Here I was all set to knock out a Christmas column full of cheer and bonhomie but life, or more accurately, Daily Life has intervened.
I normally disapprove of intra-media byplays but Fairfax Media’s Daily Life section has become so full of cranky third wave feminism that someone needs to hold it up to the light. Among this waste of ink and kilobyte street corner psychobabble, comes a contribution from self described feminist Polly Dunning who tells her harrowing tale of giving birth to a shame boy. The good news is she’s slowly getting over it.
I’m not allowed to swear anymore, at least not at volume but this is sorely testing my already fragile grip on self-control.
At first blanch this was merely another addition from women who have recently given birth and have come to believe that having done so, they have unlocked the secrets of the universe. But on further reading this is a tale of a woman not just at war with men but also her own male child.
Full column here.
This young girl will go far: https://www.change.org/p/kellyanne-conway-do-you-want-us-to-move-to-washington-d-c
Yes, she’s Kellyanne Conway’s 12-year-old daughter, and doesn’t want to move to DC. Can’t blame her. Lovely city, but I wouldn’t want to live there.
Can’t comment on this – I’m speechless!
All best wishes for a wonderful Xmas to all here – let’s hope the New Year is a healthy and happy one for all.
It will be an interesting one, that’s for sure – no shortage of debate material for us
Thanks for everything JTI 🙂
Onya, Yvonne. have a ripper Tassie Christmas.
Pontificating and pondering Polly’s perceived peccadillos? (peckerdillos?) (surprised no-one has mentioned “penis envy” yet) questions must be asked as to how it has come to this?
I personally know people who introduce their just born to creepy cross dressing men who claim them for a life of fear, energetically aided and abetted by the parents, of an unseen vengeful lunatic who will determine whether they will suffer eternal damnation based on their earthly obedience.
Or the promoters of Allah, or some lazy freeloading ratbag in saffron robes who will urge a grinning acceptance of any sh*t that is dished out to them.
Some even teach their children that they are obligated and should kow tow to half wits who get a free and very luxurious ride and wear ridiculous regalia, all courtesy of a highly dubious breeding programne.
Nobody seems to object or to even question these outrageous child abuses, and I cant help but wonder as to the inevitably of our history and culture producing people like Polly who produce such inflammatory polemics?
We are all a bit ridiculous when you think about it. The boy will probably make a fine uxorious partner for some lucky girl, his mothers influence will be the least of his or his own childrens lifes travails when the consequences of crapping in our own big beautiful nest come home to roost.
Damn, damn, damn, I promised myself I wouldn’t mention that. I apologise, I am incorrigible.
Hang on, I got t it from my mother. She should apologise.
Last line, I saw what you did there, or a Freudian slip? Merry Xmas you old scallywag.
JtI
Jack, just a short note to wish you and your family all the best for Christmas and the coming year. Thank you for serving up such a disparate and relevant bunch of topics throughout 2016. The depth of your interests and the breadth of your knowledge knows no bounds. And thank you for the latitude you extend to those of us who participate.
Cheers and best wishes
Carl
Thank you Carl. Have a great Christmas.
Having given women the vote and tokenistic equality they want more, and it never stops. The next thing you know they’ll be expecting orgasms. As if. And who the bloody hell is doing the vacuuming and dishes? No worries, that will soonish enough be answered when Europe and Australia are ruled by the caliphate they have welcomed with open arms (oops) and benefits.
A pommy bloke (enoch?) spoke about this long back, yet we muddle on regardless, shamed into silence or inaction, by our effete, moral arbiters.
Forget “the greatest moral challenge of our times” and focus on the greatest ideological challenge of our times. Certainly we are not governed by sane people, and with the nanny state (nasty pics on smokes) shit it is getting worse. Despite all our embarrassing, condescending, abhorrent, invasive behaviours we (except for our not so long ago history!, ok JB I get it) don’t behead, set fire to etc people who don’t adhere to our religious beliefs. And except for qld we don’t stone our girlfriends for checking out a bloke whose got a better mullet and designer thongs.
It is not panic stations, but I believe it is time to determine sovereignty. The rest of that idea is best (at least for me)for another day. And I think it is worth the full knees up. I’d even stick my 5cents worth in (if Penny hasn’t killed me!! hehe).
Stop Milton.
Milton, have you been at Farmer Maggots mushrooms again?
Enoch Powell, Milton.
Dib dib dib, dob dob dob. (hey, thats where JK Rowling got that name from!)
That’s why they don’t call them ‘calmists’
Weird internet here. The above belongs down the page.
Daz, it’s dyb, not dib.
Akela: Dyb, dyb, dyb: “Do Your Best”
Cubs: We’ll dob, dob, dob “Do Our Best”
Never mind, Clive James couldn’t remember what it meant either.
Sorry TV – i was never a part of the Boy Scouts. Probably a lucky thing.
“They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.
But they were fucked up in their turn
By fools in old-style hats and coats,
Who half the time were soppy-stern
And half at one another’s throats.
Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
And don’t have any kids yourself.”
– Philip Larkin
“…….when I felt sick at the thought of something male growing inside me.”
yeah me too
Possibly the best piece of work I have read all year
&
http://adelaidefestivalofideas.com.au/the-20th-don-dunstan-oration/
I’m with you, Bassy.
Ms Dunning possesses that rare ability to reach into the human psyche in a totally unique way. This work will revolutionize feminist thinking and will stand as a key turning point in world events.
Her work is worthy of a Walkley, Pulitzer, Nobel or whatever.
An excellent Xmas to Jack and readers.
You too, TO.
Geez I have one in the family and am still suffering because I had the temerity to say that bringing up boys requires a different approach to bringing up girls.
Not according to the new thinking – girls become, well, girls, because of all of the subtle influences that society inflicts on them.
Does not matter that anybody who has had both says they are different as chalk and cheese.
I am wading through Cordelia Fine’s “Delusions of Gender” at the moment as penance. I have a few problems with it staring with my extremely low opinion of academic behavioural psychologists whose so called “scientific” experiments, in my opinion border, on the occult.
The other problem, apart from trying to read the sucker with its academic double speak, is that I think the author started out with an opinion and use the opinions of others to prove “scientifically” that what she proposes has a basis in reality.
I wonder how they view this http://www.bbc.com/news/health-38341901
I have decided that at my age, after assisting and helping many women to prosper in their careers, that if anybody tries this feminist rubbish on me I will use old age as an excuse and give it back in spades- after all I have had practice and am still licking my wounds
JackSprat…..not sure why you find it necessary to wade through Cordelia’s fine prose. God help me, but I have succeeded very well in my life with the help of my father telling me I should feel good about myself. I’ve had a boyfriend, a male friend as well as my husband all encouraging me in my endeavors in getting on in my life. JTI always writes columns that are thought provoking, but this one has really got me going.
Men are really copping it lately and while I acknowledge the point Wraith is making, I think we’re getting to the point where it is becoming ridiculous. You might all drive me all crazy at times, but thank God for the differences between men and women….it’s what makes the world go round
It was sent to me and I guess I am trying to understand the rationale behind the belief system Penny and prevent a total breakdown in communications.
Try Daniel Kahneman’s stuff, Jacksprat. Behavioural pyschology, but absolutely fascinating. I bet you get the picture puzzle with the two lines wrong at the beginning too…
Now I’ve got Paul Simon parody earworms stuck in my head.