Phone call from Liz today. She was going on about the big bad men again, yet she has no idea what they’re about. She has them all pigeon-holed as wife beaters and child molesters. When she said that there’s a pandemic of female deaths due to family violence (each one of them horrendous of course), I pointed out that less than 0.1% of female deaths each year are attributed to family violence and that is hardly a pandemic, so she accused me of supporting family violence. (I don’t.)
Liz has no brothers or male cousins, has never worked with any men, has no men friends, doesn’t play any sport with any, and doesn’t attend any kids sports where it’s overwhelmingly men who are doing the coaching (in their own time, for free). She uses only female accountants, doctors and lawyers. In the same breath as saying we should respect women (not all people, only women), she jokes about an ex-Prime Minister’s budgie smugglers. Liz, the first thing to do if you want to be respected is to be respectful. Otherwise, how can you whinge about lack of respect? She’s the most sexist person I know, and yet she’s inexplicably and vocally proud she isn’t sexist, causing her little clique of friends to also think she isn’t. Ditto racist.