Thanks for following up. The book is actually "Sharing Wisdom - A process for group decision making" by Mary Benet McKinney, a Catholic nun. Simply the concept is that everybody in a group has something to contribute to a discussion and that it is up to other group members or chairman to ensure everybody get an opportunity to contribute. Often the observers or less confident have valuable, insightful contributions to make to a the discussion.
Haha, I love your description of the experience with people who just don't want to know. Unfortunately that is a reflection of the age. They either don't care or are so we'd to an ideology that they will cancel any opposition.
Despite what the ideologues say, I believe the Australian newspaper hS the most balanced reporting, always presenting both sides of an issue from knowledgable contributors, not just journalists.
Janet Albrechtsen and a team have been on the Higgins/Lehman case since the beginning. It was always dodgy and the truth is finally coming out. Potentially there has been, at best, a miscarriage of justice, at worst, a corruption of our government for political reasons. The media has been complicit every step of they way. It has a long way to run. The ACT DPP has gone, others will also get a mentioned in the report by Sogranoff Inquiry into the case. Do your own research, keep your own mind and see what unfolds. Happy to discuss it with you.
Ozzie living in Switzerland. German speaking part.
I've gone from Left to ?? but not left anymore... due to the Labor ladies. Tanya was my local Federal Politician when I lived in Sydney.. but I stopped voting after a while but I try to remain open, on a good day :) :) :).
This is well said and thank you: " Potentially there has been, at best, a miscarriage of justice, at worst, a corruption of our government for political reasons. The media has been complicit every step of they way. It has a long way to run. "
What you say here: "Often the observers or less confident have valuable, insightful contributions to make to a the discussion." This has been my experience when I'm in a rather passive mood.. or rambling.. people think I'm just a whinging drama queen but actually there is some good stuff underneath :) but I'm trying to redesign my approach.. hence my question about the book.
I cannot understand this discord between the male and female gender, being pushed mainly by women. We have our differences but they are well balanced. My father was the disciplinarian and my mother the counsellor. My father tilled the soil and grew vegetables; my mother baked and cooked. so simple and yet it worked.......well, until all this activism.
Gradually the wheel turns against this rubbish. Thanks for calling it out. What happened to just accepting people as they are, allow them to achieve on merit. I started work in the early 1970's in medical research and my first to two bosses were women. I never gave it a thought.
I note that Olympic boxer Harry Garside had all domestic violence charges against him dropped when a video showed the complainant was the aggressor. Thank God, otherwise he would have gone down.
I am thoroughly enjoying the unfolding or should I say the demolition of the Higgins case by Janet Albrechtsen in the Australian. It's a moving train wreck and has a long way to go.
Bless you for your bold stand for fairness over decades.
Am just putting together some comments on the Higgins case. Janet is doing a great job. I will include extracts of her material as attachments to my blog so people who don't subscribe to The Australian can see what is emerging there.
That's great. That is part of the problem. Whilst the Australian or SkyNews are far from perfect you at least get informed views from across the spectrum. I belong to a local U3A discussion group and a constantly shut down with "that's not true" or once, "I don't know what world you get your information from" or other snide remarks. These have been professional people. I joined expecting robust discussion from which I could learn. One of my sons is just as, scathing in his attacks on me for just holding certain views. I long ago stopped even raising my views in his presence but that's not enough. Recently telling me he felt my views were a danger to my grandson and in future I was not to see my grandson unchaperoned. Seriously. I told him, nicely, that that was untenable and I would allow the lad to make up his own mind when he's ready.
I've served on a local council and loved the diverse discussions aimed at obtaining the best outcome. One of my favourite books is "Shared Wisdom", on achieving involvement from all involved in a discussion. The Higgins case continues to blow up. It could be a watershed. If it was Dan Andrews and the Victorian press, Albo would just stare it down but I don't think that will happen. Too many aggrieved people keen to get justice. But the ABC barely mention it. Sad, what are we to do with this once great institution?
Hello Andrew, the book you mentioned: Shared Wisdom. Is this the one? >>> Shared Wisdom by Jeffrey H. Mahan, Barbara B. Troxell, Carol J. Allen ?
