I thought I should be silent on local issues, but one has come up. The leader of the NZ Labour party (union controlled) is an ex diplomat called David Cunliffe. There is currently a moral panic around family violence, which has been inaccurately redefined as “men hitting women” as if (a) hitting is the only form of violence and (b) only men do it.
This led to two things. The first is that Labour is trying to make the law read that, in any accusation of rape, that the man has to prove that she consented. And I do not think they see marriage as consent. The idea of having to record every interaction, or regulate the most intimate, is beyond creepy.
The second is that he apologized on behalf of all men for violence to women. The bastard. I have never hit a woman: most men have not. But we are not only rapists according to official Labour policy, we are brutes as well. Zippy is correct when the describes game as effeteness: what he does not understand is that progressives will make in compulsory.
It’s not *simply* male sexual incontinence, because there are a great many men in this world today whose most fervent wish is to express their sexual incontinence in condomistic sex and in ways that are even more demeaning towards women, but can not, because they have no Game.
I agree with that. I think it is the male-equivalent term for ‘sluttiness’. It is just that we never needed a special word for it until the mass-effeminization of men.
Needless to say, this went down poorly. Labour is slumping in the polls. And even the goodthinkers, who have believed that feminist lie that women are not violent, are revolting.
I have been a Labour voter all my life and while it has been hard in the past to support Labour due to some of their policy’s I have supported Labour’s values and culture but Mr Cunliffe you have totally destroyed my faith in the core values of the Labour Party. Come september I will not be voting for Labour, for the first time ever I am not going to vote. You will tell who ever is listening whatever they want to hear if it means votes, you sir are a true 21st century politician you reflect the audience you are talking too and what they want to hear.
I too deplore the violence perpetrated on women and children (in fact any innocent victim of violence) what really turns my stomach is there are 80% of victims that for one reason or another do not report what happens to them, I agree with Ms Henare WE need to do more for that huge group. I hang my head in shame not because I am a man and that men are in the main responsible for these awful acts but shame for a society that I am part of allows this to continue. Everyone has a responsibility to support these 80% and to report any suspicions of family and sexual violence. We men (the majority) who love and care for our family’s, women and children need to step and educate our sons on what is OK and what is not. We need to to draw a line in the sand and actively ensure our community’s are safe for women and children.
David Cunliffe, it is not about apologising for being a man, there is nothing wrong with being a man we are good people, we do good things it is that minority group who treat women and children so appallingly that need to be held responsible and punished for their actions. What ever we (as a society) can do to support that 80% to come forward and report what has happened them thats what we need to concentrate on. We need to ensure that the generations of men to come grow up knowing that violence towards women and children is wrong and that the generations of women to come grow up knowing that being beaten and abused is not normal and if it happens they are believed and supported.
Can I suggest that the Christian model of the family at least does not lead to men being castrated and women frustrated? Yes, it requires that we meet each other’s needs.
I think we’re talking past one another here. The women are asking the men for strength and resolve, the men are asking the women for loyalty and grace.
Not mutually exclusive requests.
That is a little more like it, and a little more human. As for the progressives, Do not follow them, and do not be like them. No law can withstand mass disobedience and nullification.