Master

AFL comment - It comes from the need to be positioned in the right area and in front of the other player to mark the ball. You're right though, some players do a lot of shoving.

I'm not talking about the positioning to get in front for the mark. I'm talking about players who use the "pusho" for intimidation purposes. THAT'S a blight on an otherwise OK game. It turns a LOT of people off the game.

Benk

You are making a lot of assumptions.

My divorce was an experience I do not ever wish to repeat.

As to special advantages because I am female: What the hell are you talking about? I worked full-time throughout my marriage I contributed equally to the purchase of our home and everything else. I walked away with far less than 50% just to be free of him.

As Piper to aptly pointed out it was the emotional advantages to which I was referring. It took many years of counselling and self determined work to recover my self-esteem after the damage I suffered from my ex. What is it with you men that you still see women as dependent blood suckers like they were encouraged to be a housewives back in the 50's? Most women have moved on, baby, while some men have taken a bit longer, there remains a sad minority like you and A-septic who remain in the past.

Grow up. Cut out the 'feminazi' nonsense and take responsibility for yourselves - no-one else is going to do it for you. If I can learn that, then so can you.

fractelle:"It took many years of counselling "

I'm sure it did...

Fractelle:"What is it with you men that you still see women as dependent blood suckers like they were encouraged to be a housewives back in the 50's?"

What is it with you Feminists that you feel the need to constantly misrepresent what others have said otr what their views are?

Not one person here has said that women should be anything but equal participants within the limits of biology. Wehre we differ is that you only want biology to be relevant if it supports your claim that men are somehow less "good" than women. No wonder you need counselling...

“I'm sure it did...”

Anti that was a crappy thing to say to Fractelle. You wanted to wound her in some way?

I am sitting here typing with one hand while a little man sits on my knee eating a biscuit; he may need a bath after this exercise…

Would you tell him that when he grows up he should treat people like this?

TPP:"Anti that was a crappy thing to say to Fractelle"

Oh, I see, fractelle can call me psychologically damaged, misogynist, generally defective, but if I respond it's "crappy". Nice double standard, Jewels...

As it happens, I was referring to the fact that "counselling" is a waste of time and money that inevitably takes years because there is not actually any aim in mind or a defined problem, let alone a defined solution or end condition for the "counsellee".

In a nutshell, it's a self-indulgence for the self-obsessed, of whom Fractelle is a prime exemplar, it seems to me.

As for your "little man", I'd like to hope that by the time he reaches manhood this whole mess created by extreme feminism will have been properly sorted out, but I have grave doubts that it can be done in less than a couple of generations. That means that unless he's a very "feminine" boy he's likely to find himself in the lower half of school outcomes, leading to limited opportunity to do anything other than menial, semi-skilled or trade work since he's unlikely to be allowed to achieve the marks to attend uni.

This recent report highlights the issue

http://www.watoday.com.au/breaking-news-national/more-women-at-university-than-men-study-20090703-d7e5.html

"Gender parity was finally achieved in the mid-1980s, and women now represent 55 per cent of all university students.

Researcher Alison Booth says the fact that girls are performing on par or better than boys in school suggests the trend will continue."

She doesn't tell us that for Australian men the picture is far worse than she paints it.

This report http://aei.gov.au/AEI/PublicationsAndResearch/Snapshots/44SS09_pdf.pdf says: "There were more male international students than females (55.7% compared to 44.3%)"

while this one http://www.dest.gov.au/NR/rdonlyres/28917E9F-B7BE-4361-8D50-2BCA42F188B7/25805/Summaryofstudents2008firsthalfyearselectedhighered.pdf
tells us:
"The total number of student enrolments reached 925,511 in the first half of 2008" and "There were 696,884 domestic students in the first half of 2008"

Simple maths gives us the facts that women make up over 59% of the population of Australian students. That means that there are 50% more Australian women at uni than Australian men.

Your "little man" had better be able to lift heavy things...