Australian women have the right to wear a burka. Except one - "Australian right-wing politician Pauline Hanson was suspended from the Senate on Tuesday after donning a burka in the chamber. The stunt was a protest against fellow senators’ refusal to consider her bill to ban the garment and other full-face coverings in public places for security reasons. Her action drew widespread condemnation. Hanson’s refusal to apologise led to a one-week ban from the Senate, the fifth such punishment since 1901 and the first since 1979. Unsurprisingly, the Left seized the opportunity... Yes, there was something visually absurd about Hanson covering herself head to toe in black, with only a small screen to see through. But surely that was the point. The core question is whether, in 2025, it is acceptable for women to fully veil themselves out of fear of inflaming male desire. There is nothing remotely racist about asking this; indeed, it is arguably a progressive concern. Yet the Left wants it both ways. They defend the burka as a woman’s right to choose her clothing, but then condemn a woman who exercises that choice. Are Muslim women the only ones allowed autonomy over their attire? The contradiction is glaring. If feminism is about universal female empowerment, why does it become selectively blind when faced with patriarchal customs justified by religion? Moreover, if the burka is truly a form of cultural expression rather than a symbol of patriarchal oppression, why shouldn’t anyone be allowed to wear one? Either it is imposed by a male-dominated religious hierarchy, or it is genuinely voluntary. Hanson may have little respect for Islam or Muslims, but if her argument is that banning the burka protects women, she deserves to be heard, especially by feminists. These bans are not arbitrary; they reflect broader societal concerns about the limitations imposed on women who are expected to cover themselves fully, sometimes from a very young age.And amid all the hysteria over what one woman wore to work on Tuesday, where is the outrage over far graver injustices, such as the kidnapping of girls in Nigeria, the forced conversion and murder of Christians in Sudan, or the suppression of women’s rights in other parts of the world, Islamic or otherwise?"
Rukshan Fernando on X - "Today, Senator Pauline Hanson was banned from wearing a burqa in the Senate while attempting to introduce a bill to ban the burqa in Australia. If this isn’t peak irony, I don’t know what is. This is Australia, if the burqa is not banned, then anyone should be able to wear one and do with it what they like. There would be zero objections right now to a Muslim politician wearing a burqa in Parliament House. All sorts of props have been used in Parliament, including most recently the keffiyeh worn by people who are clearly not of that culture or background. We are constantly told that wearing a burqa is a freely made choice and that it is just a garment, so what exactly is the problem with Pauline Hanson wearing one? How can one group of people have exclusive rights over a style of garment in Australia? If the burqa is such a controversial garment, and these blatant double standards mean people can’t wear one for whatever reason they choose, then how is Pauline Hanson attempting to ban its use in public such a big deal?"
Rukshan Fernando on X - "It’s surreal watching some of the most openly racist politicians in the Australian Parliament like Mehreen Faruqi complain about Senator Pauline Hanson wearing a burqa in Parliament House to illustrate a perfectly valid point: her objection to the garment as culturally incompatible and a security risk. There are many countries around the world, both Muslim-majority nations and those with large Muslim populations, that have themselves banned or placed partial restrictions on the burqa in various public settings. How this makes Hanson’s position racist or Islamophobic escapes me on this point alone. Furthermore, what’s wrong with an Australian senator wanting to debate banning an item that is often used as an oppressive garment against women and would easily be described as culturally incompatible with Australia’s Western roots? From what I’ve seen online, many Australians support Hanson’s stance, and even women from countries where the burqa or other head coverings are enforced have publicly applauded Pauline Hanson for standing up for women’s rights."
Craig Kelly:🇦🇺Foundation for Economic Education on X - "For the pro-burka crowd, they may be interested to know that in downtown Baku, Azerbaijan there’s a monument called The Statue of a Liberated Woman, which depicts a woman in act of publicly removing her head scarf to symbolize freedom. Wearing the burka is freedom of choice - it’s about religious oppression. Banning the burka is actually about liberation and freedom."
Dan Burmawi on X - "Muslim women don’t “choose” the hijab. They’re either conditioned into it or pressured into it. When I was five, my mother begged my father for one day, one day, to go out without the hijab. He agreed, but on one condition: we had to go somewhere far enough that no one who knew us would see her. We went out as a family. And I will never forget what I saw. My mother’s hair was on her shoulders for the first time in my life. She walked differently. She smiled differently. She looked alive, free, and happy in a way I never saw before or after. That day stayed with me. Because it was the only day she ever took it off. She never repeated it. Not once. If you ask her today, she’ll tell you her hijab is sacred, that she wouldn’t give it up. But I’m her son, I know the truth underneath the words. She loved that day. She loved the freedom. But she’s conditioned to fear Allah's punishment, to fear society’s reaction, to fear being seen as “impure.” Most women don’t choose the hijab. They choose survival. They choose acceptance. They choose safety from God’s threats and the community’s expectations. And they call it “choice” because admitting the truth is too painful."
