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Misogyny, Misandry, Misanthropy
Jul. 3rd, 2018 08:28 pmDo you sometimes wish your leaders would indulge in a bit of plain speaking?
For example, how would you feel if Theresa May called Trump what he is - a stupid, greedy windbag who is an embarrassment to not only his country, but to the entire human species... & several of its subsets. Would you be pleased if Angela Merkel said much the same thing, only in German?
The reason this comes to mind, is we've had a bit of a small-scale political stoush going on for the last week or so. David Leyonhjelm, a male Liberal Democrat Senator told a female Greens Senator she should stop shagging men, then told her to fuck off when she objected. This was all done in the Senate during a debate about women's right to carry non-lethal means of defence, like capsicum spray or tasers. Classy...
Despite ever-increasing calls for him to apologise, from not only the target of his comments, but from most Federal politicians, including the Prime Minister, he refuses to do so, even in the face of impending legal action, to which he simply says "Bring it on...". He sees himself as an opponent of misandry, standing up for all the Notall Men, who are unfairly labelled sexist rapists, claiming that no one had even heard of misandry before he spoke about it... No David, no one had heard of it because it doesn't happen... or at least, it pales into infinitesimal insignificance compared to its female counterpart
He then went on to label the Prime Minister a soft cock & a pussy. Pick one David... you can't be both. And stop being such a misandrist!!
Which brings me to my question. don't you wish the Prime Minister would respond in kind, calling Leyonhjelm what we all, by now, know him to be - a pig-ignorant, arrogant fuckwit. I know my respect for the Prime Minister might go up by a significant fraction if he did. Sometimes you have to talk to fuckwits in their own language... rather than taking the moral high ground & dressing it up in the Oxford Dictionary & Roget's Thesaurus
On a related note, have you ever noticed that the names of many political entities bear no resemblance whatsoever to what they actually are? Leyonhjelm belongs to a party calling itself the Liberal Democrats. It appears their ideology is neither liberal, nor particularly democratic...
Remember the days of the DDR - the 'German Democratic Republic', or East Germany, to the rest of the world...or the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, which wasn't a union, wasn't socialist & certainly wasn't a republic. Same for the People's Republic of China - not a republic & only for a certain elite level of people...
'Newspeak' indeed...
For example, how would you feel if Theresa May called Trump what he is - a stupid, greedy windbag who is an embarrassment to not only his country, but to the entire human species... & several of its subsets. Would you be pleased if Angela Merkel said much the same thing, only in German?
The reason this comes to mind, is we've had a bit of a small-scale political stoush going on for the last week or so. David Leyonhjelm, a male Liberal Democrat Senator told a female Greens Senator she should stop shagging men, then told her to fuck off when she objected. This was all done in the Senate during a debate about women's right to carry non-lethal means of defence, like capsicum spray or tasers. Classy...
Despite ever-increasing calls for him to apologise, from not only the target of his comments, but from most Federal politicians, including the Prime Minister, he refuses to do so, even in the face of impending legal action, to which he simply says "Bring it on...". He sees himself as an opponent of misandry, standing up for all the Notall Men, who are unfairly labelled sexist rapists, claiming that no one had even heard of misandry before he spoke about it... No David, no one had heard of it because it doesn't happen... or at least, it pales into infinitesimal insignificance compared to its female counterpart
He then went on to label the Prime Minister a soft cock & a pussy. Pick one David... you can't be both. And stop being such a misandrist!!
Which brings me to my question. don't you wish the Prime Minister would respond in kind, calling Leyonhjelm what we all, by now, know him to be - a pig-ignorant, arrogant fuckwit. I know my respect for the Prime Minister might go up by a significant fraction if he did. Sometimes you have to talk to fuckwits in their own language... rather than taking the moral high ground & dressing it up in the Oxford Dictionary & Roget's Thesaurus
On a related note, have you ever noticed that the names of many political entities bear no resemblance whatsoever to what they actually are? Leyonhjelm belongs to a party calling itself the Liberal Democrats. It appears their ideology is neither liberal, nor particularly democratic...
Remember the days of the DDR - the 'German Democratic Republic', or East Germany, to the rest of the world...or the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, which wasn't a union, wasn't socialist & certainly wasn't a republic. Same for the People's Republic of China - not a republic & only for a certain elite level of people...
'Newspeak' indeed...
