ENDEAVOUR FORUM NEWSLETTER No. 118, APRIL 2005

 

 

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HAVING IT BOTH WAYS

BABETTE FRANCIS

Feminists have declared that logic is a male construct, so we should not be surprised  they  often insist  at one and the same time on two completely incompatible ideas, e.g. that women and men are not different in  regard to suitability for jobs, AND  that women and men  ARE indeed different  but this should not make a difference anyway.   Recently the  Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union  launched a claim  that women should have 12 extra days of leave each year in addition to  sick leave, to cope with "menstrual pain". 

Now if  an employer (like an airline or trucking company) had declared that they preferred to employ men as pilots or drivers because women might be incapacitated  by mentstrual pain every month, all hell would break loose - or at least the kind of hell the Equal Opportunity Czarinas can unleash.  But here's a union declaring that yes, indeed, some women do suffer menstrual pain!  And feminists have the gall to accuse traditionalists like Endeavour Forum of wanting to go back to the 50s, or Queen Victoria's era, or even further back to "the dark ages"....

Michael Barnard, erstwhile  columnist for The Age, said he thought "menstrual leave" was a brilliant idea   - any day with some of the  feminists out of the office would have been a blessing - he  was just worried that the EOC might impose a levy on males for 'sanitary products'.

 

 

 

 

 

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