Men ‘will exploit hate crime law to accuse women of misandry’ - "Men will seize upon new legal protections against sexism to “maliciously” target women, a feminist charity funded by the SNP government has warned. The group Engender claimed proposals to make “sex” a protected characteristic under Scottish hate crime laws risked sending the message that there was a “parallel relationship” between misogyny and misandry. Engender said that men did not deserve equal protection... The group cited the example of Marieha Hussain, a teacher who held up a sign at a 2023 pro-Palestine rally in London depicting black Tory politicians as “coconuts”, as an example of a woman unfairly targeted under hate-crime laws. Hussain was cleared of a racially aggravated public order offence at a trial last year. She had held up a sign showing Rishi Sunak, then the prime minister, and Suella Braverman, the former home secretary, as coconuts, a slur implying someone with brown skin is “white on the inside”. Hussain claimed her sign was “satirical and humorous”, a view backed by Engender, which receives about 98 per cent of its funding from the SNP government... The group also criticised the fact that under the proposals, sex is to be defined by biology... Engender, which continues to support the view that trans women are women, said it was “deeply concerned” about the definition, which it said “risks being an overly expansive application of the Supreme Court judgment”... “The fact that groups like this are also now apparently think it is acceptable to call black politicians coconuts just goes to show how warped and detached from reality they have become.”"
What a telling admission - they don't think men deserve equal rights. But we're still told that feminism is for men and feminism helps men too
It only counts as a hate crime if that pushes the left wing agenda
Weird. We keep being told that sex and gender are different and only ignorant people don't know that. And also that rights are not like cake - more for one doesn't mean less for others
Male suicide rates are blamed squarely on men - women and society receive no blame. : r/MensRights - "The only reason suicide and men's mental health is the one men's issue that can be openly talked about most is because the discussion around it is almost always blaming men. It's all about toxic masculinity. Why don't men just open up? Why don't men see a therapist? Answers: most people don't really have compassion for men's issues and modern therapy culture is designed by women for women. Also most men do seek help. Society doesn't help them. I've been deeply suicidal for 7 years - I've done therapy (useless) - I've opened up (it didn't help much). Is toxic masculinity still to blame for my low mood? No. I'll tell you what is to blame: the constant bashing men take from women and society. Does nobody recognize that demonizing an entire group of people as trash, obselete, rapists, worse than dogs, more dangerous than bears, and the scum of the earth will lead to more mental health issues in that group? NORMALIZE HOLDING SOCIETY AND WOMEN ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR DAMAGE!"
BNO News on X - "JUST IN: Japan's parliament elects Sanae Takaichi as the country's first female prime minister"
Lauren Chen on X - "Haven't seen any feminists celebrating Japan's first female Prime Minister, who happens to be conservative... It's almost like it's not about empowering women, just empowering Marxism"
It's the usual left wing bait and switch. It's like a guy who claims to be starving, and then if you give him some food he doesn't like, he refuses it - then claims you are heartless. Clearly, if your child refuses to eat anything other than chicken nuggets and you don't give him chicken nuggets, you are literally starving him
Meme - Made By Jimbob:
Woman to man: "WOMEN Don'T NEED MEN ANYMORE."
Woman to man as bag is snatched: "OH MY Gawd!! Do SOMETHING!"
Meme - "PUBLIC HOUSING FOR WOMEN WHO CAN'T FINANCIALLY SUPPORT THEIR CHILDREN. *public housing*
PUBLIC HOUSING FOR MEN WHO CANT FINANCIALLY SUPPORT THEIR CHILDREN. *prison*"
Meme - Wilfred Reilly: "For almost all of history, almost all European, Asian, and West African - I don't know about Indian/sub-continental - states used to take all prime- age males who weren't disabled or cowards and make them fight ~4 months annually for multiple years. This was known as the "war season." Rich guys "equestrians," "cavaliers" - got a horse. The men who lived, usually 60-70%, got to breed."
