The bleeding hearts of the Hollywood elite at the Golden Globes shed figurative blood almost as rapidly as the bloodshed seeping from the hearts of real victims. In a 2011 display of her ‘temperament’, all that remained after Hillary Clinton gave the go-ahead to bomb Benghazi was a litany of Libyan women and girls, corpses scattered across the nation’s barren landscape like the remnant shards of glass left after the breaking of all those ‘glass ceilings’.
Although a far cry from the horrors of destitution and daily drone strikes, we now face another absurd Clinton-abetted moral calamity as Meryl Streep earnestly salivates during Oprah Winfrey’s ‘powerful’ speech after receiving the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award for Lifetime Achievement. Emboldened by the moment, the mooching media described the performance as ‘iconic’ and a ‘masterstroke of delivery’. It is as if you could hear the reporters wincing joy as she ‘eloquently’ edified the alleged ‘predatory mansplaining patriarchy’ that exists in Hollywood. Louder than a phonebook in a tumble dryer, the ‘champagne socialist’ celebrities shriek reverberations of support as the Queen of All Media consoles them and castigates these ‘complicated times’.
This was no candid observation of what occurs in Hollywood. Rather, it was a pre-meditated, self-serving, egotistical debut of Winfrey’s candidacy for the 2020 US Presidential Election. We are led to believe that her declaration that ‘times up’ signals the ceasefire on the predacious sexual commoditising of women. Though this is hard to believe when the audience comprises a room full of pin-up Prada starlets who tell us to ‘check our privilege’, while exploiting a worthy cause to virtue signal in their black Dolce & Gabbana gowns. How can an industry that is founded on the commercial sexualisation of women possibly claim to act as a role model of chastity to curb ‘toxic masculinity’?
Historically speaking, it is likely that many of those in Hollywood would put dollar over dignity in a heartbeat if it presented the prospect of another Academy Award. Marilyn Monroe famously told aspiring stars, both male and female, to “lie on a few casting couches” in order to climb the ladder at the Academy. Perhaps these actors and actresses playing the victim card today should recognise they are merely following in Monroe’s footsteps amid their consensual arrangements with directors and producers. And as for Heartless Hillary, well, she did not scramble to sweep the raw fact under the rug that her husband was sharing a couch with Lewinsky in the oval office. It really is hard to believe Clinton’s hogwash about not pandering to men in powerful positions.
In case you are getting the wrong idea, let me be emphatic here: I am dead against the repugnant and repulsive perpetrators of unwilling sexual misconduct. I will not, however, tolerate the condescending reprimands from the hypocritical Hollywood homogamy awash with nothing but tantalising tokenism.
We, the people, are not buying the self-gratifying preaching. We know that the myths surrounding the prevalence of the ‘patriarchy’ are false – they do not pass the pub test. These new movements such as #MeToo simply do not resonate with the laymen and laywomen. The Huffington Post discovered in a survey that few women ‘identify as feminists’, but most believe in ‘equality of the sexes’. The distinction between the two is clear. Yet, the man-hating movement that seeks to attenuate and weaken supposedly manly characteristics in an Orwellian fashion continues to exist. Masculinity and femininity are both great, and people can be as brawn or burlesque as they choose. I am a male, but admit I display femininity in insisting on only wearing loafers embellished with tassels and have a skincare regime so potent it eliminates blackheads at the pace Kim is blowing off warheads post sanctions. So, no. I will not be apologising for my gender and skin colour. I am proud to be a white male, just as we should all be proud of who it is that we are.
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The laymen and laywomen of this world are wiser than we are said to be. We are very aware of the classes of people who try to control our thoughts and actions. We do not buy the lies they permeate through their endless and utterly laborious PhD theses, TED Talks and lecture series about myths like ‘campus rape culture’ and the ‘gender pay gap’. We see the illogic and the indignation – you cannot pull wool over our eyes and convince us of your fabricated fantasies. After all, this is not Egypt and in stark contrast we do not condone the ‘taharrush’ (Arabic for ‘mass sexual assault’). This phenomenon has already been imported into Germany, demonstrated by the 2,000 male Islamists who targeted and sexually assaulted 1,200 German women on New Year’s Eve in 2016. Do the Gender Studies professors give lectures on this? No. Rather, they turn a blind eye to the endemic and systemic objectification of women deeply entrenched in elements of Arab culture.
So, how then is equality of the sexes achieved? According to the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing at the University of New South Wales, women live longer than men in developed nations because they often eat better, eat less, smoke less, drink less and generally take care of their bodies better than men do. While women are making different choices relating to health, men are making different occupational choices. As it happens, males tend to choose more lucrative majors during their time in tertiary education and make up a greater proportion (54.4 percent as opposed 45.6 percent) of the Australian workforce. Naturally, men will therefore earn more overall than women despite the fact both have the same chance to earn the same amount relative to their individual life decisions. There is nothing sexist about this.
Women and men face an array of extrinsic and intrinsic difficulties and this is a consequence of the world in which we live. Irrespective of our sex, we should accept what we cannot control and focus on what we can control. Forget equality of outcome (which can only be achieved through coercion) and embrace equality of opportunity and the many prospects which Australia provides for us. Equality of opportunity gives men and women the same chance to succeed, judging them on their merit, passion and effort – not their sex.
In human biology, there are generally two sexes (male and female). However, occasional biological complications can give rise to intersex people. This includes any of the several variations in sex characteristics. Keep in mind, however, that this is biologically determined – it has nothing to do with how one ‘feels’. As for ‘gender’ and personality of the boy or girl, well this is versatile. It is influenced by development, and is different for every person. Of course, some girls have for a long time played with Tonka Trucks and some boys with Barbie Dolls. This is not an issue, so please stop pretending it is – leave the children alone!
Western feminists are now too busy making baseless and obsolescent sexual assault allegations, while appeasing abominable Islamic theocrats, to stand up for women who are truly oppressed. Never has a blinder eye been turned to recent uprisings in Iran, where women are publicly refusing to obey Sharia law by taking off their hijabs in resistance to authoritarianism and the subjugation they endure in the Islamic Republic. I do not see the western feminists marching down Pennsylvania Avenue in support of Iranian women or dying the pond in front of the Commonwealth Parliament red over this unrest. Just where is the feminist ‘solidarity’? Of course, we know that these are the same people who agree with Labour London Mayor Sadiq Khan who believes terrorist attacks are just mere ‘part and parcel’ of city life and Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews who thinks ‘violent extremism is just part of contemporary Australia’.
So, when Oprah tells you she is ‘speaking your truth’, is she really?
Brodie is about to enter his first year of a Bachelor of Political Science at the Australian National University. Having grown up in regional Victoria, he has developed a passion for the social and economic development of Australia’s heartland. Find out more about him here.