now, not with you, my son didn't turn up for work today and never told anyone and the reallllll annoying bit, he had his MOBILE turned offfff.. aarrrggh..
So.. I think I need an epiphany to help me through the rest of the day.
I think I'll have him neutered if he keeps this up, won't become a granddaddy then. My young son also begged me to pick him up from school, grrr lovely day for a walk. When I whinged about that, he threatened to 'not taking you anywhere when ur 70'.. to which I responded "if u dont, the 'inheritance' register will have some negative points against YOUR name" :)

A bit off topic.. I know. But u didnt say anything about my last post, so.. ur stuck with 'family newsletter' :)

Hi All,

If you people think schools are bad then wait till you try English at university.

One quick anecdote. I did first year English at UNSW. One of the 'texts' we did was "Hamlet" but because of the heavy reading list we only got to spend one tutorial session on it. In that tutorial there were about 10 females with myself and another guy. The whole tutorial was spent with this horrible, horrible PhD student tutor facilitating a rant about the line 'get thee to a nunnery'. At the very end of the session she turned to us accusingly (of course, as males we knew our place and hadn't spoken earlier) and asked what we thought. As was practical we uttered something inane that towed the political line.

But I walked out of there incredulous. Here was this snotty nosed PhD student who spent a whole hour rubbishing Shakespeare, possibly the greatest writer in any language, because she didn't like his attitude to women. I just thought, he's been dead for about 400 years and is still read and renowned the world over. I wonder who'll remember you when you're gone!!

Needless to say I didn't do second year English.

This occurred during the mid 90s at the height of Labor's political correct madness, so hopefully thinks have improved a little since then.

Josh, bad news. Things will not get any better while men keep trying to be 'nice guys' in the presence of the 'modern' woman.

Read http://www.oz-aware.com/unconscious1.htm for a deeper insight into what's really going on with the 'fairer'** sex....

As you read, bear in mind the following:

For young males the ages 13 to 17 is the time when they should be developing/testing/experimenting with/becoming comfortable with their masculinity.

the overwhelming majority of those who teach young males aged 13 - 17.....(wait for it)....... are 'modern' females.

**and if one were to mean 'fair' as in 'justice, then there's only one response: yeah right!

Oh, and did I mention that this is just another example of why I quite regularly say that we are a very ill society---and getting sicker?

Morganzola, given your enlightened comments I encourage you to keep on (if I may quote you) "refraining from posting to this kind of forum".

That way both your comments and condition will be quite satisfactory.