Men Are Human: ""The government has never made laws to control male bodies""
theauggieboy_gamer: "It's my 18th birthday today, I learned about selective services the other day, and that I HAVE to register. Let's just say I got hit with a mix of anxiety and anger"
"It's my 18th birthday"
"I have to register for selective service in the next 30 days or I will go to jail."
Meme - Cpt. Mucho Texto @CptMuch...: "How liberal women react to the idea of effectively getting a free house and only being expected to take care of it in return"
Spooky Bear fan @ @moidsexpo...: "She makes zero income and gets paid in room and board. Indentured servant."
Boy, 9, dies in horror after mum 'slit his throat with kitchen knife' in Italy - after 8 year custody battle - "Police in Trieste named the nine-year-old as Giovanni, whose mother, 55-year-old Ukrainian national Olena Stasiuk, reportedly killed him earlier this week... Italian outlet Corriere della Sera reported that Stasiuk had long been monitored by courts and mental health services. The killing came during what was said to be one of the first unprotected visits she’d had with her son after years of supervised contact following the couple’s 2017 separation. Court documents and reports cited by Corriere della Sera show Giovanni had previously expressed fear of being alone with his mother. In one exchange with professionals, he reportedly said: “I’m sad when I go to my mom… Because I’m scared.” When asked why, he added: “She was strangling me,” later describing how “Mom grabbed me by the neck, squeezing it with both hands.”... he added that being left alone with his mother might not be “a good idea.”... According to Corriere della Sera, Stasiuk had been treated for mental health issues in the past, including compulsory treatment and care for schizophrenia. Reports indicate that previous warnings from Giovanni’s father about her being “dangerous” were documented, along with earlier allegations – including a reported attempt to strangle the child – that were dismissed by prosecutors as potentially accidental. Authorities are now examining how an unprotected meeting was allowed despite the family’s long and troubled history."
Boy, 9, dies in horror after mum 'slit his throat with kitchen knife' in Italy - after 8 year custody battle : r/WomenAreViolentToo - "She reportedly told the father "Either you stay with me or I'll kill him" Another piece of information found only in Italian articles is that the boy had already said "Mom sticks a finger in my butt" (The translation may not be exact, but the important words are there.)"
Found another feminist post. Wanted to know your thoughts? : r/MensRights - "She says, and I quote: "I'm a woman in my 30s. A couple of days ago, I sold my kayak via a national online market place to a guy in my town (that I didn't know) and he was going to come pick it up this morning. Yesterday, I suddenly started to freak out and imagining all the scenarios where this unknown man could hurt me. I searched how chloroform works, I imagined what to do if he has a knife, I even practiced some knee kicks to improve my reflex if it became necessary. I also told 4 different people the timing of the appointment and asked them to check up on me if I didn't text them within 15 minutes. This morning, I put my rape alert in my pocket and my house keys in my other pocket and made sure not to wear any "makeup". My heart was really pounding in those last 10 minutes before he finally showed up. I opened the door to a guy probably in his late 20s with the biggest smile and (I guess) construction work pants and safety shoes. He gave me the money immediately before I even asked and transferred the kayak to his car almost without any help from me (he had to slide it slowly over my balcony, that's why it was very impressive!). He genuinely seemed super kind and that big smile never disappeared from his face. He said he already had a kayak but is getting this one for his girlfriend. He just left about a half hour ago and I'm sitting here crying because I feel soooo incredibly miserable... I slept so bad last night and when I finally did sleep, I had a nightmare. And all those terrible scenarios I imagined for nothing. Just because I'm scared, because I have to be, because if even 1 in 10 guy is a monster, I have to be constantly vigilant and alert with all the guys. And I'm also sad that most men have no idea about this!! The amount of thinking and precaution we have to go through for an interaction that lasted 10 minutes!! Living as a woman is like living as a small guy in a corrupt prison. You have to constantly watch your back, both literally and figuratively.""