I've been reading a lot about the Higgins v Lehrmann case and all the 'unfolding' news and despite going to many outlets, friends either don't want to know about it or they pick up on my rambling, gossipy, bitchy, f*cked off with the world situation and don't want to discuss it. I don't blame them on one hand but somehow I want to form some semblance of truth at the end... I certainly don't think all political parties are free of 'sh*t' but deliberately using people to achieve their own political agenda is a bit rich and especially when some people act like they are 'pristine'.
With the latest release of texts and then Labor 'operatives' being involved - maybe less or more than the News Papers are saying, I'm certainly starting to form an image of why Bettina has been wanting to educate us all about the biases and I must admit I'm shocked actually about the 'operatives'.. If I never knew about this, then I continue to live as I live but now it is out in the wild and I cannot turn a blind eye anymore.....
My partner is very clear about some things and sometimes cannot understand my 'shock', but then he has sat in on: theosophical meetings, Church councils, psychological boards, psychiatric clinics and noticed all the 'sh*t' that goes on and has developed a way of cutting through all the shit; but I've never had such experience and it is quite often 'renting the veil' from my eyes...
Switzerland has an U3A group through Zürich University.. I might have to investigate... thanks for the information...
Another great piece Bettina. I’ve been at the forefront of watching the development of computer made music since the early 90s. The technological leaps have been staggering: today you can do what the Beatles did in Abbey Road all inside the computer.
In these intervening decades I have only seen one female producer in the genre, out of literally thousands of boys and men. Apart from the occasional session female vocalist, none show
interest in how we construct tracks in our computer studios. We tried to train one young lady but she lost interest after a few hours!
I think its beyond contention now, as that classical composer you cite in that article does, that men have innate skills in the arts. It follows as Chris Hitchens said somewhat jocularly, that women can’t do comedy, simply because men are the ones having to impress (to gain access to reproduction) That doesn’t rule out the genius of women like Joan Rivers, but it does seem as they are far more rare than the feminists first imagined.
I completely agree that the feminists have become completely desperate in their claims of equality and social constructionism and what we see around us is the heinous result of this desperation: you see it in all the feminist Hollywood and media output - from The Rings of Power to She Hulk. The irony is that they have the power, but they show that they cannot compete with men in these creative fields.
No matter how many achievements women make in this modern time they can not dispute the fact that the millions of inventions, discoveries and achievements of the human race over thousands of years have been the work of men in almost every case .
This is a fact and women should accept it, some years ago a survey was conducted and the results showed that , women could think of many things at the same time and multitask , whereas men could only concentrate on one thing at a time , the feminists seized on with glee as "proof" that women where superior.
But it was pointed out to them that this quirk of men was the reason so many things had been invented by men, the ability to focus doggedly on one pursuit ignoring all else, even their own health until some breakthrough is achieved is the way many men did make or discover great things to benefit the world.
Women and men are products of a million years of evolution , women have the onerous duty to ensure the survival of the species , a man's contribution is fleeting in comparison , why can't women be happy with this arrangement and see it as a strength , so what if men can do many things better .
It might be worth your while looking at the medical practitioner data in Ireland. Post the introduction of free university education in Ireland the number of graduates doubled within five years , and that was noticeable in the medical profession. At the time the Irish health system was struggling to provide a service particularly in country towns in Ireland. The answer was to promote new medical graduates to set up GP practices in local communities. What was not noticed was the high number of females graduating in medicine . Local towns were happy to see new practices . As things got better local communities realised that the female doctors started to go part time largely to look after their new families . Those that did not get jobs in hospitals or trained as a GP migrated to the UK, Canada NZ and Australia. Ireland needed more doctors . The government started to ask questions of the universities for their advice in terms of training more doctors. The advice that came back “ allow more male students “ into medical course even if their entrance scores are less than female applications. No guessing , the statistics of successful applications were more from women . The outcome advice was that selecting male students were a better long term investment especially for those that train as GP’s.
