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Peter Swan: Bettina, I have known you since you were only five years old. I have seen you mature and blossom like your famous father. However, you never shared his youthful socialist views which fortunately he grew out of. You played a prominent role on the ANU Council when it was very different from its current image and then honed your excellent journalistic skills in the controversial arena of marriage and sex counselling. Nowadays you are perhaps the only public figure supporting an oppressed class looked down on by society - namely males and especially white males. Well done and my congratulations. If he were still around, Heinz would be extremely proud of his daughter's exceptional achievements.

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Another wonderful article which simply acknowledges the truth in a world where to do so is forbidden if you wish to find success or popularity or simply keep your job.

Just this week I learned that my grandson's primary school carried out an act of such sheer bigotry and injustice I could explode. Because the story does not directly involve my grandson it would be inappropriate for my daughter or myself to intervene though if I was a member of that school community I would express my outrage.

The school has a had a footy team for many years. Recently a handful of the grade six girls said they wished to play footy. Fair enough. If they exhibit even a modicum of ability and knowledge of the game they should be able to participate. But then the announcement came that any girl who wishes to play footy is automatically guaranteed a place in the team. Fifteen girls eagerly signed up for the footy team leaving room for on a handful of boys who had played all of their young lives and were passionate not only about playing but following this great game.

One of the boys ( a boyI have met and been deeply impressed by) was disgusted. He is one of the best players but he said he will not be playing footy this year. His mates agreed and all of the boys signed up to play netball. The principal stepped in and announced that the boys could play netball but only in the B team! The A team remained girls only.

This sums up our society. The benefits of gender diversification only ever extend in one direction. The scout movement is forced to open its doors to girls while Girl Guides remain exclusively for girls. The AFL is berated for spending hundreds of millions of dollars on the establishment of a women's league because it should have happened a lot earlier. Netball Australia has made no move to create a pathway for young boys who love the game and wish to play it at the highest level and the real kicker is that nobody points this out or demands something be done about this bigoted . close minded attitude.

You cannot escape the feminist ideology which underpins every aspect of our society today from the countless roadside crews who all happen to have their female workers holding the stop signs all day while the men dig, climb telegraph poles, drive heavy machinery and climb down drains to the female cops who strut around all five feet of them with tubby tummies and a big holster and gun hanging off their hips. And this is supposed to fill with a sense of security at the footy or train station should any trouble break out.

We see it every night in our news , the way our legal system operates, the double standards in reactions to players misbehavior and in the world of entertainment female superiority, achievement and oppression is rammed down our throats in alleged historical dramas every night.

We live in a LIE. If you call it out you face consequences. Thanks for calling it out, Bettina.

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