FREEDOM, DEMOKRASI AND CIVILISED HUMANITY
In defense of freedom, democracy and civilised humanity is an increasingly intolerant Western world.
Shelly of Houston has left the fantasies of The West Coast to seek truth in Houston. The heartland not the hinterland of The American Soul.
Men and women are not the same but most of their rights are the same.
The differences in rights relate mainly to pregnancy, breast feeding and giving birth where women’s capacities are so very different.
The only way to stop the minorities of misandrists and misogynists from causing misery is to build gender peace.
Geoff Fox, 24th October 2020
Times change.
Twenty years ago Nancy Pelosi became the first ever female speaker of the US Congress.
One of this woman’s most famous aspirations tells us a great deal about the world we live in: “I really want women to know their power ……”
I was a midwife for 31 years and I also want women to know their true female power, both what it is and, just as importantly, what it isnt.
Making life work is all about balance.
This truth about men also holds for women.
Lest We Forget.
All Of Us.
Geoff Fox, Terra Nullius, January 4, 2020
I am Geoff Fox, a former midwife, and now a dissident MRA in Australia.
On June 19 this year, I renounced my Australian citizenship in writing to Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison. It is now late November and “ScoMo” has not yet replied.
The following is an interview about this situation with Tim Goldich, the president of the Chicago chapter of America’s National Coalition For Men.
GF: What does the fact that ScoMo has not even responded to my renunciation of Australian citizenship say to you about care for men in The West?
TG: It is in keeping with a general drought of compassion toward men.
Currently, women are so powerful, and draw so much empathy, that men’s issues are completely ignored.
In the realms of gender advocacy, gender issues, gender politics, gender anything, there is feminism on the one hand and on the other hand there is . . . . . . . . . . nothing.
GF: What would you like to say to ScoMo about his failure to respond?
TG: I would say: “I get it that you don’t want to be the sole politician in Australia that speaks of men’s issues. It may seem to you that responding to male concerns is akin to political suicide, but infinitely catering to feminism is societal suicide.
Exactly zero women out there are complaining of an over-abundance of confident, ambitious, successful, high-earning men.
Man can only pour from his glass half “full” into Woman’s glass half “empty” for so long before you get Japan—a society in which 1 in 4 below the age of forty has never once had heterosexual sex.”
GF: ScoMo has said “We want to see women rise, but we dont want to see women rise on the basis of others doing worse.” How do you rate this statement compared to other national leaders’ positions?
TG: Given the gender-political climate, I think Mr. Morrison’s sensible comment was extremely brave. I deeply hope that he can survive it. Much will depend on whether or not others back him.
I believe Mr. Morrison is attempting to draw a line on the multiple Glass Escalators feminism has put in place in their efforts to force “equality.” Which is to say, female-only “equality,” which is not equality at all.
Perhaps Mr. Morrison glimpses the big picture here and realizes that when women “have it all,” men are left with too little to be significantly and long-lastingly desirable (as lovers, as spouses, and as parents). In other words, men become increasingly superfluous and that’s how Japan ended up with a population of male “grass eaters” that ignite little passion in women.
GF: In 2016, I was arrested by police and silenced at election time while a female politician, of whom I was critical, was reelected and protected by the threat of 2 years jail from any comment by me about her.
The woman is now mayor of Maribyrnong …….. I am still suffering from subsequent PTSD ……. In your view does that constitute the rise of a woman by pushing me down?
TG: In a word, yes.
In the U.S., affirmative action quotas, 1,027 federally funded female-centric organizations of all kinds, scholarships, grants, billions of dollars devoted to the emotional, professional, domestic, and scholastic wellbeing of women plus enormous societal pressure to hire and promote women all Glass Escalator women.
Compare that with males—scholastically sabotaged, homeless, and imprisoned by the millions—and yeah, I think it’s fair to say that women are advantaged at the expense of men.
(Tim Goldich is the author of “Loving Men, Respecting Women: The Future of Gender Politics” and the president of the Chicago chapter of the National Coalition For Men. )
Today is my last day as a Registered Midwife in Australia. Cutbacks in services to mothers and a personally debilitating attack on my human rights from within the ALP in Maribyrnong have combined to deprive me of this livelihood.
I am proud of the unique knowledge midwifery has given me of what women, men and children need.
Today my midiwfery registration expires. So this is my last chance to put on record as a midwife that I know of no other politician in Australia’s history who stood up for what Australian mothers really need as well as opposition leader Tony Abbott did with his courageous policy of a Paid Parental Leave (PPL) scheme funded by taxing big companies. At that time, as I recall, whenever I googled “ALP breast feeding policy”, I came up with policy relating to feeding lots for cattle.
Postponing the implementation of his truly great PPL scheme to the third year of his government’s three year term was a tragic mistake.
By the time that third year arrived, relentless attacks on his alleged misogyny had eaten up the massive political capital he had in his first year.
So feminist and conservative attacks on Mr Abbott’s proposed PPL contributed to Australian mums losing a great chance to get a huge part of the support they need to increase their chances of breast feeding longer.
There is a lesson here for reelected Prime Minister Scott Morrison: he should not wait till the third year of the normal parliamentary term to do things for which he has a clear mandate now.
