tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post735422641845696914..comments2024-03-29T11:07:51.893+13:00Comments on Bowalley Road: You Know Something's Wrong When ...Chris Trotterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09081613281183460899noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-12846479618656645752011-02-26T14:19:49.671+13:002011-02-26T14:19:49.671+13:00Maybe the buddhists have a point, it's in the ...Maybe the buddhists have a point, it's in the lack of ambition to have a career or to be a parent that we are truly free. But, if they end the courses that do not lead to profit for capital, what will free people do? <br /><br />Or people could just fight for the 8 hour work day and job sharing and affordable childcare and use the nanny (if the high paid career option path is chosen) so people can have careers and be parents. Job sharing allows 2 people a work and life balance and also provides rest and recovery for high achievement at peak work load capacity periods of the year - it is actually quite productive alternative to people working 55-60 hours a week alone and being unable to cope with extra load periods. It is also more appropriate to our culture and environment lifestyle opportunities. <br /><br />Besides now that we live much longer and people can store egges etc, it is much more plausible to have it all across time - and more easily still if only housing was more affordable.SPCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-21635434276908195582011-02-26T11:12:57.300+13:002011-02-26T11:12:57.300+13:00Yoko Ono again: the women are the slaves of the sl...Yoko Ono again: the women are the slaves of the slaves.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10780306566590034623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-47846883318211974302011-02-23T22:55:52.946+13:002011-02-23T22:55:52.946+13:00The biggest shibboleths of the women's "m...The biggest shibboleths of the women's "movement" were:<br /> <br />1) you can have it all<br />2) this is desirable<br />3) men already had it<br /><br />when the truth has always been:<br /><br />1) nobody can have it all<br />2) it's a damnfool, selfish idea<br />3) men were/are just as circumscribed by gender/anatomy/destiny roles etc as women were/are (check the mortality stats, for example - in war or peace) <br /><br />the problem was: men already knew this from their own version of bitter experience - but chivalrously let the feminists find it out for themselves...<br /><br />result: confusion in the ranks :)WAKE UPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09136292620916207019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-1455991923584762062011-02-23T15:24:41.897+13:002011-02-23T15:24:41.897+13:00My apologies, Ideologically Impure. Please choose ...My apologies, Ideologically Impure. Please choose the least filthy from the following:<br /><br />One should never confuse ...<br /><br />Vodka with Orange<br />Gin with Tonic<br />Rum with Coke<br />Whiskey with WaterChris Trotterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09081613281183460899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-32099814037150279962011-02-22T15:38:35.844+13:002011-02-22T15:38:35.844+13:00It would seem Womens Studies was/is no longer effe...It would seem Womens Studies was/is no longer effective in establishing solidarity, possibly because of a lack of class consciousness. <br /><br />I made a point to Prue Hyman some years ago about the risk that women working for their own wage would lose solidarity for women who were not working - Hannah sort of affirmed that by seeing WFF as somehow incentivising the wrong choice for women (even though it took tens of thousands of children out of working poor two income family poverty and kept home ownership affordable for struggling middle class families). Whereas my criticism of WFF is that it is not based (with tax credits add ons where still required) on the payment of the dole to any non working partner (not being work tested for raising up children - as per the DPB) - to note that 2 wages (and the woman working is the norm) and those deprived of that second job will struggle to own a home and save for retirement. <br /><br />Was not feminism about choice, rather than abandoning women without jobs (and their children) to poverty? Where Hannah sort of says women can only have a career if they have their children placed in child care and never take time off work when having a family (barring our 12 week parental leave). And seems to think that feminism is about not helping those women who are not working. This fits the right-wing meme about reducing support to the unemployed and poor and instead transferring tax cuts to the more successful. <br /><br />I promoted the idea of payment of a social wage/dole to the non working partner to Laila Harre when she was Womens Affiars Minister in the first term of the last Labour government. It would place women with partners and those on the DPB on an equal footing and this would maitain solidarity amongst women and prevent the divide and conquest of women and their families that this government is now trying to exploit by bashing beneficiaries to place downward pressure on wages.SPCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-23615103080276867762011-02-22T03:56:38.668+13:002011-02-22T03:56:38.668+13:00Women's studies should go - because if no-one ...Women's studies should go - because if no-one of it's beneficiaries can be found to defend it, it is truly worthless.<br /><br />And 'the climate of fear is that great' Paradoxical Cat? Really? For those Womens Studies academics who were losing their jobs? What did they have to fear or lose? At least Hannah had the guts to front up and try.<br /><br />Perhaps the lack of WS academic rigor was felt to be indefensible? Like defending scholarships for female university students, when they had become a majority. Hard to be oppressed when you set the agenda, eh?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-87086613159686972562011-02-21T23:22:39.478+13:002011-02-21T23:22:39.478+13:00I'm assuming I'm Coke, because bourbon is ...I'm assuming I'm Coke, because bourbon is filthy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-11454030054919769062011-02-21T18:02:40.240+13:002011-02-21T18:02:40.240+13:00Poor Hannah
