Just a Girl by Tammie Adele

  I am just a red brassiere To all the boys in town Put this bus in top gear Get me out of here   Soooo, the other day a bunch of privileged old white males decided that they were too important to mix with ‘ Oh my God! Women! ’. That’s right, I’m talking about the Sydney Australian Club’s two thirds vote against allow women membership. My first thought was along the lines of How dare they! Then I checked out their website and moved along to Who cares? Finally I watched some of the copious amount of media commentary on the issue and finally got it. I guess my point is that a club that provides its members with, I quote,  ". . .excellent dining facilities, en-suite bedrooms and apartments, a fully equipped gym, and . . . first rate business facilities . . ." really isn’t offering that much. Sydney is full of excellent dining establishments, accommodation, gyms, and even business facilities. However, it is the exclusive networking opportunities and associated prestige...

  You know, sometimes I want to rip out your throat, Daddy For all those things you said that were mean Gonna make you just as vulnerable as I was, Daddy What’s that say about me?   Dads love their daughters. There’s generally no debating that. However, they also objectify women. This may explain why they are so protective of their daughters (see Post 14 and Post 17 ), because they know what they themselves are capable of, never mind other men. Worse still. Maybe they remember what they did to girls when they were boys. As stated in reference to our illustrious leader, @ScomoAnnounces , in Post 21 , it’s time for men to stop thinking of the women they care about as being separate or different to those they don’t care about. Of course they care about their women, or at least should care about them, but that doesn’t make their women different to the other 49.6% of the world population that is female , or the 50.2% of the Australian population that is female . After all,...