Spin sisters and the poison pen.

It begs to question as to why The Australian newspaper saw fit to publish this article by Nikki Gemmell: "After the Women's World Cup, the future is roaring at dinosaur men". This is far from the truth as represented in these articles by other authors: The Empress Jenni Hermoso Has No Clothes

A Kiss Is Just a Kiss. The uproar over a fleeting outburst of uninhibited joy is ludicrous.

Telling bad or false stories as well as writing nasty notes are techniques used in female bullying behaviours. This is supported by factual research, not opinion. In a nutshell, this article in my opinion, has been deliberately written in a manner that is not only highly inflammatory and extremely sexist, but it is also denigrating the male gender - an extremely good example of demagogy.

The hypocrisy begins in the first sentence where she (her pronoun I assume) says;

Imagine if we grew up in a world without labels

She then goes on to liberally apply labels to the male gender and incorrectly assign blame to the wrong gender.

The patriarchy sticks its reductive little labels on women, has always done so; females exist under the great thumb of male expectation.

Yet if she bothered to expand her knowledge a little more, she might, just have discovered that it is not the patriarchy that conditions little girls and boys, but the mothers. Mothers are the people who are most responsible for transferring sexist attitudes, a study suggests.

One of the issues with the media Spin Sisters and their poison pens is the blinkered view of the world and the streetlight effect in the articles that they write. As Gemmell says

Men have kept us weak, quiet, subservient over millennia, in a vast ghosting; ignoring and reducing our achievements, strength, voice."

Modesta Pozzo in 1590 wrote;

Don't we see that men's rightful task is to go out to work and wear themselves out trying to accumulate wealth, as they were our factors or stewards, so that we can remain at home like the lady of the house directing work and enjoying the profit of their labors)

To make such a huge generalisation, I didn't realise that she was that old. Imagine living in a millennia that would mean she is more ancient than the dinosaurs she liberally denigrates. Again it is not men who condition children but their mothers who transfer their own sexist attitudes onto the children. Sadly in her age-old wisdom, she never met Modesta Pozzo.

It appears that the mother is a figure who has greater influence in the transference of discriminatory behaviour. According to Garaigordobil, "the degree of sexism in the mother is more linked to that of her sons or daughtersin comparison to the influence of the father.

Gemmell also asks "What were these men so afraid of?"

What men are afraid of is being the target of the next bloodthirsty feminist lynch mob, lynch mobs led by vigilante journalists. Men are afraid of the shaming tirades of angry women, of having their lives destroyed when seemingly harmless acts can lead to shame and humiliation. When such acts are weaponised, and every time a destructive woman wants to win an argument, she will guilt trip and shame her target.

The future is roaring at the dinosaur men, Luis Rubiales supreme among them right now.

Is this the sort of equal feminist future we want, one that is not based on mutual respect, but one that is driven by fear? Driven by guilt tripping and shaming?

I suspect within the halls of the once great The Australian newspaper they have their own special brand of Kool-Aid.