tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post7609881313952089174..comments2024-03-29T00:28:38.155+00:00Comments on Nigeness: A Matter of MannersNigehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-40129831632419708042020-03-25T15:36:33.859+00:002020-03-25T15:36:33.859+00:00fitflops sale clearance
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We are far from being entirely weak and passive - mere victims having things done to us - and it has taken quite a lot of effort and time to reach a point where we are recognised as more or less equal in most ways, not feeble and fragile and in need of looking after, like dolls. Helen Garner is good on this in her book The First Stone. <br /><br />Of course, there are things that ought not to be done, and any time someone who is in power makes advances to someone who depends on that person for their livelihood or advancement, unless the person in power knows pretty certainly that their advances are welcome, things become very awkward for the person not in power, whether male or female. Leaving such unbalanced situations aside, however, the rising outrage about how women have been/are treated more generally by men is dangerous. As an example, the Australian actor Geoffrey Rush has just resigned from a position in the arts because an anonymous person has complained to the Sydney Theatre Company that two or three years ago Rush did something to this person that the person considered "inappropriate", although the person does not want Rush or anyone else to know their identity nor the nature of what it was Rush was supposed to have done. How can this be right? Imagine what the world might be like if this began to happen often. Anonymous denouncements, blimey.<br /><br />This is not to diminish true violence against women, particularly when it is partly increased by an inadequate understanding by courts of an individual's potential to indulge in it: <br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Jill_Meagher<br /><br />zmkchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-71719300941390385952017-11-28T16:22:15.192+00:002017-11-28T16:22:15.192+00:00If I could upvote comments on Blogspot, I'd up...If I could upvote comments on Blogspot, I'd upvote yours.Pavonine99noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-15230340315911992142017-11-28T16:20:20.361+00:002017-11-28T16:20:20.361+00:00It's a matter of bodily autonomy. Making sexua...It's a matter of bodily autonomy. Making sexual harassment/assault a question of "manners" is trivializing, and worse still, ignores the abuse that takes place outside of public view (which is most of it, and often the most severe). Pavonine99noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-35603867734727749592017-11-27T23:27:21.659+00:002017-11-27T23:27:21.659+00:00I'm glad that's what you meant, anyway!I'm glad that's what you meant, anyway!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-49138304367831837842017-11-27T17:48:31.385+00:002017-11-27T17:48:31.385+00:00Absolutely, Mm - that's how manners work, or r...Absolutely, Mm - that's how manners work, or rather worked...Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-18085870009411939282017-11-27T16:46:42.782+00:002017-11-27T16:46:42.782+00:00Reading Ferguson - and your apposite piece Nige - ...Reading Ferguson - and your apposite piece Nige - forced me to think back across the decades to a time when, I suppose, my own 'deportment' was formed, in the so-called 'Swinging Sixties' which, I need hardly add, were not swinging particularly vigorously in my drab Midlands city. <br />Getting off your arse when a woman enters the room, walking on the outside of the pavement (with ne'er a hackney cab in sight), opening doors, eating with your mouth closed, looking people in the eye...the list is seemingly endless. But I don't remember anything being drummed into us, mainly because everybody (almost) in one's circle was behaving in the same way, without giving it much thought.<br />Perhaps it was the collective of parents, school teachers, sunday-school teachers, local policemen on the beat...all promoting the same message, that wove all these threads into a fabric that appeared, even to spotty teenagers, to be as normal as squeezing a pimple, or eating in a 'dining room'. mahlermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14469854614938507153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-49797346117369142422017-11-27T10:29:57.088+00:002017-11-27T10:29:57.088+00:00Indeed Guy - the old Golden Rule never fails.
vcc3...Indeed Guy - the old Golden Rule never fails.<br />vcc3 - I think you're actually restating what I said (or meant). The fact that women had to put up with it meant that it was within the bounds of the (by default) acceptable at the time. I didn't mean 'acceptable' to carry any positive connotation, and for myself I've always deplored sexual harassment at a pretty uniform level over the decades. Never committed it, have been a victim of it.Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-47546066085983226662017-11-27T06:36:28.620+00:002017-11-27T06:36:28.620+00:00Hear hear Nige. The assumption that a woman is as ...Hear hear Nige. The assumption that a woman is as much a person deserving of respect as one expects oneself seems to do the trick. It might be hazarded that this is probably because she belongs to the same species as oneself. The further question, much mooted, of 'objectification' is also solved on this basis - assuming that a woman is a person as well as a body.Guy Walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02304053177188950094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-25157744184934003282017-11-27T06:23:56.215+00:002017-11-27T06:23:56.215+00:00This comment has been removed by the author.Guy Walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02304053177188950094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-63777334615327931272017-11-27T06:22:12.119+00:002017-11-27T06:22:12.119+00:00This comment has been removed by the author.Guy Walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02304053177188950094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-30033775829816291162017-11-26T20:18:39.707+00:002017-11-26T20:18:39.707+00:00Sorry, Nigeness, but that behaviour was not, in th...Sorry, Nigeness, but that behaviour was not, in the seventies, just within the boundaries of the acceptable, and we were not perfectly capable of dealing with it. We had to put up with it, and men got away with it, that's all.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com