Time to mock conservatives for wanting to be oppressed again
Feminism is harming women's mental health, but of course the solution is even more feminism
The Harassment of Domestic Violence Policing - "In the past, police harassment took the form of racism and homophobia. Today, perhaps more than anything else, domestic violence policing is the form that police harassment takes. High profile cases like that of Caroline Flack and, in Scotland, that of Motherwell manager Stephen Robinson should raise concerns about what is happening with our criminal justice systems both north and south of the border. But with no political opposition, indeed with support from both right and left, the policing of personal relationships is taking place with little or no critical thought. Worse still, it seems that the more authoritarian you are, the better you look. Take the current Domestic Abuse Bill in England. Here we have a Conservative government launching a bill that reduces still further the basis of justice both by eliminating the capacity of the accused to cross examine the accuser and with the proposal to use lie detector tests on abusers released from prison. Polygraph machines that cannot be used in courts across the UK when assessing truths will now be used to increase the monitoring of past offenders. If you refuse to take the 6 monthly test or are believed to be ‘tricking’ the machine you will end up back in prison. This all based on the use of equipment opposed by psychological associations, like in the US, where it is argued that, ‘Most psychologists agree that there is little evidence that polygraph tests can accurately detect lies’. Time perhaps to rage against the machine. But before we even get to this situation we find trials, like that of Stephen Robinson, where the alleged victim, Robyn Lauchlan, is screaming to be heard and to assert that no abuse has taken place. Lauchlan described the trial process as one of ‘twelve torturous weeks’. The police didn’t even bother to interview Lauchlan but instead acted as in loc parentis for the infantilised ‘victim of abuse’. Perhaps to improve their image we find Tory politicians and senior police officers falling over themselves to act as the ‘voice of the voiceless’, the presumption being that all women are vulnerable and in need of their protection. But rather than recreate the sexist nonsense we are trying to get away from perhaps they should start by listening to actual women."
From 2020
Rachel Reeves’s moan about ‘mansplaining’ is proof that she’s out of her depth - "she complains: “I’m sick of people mansplaining how to be Chancellor to me.” By “people”, she plainly means men – because, at the risk of being accused of mansplaining myself, only men can mansplain. The implication, therefore, is that any man who disagrees with what she’s doing must be sexist. Presumably, then, the only valid response a man can make to her policies is to applaud them. This impression is reinforced by Ms Reeves’s other interview, with the FT. During it she “guffaws” at the memory of a retort she made to an unnamed businessman who, in her view, had spoken to her in an unacceptable manner. “He wouldn’t have spoken like that to George Osborne or Gordon Brown,” she says. What exactly had he done? Well, in the words of the FT’s writer, who witnessed the exchange, the businessman had “robustly challenged” her over “her punitive taxes on North Sea drilling”. In response, Ms Reeves “glared” at him, and barked: “Talk to me with respect. I’m the Chancellor of the Exchequer.” Which makes her sound rather like a celebrity snapping, “Don’t you know who I am?” at a waiter. Sadly, the FT does not record what the businessman said in reply. But I hope it was something like: “Yes, you are the Chancellor of the Exchequer. And I’m a tax-payer. Without me, and millions like me, you wouldn’t have a single penny to fritter away on your idiotic, economy-wrecking schemes. Come to that, you wouldn’t have a salary, because we pay for that as well. So how about you stop moaning, and show a bit more ‘respect’ to us?” But no doubt that would have been mansplaining, too."
Women can never be incompetent. So if men criticise women, they are sexist
Richard Hanania on X - "Researchers created fake accounts and saw who economists were most likely to follow back on X. People want to network more with you if you’re white, female, or at an elite institution. Sex is more important than race. Women are advantaged for reasons we’re not allowed to say."
Damn structural and institutional sexism and patriarchy!
Meme - JD @LostMyHats: "*Women's self-reported happiness down 83% since 1970
* Female suicide rate up 50% since 2000
* Antidepressant use among women up 250% since 1990
* Single motherhood up 700% since 1960
*Women on anxiety meds 1 in 4
* Female workforce participation up 75%, but life satisfaction down 200%
* College women report record loneliness and depression
* 40% of women have engaged in self-harm, ranging from cutting to suicide
Your wildest dreams have come true. You can vote and be promiscuous, and you're unshackled from a man to take care of you and children to adore you. Congratulations, you win. Yay, feminism."
Clearly, the solution is even more feminism
Colin Wright on X - "🚨NEW: A peer-reviewed paper in a leading feminist journal attempts to expand “traditional understandings of violence” to include the mere anticipation of violence. The authors, drawing on “feminist, critical race, [and] violence and trauma studies,” argue that violence requires neither intent nor a perpetrator, and that simply “living under the Western capitalist cisheteropatriarchal regime renders the ‘everyday’ a site of trauma and violence.” This is all being funded by Canadian taxpayers. The incisive @JamesLNuzzo highlights the paper's multiple levels of absurdity: internal contradictions, violations of the laws of logic, and the very real harms that could follow from redefining violence this way in law."