I can relate to your frustation at touring the Hearst Castle and hearing only about the female architect!
Giving priority to women's involvement in any story is becoming the norm across all media. In 2015 the ABC celebrated the ANZAC anniversary with a series about the nurses. The Bletchely Girls (BBC, 2012-14) was the story of the *women* involved in one of the major victories of WWII - the English codebreakers, most of whom were men ("nerdy", of course). There's the new "Rings of Power" (Amazon's version of LoTF) and the recasting of many "action" franchises with female leads. Doctor Who, James Bond (mooted).. the list is endless... I took a tour of the Adelaide Art Gallery in 2018, and the tour focussed on female artists, and how their art represented their defiance of male "oppression".
More ominously, and bizarrely, we are getting the charities recasting "homelessness" as a "women's issue", and the Christian churches, including the RCC, putting their female participants in the forefront of PR photos and announcements. The few males are carefully arranged to lead with those of color and then the youth (who look decidedly "woke").
Of course, it's all fine in moderation. I assume that women are especially interested in other women, and men will also applaud a genuine outstanding achievement, but the blanket celebration of women and denigration of male "heros", especially straight, white ones, is poisonous to young men. It also suggests an agenda, such that if women aren't 50+ percent of something desirable, then it must be because of "discrimination".
Janice Fiamengo put it humorously...
"We can all predict that the new partner in the police procedural, let’s say a petite black woman whose entrance surprises (and thus reveals the bigotry of) the white man she’ll be working with, will turn out to be the biggest badass on the force. She’ll almost certainly save her partner’s life—and unearth a crime-solving detail he’d overlooked—before the first episode is over. At the same time, viewers will be treated to her sneering refusal of the partner’s banter, her steely gaze, and her fearless embrace of outrider status. "
I can imagine your sense of dread as the Yosemite tour guide built up to "and this climber was a woman!!!". Hehe.. I'm sure you saw it coming! How embarassing that many of the women cheered - and how ominous for the men in their lives. It's such cliche! I've encountered this for most of my 64 years, yet many intelligent people (male and female) fall for it EVERY SINGLE TIME!
It all reminds me of the mocking laughter my ex wife and I used to have when imitating Communist Science Textbooks she endured before escaping from Czechoslovakia. Stalin and Lenin were incredible innovators it seemed, but then so were the British according to my jingoistic father who idolised the Americans due to Mars bars from GI's during WW2, and continued insisting we go to church because it helped them all survive the war. In the 'nexus' of Trumpism, the revisionism post Howard, Keating's delusion that people just got another job after the 'Recession We Had To Have', and the release of leisure time by computerisation, along with the infinite plethora of delusional popular announcements including justifications for gambling and that 'addiction to nicotine alone is not harmful', it should not be surprising that self interested fables continue. The idea that the court system is led by dogma rather than evidence, as just yesterday was admitted to by a law professor on the ABC in relation to Kathleen Foggit, is of no surprise to anyone having survived the milestone in contemporary life of The Family Court, where child centred rhetoric decided on by ill-informed legal professionals who know next to nothing about bringing up children, and believe authority must be asserted to discipline children. Dogma continues it seems to be something expected in institutions beyond the Catholic Church and its legates.
Our current Labor government is pushing their agenda for everyone in the workplace be paid the same, of course this push is coming from Unions. My question is will this apply to women in the top of their field in their chosen career all of a sudden see new employees ( males) with less experience get the same pay. Can one imagine the outcry from females, for example nurses, police, ambos etc.
Welcome back Bettina...the war is on both men and women "these days"....trans rights matter! I see it as short sighted, sugar hit seeking, short span of attention, knowledge ignorant "activists" searching for relevance...mass media platforms/conduits just boosting all this hysteria...
Thank you for the article. I'm reminded, (constantly - aren't we all), of the multitude of 'Woman of the Year' awards in whatever professional field. I wonder how many there are in the western world. Have they even been counted? While the winner is on stage collecting her award the rest of us have to act like village idiots who stop and point at passing aircraft. Apparently a woman doing her job well is as rare and confounding as a giant metal bird.
