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Jobless, single and male
posted by Adam on Sunday October 05, @03:30PM
from the What-took-them-so-long-to-notice? dept.
News That's what it says here and it's about the time this issue got some coverage. However, she does leave out two very important factors, namely the fact that alot of jobs get shipped off to third world countries for cheap sweatshop labour, and she neatly side-steps the issue of women in the workforce, which is a pity as you won't see the full picture until you look at everything I suppose. Still, it's a start right?

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Excluded and Dangerous.... (Score:1)
by tparker on Sunday October 05, @05:30PM EST (#1)
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Interesting that the default condition for men that have been excluded from the presumed "norm" of society is "dangerous". To whom?

Too bad the old men's organizations and extended family structures have been edited out of modern Western cultures - they used to provide a safe outlet and brake for men who were otherwise excluded from socially acceptable activity.
...it was a good paradigm, while it lasted. (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on Sunday October 05, @08:56PM EST (#2)

Powerful men will always run things from the top of most institutions. However women will begin to take up all the middle management and affiliated positions in all industries. Women are organized, yet docile and easy to control once they feel that they are part of something. This will radically change the family structure and further destabilize western society. This is why feminists rant “it takes a village to raise a child”

Watch as productive industries swell with service related bureaucracy that support legions of organized professional women who will be "Powerpointing" productivity charts about producing productivity charts while men get conditioned by HR departments on correct "behavior" to avoid feminist inspired lawsuits.

Watch the wheels of progress grind to a slow rotation as men become an unnoticed underclass that popular culture rendered useless. In the “new world administrative system” one must follow rigid and complex procedures that impede effective action: innovative ideas will get bogged down in red tape and politically correct non-sense, and men will drop out. Welcome to the tea party boys…


Re:...it was a good paradigm, while it lasted. (Score:1)
by Smoking Drive (f8@tpg.com.au) on Monday October 06, @07:37AM EST (#3)
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If you're going to post stuff like that you should get a handle.

-sd.

Those who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.
Injustice and Exploitation (Score:1)
by cshaw on Monday October 06, @08:26AM EST (#4)
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The ultimate goal of government should be to provide justice for all of it's members and to provide the "good life" for ALL it's citizens rather than just some as occurs in oligarchies, tyrannies, and pure democracies. Rather, governmental policies which seek to avoid this necessary "social contract" through unjustly enriching powerful oligarchical entities (large international companies) and powerful democratic constituencies (the female electoral constituencies) will necessarily result in the most base elements in society gaining unjust political, economic, cultural,legal, and social power. The state can not survive when these base and corrupt elements gain this political supremacy. The same phenomena that is, as per the article, apparantly occuring in Australia, is occuring in the USA and probably, from the reports that I have seen, in Canada and Great Britain also. The solution is to replace the unjust laws and policies, which have promulgated the same, with just laws and policies. So says Aristotle and the other ancient philosophers.
C.V. Compton Shaw
Re:Injustice and Exploitation (Score:2)
by HombreVIII on Monday October 06, @01:55PM EST (#5)
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"The ultimate goal of government should be to provide justice for all of it's members and to provide the "good life" for ALL it's citizens rather than just some as occurs in oligarchies, tyrannies, and pure democracies."

I come close to agreeing with that, though I don't think the government should directly provide the good life, but rather ensure that opportunities for the good life are available. The American Dream of owning a home, owning your car, being able to provide for yourself and your children and still be able to afford entertainment and to retire at a reasonable age should be available to everyone willing to put in a 40 hour week at any job short of fast food, regardless of whether they were born in Harlem or Beverly Hills. Multi-capitalism should be ensured as well, so that no uni-capitalists are able to use illegal dumping practices, corporate welfare, or monopolistic control to create an uneven playing field and prevent an otherwise workable business from starting up.

Funny thing about laissez faire capitalists. As much as they bitch about communists, (which doesn't make any sense unless you live in China or Cuba since communism has no real power anywhere else in the world), the end result of their economic system is very similar to communism, except instead of the government telling you where to work and at what wage, the owner of the corporate town does.

"Rather, governmental policies which seek to avoid this necessary "social contract" through unjustly enriching powerful oligarchical entities (large international companies) and powerful democratic constituencies (the female electoral constituencies) will necessarily result in the most base elements in society gaining unjust political, economic, cultural,legal, and social power."

That's certainly happened, and the media is a new facet of that which Aristotle could not have predicted. It just helps furthur entrench all of the problems you pointed out.

"The state can not survive when these base and corrupt elements gain this political supremacy. The same phenomena that is, as per the article, apparantly occuring in Australia, is occuring in the USA and probably, from the reports that I have seen, in Canada and Great Britain also. The solution is to replace the unjust laws and policies, which have promulgated the same, with just laws and policies. So says Aristotle and the other ancient philosophers."

I believe its occuring in New Zealand and most western European countries as well. That Spanish mayor who wants to impose a man-only curfue and the German "pay your wife for housekeeping" laws indicate that sort of anti-male social ethics are very common. Great post by the way.
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