A good reminder that you can't take left wingers seriously when they talk about violence, Nazis, fascism, genocide etc
Men shouldn't be allowed to work in nurseries
Good luck if you suggest banning women from something. Power relations means never having to say you're sorry
One cope is going to be that Julie Bindel isn't a feminist
Wall Street Apes on X - "Katy Faust goes over data that shows a shocking increase in mental illness in Liberal women “Women are, especially liberal women, are not doing well. You see the highest rates of mental illness among single liberal women” “It's because it's a philosophy that pits women against their own bodies and against their own children. Feminism coaches women to reject their bodies, reject the natural realities, especially of their fertility, especially of their reproductive capacity.” She shows the chart that displays the increase in mental illness cases and Liberals are skyrocketing"
TheTinMen on X - "The Swiss have voted to keep national military service as ‘male only’, and interestingly, women voted on this too. What happened to my body, my choice? If ‘men shouldn’t be writing laws on women’s bodies’, then why should women be able to vote on legislation impacting mens’?"
Colin Wright on X - "🚨BREAKING: @Nature has just published one of the most insane papers imaginable. In woke studies, “feminist queer crip theory” leads the pack in terms of derangement. But Nature has now embraced it, publishing an autoethnographic paper about “crip guts,” “queer stoma pride,” the “intergenerational trauma” inflicted upon the author's guts by “British colonialism in Ireland,” and how crip guts bestow people with “situated ways of knowing” that undermines “Western biomedical models of knowledge production.” A real quote from the paper: “I was processing some memories around my gut condition and became overwhelmed with sadness and grief. It felt ridiculous explaining to the (English) therapist what had come up because the only way I could describe it was famine grief. The Irish Famine of the 1800s is of course before my time, but in that therapy session I felt overwhelmed with a grief that felt larger than my own. I made sense of this feeling through the framework of intergenerational trauma and described it as feeling the pain of the famine lingering in my guts.” The author calls for “queer stoma pride,” which celebrates “the leakiness of bodies which disrupt boundaries” and “requires more collective and relational modes of knowledge production which value embodied experiential knowledge, holistic healing, and reject the idea that normality is a neutral desirable location.” It further “focuses on imaginings of alternative, more expansive bodily futures which foreground agency and a joyous plurality of bodies beyond category, refusing the idea that non-normative bodies are a site of unwantedness.” She hopes that the concept of “crip guts” will “disrupt epistemic injustice and challenge Western biomedical models of knowledge production,” though she gives no concrete instructions about how that looks in practice. Ultimately, she says “queer stoma pride” is “about talking about poop at conferences and in journal articles,” and “revelling in not being normal, being unexpected or disruptive, and rejecting colonial, queerphobic and ableist discourses around returning to normal, passing as normal, and aiming for normal, as if normal was ever a good thing.” I never imagined that feminist queer crip theory would make it into Nature, but here we are."
Brad Wilcox on X - "Anti-nuptial turn among young women & adolescent girls is disastrous. New @pewresearch: HS girls' interest in marriage drops 20+ percentage pts in last 30 years.👇🏽"
Jill Filipovic on X - "Might be worth asking what it is about high school boys that girls don’t find appealing, I have a feeling the list is long and informative."
Armand Domalewski on X - "I don’t complain about this too much because women get the short end of the gender stick in so many ways, but it is mildly annoying that folks who would describe issues affecting any other group as systemic suddenly go full Ayn Rand pull yourself up by your bootstraps for men"
_s.a.m.e.m.e.m.e_ on X - "You see this reasoning often in GenderWar discourse, where when issues affect women negatively, it's evidence of misogyny/oppression/patriarchy, but when issues affect men negatively it's because of Good Man Shortage, loser incel men who need to Man Up, or that women are Just Better"
Kangmin Lee | 이강민 on X - "So many women in the replies blaming men for this. Like clockwork. Women don't want to get married? It's men's fault. Women don't want to have children? It's men's fault. Women kill their own child in the womb? It's men's fault. Women prostitute themselves online? It's men's fault. Women spend their entire childbearing window girlbossing? It's men's fault. This could all be true if we lived in a patriarchy where women submitted to male headship and only men had institutional & political power, but we don't. Women have full agency and their liberation has been achieved. It makes zero sense to live your lives liberated from men and then simultaneously blame men for all your wrongdoings. You can't blame men for your problems when you haven't relinquished any of your rebellious feminism and girl-bossing. Both sexes have faults and problems right now in the modern era. But only one is blamed for everything. If we want reconciliation of the sexes again, men need to lead and women need to submit. It's that simple. But women do not want to let go off the feminism that is ruining their relationships and rotting their minds. And even with all the faults of modern men, by every metric, young men are more religious and conservative than young women."
