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» 17/08/2010 2:39:44 PM Not that it is anyone's business, but my daughters attended the local public primary schoo.....
» 18/03/2010 2:55:36 PM From memory, Richard Dawkins did not comment on Stephen Fielding in his speech at the Conf.....
» 21/04/2008 2:57:48 PM I am a feminist and concerned about women who feel they must cover themselves to be modest.....
» 10/12/2007 8:58:35 PM That's an interesting thought palimpsest - lets have schools that are punitive towards gay.....
» 7/12/2007 12:51:00 PM Well said pdev. As a parent with kids in a comprehensive public high school, and as a prof.....
» 7/12/2007 9:51:25 AM Hooray! Beautifully put and articulated. But are you talking about integrated schooling, a.....
» 28/08/2007 8:02:27 AM As a product of the NSW public education system from kindy to uni, and as the parent of tw.....
» 27/08/2007 3:46:53 PM Bravo Kathryn. Your story is powerful, personal and honest. The courage to speak out and r.....
» 26/08/2007 4:28:23 PM aqvarius, The reason parents are allowed to have their children opt out of scripture is at.....
» 24/08/2007 2:42:38 PM Public schools dedicate one afternoon a week to what is called Scripture. This is provided.....
» 24/08/2007 8:39:07 AM How extraordinary. Aqvarius golden rule is the same one I learnt at my godless state schoo.....
» 22/08/2007 12:55:36 PM Having read the author's book, and listened to him speak last night, I can reassure some o.....
» 17/08/2007 2:00:58 PM Gosh aqvariovs, you must be a very finely evolved person if you have never lost it when yo.....
» 17/08/2007 12:15:33 PM Women will continue to have abortions whatever anyone says or does. They always have, they.....
» 17/08/2007 11:59:03 AM No-one should ever physically attack anyone else - and this goes for parents hitting child.....
» 14/08/2007 8:45:38 AM In Michael Moore's Sicko, Tony Benn (I'm pretty sure it was him) makes the following great.....
» 10/08/2007 3:23:31 PM I agree with much of what you say, Cornflower. But why should it be up to heterosexuals to.....
» 10/08/2007 1:33:54 PM Great article, Lynne. I wish your bill every success, but won't hold my breath. As to the .....
» 10/08/2007 12:05:28 PM And then there was the private school that cautioned its students not to associate with at.....
» 2/08/2007 10:29:04 PM No, no, no Yvonne, I simply cannot let your assumptions pass without really strong objecti.....
» 2/08/2007 6:48:56 PM The difference between Catholic school fees and public school fees is that it is illegal f.....
» 1/08/2007 1:47:21 PM Most church schools in the UK ( and many other countries) are fully integrated into the st.....
» 1/08/2007 1:35:12 PM I don't have a problem with what anyone believes, whether you be a christian who believes .....
» 1/08/2007 10:33:36 AM Dear Leigh, Relative merits of public and private aside, what do you think we should do ab.....
» 31/07/2007 4:25:08 PM One thing that is not considered in this very interesting article and thread, is that the .....
» 29/07/2007 5:18:27 PM HRS, Are you saying mothers don't do any work to help their kids get through uni, too? Sur.....
» 28/07/2007 11:23:55 AM Dear HRS, As an outed feminist - even in this thread - I said something very positive abou.....
» 27/07/2007 4:24:47 PM I always think of the Helen Garner quote where she said something about how much she respe.....
» 26/07/2007 5:16:35 PM like Citixen and R0bert, I did not read this as an article that demonised men, merely as a.....
» 12/05/2007 6:10:48 PM Compare the salaries in the education system and politics, the law and business. Men don't.....
» 11/05/2007 6:51:47 PM But surely the point of the article is not who does the most housework? The "my gende.....
» 20/04/2007 10:57:33 AM You are correct about their behaviour, it is their own responsibility. However, accepting .....
» 20/04/2007 10:49:49 AM Nothing wrong with letting off a dozen at the local firing range, if that's your thing, bu.....
» 20/04/2007 10:28:15 AM I just heard a fascinating discussion between an academic and a psychologist on Radio nati.....
