We will never be satisfied by the look of this.

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https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/ ... 31651ea60d

IT’S time to check the scoreboard at the Grievance Games.

These games are kind of like the Olympics, except there is no closing ceremony. They just keep rolling along forever. And no matter the contest, Western civilisation is always the loser.


Tim Blair. Picture: John Fotiadis
Also, the opening ceremony was so long ago that many new competitors and competitions have since been included, almost all of the rules have changed, previous winners have been stripped of their medals and hopeless non-qualifiers now strut around with more gold medals than Michael Phelps and Larisa Latynina combined.

Remember when feminism, for example, was all about empowerment, personal choice and freedom of expression?

“I should feel comfortable to carry myself as I please, where I please, and when I please,” feminist Ne Tantillo declared in 1991. “I am not ‘asking for it’ by existing in a space that is rightfully mine, the world.”

Tantillo’s declaration was adopted decades later by organisers of SlutWalk, an international series of demonstrations against “rape culture” that defended, among other things, women’s right to dress as they wished.

SlutWalk marches, including those held in Sydney, typically featured ­participants wearing cheerfully minimal attire.

“There is a big misconception that people that dress a certain way ask for sexual assault, and that needs to stop now,” Canadian SlutWalk organiser Lauren Hutchison said in 2011.

SlutWalk London’s website noted: “All over the world, women are constantly made to feel like victims, told they should not look a certain way.

Well, here we are just a few years later, and the rules have switched.

Last week Formula One’s (overwhelmingly male) bosses announced a grid girl ban at Grand Prix races, beginning with 2018’s opening event in Melbourne next month.

“While the practice of employing grid girls has been a staple of Formula One grands prix for decades, we feel this custom does not resonate with our brand values and clearly is at odds with modern day societal norms,” F1’s managing director of commercial operations Sean Bratches said — on World Hijab Day, as it happens.

That’s a man effectively telling women not to look a certain way and not to carry themselves as they please, where they please and when they please. Oddly, feminists were delighted by this.

“The global dumping of ‘grid girls’ at Formula One events finally brings the sport more into line with how women expect to be regarded,” the Melbourne Herald Sun’s Wendy Tuohy rejoiced. “As equals, not ornamental eye-candy.”

Grid girls who have lost money and career opportunities (Newcastle’s Jennifer Hawkins, Miss Universe 2004, worked as a grid girl and an NRL cheerleader) are not so happy.

“It’s an extra bit of income and a good way for women to market themselves,” Australian grid girl Tahan Lew-Fatt pointed out. “These girls can get more money in one day than some people get in a week.”

Not anymore.

Feminism now costing women their jobs,” wrote British grid girl Sophie Wright on social media. “Wake me up when all this crazy political correctness blows over and pass me the Lycra!”

She wants to dress a certain way. Good for her.

“I love my job,” wrote another promotional model, Lucy Stokes. “It’s not right for anyone, let alone ‘feminists’ to judge our job when quite frankly they are putting so many women out of work. Where is the equality & empowerment here?”

Excellent question.

Former three-times world F1 champion Niki Lauda, one of the sport’s more logical thinkers, declared himself on the grid girls’ team.

“This is a decision against women,” he told an Austrian newspaper. “Men have made the decision over the heads of women. This is not doing any favours to F1 and especially not for women. How stupid can they be? Are they nuts?”

Yes, Niki. Yes they are.

Speaking of doing no favours to women, imagine this scenario. An elderly pensioner who barely manages to pay her ridiculous power bill every quarter returns home one evening with her grocery shopping. She places all perishable items in the fridge — and then a power outage hits. The food is ruined.

Not so long ago this situation would be rightly condemned as deeply unjust. Having paid absurd power charges, that pensioner should be entitled to expect a reliable power supply. But we now live in time when genuine grievances are shoved aside.

“Most of us could stand a few hours with no electricity,” Fairfax’s Clare Boyd-Macrae wrote last week. “Yes, it’s inconvenient and hot without aircon and fans and some of your food may need throwing out if your fridge is off for long enough. It’s hardly life-threatening.”

Ms Boyd-Macrae seems to miss a number of points here.

“In the privileged West,” she continued, “we consider unfettered access to power a basic human right.”

More precisely, it’s a basic consumer right. We’re paying for a service too many of us do not receive.

Let’s add that particular injustice to the Grievance Games.

FLAGS WON’T STOP VIOLENCE

The late conservative commentator David McNicoll didn’t much care for the Aboriginal flag. This was not because of what it represented, but for its colours — far too similar to the German flag for McNicoll’s tastes.

