by BETTINA ARNDT – FOR the past few weeks in Australia, we’ve been treated to the unabashed celebration from our biased media about the ousting of the Liberal-National Coalition government and wild assertions that this was all due to angry women turning on former Prime Minister Scott Morrison.
No mention, of course, of the fact that conservative Parties everywhere are now struggling to attract women.
- More than 60 per cent of graduates are female, so are disproportionately affected by ideological indoctrination.
- They make up 58 per cent of public service positions so are more likely than men to be unionised.
- Women are turning Left.
Irrespective of how desperately the Coalition tried to win them over, women are turning Left.
Five years ago, I wrote about the growing power of Left-wing women, making the point that women are becoming more Left-wing in their policy preferences – not only in Australia but across much of the Western world.
DROPPING
Analysis by the Australian Election Study (AES) of 2019 election results confirmed an ever-widening gender gap, starting back in the 1990s, marked by dropping female support for the country’s centre-Right Liberal Party.
By 2019, 45 per cent of men and 35 per cent of women voted Liberal, while the split for the Greens was nine per cent men to 15 per cent women.
The AES asked voters to rate themselves on a scale from Left to Right, where zero is Left and 10 is Right.
In 2019 the average position for men was 5.2, whereas for women, it was 4.8, a significant shift from the 1990s when there were minimum gender differences.
One of the key factors I identified back in 2017 for why the shift was occurring was Leftist university education.
“The hearts and minds being captured in our universities belong mainly to young women,” I wrote, pointing to fascinating research from the AES showing women emerge from university education notably more Left-leaning than women without degrees.
In contrast, male graduates were not very different from less-educated men in their political views.
Women’s increasingly Left-wing policy preferences have been showing up in AES data on issue after issue: asylum-seekers; government spending on indigenous affairs; stiffer criminal penalties; positive discrimination for women, and same-sex marriage.
The 2017 postal survey on same-sex marriage showed that more women voted yes in every age group from 18 through to 75.
More than 60 per cent of graduates are now female, so women are disproportionately affected by the ideological indoctrination taking place in our universities, particularly as they are mainly the ones studying humanities subjects steeped in identity politics and neo-Marxist propaganda.
Unlike many men who become more conservative as they age, the work/life patterns in most women’s lives simply reinforce these beliefs.
Women predominantly work in education, health care, and welfare services or as public service professionals.
They make up 58 per cent of public service positions and are more likely than men to work in unionised jobs.
All this means their working environment provides a culture that supports rather than challenges their political beliefs.
MOTHERHOOD
Then there’s the motherhood issue, with mothers particularly receptive to the Left’s big-spending promises – and scare campaigns – on health and education.
The growing number of single mothers significantly dependent on government benefits is another key issue, with Left-wing parties playing up their support for such disadvantaged families.
So, it goes on. Hardly surprising then that polling suggests the indoctrinated mob of professional women flocked to the Teal faux “independents” with their trendy list of Leftist policy proposals.
No doubt, when proper analysis of the gender gap in this election is available, we will discover even more women across the board may be turning their backs on traditional conservative beliefs.
Yet the biggest risk for the conservative Parties currently licking their wounds is to believe the Left-wing media claim that they were ousted by the wrath of angry women.
Somehow, we need to convince Coalition politicians that they are also bleeding votes from ordinary folk who are tired of seeing women endlessly privileged whilst the men they love, their fathers, sons, brothers and friends, get pushed to the back of the bus and denied fair treatment at every turn.
It wasn’t that the Morrison Government didn’t listen to women.
Remember the apology to Brittany Higgins? Or Morrison’s forced smile when Grace Tame humiliated him with her side-eye?
UNPROVEN
Or allowing MPs Christian Porter and Alan Tudge to be pushed out of their ministerial roles over unproven sexual assault allegations?
Or the cringing over the parliamentary harassment report, denying the very low incidence of actual harassment and high rates of female bullying?
We’ve seen successive Coalition governments give ground to the feminist lobby, throwing endless money trying to appease their insatiable appetite for an obscenely large slice of the cake.
Malcolm Turnbull’s first act as prime minister was his plea for “respect for women” as he announced the first $100m bucketload of funding poured into the domestic violence industry.
