lukne wrote:
> Ian wrote:
> >
>
http://www.smh.com.au/news/Opinion/Men-in-trouble-now-that-even-their-sperm-isnt-necessary/2005/01/18/1105810914296.html?oneclick=true
> >
> > Good article, from Angry Harry.
> >
> > "The world does not need more celebrities, more academics or more
> > graduates with big debts racing off overseas for a gap year before
> > returning to work in a bar. What the world needs is more people who
> > know how to make and maintain things that run our lives.
> >
> > It's not DIY, The Good Life or even Backyard Blitz. It's just men
who
> > do stuff - building, fixing, knocking down, taking away, rerouting,
> > unravelling, dismantling, unearthing - that help keep a whole
> > community, not just a private home, alive."
> >
> > I think men should be encouraged to take women who whine on about
> equal
> > rights, and put them in tea crates where they are shipped off to
the
> > Australian Outback. They can come back home to Islington, (and I
> guess
> > Shoreditch) only when they realise that the roads they walk on, the
> > houses they live in, and the water in the tap aren't maintained by
> > magic.
> >
> > To all the feminists out there reading this. If you disagree, I
want
> > you to go off to Africa, and build a replica of New York city, or
> > London, as was done by men.
> >
> > If that's too difficult, just build an office block 300 metres
high.
> >
> > If that's too difficult, just build an Office with working
satellite
> > internet access.
> >
> > If that's too difficult just build a car.
> >
> > If that's too difficult, just build a petrol pump.
> >
> > If that's too difficult, just make a vulcanised tyre, or a z80
> > processor to control the petrol pump.
> >
> > If that's too difficult, just make the polythene for the tyre, or
the
> > silicon platter for the processor.
> >
> > If that's too difficult, just make pure silicon.
> >
> > If that's too difficult, just defend the land from communists.
> > Got the reason why there's a paygap yet, Patricia Hewitt?
>
> So you want us women to give you men credit for all the great things
> you've created in the world?  Sure, I'll do that.  Thank you men!
But
> you must also take personal responsibility for all the terrible
things
> you've created toouch as: two world wars and zillions of others;
> nuclear weapons; other weapons of mass distruction; incredible
> suffering under MALE dictators like Stalin, Hitler, Chairman Mao, Idi
> Amin,


You are missing the point. This thread began as a discussion of the
relatively weak performance of females in the workplace.
The guys you mention here may not have been particularly nice, but
all of them started with nothing, no advantage of family and education
and ended up making a fairly big dent in world history. They may have
been dictators, but admit that they were VERY GOOD dictators as these
things go - not wimpy, hide- behind-their-mommies-skirt type of girly
boys.
Why is it that feminists always ignore the career and example of M.
Thatcher? When the history of the 20th century is sorted out, she will
get a longer chapter than a whole bordello full of ordinary
politicians.

etc.; slavery; colonialism; South African Apartheid; communism;
> global warming; and disco music.  Ready yet?



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