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Unfortunately this will be my last post here. Feminism is over, and I have nothing else to write about. I had mistakenly thought that feminism was about autonomy, choice and equality in all areas of life, but now I know that it was only about having a career to keep the hivemind sisterhood happy.
Now I have permission to quit my job and have babies before it’s too late.
Hooray.
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I’m so pleased the Prime Minister thinks himself adequately qualified to declare what it is women want. Now not only do I now feel able to happily abandon my life plans so I can start breeding, I can also quite confidently start voting Liberal knowing that the PM ‘has my back’.
Just imagine Melanie must be like. Shudder.
Oh, the little weasel. The cunning, cynical little [insert opprobrious epithet of choice here].
I really thought I’d mellowed out, these last few years. I really thought I’d never get seriously angry again about anything any politician ever said or did.
I see I was wrong. It’s quite energising.
And don’t forget to drink from the taps kiddies! I’m energised too, paternalism is the new black for 2007.
Quite right Anna. In fact I propose we just ditch the whole concept of LP and just post pronouncements by Fearless Leader instead. He seems to have his finger well and truly on
his dickthe pulse.We could then just post the ritual ‘bravo’, ‘jolly right too’, and ‘all they need is a good root’, without all that pointless meandering about meaning, ethics, liberty, community, and all those other useless appendages of western philosophy.
He is so genius.
In the Sunday Telegraph story where the story appeared (or you can read the full interview with esteemed journalist Piers Akerman sans other detail) Melanie is mentioned. It is noted that she is over 30 and speculates about whether she may, or may not, be pregnant. Howard refuses to comment. Personally, I think she’s left it too late already.
I’m just disappointed in the sisterhood. Who are they? can we round them up and out them?
Really, I’m so glad Our Fearless Leader has told me I’m over all this damn equality stuff, and can be HAPPY with less opportunity for career advancement because I’ll be doing only HALF the work AND THATS OKAY! Because I was only ever in it for the Evil Feminist Proove-Yourself Sisterhood, not for my own interest! So yay! Now I may as well just forget about that pesky Masters, and aspirations to Management, because it clearly will just get in the way of my breeding potential! Yay!
And for my former sisters in retail shiteness with the crappy pay, maternity discrimination, and now that all new improved lack of unfair dismissal laws, women can rejoice! Hurrah for the Glorious Leader! Feminism is dead!
Amen
sisterold bean! For Queen and Country!aw c’mon girls…if it was good enough for our nanas to lie back and think of england, than it should be good enough for us.
Just update it a little ( try thinking of Costello or the baby bonus perhaps), lay back , pop those bubs and quit your whingeing.
Nutty as a bag of trail mix, ladies… speaking as a happy childfree 34 year old with a partner (2 kids from first marriage) and nephew (just turned 18 and thrown out of home when 16).
Sometimes I think these people haven’t actually lived in a real family, you know, one where shit goes wrong from time to time.
Thank goodness, this whole having a life thing was getting so tiring. Now if only I can talk my husband into understanding that I won’t ever be going back to work.
“In the last figures I saw about 27 per cent were one-and-a-halfs, 18 or 19 per cent were two full-timers and about 22 per cent were single incomes,” he said.
Um. Have I got this right? 27 19 is 46. Plus 22 makes 68. Percent.
So what can the other 32% be doing?
Could it be that … bugger … they’re out of work?
Nah. Couldn’t be. Cossie says unemployment is the lowest since forever.
“I want to be with child”
I would have thought that was rather old news Temptress.
Now Skeptic.
I’m at a bit of a loss.
Because once as Australians leading prophet and no. 1 Cassandra I predicted that your offspring would be as ‘numerous as the sands on the beaches’ or perhaps as ‘plentiful as the stars in the sky’…. or at least some such thing similar to what we find in the Good Book.
And now you say it/ and now you tell it/ that it looks like you won’t be having children and are 34.
Which means by the laws of averages that you will have no children or likely no more then one child.
How can we square this circle?
……………………………………..
There’s only one way.
Skeptic is time to freeze your eggs.
DON’T MAKE ME OUT TO BE A LIAR.
Maybe she can use the same facility as the one housing your brain.
… but I thought feminism was already over? In our country, unlike, say, Iraq, women are free to pile on cosmetic surgery, free to be pole dance, free to read how to pleasure men in Cosmo.
Precisely!
“Maybe she can use the same facility as the one housing your brain.”
Considering the size of my brain thats too big an ask.
And its not true that its always in the freezer and don’t listen to the eyewitnesses.
Because thats only preparation for me to come onto this site.
I just have to cool it down…… and bring it down…. and bring it down… and cool it down….. and wind it down and….. WIND…MY…MIND… RIGHT….DOWN!!!
I have to cool and wind my mind right down….
…So I can come on Prodeo and talk to the likes of you.
And I was mucking around about skeptic but the above is Gods honest truth.
Amen, brutha!
I asked my friends what a Lesbian was Nabakov.
And they pointed a few things out to me.
And I had to come to the conclusion that I was in fact a Lesbian. A Lesbian with anorexia.
It was such a damn hard thing to admit to myself.
It was shocking just shocking.
You see Lesbians have a thing for sheilas and so do I.
And Anorexic chicks look in the mirror and see a fat person. And thats the case with me also.