She can't help being young and ig...Poor Hannah<br /><br />She can't help being young and ignorant.<br /><br />Us geriatrics were all like that at one time. It's just that we spouted a different brand of muddled certainty.<br /><br />Wisdom might come with age. But so, alas, do back ache and memory loss!Victornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-63824612541351462232011-02-20T23:20:35.466+13:002011-02-20T23:20:35.466+13:00My apologies, Ideologically Impure, for lumping yo...My apologies, Ideologically Impure, for lumping you in with the Hand Mirror set. One should never confuse Bourbon with Coke.Chris Trotterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09081613281183460899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-40325428399719065592011-02-20T17:18:59.978+13:002011-02-20T17:18:59.978+13:00Not sure I qualify as part of "The Hand Mirro...Not sure I qualify as part of "The Hand Mirror set" but always happy to get a plug, Chris.<br /><br />I can't comment on why other women might have declined to participate and certainly appreciate you asking the question you did of the producers. But who else to ask? Only a very few bloggers (on whatever part of the political spectrum) get rated as "experts" or "commentators" by the media, and once you start to look specifically for explictly feminist women who is there beyond the academics and the still-prominent second-wavers, who do to be blunt have other jobs to do? <br /><br />We just don't have a feminist equivalent of <i>you</i>, and once one's exhausted feminism the Left seems the next best thing (in media commentary as in everything else).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-80995135445990059432011-02-20T16:11:24.236+13:002011-02-20T16:11:24.236+13:00I tried but I couldn't watch till the end. Wh...I tried but I couldn't watch till the end. Where did they find Hannah? Who on earth chose her to be on the show? It'll take me a wee while to overcome feeling furious at her pathetic - and that's me trying to be charitable - contribution.<br />ReaderAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-75930066639311022812011-02-19T22:19:25.404+13:002011-02-19T22:19:25.404+13:00Yes I watched the show in horror... I thought you ...Yes I watched the show in horror... I thought you did a good job representing NZ women. The incredible disconnect between women from different classes in NZ was evident in the show. And yes, NZ has had a few female CEOs women in power, but that glass ceiling largely discussed during the show is yet to be broken everywhere in the world.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-78172268016035316742011-02-19T19:45:14.073+13:002011-02-19T19:45:14.073+13:00Here’s George Gilder on Steinem et al, way back in...Here’s George Gilder on Steinem et al, way back in 1973:<br /><br />“Most of the proponents (of Women’s Lib) are graduate students, assistant professors, journalists, and various lumpen litterateurs; products of distended education and stinted experience, permissive sex and cynical love; or else they are wives and mothers manqué, having their revenge on the world of men. An indefatigable few are lesbians or dildotage activists.<br />“But mostly they are young and intellectual, sufferring from the simultaneous contraction of opportunity and inflation of prestige affecting most of their age and profession. Spoiled by doting parents during the postwar binge of pretentious motherhood, beneficiaries of a steadily ascending familial affluence, taught to expect too much of life, educated to believe that qualifications decide, and qualified as no previous female generation – these women simply have no idea how most people live, or why”.<br />(from “Sexual Suicide”, by George Gilder, Quadrangle 1973)<br />--------------------<br />So what were you expecting?WAKE UPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09136292620916207019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-54170806806061404922011-02-18T19:08:04.113+13:002011-02-18T19:08:04.113+13:00What are they teaching those kids at journo school...What are they teaching those kids at journo school these days? How to wear pretty frocks and lipstick?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-65185044156182509152011-02-18T15:21:59.986+13:002011-02-18T15:21:59.986+13:00Sadly Yoko Ono is still correct, but she also says...Sadly Yoko Ono is still correct, but she also says "think about it, do something about it".Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10780306566590034623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-1142144704566177722011-02-18T14:57:19.372+13:002011-02-18T14:57:19.372+13:00Good grief.....her argument 'I finished the co...Good grief.....her argument 'I finished the course' was compelling though.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-33020211617991432702011-02-18T14:16:32.463+13:002011-02-18T14:16:32.463+13:00What is it about you Chris that you wind up on the...What is it about you Chris that you wind up on the barricades defending lost causes?<br /><br /><br />MickAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-48437998342488685332011-02-18T11:27:06.320+13:002011-02-18T11:27:06.320+13:00Yes. The climate of fear really is that great.Yes. The climate of fear really is that great.The Paradoxical Cathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10100658773584057280noreply@blogger.com