» 18/04/2007 12:15:41 PM But the reason they stay on is neither their fault, nor the school's they attend. It is dr.....
» 17/04/2007 12:16:51 PM Well, the women I know and I must be pretty peculiar, Aqvarius as none of us fit the scena.....
» 15/04/2007 11:46:54 AM Shorbe, making sure all kids are educated to a reasonable standard is not just about being.....
» 14/04/2007 11:26:17 AM But Shorbe, think this through, in your user-pays education world, who actually suffers if.....
» 13/04/2007 11:10:17 AM Go Liz, go FrankGo. Those are the facts. The SES formula, as i have explained elsewhere, d.....
» 12/04/2007 8:23:56 PM I once spoke up about my abortion on radio and was terrified of the responses I might get .....
» 4/04/2007 2:20:53 PM Ah, the old falling standards debate. What these harbingers of doom never mention is that .....
» 4/04/2007 10:45:18 AM If public schools do such a rotten job - and my kids and many hundreds of their friends wo.....
» 3/04/2007 4:11:07 PM I enjoyed the article but not many of the posts - except the one about breastfeeding - lot.....
» 3/04/2007 3:53:17 PM The SES formula for funding private schools sounds good but is actually grossly distorted .....
» 2/04/2007 10:33:42 AM I'm sure there are many lovely Christian and Catholic schools - I don't personally subscri.....
» 16/02/2007 3:45:05 PM I am not arguing women are naturally less aggressive or violent than men, I am arguing the.....
» 16/02/2007 8:13:35 AM Dear James, how many women sent men off to war? I don't mean as grieving wives and mothers.....
» 15/02/2007 8:36:10 AM As a feminist, I agree with maximus. Not his tone (rather smug, I think) but his analysis......
» 12/02/2007 2:57:23 PM James H, What a terribly sad last remark that was. As I keep saying, and Romany too, there.....
» 9/02/2007 7:55:34 AM Seeker, It is sad to see someone who so dislikes 50% of the human race he cannot allow tha.....
» 8/02/2007 7:05:57 AM No, I am actually saying you should only have sex with whoever wants to have sex with you .....
» 6/02/2007 8:16:27 AM To be a grown up, you need to recognise something important. Grown ups earn their own mone.....
» 6/02/2007 8:08:20 AM It is not villifying men to stand up for women, yet this seems to be offensive to some peo.....
» 3/02/2007 1:52:32 PM I'm a feminist and NOBODY"S victim. That's the whole point to being a feminist, you t.....
» 2/02/2007 9:46:54 PM Well, Thomas Ellis was a fool and seriously needed to grow up and take control of his own .....
» 2/02/2007 9:34:14 PM You know guys, if I used the argument that Hitler, Stalin, Genghis Khan, Pol Pot, Mao etc .....
» 24/01/2007 7:16:51 AM James H, you completely miss the point of my post - that we all belong to groups which inc.....
» 23/01/2007 7:58:40 AM So, James H, do you apply the same high standards to other movements that you do to femini.....
» 22/01/2007 2:42:07 PM But who ever said all feminists hate men - or even that feminism hates men? The people who.....
» 21/01/2007 12:44:12 PM You know, Cornflower, I admire much of what you say and the tenacious and forthright way y.....
» 15/01/2007 9:56:13 PM I'm quoting from memory, but Helen Garner said something about the fact that you will neve.....
» 15/01/2007 9:17:35 PM Sheesh, what a load of bollocks from beginning to end - not the article, but the vast majo.....
» 15/01/2007 2:16:37 PM Great article, took me back to my own pregnancies 16 and 19 years ago. Without wanting to .....
» 21/12/2006 9:35:19 AM Gusi, No-one has responded to your posts, but I find them the most interesting here. One t.....
» 21/12/2006 9:13:09 AM Thank you Robert. You put the case very eloquently. Women's rights are, of course, human r.....
» 20/12/2006 2:19:07 PM From my reading of the article, Barbara was not saying the recidivism rate of all child se.....
» 20/12/2006 2:06:50 PM The American Civil War was fought over the Confederate's belief that it was their culture'.....
