Australian journalist thinks she would make a great minister fot men: by slashing mens wages.

ScottFree37 · 2013-04-09T08:02:36+00:00

Ha ha. This woman was the coordinator for my introduction to journalism course. I came very close to making a complaint against her for harassment and bullying after I pointed out that one of her ideas didn't make any sense and she was forced to relent. A truly rude and intolerable bitch.

giegerwasright · 2013-04-09T08:09:30+00:00

When she can do my job, as well as I and my peers do, she can have a say about the wages.

Protip: My job involves heavy lifting. She wouldn't bother doing it.

Deansdale · 2013-04-09T08:14:41+00:00

No wonder they disabled commenting there.

Workchoices · 2013-04-09T07:24:43+00:00

Her twitter is at the bottom for anyone who would like to (politely) point out how 90% of workplace deaths are men or how the pay gap is a mythlw

baskandpurr · 2013-04-09T13:22:08+00:00

Blokes wouldn't have to shoulder the responsibility for occupying 90 per cent of all the board seats in the top 200 companies listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. That's far too much of a burden for any one group.

So what is actually stopping women from being in those board seats? Is there a vagina alarm on the doors to the board room? What is she proposing to do about it, have a female board member quota? Does she want the board members to invite their receptionists to make decisions about the companies future direction? Sometimes it seems like these writer expect women to be simply given things like this for nothing more than being female. No understanding, no experience, no aptitude, no background required, just a vagina. I think it must be very insulting to women who are board members through their own merit.

Besides, if women are a disadvantaged group, others could play this game:

White people wouldn't have to shoulder the responsibility for occupying 90 per cent of all the board seats in the top 200 companies listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. That's far too much of a burden for any one group.

So lets have race quotas too.

Able bodied people wouldn't have to shoulder the responsibility for occupying 99 per cent of all the board seats in the top 200 companies listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. That's far too much of a burden for any one group.

Mustn't forget the disabled people either.

Thisismynetlife · 2013-04-09T13:09:00+00:00

Another great example of how feminism truly helps men.

5th_Law_of_Robotics · 2013-04-09T16:10:28+00:00

I'd slash wages for men, so they wouldn't have to be paid more to do the same work as women any longer.

I figured that's what it was going to be about based on the title.

Rabid feminist adherence to this lie in spite of mounting counter evidence (and really no supporting evidence at any point) reminds me of the scene in Erik the Viking where the island is sinking but all the islanders simply refuse to acknowledge it and keep repeating that everything is fine.

Stick to this wage gap myth. Keep lecturing men on how easy they have it. In light of massive male unemployment and stagnant wages this will only drive people away from your cause.

ScottFree37 · 2013-04-09T08:45:14+00:00

Satire maybe? As she said this on her twitter account:

Let's write about men as if they were women. Any suggestions

Seems an unorthodox way for us men to get a sense of the experience women have. Saying that reading some of her twitter she seems to have a chip on her shoulder.

MechPlasma · 2013-04-09T09:07:02+00:00

Ahem.

So, this is how I would be if I were male and channelling Heidi Victoria, the women who is the new Minister for Women in the Victorian state government.

I don't know who Victoria is, and I highly suspect she's not as bad as the author's portraying her as, but this is still very much satire.

...unless she added this an hour after uploading it or something.

blueoak9 · 2013-04-09T18:26:48+00:00

A callow, trivial person writing a callow, trivial puff piece that is unfortunately taken seriously enough to get an influential forum - that's the problem.

4man · 2013-04-10T11:29:18+00:00

I suspect Poe's law. The writer has swapped issues from women to men to try to make a point.

Title	Australian journalist thinks she would make a great minister fot men: by slashing mens wages.
Author	Workchoices
Upvotes	24
Comments	26
Date	April 9, 2013 7:22 AM UTC (13 years ago)
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