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.
Investment tip for 2017: Invest in bollards.
About 6 years ago in shanghai I bought an enamel mug with a picture of Mao waving and the words ” get rich, invest in pigs”. And, of course, the advice on the mug turned out to be right!
No mug punting there.
Have a great Christmas anyone
Ps is the word”Xmas” as unacceptable as “happy holidays”?
Cheers, Darren. Best wishes.
You know I rely on your FRIDAY column for a chuckle JTI, this one just left me sad. Sad for that young bloke.
Anyhow Merry Xmas to all the crew. I hope you all eat and drink far too much. I know some of you choose to devote some of your day helping others so to you an extra big cheer. It’s been a bugger of a 2016 for you JTI but that just means 2017 will be a cracker! Remember all to be safe and I hope your god if you have one smiles on your 2017.
Thanks, Razor. I’ve just about packed it in for Christmas at least. It has been a weird year. Have a good one yourself. By the way, it’s Friday today.
interesting take on angela merkel and immigration.
http://tinyurl.com/jd4ftcb
at the time i thought it would end very badly and it will, but then anyone who has been around this space for a few years and was not there for the grandstanding thought the same.
Jack
After the trails of the last 6 months, I suspect that this Christmas will be a very special one for you, your family and close friends.
Have a Great Xmas and an even better New Year.
And thanks for this blog – it must get a little tedious at times . I would really miss it.
Onya, JS. Have a ripping Christmas.
JTI, I dont want to teach you how to suck eggs but if you go looking at everything on the internet that is irritating and wanky you will disappear into a black hole of utter crap…I dip my nose into some of the weird and wonderful alt right pages every now and again, just for fun and to see what is happening on the other side of the looking glass but those are more like space expeditions and I expect to see weird stuff (and Im never disappointed! although I have retreated from Breitbart – the levels of Weird there are just too exhausting)
I’m not touching this one, but all the finest of seasonal salutations to Jack the Insider and all my frenemies on the blog!
Thank you, JOH. Very best wishes to you.
i saw this a couple of days ago and had no idea who polly dunning was, so did a bit of a search, saw that she was jane caro’s daughter and like her mum, a bit of a publicity hound.
she may or not be enjoying this though, what with a fair bollocking on twitter, this column and she just got a link on glenn reynold’s instapundit.
while i was searching i came across excerpts from her mother’s memoir and goodness me, she seems to have lived a fortunate and privileged existence but somehow sees herself as rosa parks.
perhaps the apple hasn’t fallen far from the tree.
Jack, i don’t agree that this shouldn’t be published. it’s like the farrelly columns, some of us enjoy reading them for the laughs.
of course, i am not a fairfax shareholder, i may have a different view if i were.
Fair enough, mate. My point was there appeared to be no great judgement at editorial level.
yes mate, plenty of judgement, but all bad.
Sorry Jack, Penny and the gang. I went somewhat OTT. And now I have to go out and get the xmas presents. That should calm me down!
Dont forget the bong, Milton.
Which reminds me. These “Smoke” shops I keep seeing around the place appear to be selling – cough – rather elaborate and expensive bongs. I thought the possession of implements for the use of drugs was an offence. How does that work? Anyone?
(ps any replies will be treated in strict confidence and we will try not to assume you know because you are a customer!)
No offence to sell in Qld at least Dazza. The charge if I recall correctly reads in part ‘has been used in connection with the smoking of a dangerous drug’. So as you would realise the unused variety are kosher!
Have a good Christmas with your mum mate, hopefully 2017 will see a return to good health for her.
Thanks razor. All the best for you in 2017 too.
Milton Don’t do it. I just got back from the Fruit shop car park. Did not actually get out of the car 30 minutes in the car park. Freaks everyone of them, 3 people wanted to back into me, I had cars in front, cars behind and the freaks start hitting the horn expecting me to move? No such thing as giving way today either. I pulled out of the car park back onto the main road up to the red light, I could see/hear an Ambulance screaming up behind me, I was first at the lights, I pulled over to left as far as I could, the Dickhead behind then wants to jump into the area I had created in front of the Ambulance barrelling down on us?? There was also another Ambulance coming from the left of the intersection . The cars in front of that one with the green light? do you think they stopped or moved out of the way?? No FN way The FWITs continued to drive on to the point where the Ambulance had to go onto the other side of the road through traffic and look for another way to their destination. This epitomises This time of the year in Australia today, Freaks shopping, apparently people don’t keep any food in their houses these days as they shop as though it is the end of the world, or the shops will never open again. Common decency disappears completely, Car Parks full of freaks who highlight the Hypocrisy of this time of year. I watched a young bird pull into a car park an old bloke had been patiently waiting for, the car backed out towards him. People this time of year make me sick. I have started responding quite sarcastically to people who say to me just like they have done for the last couple of decades “oh we should catch up more often” Well I have lived at the same address for close to 20 years now and my home phone number has never changed and my mobile number is the same as was when I got it in 1995.
Bring on the Boxing Day test, even JTI is getting a bit cranky.
Dismayed, anyone who contemplates addressing a shopping centre carpark at this time of year needs psychiatric help. It’s a complete hell-like situation of consumerism at its very worst.
Are you on drugs Milton?
@ JtI
You’re right of course Jack, it should never have been published at all. On reflection, here’s how it will probably play out:
The woman will have her son, after his birth he will take his precious testosterone with him. She, like millions before her, will hit the wall without it, and with any luck two things will occur, she will look into the eyes of her son, and realise he, unlike every other stinking man ever born on earth is perfect. So utterly, utterly perfect. The second, will, hopefully be a desire to raise her perfect person as best she can.
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Here is the real crime though, even if this woman can get past her own current stupid resentful frame of mind and mature into a real woman, one day her poor son will for sure read the rubbish she wrote about him in the womb, and be very wounded.
But Fairfax wouldn’t give a shit about the human cost as long as it sells crappy column space.
Cheers all
JTI.
” cranky third wave feminism”
Yes you said it right Jackmon this feral publication of many haters that just can’t adjust to the real world .
No wonder their readers and shares scraping along the bottom looking in vain for their diminishing publication to read their hater Clementine Ford , the activist against peace and real people .These plastic people on ridicule , never chase the real facts while never short on distortions comes to attacking truth belted out by competition media outlets .
I feel awfully sorry on these latest days on the subject matter of baby treatments and tragedies we now experiencing .
Hope all those women out there can secure little ones and pass long term life ahead with them.