Since I can't find it in cyberspace, here's Michael Laws' article about women ruling New Zealand [soon to be the world]. It shouldn't be worse than the 20th century which saw mayhem on the grandest scale ever. Meanwhile, we guys can have War of the Worlds in Cyberspace.
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Michael Laws .... Sunday Star Times, 27 August Y2K.
OK, ENOUGH is enough. The madness stops now or you'll destroy everything we hold dear and sacred. And look at the damage you've already done.
The dollar for a start. So far down it's beyond the scope of a Norwegian dive team. How bad is the dollar? Well let's put it this way - Fiji has a coup, immolates its only industry [tourism], torches the homes of its only workers [the Indians] and their dollar is still worth more than ours. And we describe them as the Third World banana republic!
Take a good look at what you've done to the All Blacks. We've lost 10 tests in the last three years - t-e-n! The worst number of losses over any trinennial period in the history of the game. And always for the same reason - because our forwards have lost their mongrel, that muscular if brutal manhood that used to set us apart from the cocky Ockers and the poncy Poms.
And don't forget beer consumption. We used to be right up there with the Aussies and the Argies and the mad Huns. That's the real test of a man after all - how much piss he can sink and still recite The Ballad of Eskimo Nell. But look at us now - a country of pinot pooftahs and latte lickers. So much for our sons' birthright.
Before I forget: Racing. Just about every horse we breed either gets flogged across the Tasman or goes straight into a petfood tin. We have race meetings cancelled through lack of runners, tracks being closed, clubs amalgamated. And instead of reading decent journals like Best Bets and learning the mysteries of the tote, all our kids do is sit in front of the telly pushing buttons on their PlayStation. You can say what you like about the Friday Flash, but at least you had to be literate and numerate to read it.
Nah. You've ruined it - the godzone trinity of rugby, racing and beer. You've gone and stuffed everything that ever made us a Kiwi. Swamped us with all this new age, PC, tangata whenua matrix of dysfunctionalism crap. No wonder the kids are turning on to rap pap and rave drugs. They can't stand it either. Now I know we middle-aged heterosexual white boys with our grey hair and protruding bellies are unfashionable buggers. And I know we can't attempt anything that remotely resembles insight or intellect, empathy or enterprise. But isn't it time we were given our own indigenous homeland - our own bantustan if you like - where we can be our natural inarticulate, unfeeling and expressionless selves?
It's no surprise to me that the word "emasculate" follows "emancipate" in the dictionary. Because the appointment of a woman governor-general only confirms that the emancipation of women is beyond complete - that it has gone too far and ushered in the new matriarchy.
Now I know the position of governor-general is silly - a throwback to the days of another country's empire and confirmation of New Zealand's immaturity. And, geez, what a naff job - opening a few school fairs and handing out gongs twice a year. No one in their right mind would want it.
But the symbolism cannot be so easily dismissed - after all she's the top poohbah of the constitutional ladder. To go with the female prime minister and the female leader of the opposition. And the female chief justice and that female head of the Local Government Association with the mushroom cloud hairdo.
The gender primacy doesn't stop there. The country's leading diplomat, US ambassador Carol Moseley-Braun; the country's most influential political journalists Linda Clark, Victoria Main, Jane Young, Jane Clifton and Ruth Laugesen; the CEO of New Zealand's largest company, Telecom's Teresa Gattung; e-commerce leader Bronwen Evans of Beauty Direct ... and so on. Even this country's most influential magazines [and I'm talking real power here - the women's mags] are all run by women. And don't get me started on news editors and newspaper editors. Even this august communication is, yep, run by a woman. Oh, and most influential radio host, the darling of the glitterati? Kim bloody Hill. Another sheila.
Have you noticed something else about this trend? The top villains are now women - the top fraudsters, the top health officials, even the worst of the most recent child abusers. Although the chief whistleblower against this latter outrage is also a woman - Women's Refuge head Merepeka Raukawa-Tait. Battling away with chief cultural censor Tariana Turia and her tame houseboy Parekura. Even the professions aren't safe. The law is riddled with new women - law partners, crown prosecutors, royal commission judges.
No wonder poor old Trevor de Cleene gets his QC application vetoed from the top. Sorry mate: wrong gender, wrong colour, wrong age, wrong sexual orientation. Not a show.
Even the majority of medical undergraduates are women. You can't even escape from them in the privacy of a doctor's surgery.
It's no better in the our schools. Only 17% of our primary school teachers are male and they're all being hounded out. Forget what happens afterwards in the education system - the damage has been done by then. Those poor little boys never stood a chance. Taught us all that nonsense about not competing and respecting others' feelings. No wonder the All Black defence was so confused against the Boks - they didn't know whether to tackle them or hug them.
And that's where I cry enough. You can have everything else. You can have the Beehive, the government bureaucracy, the corporates, the professions, the media, the prisons and so on. You can have the lot. Don't care. But when all this namby-pamby PC matriarchy malarkey starts to infect the All Black forward pack then I draw the line.
You're tampering with the essence of what it is to be male. And this worm will turn - you can rest assured of that. Right after I do the dishes.
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He's slinging off at the current fashion to notice how many women there are running things in NZ, but many a truth is spoken in jest.
He left off several other media stars ['stars' in NZ context is a bit funny - people have relatives and friends as stars here]. He also didn't mention many others.
It really is a clean sweep! From the Queen on down.
It means something! It means more than the nice idea of gender equality. It's gone way beyond that [although the silly new Governor General was quoted as saying that women have still got a long way to go - I have no idea where she thinks they can go now since they've gone everywhere already].
My theory is that men are abandoning the political, judicial, and other 'domestic' stuff to women. So, where are the men? Since women who have children still have to take time out for quite a few years, whereas all males have to get out there and earn a living, [househusbands, dole-bludgers etc as exceptions], there should be a surplus of males. Not only has that surplus disappeared, so have a whole swarm of others.
Something big is going on!
For a start, there is a huge population collapse underway, contrary to conventional wisdom about population explosions. Women have to choose to have children now. They will be picky about it! That effect has already shown up in Japan and a few other countries.
With no surplus of people, wars of conquest and alpha male dominance will become a thing of the past [largely already is]. There will be no surplus of young, landless males to dump in the French Foreign Legion.
So, what's the big attraction to males now?
My theory is cyberspace. They are heading there by the million. That's the hot place for the young ones. Even we crusties are aware of it and hanging in there.
It's the new frontier. The New Paradigm is feeding on it and all the other technological achievements.
Anyway, I'm bored now so will go have a cup of tea and maybe think about something else...
Mqurice
PS: My golf is indifferent Tony! Too busy watching Tiger Woods. |
