Ex-Labor leader and would-be Prime Minister, Mark Latham, has styled left-feminism akin to a to a psychoneurotic disorder.
He was writing of his social experiment in the Australian Financial Review, calling out said stereotype for not being able to get through the day without help from caffeine and anti-depressants [if they stay at home raising children]. Latham who, by his own account, is enjoying raising his three teenage children has lined up what he calls the inner-city left-feminist orthodoxy.
He questioned why such women had children [at all] and accused them of demonising the little people. "Why do people like this have children in the first place? How will the children feel when they grow up and learn that they pushed their mother onto anti-depressants? The sadness of these circumstances is aggravated by a broader political point. A major part of left feminist campaigning has involved the demonisation of children."
"This is why people in the suburbs, especially women, distrust the likes of Pryor [inner-city dweller who wrote to the Sydney Morning Herald, which set Latham off]. Their political agenda is seen as unrepresentative and self-serving. At a personal level, it’s also cowardly: popping pills as an easy way out, instead of facing up to the responsibilities of adulthood."
Latham was roundly condemned by most civil sides of politics for his overly-aggressive handshake of John Howard when they were campaignaing against each other and unexpectedly met in 2004. Last year, his regular spot on Sky News' Paul Murray programme was terminated after he went the boofhead agro once too often at co-panelist, conservative journalist and presenter Chris Kenny.
One must at least admire the man's consistency.
