I hate my ex-wife for leaving me. Why did she leave? Because feminism gave her the right to. I now hate feminists.

Feminists are women, so I now hate women.

I will get back at my wife by attacking women, who are feminists - and therefore my wife by proxy - by claiming in an internet forum that a scandal was fabricated to force women into that proud bastion of masculinity, Rugby.

Now everyone will hate my wife, and no one will think that I have allowed my anger to consume me at the expense of all other thought.

http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=8957&page=0#143913

http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=8492&page=0#134806

http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=8068&page=0#126206

the wringing sweat flies
from an NRL player in full flight mid game
is not from fear of women.
can you imagine men still argue fear of women is valid!

Thanks for that post Sancho, that was useful in giving a bit of history to the jerk, but I didn't stop at just those 3 links. I found that by just clicking on someone's screen name you can get their history here, so I spent time reading things that antiseptic has written in the past. And BOY DOES HE HAVE A BIG CHIP ON HIS SHOULDER REGARDING WOMEN. He's a real nut case regarding women; utterly screwed up with a paranoiac obsession towards, and a fear of, any power that a woman may possess.

I read he's got a daughter. God help the poor kid! And no wonder his ex partner can't stand the thought of him.

Well said, Sancho - and well-spotted, Master. This guy takes misogyny to a new level, even for OLO.

Next he'll call you some kind of lapdog to the feminist cause.

Foxy, thanks for that. I do take your point about diversity, it's something that any organisation can benefit from. I also agree that reputation is a board responsibility. None of that was what I was asking, though. Football is and always was a MALE endevour. Girls may play in the open competition until they're 12, I believe, but not after that, both because of the physical danger and because they begin to develop sexually.

We have lots of exclusively female organisations, from Zonta to "women's investment clubs", to gyms, mother's groups and the list goes on. Why is it acceptable in our present social structure for there to be "secret women's business" but not the same for men? Men are increasingly being forced to fit into one particular mould of acceptable masculine expression, yet women are facing no such stricture. I, for one, don't think that's good.

Jewels, few women need to experience anything at all of the pain and fatigue of birth today and few choose to do so, sensibly.

Women have always had that potential for pain and even death in childbirth. One of the reasons the dowager is such a respected figure in most cultures is that she has been there, done that and survived. She is assumed to have gained wisdom as a result. Why do you ridicule the idea that men might gain some insight through an arduous challenge?

Sancho, thanks for showing us all once again that you've got nothing to say and plenty of time to say it in. Well done. You're an inspiration to non-entities everywhere, I'm sure.

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Yes dear. Isn't it time you started yet another account to attack antiseptic?That one's a whole 2 days old now.

and I see the Pomeranian has found a new leg to hump. How nice for both of you. Don't get too excited now that you've found a Master, little fella - we know what your bladder's like.

Oh Antiseptic,

Just when I think how drear and repetitive things are getting on OLO along you come to startle and intrigue!

First off, of course, was the actual response to Jewely - is this a psychic convo or can anyone join in?

It was the content of this reply however that inrigued me. I'm always up for a bit of enlightenment so: - I've four friends who are pregnant at the moment...three of them are primips.They are all reasonably intelligent women so they'd be devastated to know that they were not being sensible about their imminent confinements. The poor dears are actually quite nervous and apprehensive.

I wonder if you could expand a bit on how they are in the minority and how most of their contempories manage to sail through childbirth pain-free and chipper? See, they desperately want to get out to their monthly Secret Women's Business meetings the days they are due.

My next bit of startlement (just made that up - I like it)was to learn about the majority of cultures who revere rich widows. Not that I'm doubting, of course. Though I would have thought envy was a more human reaction, but perhaps I'm just jaded.

I was surprised also that you yourself didn't seem to be disaproving either - I honestly would have thought that rich Upper Class Twits who make money out of their deceased husbands would have been right up there on your Nasty Women List? All those grasping twenty-somethings marrying old men for their money? The pampered partners who never lift a finger and are left to enjoy the product of the sweat of their husband's brows?

Yep. Startled and intrigued.