» 7/12/2006 10:27:55 AM You know, James, this may come as a surprise to you, but there are rotten people in all so.....
» 6/12/2006 9:32:46 AM I cannot let the last poster's glib remark about feminists regretting the release of men w.....
» 5/12/2006 1:42:58 PM Weirdest bunch of posts I've read in a long time. You guys are damn good haters, aren't yo.....
» 5/12/2006 1:27:46 PM When the harvesting of male sperm requires a surgical and invasive process and the taking .....
» 1/12/2006 7:36:23 AM Oh, well, if this thread is any indication, white Ribbon day is a fizzer, and women should.....
» 30/11/2006 8:57:04 AM The posters here are right when they say that men are more likely to be victims of violenc.....
» 28/11/2006 8:01:41 PM I hope you teach in a private school saint fletcher, I'd hate my kids to get you as a teac.....
» 28/11/2006 2:57:01 PM Good for you, Barbara. I admire your unflinching honesty and courage enormously. Keep spea.....
» 28/11/2006 2:38:52 PM Yet the nuclear family of a mum and dad and kids, living alone in one house is a relativel.....
» 27/11/2006 11:50:48 AM Just one problem, there's not much evidence that selective schools actually confer much ad.....
» 24/11/2006 2:49:56 PM hamlet, We live where we do because we both like the area and my husband wanted a garden. .....
» 24/11/2006 2:37:31 PM Absolutely right, as the men of Australia also need skilled and educated women. A skilled .....
» 24/11/2006 7:48:49 AM When i say they are not as emotionally mature, that's not a put down, its simply an observ.....
» 23/11/2006 3:47:52 PM It is, perhaps, a little presumptuous of you, Hamlet, to assume you know my husband of 30 .....
» 23/11/2006 2:26:25 PM Oh well, I'm only applying the everyday, practical observations of every single parent of .....
» 23/11/2006 9:13:01 AM hedgepig I agree with most of what you say and love the calm way you say it, however, i do.....
» 22/11/2006 2:50:06 PM When someone says something positive about women, it does not automatically mean that he o.....
» 22/11/2006 2:35:36 PM Couldn't agree more, hedgepig. I am sick of being told by posters on this site that, as a .....
» 22/11/2006 10:44:41 AM Somebody made the point early on in this forum, but it is worth saying again - indeed, I'v.....
» 22/11/2006 7:39:57 AM 70% male students and 30% female students were the statistics I was referring to. However,.....
» 21/11/2006 1:49:05 PM Great article, very revealing comments. Girls have achieved higher marks at school than bo.....
» 21/11/2006 1:35:19 PM this is a tragic story about two very unhappy people. Mr Magill was cheated and deceived a.....
» 21/11/2006 1:07:29 PM I truly suspect john stone is mad. Whether the change in the climate is man made or part o.....
» 10/11/2006 2:54:39 PM equal • adjective 1 being the same in quantity, size, degree, value, or status. 2 evenly.....
» 9/11/2006 5:55:40 PM Um, Aqvarius, equal does not mean the same. An orange is not the same as an apple but neit.....
» 8/11/2006 3:12:57 PM Interesting discussion and article. One point Alan made has been missed, though, that this.....
» 1/11/2006 2:35:45 PM Brilliant article, Shakira. And you sent shivers down my spine with your description of Mu.....
» 1/11/2006 1:27:42 PM The only thing I didn't get from your interesting article, Rayann, is why you personally w.....
» 20/10/2006 7:59:31 AM Any other scapegoats you guys might be able to find? How comforting it must be to know all.....
» 20/10/2006 7:49:26 AM JamesH, I do not dispute that many men never hit someone or that many women often feel lik.....
» 19/10/2006 9:55:49 PM If I saw someone dressed in Ku Klux Klan garb, I'm afraid I would assume they were going t.....
» 19/10/2006 9:45:55 PM Dear Cornflower. I have never been remotely PC and gender-blind works for me. Its a simple.....
» 18/10/2006 8:43:20 PM Robert, You are right, of course, sometimes it is siblings or cousins who do the abusing, .....
