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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Member Organisation, World Council for Life and Family NGO in Special Consultative Status with ECOSOC of the UN
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