By contrast, I’m fine with the Aboriginal flag. It is a bold and simple design, which puts it ahead of every alternative to our current (and permanent) national flag.

Its symbolism is instantly understood by all Australians: black for the people, red for the soil, yellow for the sun. All good. And I admire the business savvy of designer Harold Thomas, who had the wit to copyright his flag and charges for its use.

As for flying the flag atop the Sydney Harbour Bridge, however, I’ll defer to Jacinta Price, who noted last week that such a display would be less about addressing issues than about ignoring them.

“Seeing as 66 per cent of crimes committed by Aboriginal men are crimes of violence against people in their own communities, would it not be beneficial for the families, the children and the need to lower rates of incarceration if we actually focused on this issue as a national priority?” Jacinta wrote.

Yes, it would. As opposed to flag-waving, which is not going to stop women and children being bashed. Beneficial defeats superficial.

TESLA’S MODEL 3 DOESN’T TICK ALL THE BOXES

Environmentalists usually hate cars, but they adore Elon Musk’s subsidised spark buggies. Teslas tick every box on the enviro wish list: they’re use no fossil fuels (aside from coal to generate electricity, of course), they signal virtue and they shake down taxpayers.

But as actual cars, your average Tesla is a little deficient, and not just in range or availability. Autoline.tv recently invited veteran Detroit engineering consultant Sandy Munro to cast his expert eye over Tesla’s new Model 3. A video of Munro’s inspection is on YouTube. It shows an increasingly bewildered Munro pointing out design and quality faults.

Noting the poor panel fit, Munro quips: “The gaps in this car — you can see ’em from Mars.”

As he walks around the Model 3, poking and prodding at the vehicle, Munro’s disenchantment grows.

“These are flaws that we would see in a Kia from the ’90s,” he says at one point.

So evidently slack is the production integrity, and so broad the Tesla’s exterior tolerances, that Munro concludes: “I can’t imagine how they released this.”

Worse may be to come. Next up is a complete mechanical tear-down of the Tesla. That might be fun.




and the whinge list just grows and grows..

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Slut Walk and World Hijab Day?

Racing enthusiasts go to watch the races not to perve on grid girls. I don't see anything wrong with having grid girls. If the girls get paid well and enjoy doing it what right do the loony feminists have to stomp in with their jackboots and decry it? In my opinion current day feminists are only making things go backwards.

The world is now full of whingers who are so miserable and lazy they have nothing better to do than try to put people down and make life hard for those that are out actually trying to do something for themselves.

Many of whom are online saving gifs and being 'curious'

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Slut Walk and World Hijab Day?

Racing enthusiasts go to watch the races not to perve on grid girls. I don't see anything wrong with having grid girls. If the girls get paid well and enjoy doing it what right do the loony feminists have to stomp in with their jackboots and decry it? In my opinion current day feminists are only making things go backwards.

The world is now full of whingers who are so miserable and lazy they have nothing better to do than try to put people down and make life hard for those that are out actually trying to do something for themselves.

Many of whom are online saving gifs and being 'curious'

reminds me of a couple of other forums I know of...



I love it when feminists talk about women being themselves do as you want and dress as you please...

yet when it comes to beauty pageants.or girls in bikinis being used to sell cars... they yodel..objectifying!!!.

its not as if these girls are hog tied and forced into this..

feminism is ok if we all think alike and look alike ............. oh god help us...

imagine all those Germaines running around....

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reminds me of a couple of other forums I know of...



I love it when feminists talk about women being themselves do as you want and dress as you please...

yet when it comes to beauty pageants.or girls in bikinis being used to sell cars... they yodel..objectifying!!!.

its not as if these girls are hog tied and forced into this..

feminism is ok if we all think alike and look alike ............. oh god help us...

imagine all those Germaines running around....

I know and they say women should be allowed to wear what we want without men even looking. God get a life!!! Most are very bitter towards men, although they deny this, but their actions speak louder.

Then we have oppressed women in robes that they don't care about and say it is their choice and we should mind our own business.

Which is it?

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watching that silly pair on MKR tonight they were particularly bad...even putting more make up at a dining table...how bloody rude..

I call them the ugly sisters....Jess looks like she overdoes on lip enhancers....unless she is related to a duck of course....

women are their own worst enemies I have always said that......look at the blokes they never get stuck into each other.....

as for Ash and Matty no surprises there....what was she thinking??... I am surprised he knew what a knife was for....

why would you go on a cooking show and not even give him the bearest of skills...pathetic..

sorry a bit off topic