Darling Downs Feminism

Former Toowoomba Chronicle Editor Nancy Bates gives a luncheon talk:

Ms Bates said she believed women had taken feminism too far into the workplace, into their homes and into the polling booths.

“Too many women who fought their way out of the kitchens and into jobs have feminised the workplace to the point where it has weakened strategy,” she said.

“The workplace is the modern equivalent of the hunting ground, where the strong and ruthless shine.

“But instead of recognising that the workplace is where you make the money to buy the bacon, too many women have taken their pots and pans and sewing-circle mentality into work and tipped the scales too far into femininity.”

...Socially, Ms Bates said women had become too gullible, believing “crafty shonks and charlatans peddling information like ‘spare the smack'” and encouraging mothers to get their sons to play with dolls rather than guns and take part in contact sports.

She said as a result, women were raising a generation of sissies, which could explain the “bizarre, invasive laws being rammed through parliaments”.

Ms Bates also questioned why women had turned their backs on the “hunting, shooting, fishing” men with hairy chests in favour of “ magazine pretty boys from the gym, oiled, fake tanned and hairless with the sock down their jocks”.

“Give me rugged, strong, sweaty and scarred, silent on the sensitive stuff,” Ms Bates said.

“We can't build a strong nation when we smother it with oestrogen.”