Germaine Greer challenges #MeToo campaign
"My feeling is we ditch rape altogether [as a crime] because it's hopeless. I have seen the police working up a rape case trying desperately hard to build it up so it will stand up in court - and wasting their time.
"The burden of proof is too high and that's because the tariff is too onerous. Rape is a daily crime, it's not spectacular. What we need is a coherent law of sexual assault."
This is why Germaine Greer is out of touch
Greer even floated the idea of doing away with rape as a crime altogether and replacing it with a "coherent law of sexual assault" which sounds tremendously exciting and deliberately provocative.
We have no need of a public contrarian or provocateur, we are too busy fighting our small ideological skirmishes on social media. If we need a cultural reference to illustrate our point, we tag our friends in a meme, for we have no need to speak about an old-fashioned comedy that appeared on television. Why would we? None of our peers would have seen it.
More of Robert Doyle's alleged victims keep silent fearing they too will be 'vilified'
A number of women have decided not to lodge official complaints with the Melbourne City Council investigation into sexual harassment claims against lord mayor Robert Doyle because they fear being identified and "publicly vilified".
At least one person told The Age negative media coverage of former councilor Tessa Sullivan's harassment allegations meant they feared being "publicly vilified" if they were identified. They said this would damage their professional future.
"Certainly the perception is strong in many people they will be blacklisted."
Speaking generally, Mr. Bornstein said most of the clients he had represented preferred confidential settlements without public exposure.
" The recent global focus on sexual misconduct had emboldened women, he said. Former clients who had signed confidentiality agreements in the past had been in touch with Mr. Bornstein to see if they were now able to speak publicly."
Nationally Reilly in her comment that Germaine Greer is out of date unwanted and has entirely missed the point is what she claims Greer to be out of date and missing the point despite the fact that she's of this generation a millennial. The reality of what Greer is saying is exemplified in the case of Robert Doyles alleged victims and their fear with only a few emboldened by current events.
Greer is talking about our Culture our systems and social structures that determine our patterns of our behaviors as individuals. That "me too" may have emboldened some women to speak up but it fails to grasp the fact that the systems under which we operate all and need to be changed and the normality of their class nature revealed. Sexual assault of women for Greer is normal and not exceptional in our society speaking up against Weinstein , Woody and Doyle might draw attention to it but not in any revolutionary way no matter whether social media gives voice to more individual women or not. Without changing the nature of the system and it's social structures that normalize men's predatory and machismo behaviors nothing will have changed nor equality gained.
Greer's practical method to start to change the individual relationships between men and women is to change our laws to a "coherent set" where sexual assault is recognized and taken for granted as a normal part of our current aberrant Culture and Social System. Metaphorically speaking we seem unable to accept that in order to change the trees you need to have a notion of a forest in which they exist that needs changing. It's that point that keeps Greer relevant today and the millennial Reilly an outdated and never-ending mole whacker. The Social structure that determines the trends in our behaviors and acceptable social psychology needs changing it took time but changing the laws on homosexuality eventually changed our laws and attitudes on marriage equality and will inevitably lead over time to safe schools social media won't.
Treasurer says we need to seize opportunity as IMF sees US 'sugar hit'
" Half the upgrade was due to the $US1.5 trillion ($A1.88 trillion) in tax cuts. Its forecasts assume that the hit to US tax revenues will "not be offset by spending cuts in the near term" meaning that the economies of the US and the countries it trades with will benefit as the US budget deficit deteriorates."
When some 10 multinational Corporations control the world's economy what can one expect but to declare tax cuts are a global benefit and Trump is right. Why is their opinion so significantly different and divergent from the reality we in Australia have experienced in the past decade Inequality gap grows as Australia marks a huge leap in billionaires.
How will these significant facts in Cole Latimer's article be addressed by the expected applause of global business to Trumps sugar gift to the rich? Billionaire wealth in Australia increased by 300% while the average Australian's wealth increased by 12%. Why was this not a part of the Treasurer's analysis? Surely his commentary needs to be assessed in relation to the facts.'Billionaire Boom': While World's Richest 1% Took 82% of All New Wealth in 2017, Bottom Half Got Zero, Zilch, Nada | Common Dreams
The end of Innocence - » The Australian Independent Media Network
I was in Kununurra and my motel faced the school i watched the kids playing together they were all just kids and all just Australian kids at that. However, at what age did the indigenous kids come to realize their place in that tale of two cities two peoples where I heard white shopkeepers ring the police and move "the flower pots " from under their verandahs the elderly indigenous Australians trying to escape the 40-degree heat.
A short drive out of town took you away from the neat town whose biggest buildings were the Cop shop, Social Welfare, and Woolworths and it took you the slums called public housing not a white man in sight. Only some 200 years of whiteman's colonial Christian beneficence on show which according to them was occupied by an ungrateful and idle culture. Just when did those kids in that schoolyard black white and brindle begin to change and become "Flower Pots"
"I had to consider that I might be wrong earlier today, when Tony Abbott suggested that the landing of a whole heap of illegal immigrants on January 26th, 1788 was good for all Australians – even those who only became Australians in 1967 when they were granted a promotion from part of the flora and fauna to actual people.
You see, Tony suggested that the indigenous population was lucky to have been colonised by the British because, after all, he’s British and it was better for them to have been killed by good British germs and raped by good British people and bayonetted by good British steel. And I had to admit, I thought to myself, imagine if the French had got here first and forced them to eat croissants.
As for the whole invasion nonsense, as someone pointed out, there was no war so there was no invasion. Although that does make all this talk of “home invasions” a bit of an over-reaction.
Whatever, I did have pause to think and just wonder. Could Tony be right about this? Were the massacres somehow more humane because they were carried out by sensitive soldiers and ex-convicts?" Rossleigh AIM
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