» 18/10/2006 12:21:52 PM I don't care who is doing the abusing, it chills me to the bone to think that any child is.....
» 18/10/2006 12:07:16 PM Why must the haters of feminism - in all its many incarnations - so often resort to insult.....
» 18/10/2006 9:39:25 AM Is there no end to the fear some men have of women? As many posters have pointed out, this.....
» 18/10/2006 8:30:18 AM As a feminist and a believer in diversity, I have no problem with people from all sorts of.....
» 16/10/2006 3:44:40 PM Loved the article, Leslie, you point out many of the subtleties of power relationships bea.....
» 16/10/2006 8:29:32 AM Wouldn't it be nice if we could think of ourselves as people first and men and women secon.....
» 16/10/2006 8:18:01 AM Please note, at no time did I criticise anyone's God or, even, religion per se. All I crit.....
» 14/10/2006 3:13:11 PM Go West! What fun. I love your dogged determination in this debate. I am sick of believers.....
» 14/10/2006 2:50:22 PM Interesting discussion, and I suspect people have been bemoaning the state of the current .....
» 6/10/2006 1:24:17 PM Um, education for girls, supporting the school mentioned in the article, Cornflower, that'.....
» 6/10/2006 1:15:28 PM Most religions seem to profess similar values - love your God, love other people and the d.....
» 5/10/2006 4:46:02 PM Wonderful article. No blame, no gender politics ( same can't be said of some of the poster.....
» 5/10/2006 4:36:07 PM Great article. Organisations like RAWA make me proud to be female, perhaps they have a dif.....
» 5/10/2006 4:18:54 PM I actually want to respond to the article, which I thought was thoughtful and rather good......
» 27/09/2006 10:03:30 AM recently I got in a taxi with a died in the wool old aussie taxi driver, within seconds he.....
» 27/09/2006 9:38:01 AM Good on you, hedgepig, but you have entered the club of blokes who use "feminist".....
» 23/09/2006 10:40:12 PM Barbara, you are brave and unflinching. most men do not abuse, but some men do. most women.....
» 5/09/2006 2:05:45 PM Tony Abbott is entitled to believe anything he likes and he is entitled to live according .....
» 5/09/2006 1:45:26 PM If by their actions shall ye know them, then many so-called Godless public schools are doi.....
» 1/09/2006 1:52:06 PM jasper BBB, You're having us on,right? You're really a member of The Chaser, aren't you, w.....
» 25/08/2006 9:02:39 AM And I guess you are not being remotely abusive or aggressive in your post Arjay? Ever hear.....
» 25/08/2006 8:59:31 AM Yes, Jolanda, the education system does have a duty of care due to compulsory education, b.....
» 24/08/2006 8:41:11 PM Why should they, Jolanda? They are no longer supported by any government, in terms of reas.....
» 24/08/2006 5:25:15 PM I think you might have a slightly inflated idea of the world wide impact of the debates on.....
» 24/08/2006 8:15:01 AM I will know that I am "equal" when I am judged according to my ability, my talen.....
» 23/08/2006 3:12:44 PM Loved the article. Interesting debate, particularly from those who find homosexual acts &q.....
» 23/08/2006 11:10:20 AM Good for you, Carnifex, but I suspect many men and women reading this will see at least so.....
» 23/08/2006 11:00:25 AM Actually, I'm not sure that vouchers would have that effect, even on public schools, not u.....
» 23/08/2006 8:40:11 AM Jolanda, It is a great shame about your kids experience, but I could quote equally dreadfu.....
» 22/08/2006 8:59:26 AM Before the 70s, it was perfectly acceptable for people - mostly men - to spew hatred about.....
» 16/08/2006 1:41:07 PM Yeah, they're serious, Anna, unfortunately. Women have always been told that what suits me.....
» 10/08/2006 1:10:19 PM And it is interesting, isn't it, that the poorest children in our community - including th.....
» 3/08/2006 11:19:25 AM Hear, hear, R0bert. Dear Maximus, I know I am asking for another spray of abuse by resp.....
