Poirot,

So I see that Roz Ward's lawyers have helped her keep a job, but one thing I know is that if Roz needs to threaten her employers to keep her job, she is going to be on a very tight leash, and she is not going to get away with any of the crap that she has in the past.

Also she is screwed, as once the contract ends, no employer will touch her with a barge pole.

Shadow Minister (quoting Gay rights activist Rob Mitchell), "They are completely out of control,..It seems to have been transformed into this queer theory sort of academic-driven lot of rubbish”

Anti-capitalist queer activism. Where gays are the 'Useful Idiots' of a broader, organised anti-capitalist movement.

Gay issues such as 'gay marriage' are regarded by radical queer activists as 'conservative' and by definition part of the capitalist plot to subjugate.

A better description of them would be lunatic fringe dwellers sponging off the workers while occupying safe sinecures in academia and the public bureaucracies, but neo-Marxist is easier. Although as others have observed on this thread and elsewhere, Marx wouldn't have fed the whining, self-entitled troublemakers.

Loudmouth,

It is no more than "cheap" sarcasm.

I'll tell you what - you get your dancing shoes on and put a really big effort into showing some respect for those you're debating with and write some posts which aren't comprised solely of snide rhetoric - and I'll consider replying.

Actually, I have my doubts as to whether it's possible for you to accomplish such a feat.

So I don't expect you and I will be communicating much in the future.

Such is life....

Lol!, SM,

Her lawyers, no doubt, politely pointed out to La Trobe that their actions were most likely.illegal and a breach of the Fair Work Act - and they do a reverse backward somersault with pike while declaring their innocence.

And you're complaining that they were harassed into conforming with the law!

Amusing, to say the least....

Dear Poirot,

From comments read on the web it seems that
many people feel that freedom of expression is "central to
being an academic." People feel that this sort of
anti-intellectual censorship undermines the whole point of
academia. Here we have an academic suspended for having a
controversial opinion (in private). And, as one commentator asked -
"Isn't that their job?"

The government has stated that it had nothing to do with
La Trobe's re-instatement of Ms Ward. However the government
reiterated its support of the Safe Schools program. It will
become mandatory in all Victorian State Secondary Schools by
2018.

It now appears that it was illegal for someone to lose their
job over personal political views posted on a private Facebook
feed.

Hi SM,

I don't know, maybe Roz Ward could try to find work with the Pseudo-Socialists' new besties, the Islamists. Maybe she could stride into a mosque and tell the imams and muftis about their gender fluidity, and how being hetero wasn't normal but being gay was. I'd like to see that.

Hi OTB,

"Gay issues such as 'gay marriage' are regarded by radical queer activists as 'conservative' and by definition part of the capitalist plot to subjugate."

What, because marriage is bourgeois ? I wouldn't have thought that they could get more idiotically 'radical' than homosexual marriage: do you mean something like being whatever gender you like, when you like ? Or removing dreadful words like 'guys' ? You know, truly ruly important issues like that ? i.e. the utterly trivial preoccupations of the lifelong self-indulgent ?

Hi Poirot,

Snide rhetoric has its place, surely you know that. So does serious discussion of issues. Perhaps you could try that too :)

For example: bullying. What on earth does that have tov do with gender fluidity ? My bet is that, sometime during this week in Victoria, some kid is now going to get beaten up precisely because of his supposed 'gender fluidity', and/or by some other bigger kid who is ambivalent about his.

You are your DNA. You are female, right-handed. I'm male, left-handed. That won't ever change. I could put on women's clothes, grow my hair long, use make-up, wear a bra, talk falsetto (we all can), stuff something down my pants to make my bum look bigger (no, I'm told, I wouldn't have to do that), but I would still be a bloke. Even Bruce Jenner is starting to realise that, after all, he hasn't yet been docked or mulesed. And even if he were, he would still be a he. Roz Ward can shave her head, wear men's clothes, drop her voice, curse and spit and fart like a bloke, but she would still be a she.

So what's next in the Gramscian destruction of bourgeois institutions ?

Cheers,

Joe