Last year, Scott Morrison topped up these rivers of gold with a 150 per cent increase in funding, from $100m to $250m per year, as a result of the feminist’s COVID-19 scare campaign about women being locked up with dangerous men.
Recent Coalition governments have gone in for the shameless promotion of women into every conceivable public role.
BEAMING
We had Susan Kiefel appointed Chief Justice of the High Court. Ita Buttrose as Chair of the ABC. Lorraine Finlay for Human Rights Commissioner. Cathy Foley as Chief Scientist. Women, women, women.
A constant stream of beaming female faces is endlessly gracing our news.
Former Deputy Prime Minister John Anderson recently published a long video conversation with me covering in detail the evidence of how feminist ideology now dominates public policy, advantaging women at the expense of men through distorting our media, tilting our laws, promoting anti-male ideology in schools and workplaces, and consistently manipulating government statistics to demonise men.
For this conservative leader, it came as a surprise that the movement had taken place under his government’s own watch.PC
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For centuries women have been conditioned to follow the lead of authority figures rather than think for themselves. Back when – those authority figures were men. Now it is anyone who has made a name for themselves – and schools of all levels. So still many women don’t really generally think for themselves. They look for a popular ‘bell weather’ & follow that, eg the ManMadeGlobal Warmist, then they lie awake at nights fearful for the future of their children & grandchildren. Schools now-a-days make sure they don’t learn anything of value to enable them to defend their minds against the populism of the day. And the populism leans to the left. Women are targetted because they are the biggest influence on the children they give birth to. Why are women leaning to the Left? I think I have just covered most of that! I thank the powers that be that there but for the grace of what most call God, go I. Fortunately I went to school in a state and under a curriculum that gave the real story & education and am not afflicted by this ovine culture.
Perhaps Bettina could do us all a favour & stand as an Independent at the next NSW State Election on 25th March 2023 in the Electorate of Hornsby. If I could, I’d vote for her.
The greens are merely commies; and alarmism is a tool used by the greens/commies to take over the West. The commies at the UN have said so and the Frankfurt School must be laughing in their graves.
Women are susceptible to what the commies preach for a number of reasons. Firstly communism is like a big daddy and all women have daddy issues. Communism has mastered being a big controlling daddy while giving women a sliver of independence mainly through such empowering issues as abortion, which of course is the main purpose of womanhood: to have children. It has been a massive con trick.
By using alarmism communism has also befuddled particularly young women who have already had their brains twisted by a communist education system because it falsely convinces them that they have power, literally to save the world. Young women who would normally satisfy their maternal instincts by having children can now become Earth mothers. It is another neat con trick.
Finally a lot of young women regard the West as patriarchal and oppressive. They have no sense of history of what communism is and so see communism’s undermining of the West as an attack on the patriarchy and to be supported.
The older women who support alarmism appear to be mainly B&T old bags who now resent their mainly motherless existence and want others to suffer.
The only solution is to take away the right to vote from women.
Interesting insights cohenite
Hilariously, the opposite of being ‘woke’ is being asleep.
That’s what the old white men really mean:
Stop being awake. Go back to sleep. Like me.
Ahh, the irony.
The new PM called himself “a Trot”, obviously a far-left faction member of the ALP but what beliefs?
Britannica
“Trotskyism, a Marxist ideology based on the theory of permanent revolution first expounded by Leon Trotsky (1879–1940), one of the leading theoreticians of the Russian Bolshevik Party and a leader in the Russian Revolution. Trotskyism was to become the primary theoretical target of Stalinism (q.v.) in Russian Communist circles in the 1920s and 1930s.
Trotsky’s theory of “permanent revolution” held that, historically, an economic system had to be seen as a world system rather than a national one. All national economic development was affected by the laws of the world market, even though such regional factors as location, population, available resources, and pressure from surrounding countries made the rate of development different in each country. Thus, in Trotsky’s view, the Russian Revolution, to be permanently successful, would have to depend on revolutions in other countries, particularly in western Europe. His theory also emphasized the hegemony of the working class over the revolutionary class because of their strategic position in industry and other advanced sectors of the economy.”
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