Except Bettina (and Janice), who is always 100% on it.
Thanks, Tina, for another fine piece. The phenomenon of lauding women and ignoring men is hardly new. Back in the 80s, we went through a spasm of books claiming that the wives of famous men were really the ones responsible for the men's accomplishments. For example, Of Oona Jeffers did the job on the poet Robinson Jeffers. It's another form of affirmative action for women and as long as it continues, women, along with the men ignored or trashed, will suffer.
I went to see Warren ~20 y ago when he was promoting myth of male power in NZ. It resonated hugely with me. He got savaged by a feminist interviewer on our main TV channel barely being allowed to speak. Cassie's film was fantastic too being so accessible.
Another wonderful article Bettina. Lovely to hear about your partner. He is a lucky man. Thanks also for the postscript regarding Cassie Jaye and Warren Farrell. Together with Janice Fiamengo, these 3 people and yourself are heroes of mine. I read and absorb everything I can about them/you. To me all of you are top end free thinkers able to see through the smoke screen we live in and also challenge and sometimes help to change or refine my thinking. Sincere thanks.
30 years ago, my brother, who worked in the science department of a girls' grammar school, suffered a decree from the head mistress (as she was called) that the physics lab should have posters of women scientists only. Notwithstanding the outstanding contribution that women have made in science and maths, he argued that that distorts the history of science somewhat. Never mind, it will be inspiring. And so the girls enjoyed the sight of Madam Curie (twice Nobel Laureate) in her freezing laboratory in black and white. The curriculum as a T-shirt campaign. He also speaks of the big-push "Girls in Science and Technology" campaign in the UK in the 80s which commanded a lot of attention. Meanwhile the failure of boys in modern languages was firmly overlooked. And the outcome of GIST? Who knows?
Thanks for following up. The book is actually "Sharing Wisdom - A process for group decision making" by Mary Benet McKinney, a Catholic nun. Simply the concept is that everybody in a group has something to contribute to a discussion and that it is up to other group members or chairman to ensure everybody get an opportunity to contribute. Often the observers or less confident have valuable, insightful contributions to make to a the discussion.
Haha, I love your description of the experience with people who just don't want to know. Unfortunately that is a reflection of the age. They either don't care or are so we'd to an ideology that they will cancel any opposition.
Despite what the ideologues say, I believe the Australian newspaper hS the most balanced reporting, always presenting both sides of an issue from knowledgable contributors, not just journalists.
Janet Albrechtsen and a team have been on the Higgins/Lehman case since the beginning. It was always dodgy and the truth is finally coming out. Potentially there has been, at best, a miscarriage of justice, at worst, a corruption of our government for political reasons. The media has been complicit every step of they way. It has a long way to run. The ACT DPP has gone, others will also get a mentioned in the report by Sogranoff Inquiry into the case. Do your own research, keep your own mind and see what unfolds. Happy to discuss it with you.
Where are you located?
Kind regards
Andrew
Thank you for the book information.
Ozzie living in Switzerland. German speaking part.
I've gone from Left to ?? but not left anymore... due to the Labor ladies. Tanya was my local Federal Politician when I lived in Sydney.. but I stopped voting after a while but I try to remain open, on a good day :) :) :).
This is well said and thank you: " Potentially there has been, at best, a miscarriage of justice, at worst, a corruption of our government for political reasons. The media has been complicit every step of they way. It has a long way to run. "
What you say here: "Often the observers or less confident have valuable, insightful contributions to make to a the discussion." This has been my experience when I'm in a rather passive mood.. or rambling.. people think I'm just a whinging drama queen but actually there is some good stuff underneath :) but I'm trying to redesign my approach.. hence my question about the book.
Kindly,
Jamie
I cannot understand this discord between the male and female gender, being pushed mainly by women. We have our differences but they are well balanced. My father was the disciplinarian and my mother the counsellor. My father tilled the soil and grew vegetables; my mother baked and cooked. so simple and yet it worked.......well, until all this activism.
I liked the expression that men produced the raw materials and women refined them.