We need both these fundamental rights protected now.
In his maiden speech to parliament in 2008, ScoMo said “Australia is not a secular country — it is a free country.” With passing time these wise words are less clearly true.
Good on you, ScoMo, for saving Australia’s national government from the human rights catastrophe of Maribyrnong Bill.
Please protect our freedoms soon.
Geoff Fox, Maribyrnong, May 31, 2019
My response to the war between islamophobic bigots and Islamic terrorists is to declare myself neutral and turn to God:
Geoff Fox, Solo, Central Java, 15 April, 2019
Is Fritz Lang’s Metropolis a film about a metrosexuality that nobody needs?
Does the film suggest urbanisation makes healthy life impossible?
In Fritz Lang’s cinematic story of one man’s giant industrial mega-city, the beautiful religious figure Maria, played by 18 year old BrigItte Helm, is pure and caring and gives hope to many people by her faith in fraternity and communication. But then Maria’s physical likeness is stolen to empower a robot who is first presented as an erotic dancer for the rich and who then, under orders, uses manic sexuality to lead people to conflict and destruction.
While still a movie star, BrigItte Helm told one critic that she didn’t care about making movies and she would rather be a housewife, cooking, bringing up her children and looking after her husband. She went to court at great cost to fight for the right not to be forced to play vamps and retired from cinema and moved to Switzerland in disgust at the Nazi takeover of the German film industry.
So in real life Helm wanted to be the motherly Maria not the destructive seductively malevolent dancing Machine imitating Maria.
In modern western nations the sexual liberation of the 1960’s and following decades has given way to the moralistic crusades of the #metoo movement which attacks and destroys men but not women for their sexuality.
Do we want a return to a much more conservative sexual morality imposed on men or do we want gender equal sexual freedom for everyone?
Right now I don’t think many people in The West know what we want with respect to that question.
BrigItte Helm had no doubts about how good it was for her to be a mum.
Geoff Fox, Malang, East Java, 10th January 2019, the 92nd anniversary of the release of Metropolis.
In Maribyrnong, the “thoughts, ideas and opinions” of “mothers, daughters and sisters” are “heard and respected”. My thoughts, ideas and opinions got me arrested by the police. Is this misandry? Why wasn’t my goal of a better relationship with Indonesia which I have worked towards in unique ways for 3 decades “celebrated and supported” as opposed to what happened in 2016?
Dear Mayor,
Thank you for your honesty in acknowledging that the police actions initiated against me from within the ALP and Maribyrnong City Council in 2016 were unnecessary and unfair.
It has broken me to be arrested as a result of trying to talk about ways I wanted to help Australia have a better relationship with Indonesia.
The resulting PTSD leaves me unable to get income and I am resigned to death because fairness for me in modern Australia looks impossible.
While I am still alive, please attempt to publicly address all the following unanswered questions ASAP.
I direct them to you, an elected representative I know, not some bureaucrat incapable of caring about me.
I do this as early in your term as Mayor as I can. My PTSD stopped me writing this last week.
I ask these questions of you because of the human decency which I, as a midwife, believe you may have inherited from your mum, Senator Olive Zakharov.
I sought answers to the first three questions in an open letter published on November 8th 2017. That’s how long it took me to recover enough from the trauma of July 2016 to be able to write publicly about it.
Unanswered questions to Daniel Andrews from the 8th of February, 2018 redirected now to you:
From an email of 5th March 2018, unanswered by the recipients, your predecessor as Mayor and the Maribyrnong CEO.
Democracy, civilised humanity and human rights are life or death for me now.
Your predecessor in 2015, Mayor Nam Quach, wrote that my art: “……. provided a unique expression of Indonesian humanity, history and culture, with the underlying theme of an appreciation for the Indo-Australian relationship. The Bahasa phrases used, referring to ‘kesatuan’ and ‘keragaman’, certainly reflect the strength and unity found within diversity, striking a chord to the spirit and values we share here in the City of Maribyrnong.”
As a fellow independent artist, Martin, you have made a good little contribution to 3 of my 5 art displays at places important to 4 heads of government in Indonesia, art displays where shared Austral-Indonesian history, democracy and human rights were and are vital themes.
Now, instead of us working together for Australia for those values through art, the above questions arising for me from undemocratic Maribyrnong human rights violations from within the ALP against me, must be addressed.
Written and authorized by Geoff Fox, Maribyrnong, if that’s what’s necessary this week.
This is what I believe and what I need to say and discuss to survive:
1. Men, women and children need to live with love.
This love is an indispensable foundation of human society.
2. Three fundamental mothering capacities differentiate women from men:
A The ability to carry and nurture life in the womb.
B The capacity to give birth to that life.
C The ability to give the best possible nutrition to new human beings by breast feeding.
3 These three qualitative differences give mothers and potential mothers some different human rights and responsibilities to the rights and responsibilities of other people.
4 The modern western demonisation of men and disempowerment of mothers are two sides of the same coin.
5 The cradle of human culture is maternal love.
6 True loving manliness empowers and protects mums.
7 When family life ceases to be a nation’s foundation, the nation’s death is inevitable.
Geoff Fox, Rembang, Jawa Tengah, Indonesia, 31st August 2018
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