whistler:"women have no brains, Antiseptic?"

Your very question verifies my original proposition. Based on your performance to date, it is likely that anything you support would provide good evidence of brainlessness. Well done, you've established a paradigm.

Pelican:"I always kick myself for getting embroiled in these sorts of debates because they don't achieve anything "

I disagree. They may not lead to directly changing any of the interlocutors' minds, but they do provide a good overview of the spectrum of opinions around the subject and the relative logical merit of each, at least insofar as it is able to be debated in these sorts of forums.

I'd like to think that my own constant and consistent challenges to the polemics posted by the victim-feminists and entitlement-junkies have had some impact on both those people and on the people who may read them. They have relied for a long time on the forebearance of others to get away with posting emotive claptrap and that is definitely changing. We're left with poor befuddled whistler as the sole representative at present and she's hardly prime stock.

"That means that everyone has the same chance"

... to be governed by men's legislatures, Yabby.

which is ...

"Discrimation based on gender", "what you are promoting".

Whistler, there are no mens legislatures.

There are peoples legislatures, made up of both men
and women, according to how men and women voted.

Our deputy PM is in fact female, if it has passed you
by. Our deputy leader of the opposition is female,
if that has passed you by as well.

Our Govts are made up of men and women, of more or
less talent, depending on how men and women voted.

My local member in the House of Reps, happens to
be female. She does a reasonable job. I voted for
her.

The problem is not the system, it is your chip
on your shoulder, in denying reality.

"There are peoples legislatures".

no. the Constitution of Australia Act was enabled by a Parliament which prohibited women.

there are only men's legislatures.

Antiseptic sounds like he's got real personal and emotional issues against women. Much of the abuse he tries to direct towards others merely shows a sad little individual as the writer. His inability to construct debating points devoid of attempted, juvenile, personal put downs shows a very underdeveloped personal insight. It truly is very sad that a minority of people can travel through adulthood without acquiring the emotional wherewithal to deal emotionally with their past experiences with the opposite sex.

TZ52HX:"Antiseptic sounds like he's got real personal and emotional issues against women"

LOL.

What was that about "personal and emotional problems" hon? Your "first" post and it was all ad homs directed at little old me. I should feel flattered if it wasn't such a banal example of the genre.

Now, off you toddle back to the little sock-puppet drawer, there's a good girl.