Hi Bettina,
Gradually the wheel turns against this rubbish. Thanks for calling it out. What happened to just accepting people as they are, allow them to achieve on merit. I started work in the early 1970's in medical research and my first to two bosses were women. I never gave it a thought.
I note that Olympic boxer Harry Garside had all domestic violence charges against him dropped when a video showed the complainant was the aggressor. Thank God, otherwise he would have gone down.
I am thoroughly enjoying the unfolding or should I say the demolition of the Higgins case by Janet Albrechtsen in the Australian. It's a moving train wreck and has a long way to go.
Bless you for your bold stand for fairness over decades.
Kind regards
Andrew Banks
Am just putting together some comments on the Higgins case. Janet is doing a great job. I will include extracts of her material as attachments to my blog so people who don't subscribe to The Australian can see what is emerging there.
looking forward to any comments.
That's great. That is part of the problem. Whilst the Australian or SkyNews are far from perfect you at least get informed views from across the spectrum. I belong to a local U3A discussion group and a constantly shut down with "that's not true" or once, "I don't know what world you get your information from" or other snide remarks. These have been professional people. I joined expecting robust discussion from which I could learn. One of my sons is just as, scathing in his attacks on me for just holding certain views. I long ago stopped even raising my views in his presence but that's not enough. Recently telling me he felt my views were a danger to my grandson and in future I was not to see my grandson unchaperoned. Seriously. I told him, nicely, that that was untenable and I would allow the lad to make up his own mind when he's ready.
I've served on a local council and loved the diverse discussions aimed at obtaining the best outcome. One of my favourite books is "Shared Wisdom", on achieving involvement from all involved in a discussion. The Higgins case continues to blow up. It could be a watershed. If it was Dan Andrews and the Victorian press, Albo would just stare it down but I don't think that will happen. Too many aggrieved people keen to get justice. But the ABC barely mention it. Sad, what are we to do with this once great institution?
Love your work.
Andrew Banks
Hello Andrew, the book you mentioned: Shared Wisdom. Is this the one? >>> Shared Wisdom by Jeffrey H. Mahan, Barbara B. Troxell, Carol J. Allen ?
I've been reading a lot about the Higgins v Lehrmann case and all the 'unfolding' news and despite going to many outlets, friends either don't want to know about it or they pick up on my rambling, gossipy, bitchy, f*cked off with the world situation and don't want to discuss it. I don't blame them on one hand but somehow I want to form some semblance of truth at the end... I certainly don't think all political parties are free of 'sh*t' but deliberately using people to achieve their own political agenda is a bit rich and especially when some people act like they are 'pristine'.
With the latest release of texts and then Labor 'operatives' being involved - maybe less or more than the News Papers are saying, I'm certainly starting to form an image of why Bettina has been wanting to educate us all about the biases and I must admit I'm shocked actually about the 'operatives'.. If I never knew about this, then I continue to live as I live but now it is out in the wild and I cannot turn a blind eye anymore.....
My partner is very clear about some things and sometimes cannot understand my 'shock', but then he has sat in on: theosophical meetings, Church councils, psychological boards, psychiatric clinics and noticed all the 'sh*t' that goes on and has developed a way of cutting through all the shit; but I've never had such experience and it is quite often 'renting the veil' from my eyes...
Switzerland has an U3A group through Zürich University.. I might have to investigate... thanks for the information...
Another great piece Bettina. I’ve been at the forefront of watching the development of computer made music since the early 90s. The technological leaps have been staggering: today you can do what the Beatles did in Abbey Road all inside the computer.
In these intervening decades I have only seen one female producer in the genre, out of literally thousands of boys and men. Apart from the occasional session female vocalist, none show
interest in how we construct tracks in our computer studios. We tried to train one young lady but she lost interest after a few hours!
I think its beyond contention now, as that classical composer you cite in that article does, that men have innate skills in the arts. It follows as Chris Hitchens said somewhat jocularly, that women can’t do comedy, simply because men are the ones having to impress (to gain access to reproduction) That doesn’t rule out the genius of women like Joan Rivers, but it does seem as they are far more rare than the feminists first imagined.