» 3/08/2006 8:37:14 AM You know, Mark, it is really about time that some men recognised that the responsibility i.....
» 2/08/2006 8:22:43 AM If the family can only survive by blighting the hopes and dreams of one half of its member.....
» 1/08/2006 5:51:35 PM i am probably misquoting her, but I particularly liked Helen Garner's quote in response to.....
» 1/08/2006 2:59:37 PM This article sits a little oddly with me. I agree that female circumcision is horrifying a.....
» 31/07/2006 9:53:57 PM Of course they can be equal at the same time - that's what equal means - of equal value, o.....
» 31/07/2006 3:08:38 PM Laurie, What R0bert said - you put it beautifully. Jane.....
» 27/07/2006 1:45:36 PM Glenwriter, I think you mistake the meaning of partnership for leadership structure. Neith.....
» 26/07/2006 9:19:12 PM While the socio-economic background of kids at private schools is not necessarily middle c.....
» 26/07/2006 6:43:56 PM Actually shorbe, results show nothing of the kind. The only consistent reason behind high .....
» 26/07/2006 2:03:35 PM And another historical correction, Mark, as I understand it, women who left marriages a ce.....
» 25/07/2006 7:00:18 PM hey Glenwriter, read it again, carefully, then go back through the posts till you find the.....
» 25/07/2006 12:00:19 PM Dear mark, May i suggest you check your dictionary? Qualities and experiences do not mean .....
» 24/07/2006 1:37:21 PM Wow, I love these posts. but to go back to Glenwroter's odd question, some days ago about .....
» 22/07/2006 11:11:48 PM pdev, I think that the proud working class families of the past were great for the men in .....
» 19/07/2006 4:07:19 PM Neither Billie nor R0bert required an answer to their eminently sensible posts. Why did I.....
» 19/07/2006 12:44:39 PM Mark says there are certain things i should expect of him as a man, and I have been puzzli.....
» 18/07/2006 2:19:45 PM Well, I don't know about you, Glenwriter, but I am human first and female second. Did you.....
» 18/07/2006 11:43:18 AM Thanks to everyone who responded. I hope in the long run - and the change in women's statu.....
» 13/07/2006 9:33:21 AM I feel I am being willfully misunderstood here. I am not saying that exercising choice for.....
» 11/07/2006 5:13:03 PM thank you grandkiddies, for pointing out the reality of life for many people. i always en.....
» 11/07/2006 5:00:14 PM Barbara, I have read both your books and found them both moving and informative, thank you.....
» 11/07/2006 2:56:46 PM Bravo Jenny. You are dead right. If parents could just learn to love their children as the.....
» 11/07/2006 11:35:50 AM Sorry, I'm a Mum and I hardly understood a word of this article, though I did get the feel.....
» 7/07/2006 12:03:52 PM bravo, Gemma. Exactly right. Moralists, as always, don't care what actually occurs as long.....
» 6/07/2006 10:44:48 AM Don't you just love the way the Right is vociferous in its defense of freedom for the mark.....
» 6/07/2006 10:32:29 AM Reading the astonishing attitudes and sexually predatory behaviour deemed, not just accept.....
» 3/07/2006 6:13:23 PM Coach and Boaz david, if this is where belief in God gets you, I'm glad I have no such bel.....
» 29/06/2006 8:41:56 PM Dear redneck, the trouble with your post is that criminal behaviour is not spiralling. In .....
» 29/06/2006 12:15:04 PM Woah, coach, after reading your weird and intemperate post, the only thought I was left wi.....
» 28/06/2006 10:18:32 PM There are posters here who find it hard to imagine that there is any real discrimination a.....
» 28/06/2006 1:11:28 PM I was born in 1957, didn't ask to be, just was. I lived the way I could in the times and c.....
» 27/06/2006 3:55:26 PM Dear Boaz David, Women are raped by heterosexual men, does that mean that all heterosexual.....
» 27/06/2006 3:41:14 PM Well, Ghassan, you must be enjoying having your every point so beautifully illustrated in .....
» 27/06/2006 3:10:18 PM i think this is one of the saddest things I have ever read. So much hatred and so many nas.....
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