A response from the Australian Workplace Gender Equality Agency
And now I’m responding to them.
Southern Oscillation
With Lauren Southern recently placing herself in the spotlight by doing a hit piece on her ex husband, while lauding her own purity, we have another item to publish from 2021. –Ed. The phrase Southern Oscillation may not be familiar to many, especially those outside Australia. The Southern Oscillation is an atmospheric phenomenon in the …
Please contribute if you can
A Voice for Men (AVfM) has been around since 2009. Paul Elam established AVfM, and made it a global phenomenon. In 2014 AVfM ran the first International Conference on Men’s Issues. Alongside other organisations AVfM has continued to support the conferences to the present day. In 2022 Paul transferred the site to Robert Brockway. 14 …
The Ptolemys – a soap opera
Almost everyone has heard of Cleopatra and Marc Antony. They fought against Octavian for control of what would soon be the Roman Empire after the death of Julius Caesar. They lost to Octavian. Shakespeare wrote a play about it. But there is so much more to the story. Cleopatra was a descendent of Ptolemy I, …
Waking to woke
Woke is a widely-used adjective and is generally understood to involve supporting or believing in various notions that are widely accepted among social justice warriors. People who consider themselves woke generally: Consider themselves to be left-wing Support identity politics Support feminism Believe in rape culture Believe in male privilege Believe that street harassment is a …
Bird watching
I used to go bird watching when I was young but I haven’t done it in a long time. I was thinking of getting back in to it. I thought I’d just discuss some of the birds I’ve watched over the years as some of you might like to take it up too. It can …
The man who did not salute
There is a famous photograph, widely available online, of a large group of people virtually all performing the infamous Nazi salute. A lone man stands in the crowd with his arms crossed defiantly. The picture was taken in 1936 in Nazi Germany. The Nazi Party had been elected in 1933 and quickly set about making …
Defining fascism
From time to time MRAs, others in the manosphere, and supporters are called fascists. The term Fascist is notoriously difficult to define. Two definitions, narrow and broad are offered here and it is proposed that any reasonable definition must be bounded by these two. Narrow The narrowest possible definition is membership in the Italian National …
The Absurdity of Patriarchy
The notion of The Patriarchy espoused by feminists has gone from being a radical fringe view to being mainstream not only among feminists but the wider community. The definition of patriarchy used by feminists differs from that used by anthropologists, sociologists and other researchers as well as differing from the common dictionary definition. These two …
The rape of the Sabine women
While the Roman Empire and the Roman Republic are well remembered today, less well known is the Kingdom of Rome. Legend claims that the city of Rome was founded in 753BCE. Romulus killed Remus in an act of fratricide and went on to found the city of Rome, naming it after himself. Romulus then invited …