I completely agree that the feminists have become completely desperate in their claims of equality and social constructionism and what we see around us is the heinous result of this desperation: you see it in all the feminist Hollywood and media output - from The Rings of Power to She Hulk. The irony is that they have the power, but they show that they cannot compete with men in these creative fields.
But Derpetology101, um, where can I find this podcast?
No matter how many achievements women make in this modern time they can not dispute the fact that the millions of inventions, discoveries and achievements of the human race over thousands of years have been the work of men in almost every case .
This is a fact and women should accept it, some years ago a survey was conducted and the results showed that , women could think of many things at the same time and multitask , whereas men could only concentrate on one thing at a time , the feminists seized on with glee as "proof" that women where superior.
But it was pointed out to them that this quirk of men was the reason so many things had been invented by men, the ability to focus doggedly on one pursuit ignoring all else, even their own health until some breakthrough is achieved is the way many men did make or discover great things to benefit the world.
Women and men are products of a million years of evolution , women have the onerous duty to ensure the survival of the species , a man's contribution is fleeting in comparison , why can't women be happy with this arrangement and see it as a strength , so what if men can do many things better .
Hi Bettina
It might be worth your while looking at the medical practitioner data in Ireland. Post the introduction of free university education in Ireland the number of graduates doubled within five years , and that was noticeable in the medical profession. At the time the Irish health system was struggling to provide a service particularly in country towns in Ireland. The answer was to promote new medical graduates to set up GP practices in local communities. What was not noticed was the high number of females graduating in medicine . Local towns were happy to see new practices . As things got better local communities realised that the female doctors started to go part time largely to look after their new families . Those that did not get jobs in hospitals or trained as a GP migrated to the UK, Canada NZ and Australia. Ireland needed more doctors . The government started to ask questions of the universities for their advice in terms of training more doctors. The advice that came back “ allow more male students “ into medical course even if their entrance scores are less than female applications. No guessing , the statistics of successful applications were more from women . The outcome advice was that selecting male students were a better long term investment especially for those that train as GP’s.
Thanks, David. If you have any references re all this could you please send to me. contact@bettinaarndt.com.au?
I can relate to your frustation at touring the Hearst Castle and hearing only about the female architect!
Giving priority to women's involvement in any story is becoming the norm across all media. In 2015 the ABC celebrated the ANZAC anniversary with a series about the nurses. The Bletchely Girls (BBC, 2012-14) was the story of the *women* involved in one of the major victories of WWII - the English codebreakers, most of whom were men ("nerdy", of course). There's the new "Rings of Power" (Amazon's version of LoTF) and the recasting of many "action" franchises with female leads. Doctor Who, James Bond (mooted).. the list is endless... I took a tour of the Adelaide Art Gallery in 2018, and the tour focussed on female artists, and how their art represented their defiance of male "oppression".
More ominously, and bizarrely, we are getting the charities recasting "homelessness" as a "women's issue", and the Christian churches, including the RCC, putting their female participants in the forefront of PR photos and announcements. The few males are carefully arranged to lead with those of color and then the youth (who look decidedly "woke").
Of course, it's all fine in moderation. I assume that women are especially interested in other women, and men will also applaud a genuine outstanding achievement, but the blanket celebration of women and denigration of male "heros", especially straight, white ones, is poisonous to young men. It also suggests an agenda, such that if women aren't 50+ percent of something desirable, then it must be because of "discrimination".
Janice Fiamengo put it humorously...
"We can all predict that the new partner in the police procedural, let’s say a petite black woman whose entrance surprises (and thus reveals the bigotry of) the white man she’ll be working with, will turn out to be the biggest badass on the force. She’ll almost certainly save her partner’s life—and unearth a crime-solving detail he’d overlooked—before the first episode is over. At the same time, viewers will be treated to her sneering refusal of the partner’s banter, her steely gaze, and her fearless embrace of outrider status. "
I can imagine your sense of dread as the Yosemite tour guide built up to "and this climber was a woman!!!". Hehe.. I'm sure you saw it coming! How embarassing that many of the women cheered - and how ominous for the men in their lives. It's such cliche! I've encountered this for most of my 64 years, yet many intelligent people (male and female) fall for it EVERY SINGLE TIME!
