Dear Joe,

Su meile Tau irgi. (with love to you too).

Thank You for going to all that trouble to write
in Lithuanian. I am optimistic about the future.
Our society today is more individualistic and
more and more men and women are exploring a wide
variety of roles. People today are demanding
change.

Dear Shockadelic,

Welcome back. Glad to see you posting again.
How did your course go? (I hope I remember
correctly that you were studying).

Throughout history, most women, whether in medieval
Europe, nineteenth century America, or modern
Saudi Arabia, have accepted their society's system
of sexual stratification, despite its consequences
for their own relatively low wealth, power, and prestige.
Members of a subordinate stratum tend to accept the
ideology that justifies their own low statuses,
because they see the existing arrangements as "natural"
and proper, and do not question them. This will
continue as long as they take the status quo for granted.

But if they come to see the situation as socially created and
unjust they are likely to demand change. This is precisely
what happened in the US since the early 1960s, when a
women's movement arouse and challenged traditional gender
roles. The results were profound, and still reverberates
around the world today. Hopefully this will continue
to occur especially in the less advanced societies.

cont'd ...

Peter Costello writes in his Memoirs:

"Australia is often described as a successful
multicultural society and it is, in the
sense that people from all different backgrounds
live together in harmony. But there is a
predominant culture just as there is a predominant
language. And the political and cultural institutions
that govern Australia are absolutely critical to that
attitude of harmony and tolerance. Within an
institutional framework that preserves tolerance and
protects order we can celebrate and enjoy diversity
in language and culture. But we could not do that
without the framework which guarantees the freedom
to enjoy diversity."

Lithuanian is similar to Sanskrit and Avestan of Iran.
"..the western Iranian common plural ending -gal .. , central Iran tend to retain the distinction between direct and oblique cases : direct plural -gal . oblique plural - galan ." ( cf. Pers.galla “flock, herd”),( Encyc Iranica.2010 ) .
." Kumaara is a Sanskrit word. When and if used in Tamil , the pronunciation is kumaarargaL" princes". Tamil kumara means "prince" as it does in Bali Indonesia where Tamils went as traders.

Cammaraygal in north Sydney means the camarada "comrades", plural . The male plural -gal is used across Sydney to Liverpool .

", Bediagal - Georges River, Bidjigal - Castle Hill, Burraberongal - Richmond, Burramattagal - Parramatta, Cabrogal - Liverpool, , Gomerrigal South Creek, Tugagal - Toongabbie, Wandeandegal - Eastern Creek clan/ Blacktown. The suffix (gal) was added to the place names to distinguish the male members of the clan which (galleon) was to denote the females." Gomerrigal may be a form of Cammaraygal.

Persian gal and galan ( subject , object) are seen in Sydney gal and galleon , where probably females were the object of sentences rather than subject. Many apparent Sanskrit Javanese words are in southern Australian languages . A Lithuanian could understand some.

Foxy, the "changes" for women, and other "minorities", are recent developments, almost exclusively in Western advanced countries.

Their historical "novelty" makes them all the more fragile and risk-prone.

These are not universal or eternal norms.
Drastically change the population with an influx of more primitive/medieval people (exactly what we're getting) and goodbye "cosmopolitan""modernity".

A generation back women were in effect barred from professions. The 1st woman PM , now post menopause , lasted how long before Kev pushed and shoved?

Dear nicknamenick,

It was actually the Abbott who did the pushing and
the shoving (and then some). Kev just reaped the
benefits.