"The Eureka Stockade is now viewed as the birthplace of Australia's political system. With the benefit of hindsight, it is possible to see the full extent of its impact. Freedom of speech, the right to vote and political equality are the hallmarks of the historic uprising. As Robert Menzies later said: "The Eureka revolution was an earnest attempt at democratic government."
http://www.sbs.com.au/gold/story.html?storyid=86

I guess if it wasn't for the Eureka Stockade us blokes may never have got the right to vote!

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWfeather.htm

The Order of the White Feather was instrumental in coercing men to join the armed services and become cannon fodder.

http://itech.fgcu.edu/&/issues/vol1/issue1/feather.htm

Even the feminists like Emmeline Pankhurst supported conscription and sending men and boys to the trenches. Facts like this tend to be 'forgotten' by modern day feminists.

Maximus,

yeah but if it weren't for men there wouldnt be any wars in the first place.

LOL.

Your post saved me the time. l just couldnt be bothered countering the usual misrepresentation that accompanies this particular ideological pretention.

cheerz.

Hohoho, we're big tough manly men. We start wars so bow before us ye weakling women.

Morons.

Men starting wars.

Well, you could be right Anna. But what sort of men?

Oh look, here's a bit of factual information -

Arthur Hu
Karl Marx wins the award for most deaths in history due to one man

"And the award for the most mass killings credited to one man goes to ... (ta dah...) Karl Marx! Congratulations!"

Need I point out to the good folks of OLO just exactly whose side it is that we find the feminists? The homosexuals? The anti-religious? The pro-abortionists? The academics? The Labor Party? The elite latte set, just like our own self confessed authoress of this very article, Vivienne Wynter?

They like to align with Mr Marx.

And Anna casts aspersions against her detractors with deeply considered debate - "Morons", she writes.

How seriously deep, well considered and elegantly argued.

If people like Vivienne and Anna, pushing for Marxist's isms - especially feminism - would just stop trying to be the saviours of the un-oppressed "oppressed classes", we, the men and the women and the children of this world would all be an awful lot better off. We could stop going off to fight horrible wars. Morons indeed. I think the good people on OLO will work out who the morons are, sooner or later, for themselves.

"So why do I risk being inundated with virulently scornful invective from women everywhere?" Peter Forde

http://www.oz-aware.com/unconscious1.htm

“.......many women have fallen victim to deep, unconscious ‘feelings’ derived from a deliberate and mostly unrealised brainwashing process they have been subjected to over the past thirty-some years. It’s no secret that feminists have long promoted a broad (no pun, honest!) view of the “evil white male”, dominating, suppressing and generally being the scourge of womankind.

Some of that ‘mud’ sticks—often deep inside the psyche of women who do not come close to understanding how severely their deepest thoughts and feelings have been affected by the regular and often subtle bombardment of such deceitful and disingenuous messages. Becoming an unconscious victim of relentless visual and auditory barrages is merely another natural consequence of simply being not specifically a woman, but human.

At the deep psychological level, in the unconscious, feminism has done far more damage to modern women, and therefore to the overall wellness of society, than most can possibly imagine.....”

Poor oppressed dears. Nothing’s their fault, not even the 10% paternity fraud.

Not only do women NOT fight their own wars, when patriotism calls, they hand out white feathers. Like their reluctance to commit to one man’s family, they’re never quite sure which waring side of men knows best how to treat a lady.

Still they sacrifice their sons, brothers and husbands as only true freedom fighters can. Shaming men into dying for good causes did not start nor stop with WWI.