Thread: Gender neutral

Funny how my wife and I know a large number of women in groups we are members of who aren't the slightest bit mental about men. Looks like there are still some easily triggered blokes about that hyperventilate about a tiny minority of bad people and carry on about how they're a threat to society as they know it.

Most women I know don't hyperventilate either - except when I mix in Uni circles. Then it's a different story altogether. I have friends in the Sciences as well as Humanities and get to meet all sorts of interesting people through them, many with very left field ideas. You don't mix the right circles obviously! Ha ha.

Most of the radicals that I, my wife or my son knew during our separate times at different unis got married, had kids and became boringly conventional. There aren't too many older radicals around here.

Most, but not all. There are a more than a few left. The problem of course is they pass it on to the next generation. I will see if I can dig up some photos of the last uni party I went to earlier this year where a senior Gender Studies lecturer was wearing a T-shirt that said 'all men are rapists'. Like I said, we obviously mix in different circles!

My wife seems to be happy enough being married to me.

I'm delighted to be married to her. Wonderful woman. Feel thankful every day.

I should add, she even tolerates the Land Rover without really complaining about it or rolling her eyes. Just sighs and finds the money in the budget to pay for it. I guess that shows how much she loves me.

Had a fun dinner party last night. Caught up with two uni friends who have PhD’s in Biology and one of their sisters who has a PhD in Post Modernism. Was funny watching two sisters arguing from vastly different viewpoints about life, the universe and everything. Am going to catch up with all my first cousins this arvo on the anniversary of my cousins passing (on mums side) and will hang out with another spectrum of the population. There will be mullets as far as the eyes can see! They are the perfect brain detox as they are so down to earth. Gotta love family!

Originally Posted by cripesamighty

Most, but not all. There are a more than a few left. The problem of course is they pass it on to the next generation. I will see if I can dig up some photos of the last uni party I went to earlier this year where a senior Gender Studies lecturer was wearing a T-shirt that said 'all men are rapists'. Like I said, we obviously mix in different circles!

Interesting ... by the time I got to Honours I was the only male in an Honours/Masters tutorial group that was largely about gender, and they weren't the least like that.

Arapiles, different institutions are held in regard for different things. My Left leaning uni - world class in some areas (science), but also did a great job of hounding a lot of guys out of their Womens Studies streams. One of the blokes I worked with on campus was doing several Womens studies subjects in his final year as preparation before starting Honours. We used to catch up for lunch and he would tell me about his latest adventure in his classes. Lots of 'interesting' discussions were had in tutorials, and at the end of his first semester, the lecturer thanked him profusely for sticking with it as her classes were becoming a close minded echo chamber. If you want, PM me and I will tell you what uni I went to, and then the penny will drop!