"There were of course many people who opposed the idea of women’s suffrage. They were known as the 'Antis'."

http://www.johndclare.net/Women1_ArgumentsAgainst.htm

Thanks Pied P for giving a definition of sock puppet. I'm quite new to all this computer related terminology, as I only started using a computer just over a year ago. I've been too busy working the land to bother with things like computers, but I'm semi retired now, but my son and daughter in law are trying to make it 100% retired. They now run the properties and think I'm too old to lift a finger, but I must admit they do a better job than I can do at this stage in my life.

If you believe antiwomen, then I am posting here under the names of JW, sallyg,tz52hx as well as Master: By the way, Master is my wife's maiden name. Also, he says I am a woman - - - I think that revelation would certainly amuse my deceased wife if she was here. This topic, from the moment I forced antiwomen to admit the topic's premise was based on "assumption" and not "fact", has developed into a very humourous representation of a very sad man, antiwomen. With almost every post he is now putting his foot well into his mouth.

And now we have the latest conspiracy theory (and just like his original premise for this topic, he tries to present it as "fact" and not as assumption), that I am a "woman" consumed by obsession for him and have gone to the lengths of fabricating 4 on line identities for the purpose of pursuing him. This is just so funny, yet it's really sad too, and provides an insight I suppose into his mind and mental health. I bet he thinks all these 4 people are "women" - - - of course he does.

Hi Master, nice to meet you. I wish there was a section on here for like maybe a quick intro. Someone will probably point out that there is and I’ll feel like an idiot. I’ve been online about three months now and struggle lots with navigating different sites and working out what people are on about. Some on OLO have been here a long time so they kind of have their own inside jokes. This is a really interesting little community.

I didn’t believe Anti but I must admit to wondering if you were a female. It’s a bit shocking but without being sure, when someone is nice about females you kind of assume they are one. Master is a very cool name, brilliant for debates.

I am an early forties mum and housewife with two older teens in NSW and I foster little kids. I am here catching up and learning how Aussie works, moved here from NZ three years ago and love it – ‘sept for the spiders.

Oh and my previous name on OLO was Jewely which I changed recently but most people still call me Jewely anyways.

Hi Jewely, well I doubt I'll be sticking around too long on this type of site. I've been looking at a few discussion sites over the past 2 weeks, now that I have more free time. And one thing I've noticed is the anger, misrepresentation and agendas within the posts of many people. I'm now pretty tired of navigating my way through all that nonsense. There's better and more fulfilling things to do with my life. Initially I thought I'd find discussions forums interesting, but I've lost my interest.

As an example, in another topic here I wrote that the topic's subject was "not race specific", meaning it applied to everyone. Then a poster wrote saying it showed I was a racist. He wanted to bring up a specific "race" into the issue and pit that race against another race. Whereas I considered everyone equal and thought the issue should not be "race specific". Now, I was going to write a long winded rebuttal to the person's use of the abuse "racist", but I now realise that doing so would just spur him towards more inaccurate assumptions.

So I think these types of forums are probably not for me, but then again who knows. Anyway I have a lot of interesting things to fill my life with, and the computer will only ever be .0001% of it. I might be getting on, but there's still a few things left to accomplish.

Antiwomen's a strange character isn't he. He doesn't exactly attract love and empathy does he. That could be why he's so bitter and confused - - - - some people attract negativity. I think it's really sad.

No, you certainly won't find much satisfaction if you keep misrepresenting or misinterpreting others posts. I was merely pointing out that it was you that was defining the subject by race, and I wanted to make it inclusive, I suggest you go back and read my latest post, perhaps there's a chance you might finally understand. We all feel our way into these forums, it's a learning curve. Don't give up, you obviously have a capable mind, perhaps it's only learning to express yourself more clearly, and learning to take others more thoughtfully, that is lacking. We are all beginners first, persevere.
It can be rewarding, and certainly entertaining!

Hahaha… you know what Master I really really get what you mean. You end up double checking what you’ve written cause others will pounce on any word out of place. Wish you would stay around though or at least come back from time to time, I need a more balanced education about Australia and Australians.

I really don’t have much else to do with myself at the moment. But I really am learning stuff… wouldn’t want the others to find out that even when I am getting told off for something it still helps me learn. Mostly I think I am learning to debate rather than discuss an issue and there is a tendancy to want to be right rather than show another how they could be mistaken. I knew that racist remark was coming, and I was just waiting to see who would make it.

The worst thing is that it isn’t often I can get help understanding something and I often annoy people by being ignorant of commonly known information. I think I don’t really understand this NRL thing or how Australians perceive it as an organization. It is probably more emotive than what I can see on the face of it.

I can’t think of a comment on Anti, I kind of enjoy his posts even when I don’t understand him or do disagree with him. But my favourite kids are the naughty ones.