Dear SOG,

I admit that I've outgrown my braids but
I still possess a luxurious mane of hair.
Besides, Spindoc
doesn't need an inkwell - he's got something
stronger - its called a computer. And he knows how
to use it. (Sigh).

Problems of the First World Feminists

Problem No 1., 'Mens' saying 'Sweetie'

Frivolous maybe, but these are the Feminisys and feminism is what feminism does.

To repeat, just two observations about Australian feminism:

- it is the exclusive gravy train of educated middle class white women, who were already privileged anyhow and use it to retain and extend their privilege. In both they have been unrelenting and very successful; and

- it bounces between very narrow rails of ideology that do not accept or even acknowledge the many transitions that women go through in life and usually do so by choice.

Australian feminism (Western feminism) is a caste system. Feminism is a problem in itself. Educated middle class women are the superior caste with entitlements, opportunity (and the $means to take it up) and buffed positive stereotyping that allowed them to soar well above white men (whom they need as a distraction from their own greed, insatiable sense of personal entitlement and excesses), and indigenous women are on the bottom.

One wonders if indigenous women would agree that being called 'Sweetie' on a public internet forum would be their first concern for improvement today. Then again, how many women from those remote indigenous communities feature in the leftist EMILY's List to be given that leg-up as one of the already privileged educated middle class white Grrls?

Meanwhile, somewhere else in the world,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpH83Vi7b9E

Yikes, I misspelled 'Feminist' as 'Feminsys' and feminists are not known for their tolerance or humour.

otb,

Feminists don't have a sense of humour?

On the contrary. I bet they'd find you very
entertaining.

It's the "Regressives," who have trouble
with humour. They tend to laugh last -
because they usually don't get the joke.

"Yikes, I misspelled 'Feminist' as 'Feminsys' and feminists are not known for their tolerance or humour."

Lol!

"One wonders if indigenous women would agree that being called 'Sweetie' on a public internet forum would be their first concern for improvement today...."

How would you men feel if we women punctuated our posts to you with "sonny boy" or honey-bun"?

You'd know we were being disingenuous and "having a bit of a go".

Men don't refer to other men around here with similar terms of endearment - it's reserved to patronise the women.

Men on the Left should never have been so slack intellectually and gutless to have gone along for the ride with those bullying educated middle class feminists.

Feminism is the caste system that favours and embeds educated middle class white women as the privileged and entitled goddesses of capitalism (they even refer to themselves as goddesses, but capitalised of course), and constantly rolls logs in front of other options for social improvement.

They are vulgar, mercenary materialists whose idea of 'equality' is getting leg-ups for themselves for cosy sinecures on the boards of private companies after careers that were too long, where they were log-jams blocking jobs in the public bureaucracies and academia. Honestly, all of those years from Whitlam's day and still many of the feminist dinosaurs from the previous Millenium are themselves physically blocking the careers of young people with fresh ideas and education they paid for themselves.

For decades, the taxpayer-funded national broadcaster has featured the same old, same old, feminist hens clucking at young women to do what they say and 'never you mind'. The token 'left' men who are sometimes allowed to appear to support them as a cheer squad(?) lack gonads and never think for themselves, even asking the Sisters for permission to speak.