Of course we would all love men to come to their senses and begin to lead decent lives like women have managed to for hundreds of years, but at this point in history there’s no indication they’re collectively deciding to do that.
So writes RMIT academic Dr Caroline Norma on Melinda Tankard Reist’s website, in her post titled “The disparaging and belittling of mothers: on mother shaming in the sexualisation debate.”
Her statement wouldn’t get past me in a first year essay.
If there was ever any doubt that Tankard Reist runs a website that promotes contempt of men, this observation certainly does away with it. You’d have to go a long way to see a more outstanding example of gender bias and bigotry.
Then there’s this: On a daily basis mothers are going about their lives with children’s wellbeing and welfare as their top priority, so we could learn from their example.
Really? My mother didn’t. I’ve heard the stories of many adult children whose mothers didn’t. Some mothers do. Some mothers don’t. Some mothers do sometimes.
And who exactly is this “we” who could learn from a mother’s example?
Here we have yet another George W Bush moment of good versus evil: all good women versus all evil men. All men lead indecent lives while all women are virtuous. Dr Norma reduces humans to one dimensional beings governed entirely by our biology. Penis: bad. Vagina: good, and especially good if you have a child.
If you are a woman and you have a child you have much to teach everyone, just because you have a child. If you’re man with a child, shut up and learn from a decent woman. Your life isn’t decent and never will be ‘cos penis.
Are we entering a new era of the glorification of motherhood?
And these are the people we are supposed to take seriously about the “sexualisation” of children.
No Place For Sheep 
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