FEMINISM AND COURTESY
Listening to the radio the other day, a question was put: Where has common courtesy vapourised to in Australia? It is patently clear to me that women have broken a vital contract of civilisation as we knew it.
Although sages like Virginia Hausegger, and a bunch of grumpy old women implore that females can’t have it all, it is the bottom end, baby booming, bra burning, free love muthas of the ‘70’s and ‘80’s that have established a feminist power plurality.
I know them. They reckon they want half, PLUS 20% for positive discrimination.
Growing up in the ‘50’s and ‘60’s, pre the Vietnam War, Australia was still a hokey outpost of the British Commonwealth. Men’s and women’s roles were pretty well laid out in concrete. What changed all this? The timely convergence of The Pill and Germaine Greer in the auspice of time put paid to the historical roles that men and especially women played in our society.
One of the mores of society drummed into me as a boy was that I should respect and care for women, as they have the responsibility of rearing the coming generations, and to keep the home fires burning. These ideals were instilled in me by women, my mother, grand mother, aunties etc. I should doff my cap, open doors, speak in courteous tones and work my butt off to ensure that she and the children are kept in an appropriate manner.
Cometh the ‘70’s I was told in no uncertain terms that my attention to courtesy for women was not only no longer required, but was indeed offensive as women had now taken their role as ‘equals’. It had always seemed to me that woman were always put above men, in men’s minds, so why would they wish to devalue themselves in such a way?
Over the last couple of decades women have developed quite an individual path in society, with a very strong supportive infrastructure built on the back of the belittlement of the male’s role in society.
Men were basically left out of the loop and emotionally hung out to dry by the insensitive approach of the rabid feminists. The way these women relate to males in such a rude and obnoxious way, using the tool of constant emotional torture, as opposed to physical abuse, in relationships has lead to men also capitulating in the courtesy stakes.
Although sages like Virginia Hausegger, and a bunch of grumpy old women implore that females can’t have it all, it is the bottom end, baby booming, bra burning, free love muthas of the ‘70’s and ‘80’s that have established a feminist power plurality.
I know them. They reckon they want half, PLUS 20% for positive discrimination.
Growing up in the ‘50’s and ‘60’s, pre the Vietnam War, Australia was still a hokey outpost of the British Commonwealth. Men’s and women’s roles were pretty well laid out in concrete. What changed all this? The timely convergence of The Pill and Germaine Greer in the auspice of time put paid to the historical roles that men and especially women played in our society.
One of the mores of society drummed into me as a boy was that I should respect and care for women, as they have the responsibility of rearing the coming generations, and to keep the home fires burning. These ideals were instilled in me by women, my mother, grand mother, aunties etc. I should doff my cap, open doors, speak in courteous tones and work my butt off to ensure that she and the children are kept in an appropriate manner.
Cometh the ‘70’s I was told in no uncertain terms that my attention to courtesy for women was not only no longer required, but was indeed offensive as women had now taken their role as ‘equals’. It had always seemed to me that woman were always put above men, in men’s minds, so why would they wish to devalue themselves in such a way?
Over the last couple of decades women have developed quite an individual path in society, with a very strong supportive infrastructure built on the back of the belittlement of the male’s role in society.
Men were basically left out of the loop and emotionally hung out to dry by the insensitive approach of the rabid feminists. The way these women relate to males in such a rude and obnoxious way, using the tool of constant emotional torture, as opposed to physical abuse, in relationships has lead to men also capitulating in the courtesy stakes.
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