You've done a great job pulling together some of the other very relevant threads to this story, Stephen.
It all reminds me of the mocking laughter my ex wife and I used to have when imitating Communist Science Textbooks she endured before escaping from Czechoslovakia. Stalin and Lenin were incredible innovators it seemed, but then so were the British according to my jingoistic father who idolised the Americans due to Mars bars from GI's during WW2, and continued insisting we go to church because it helped them all survive the war. In the 'nexus' of Trumpism, the revisionism post Howard, Keating's delusion that people just got another job after the 'Recession We Had To Have', and the release of leisure time by computerisation, along with the infinite plethora of delusional popular announcements including justifications for gambling and that 'addiction to nicotine alone is not harmful', it should not be surprising that self interested fables continue. The idea that the court system is led by dogma rather than evidence, as just yesterday was admitted to by a law professor on the ABC in relation to Kathleen Foggit, is of no surprise to anyone having survived the milestone in contemporary life of The Family Court, where child centred rhetoric decided on by ill-informed legal professionals who know next to nothing about bringing up children, and believe authority must be asserted to discipline children. Dogma continues it seems to be something expected in institutions beyond the Catholic Church and its legates.
Our current Labor government is pushing their agenda for everyone in the workplace be paid the same, of course this push is coming from Unions. My question is will this apply to women in the top of their field in their chosen career all of a sudden see new employees ( males) with less experience get the same pay. Can one imagine the outcry from females, for example nurses, police, ambos etc.
Welcome back Bettina...the war is on both men and women "these days"....trans rights matter! I see it as short sighted, sugar hit seeking, short span of attention, knowledge ignorant "activists" searching for relevance...mass media platforms/conduits just boosting all this hysteria...
Thank you for the article. I'm reminded, (constantly - aren't we all), of the multitude of 'Woman of the Year' awards in whatever professional field. I wonder how many there are in the western world. Have they even been counted? While the winner is on stage collecting her award the rest of us have to act like village idiots who stop and point at passing aircraft. Apparently a woman doing her job well is as rare and confounding as a giant metal bird.
Except Bettina (and Janice), who is always 100% on it.
Thanks, Tina, for another fine piece. The phenomenon of lauding women and ignoring men is hardly new. Back in the 80s, we went through a spasm of books claiming that the wives of famous men were really the ones responsible for the men's accomplishments. For example, Of Oona Jeffers did the job on the poet Robinson Jeffers. It's another form of affirmative action for women and as long as it continues, women, along with the men ignored or trashed, will suffer.
Keep it up Bettina
I went to see Warren ~20 y ago when he was promoting myth of male power in NZ. It resonated hugely with me. He got savaged by a feminist interviewer on our main TV channel barely being allowed to speak. Cassie's film was fantastic too being so accessible.
Another wonderful article Bettina. Lovely to hear about your partner. He is a lucky man. Thanks also for the postscript regarding Cassie Jaye and Warren Farrell. Together with Janice Fiamengo, these 3 people and yourself are heroes of mine. I read and absorb everything I can about them/you. To me all of you are top end free thinkers able to see through the smoke screen we live in and also challenge and sometimes help to change or refine my thinking. Sincere thanks.
30 years ago, my brother, who worked in the science department of a girls' grammar school, suffered a decree from the head mistress (as she was called) that the physics lab should have posters of women scientists only. Notwithstanding the outstanding contribution that women have made in science and maths, he argued that that distorts the history of science somewhat. Never mind, it will be inspiring. And so the girls enjoyed the sight of Madam Curie (twice Nobel Laureate) in her freezing laboratory in black and white. The curriculum as a T-shirt campaign. He also speaks of the big-push "Girls in Science and Technology" campaign in the UK in the 80s which commanded a lot of attention. Meanwhile the failure of boys in modern languages was firmly overlooked. And the outcome of GIST? Who knows?