Applause, otb,

One was surmising that you managed to restrain yourself quite fulsomely as this thread unwound...however, it all became a tad too difficult didn't it.

And you haven't disappointed us!

There goes your usual unintelligible tirade against all things left.

It's a sight to behold when your dam breaks. A tumbling, effusive diatribe against all things "feminist, leftist, Emily's List, progressive, Marxist, Fabian, International socialism, etc...".

Never mind that we've seen it all before, there's something quite spectacular about your particular style.

More please!

Hi OTB,

I should have added 'left' and 'Marxist' to the list of words which are defined very idiosyncratically. Frankly, I don't think there is much of a 'left' in Australia these days: anti-US, yes, and pulling on the populist cloak, 'anti-Big End of Town', but not a 'left'.

The last fifty years has seen a massive growth of the parasite classes, 'professionals', bureaucrats, 'intellectuals' (ho ho ho), yes, all those people unconnected to either capital (hsssssss! ) or actual work (those bogans and yobboes) which ultimately, through our taxation system, provide for their unearned sustenance. That's probably a bit unfair, since some - especially women in the professional classes - actually do work, and work of a socially valuable nature - teachers, nurses, telephone sanitisers, etc.

Neither do I think there is much of a 'Marxist' element in Australia - Gramscian, yes, parasites dedicated to tearing down all the institutions of society (marriage and gender are currently the focus focus).

But one problem with Gramscianism is that it is infinitely regressive - a Gramscian movement is just as subject to neo-Gramscian undermining with new forms of an incredibly radical nature (such as gender indistinction, futility of defining anything) as bourgeois institutions themselves - and in turn, that neo-Gramscian undermining can be undermined by yet another idiotic 'movement'.

So idiotic movements move further and further away from common-sense. If I'm right, all we have to do is wait for each new wave of idiocy to consume the earlier one, and just get on with our lives, while neo-neo-Gramscianism disappears up its own orifice.

So the equal rights for women movement of forty and fifty years ago is now swallowed up by the homosexual movement, which is turn is being nibbled away by the LGHTBETTFBNQ movement - which, one day, will be subsumed by yet another movement - perhaps one in which adherents refuse to be defined as even human - the nature of which one can only wonder at now.

So take heart, OTB: everything in its season.

Cheers,

Joe

Loudmouth (Joe),

Thank you for taking the time to pen another most interesting post. I have also read with interest your comments on the subject in other threads. There is much there that I agree with, as you would realise.

Foxy, if you are really interested, obtain a copy of the Rantings of a Single Male and read it.

I doubt that you could read it cover to cover without suffering a stroke.

Looks like a good read. A link and some useful reviews,

http://tinyurl.com/hfnnnzm

Foxy,'

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"If you want to show that the media is biased against women, you have to prove that articles which appear to be even-handed are actually sexist. But for those of us who want to demonstrate media prejudice against men, life is much easier. We just open the papers and there it is. Nobody bothers to hide it because no one thinks that it matters."
- David Thomas, journalist and former editor of "Punch" magazine.
20 years ago, feminists started attacking the way in which women were portrayed in the media. They pointed out how women only rated a mention as the mother or wife of someone-or-other, mindless housewife, or as the page three girl. These days, a headline containing "woman" or "women" probably means that a woman has done something good, or something bad has happened to her, such as being a victim of crime or discrimination.

If the headline contains the word "man" or "men", expect a story about a man or men having done something bad such as committing a crime, or failing to do something good such as paying child support or doing the housework.
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http://www.certifiedmale.com.au/sum95/nonews.htm