This anorexia is a recent problem for me.
After awhile I’ll learn how to be proud to be an out-there Lesbian anorexic.
But right now I’m only proud not to be a lonely lonely guy like Nabakov.
Birdy, that first sentence was fabulous. Would you consider punctuating it?
I asked my friends what a Lesbian was: Nabakov!
I asked: my friends, what a Lesbian was Nabakov?
I asked my friends — what? A Lesbian was Nabakov?
I asked my friends — what? A Lesbian? Was Nabakov?
You are not making light of my minority status are you Rob?
Soon science will enable men to have babies. I am imagining Howard and Costello held down in some giant facility, plastic wombs depending from their ruined bodies, giving birth to litter after litter… outside a squad of Earth Mother Brigadistas, smartly turned out on their motorcycles with leather, stockwhips and blunderbusses, revving up to scour the countryside for more fugitive men.
There’s more women than men in our society, and we already know the cruel consequences of a fraction of a percent in the wrong postcodes.
We must breed for the nation’s sake, and men are stronger. It is obvious they should take up the burden of reproduction, and the women voters have combined to get this blindingly simple idea through parliament.
Every ten boychildren, Howard gets a special tickle from a Nursey, the specially cloned and genetically altered chimps used as health workers by Breedproud!(TM).
Sometimes the hormones clear from his fuddled mind long enough for him to remember his past..
Must. Stop. Hoping.
Well that’s it, then. Men, have one for your wife, one for yourself, and one for David Tiley!
Having said all that I feel deeply sorry for any woman who has been hoodwinked into thinking that being a Yuppie in their 40s and 50s beats being a mother! No wonder Ally McBeal was such a popular TV program.
Having said all what exactly John?
Do you feel sorry for men without children or is it just women who you think can only be happy when they are with child?
Poor Birdy. It’s not your lesbianism or anorexia that worries me though – it’s your diagnosis with the world’s first case of VTS (voluntary tourette’s syndrome).
Had experience of both, have you?
Going by the value system you’ve demonstrated so far in your comments at LP, being pitied by you would be a sure sign that one was doing something right.
Wow — first person I’ve ever encountered who thought that Ally McBeal was realism.
“Fortunately I think today’s younger women are more in the post-feminist period, where they don’t sort of measure their independence and freedom by the number of years they remain full-time in the workforce without having children,” Mr Howard told News Ltd newspapers.
Honestly, who ever measured independence and freedom by being fulltime in the workforce? Many men and women I know measure their freedom by precisely the opposite – the ability to get away from the workforce through travel or part-time work or creative activities.
Howard’s attempts at this sort of amateur sociology are embarrassingly pathetic. What would he know about any of this?
I think Birdy’s onto something though. I’ve often felt like a lesbian trapped in a man’s body. Matter of fact I feel like one now. Back soon.
I’ve never felt like a lesbian trapped in a man’s body. But I often feel like a shag on a rock. And that’s me outa here too.
Oh no – I forgot to measure my independence and freedom. How many years do I have to be full-time in the workforce again?
Anna Winter:
If you have made a personal, informed, decision to have a kid, good luck, hope everything goes well …. and PLEASE come back. Having a kid doesn’t mean you have to trade in your intellect.
Everyone:
I’ve already had my say on Suz’ thread “In Our Name” about Mr J W Howard and his pontifications. proclamations, decrees and Thoughts …. my comments were not universally applauded though,:-)
This even drew comment from the US.
I think Anna was being sarcastic, Graham.
God my hangover WAS bad because I completely missed this sterling comment from the Dear Leader.
I almost wish I was still hungover.
Never being one to say no to a jolly good root or a bit of pole dancing… (I’m suddenly having trouble seeing the difference), I endorse our Fearless Leader’s sentiments: more rooting, more dancing, less working.
Mark:
Thanks. I just had to take Anna Winter’s words at face value – and if she did indeed wish to be with child, I was certain it would be for personal reasons and definitely not in the expectation of loot being showered upon her by a generous government.
Pity about all the ladies who got into the pudding club because of policies and promises that could be reversed at the stroke of the pen …. or should that be a couple of keystrokes?
DFogpossum:
Well, His Majesty certainly got the
bit right with his counter-productive IR laws ….. but the other two bits you mentioned sound pretty good; how quickly can we expect them to be implemented and will they be compulsory?
Sorry Graham – my snarky tone obviously didn’t translate to page well
Anna Winter:
No worries
Ladies:
Great news. It keeping with its outsourcing, its use of individual contractors instead of employees, its emphasis on taking responsibility and being aspirational …. the federal government has a great new scheme especially for you: Hire-A-Uterus. Great rates. A one-off payment of One Hundred Thousand Dollars per sprog (and no further claims or benefits). Just think of what you can do with all that money. Hurry. Sign up now before the funding runs out.
Special for devoted and prayerful ladies: Bonus of Two Thousand Dollars each time you conceive without having a sinful orgasm.
“Poor Birdy. It’s not your lesbianism or anorexia that worries me though – it’s your diagnosis with the world’s first case of VTS (voluntary tourette’s syndrome).”
My goodness I just love that picture of you in your avatar Zoe.
If anything it looks better in minature.
We need to talk more often.
>>>>>>>>>>>
See there.
No swearing at all?
And even with you being such a good girl in that picture?