There’s a very left wing women’
magazine online that I have been reading and commenting on since it started
some years ago. I reckon the addition of the occasional right winged argument
is good for a bit of balance, but I don’t write as often as I have opinions,
cos really that would be boring for the other women who seem to want their views
reproduced as often as possible, by as many hairy armpitted feministos as possible.
But recently there was an article
about apologies. The crux of it was agitating for a long list of things that
the current government has done which require an admission of guilt and a big
red face. They ran pictures of people who had wronged ‘us all’ and the
readership went to town adding to the list of woes.
I was in the midst of the shit
with Belly and Centacare so I wrote that I wanted an apology from the people
there. I named the office at Stones Corner Brisbane and as Centacare is a
Catholic driven enterprise I had a
little go about the do gooder christians as well.
I'd
like to hear more than just bloody 'sorry' from Centacare at Stones Corner for
their bullying and lying and shouting at my daughter all the while telling a
tertiary educated woman that she should feel lucky to be sloughing out bins
with bleach and industrial hoses. I'd like them to take their catholic care package
which seems to entitle them to cast all manner of aspersions on the parenting
ways of a single woman and shove it where the don't shine.
I clicked on the post button and
my message became the latest banner remark looping across the page. It was
definitely published.
A day or so later I checked in to
see if I had finally got on board with the lefties, but I found that my message
had been deleted. This was very strange. I thought I had joined the throng of
government haters and that there would have been women lined up to agree with
me and encourage me in my fight. Instead there was just silence.
I wrote a quick note to Wendy
Harmer the owner / editor and asked why the message had been deleted, but I
have not heard back.
It strikes me as very odd that
this magazine, touted to give women a voice would so openly censor its readers’
comments. I mean some of what I have read has made me cringe, but I would never
suggest that the comments be removed, freedom of thought and opinion and
expression and all that. I am left wondering if mine is not the lone righty
shout. Maybe there are many who share with me a sense that the government does
not owe me a living, but their comments have been similarly wiped away.
In any case, censorship sucks!! I’m
just saying.
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