Cis-ters Are Doin' It For Themselves

Steyn On-line ^ | June 24, 2019 | Mark Steyn

[Twotone]

A familiar name from the comment section, Australian club member Kate Smyth joins us above the jump with this SteynOnline guest column.

I'm scared. I'm scared for women...

These were the opening words of a viral tweet on May 18th, after the result of the Australian federal election was announced. What did the tweeter - a prominent young professional - and her supporters have to fear?

The reinstalled (conservative-ish) prime minister, Scott Morrison, had not proposed oppressive "male guardianship" gender apartheid laws like those in Saudi Arabia. Not yet, at least. But on International Women's Day some months earlier he'd had the audacity to say: "We want to see women rise. But we don't want to see women rise only on the basis of others doing worse... you don't push some people down to lift some people up. And that is true about gender equality too."

Shocking stuff, right?

Needless to say, ScoMo's #ToxicMasculinity received widespread national and even international condemnation. His macro-aggression had been to point to the elephant in the room: the prevailing impression that "unconscious bias" (against women and girls) was being supplanted by conscious bias (against men and boys).

[bk1000]

They don’t listen. They don’t want to listen. They’ve made up their minds based on their feelings, and no pesky facts are going to change that. At some point restraint will be futile. We are going to have to crush this type of circular thought.

[melsec]

ScoMo is mister nice guy. He is for women as much as he is for men. What he is not is some leftist, slobbering, Beta male who talks in gender fluid, bend over and take it up the backside language who wants to make women our masters so he must be derided as misogynist and worse.

[Former Proud Canadian]

How dare you stand up for facts!

You'll probably start pushing logic next.