Welcome to the column where you provide the content. Scott Morrison lashed as “mystifying” and “heavy handed” a new Cricket Australia policy which could see coaches prosecuted if they fail to let anyone identifying as female to play in women’s team. Erasmus erupted:
“Eighteen months after handing out the biggest suspensions for ball tampering in cricket history, Cricket Australia still hasn’t gone to the ICC to insist ball tampering be raised to an A level offence with serious mandatory penalties. Which is proof that, like this idiotic decision, those suspensions were nothing more than vanity signalling.”
Happyj wasn’t best pleased:
“Enfranchise 0.5pc of the population and disenfranchise the other 99.5pc of women. These players only want to play because they have a physical advantage. The whole notion of sport is to trial against persons of similar physicality. Women’s sport is facing collapse.”
Grim, said Tim:
“A couple of days after celebrating a great Ashes Test match in England and the triumphant return of Steve Smith these clowns have to knock the edge off our happiness. WHY?
Please, can we leave the social engineering to the universities, the Greens and the rent a crowd mob where it belongs?”
Barbara said:
“Thank you Mr Morrison for demonstrating some leadership on this issue. Allowing transgender persons to participate in women’s sport has already impacted negatively onto women’s sport in the US.”
Bryan bit back:
“Rubbish. He is throwing red meat to the base. He knows that CA has developed a good policy based on standards used at the Olympic Games.”
Peter pointed out:
“A 6’4” 90kg fast bowler in amateur women’s cricket would cause carnage. So much for every other player’s safety and enjoyment.”
John feared the worst:
“Men are not better that women but they are stronger, faster and tougher. At a time when women’s cricket, WAFL and WNRL are all capturing greater appeal because they are getting better at the games this absurd concession comes along that will effectively destroy women competing in sport. ‘’
More from Bryan:
“Hence, CA has introduced Olympic standard testosterone testing. You can’t play women’s cricket if your testosterone is above a certain level.”
Though, said Lo:
“You can’t take away the testosterone developed height, breadth and strength. So a woman will be left out of the team to accommodate a big hitter.”
Wal agreed:
“Men transitioning to play as women have a clear advantage of having developed muscle and bone structure as a male. Regulating testosterone levels once they have transitioned doesn’t erase the development as a male through childhood into teen years and adulthood.”
Silver lining for another John:
“This is awesome. Finally the girls team might be able to beat the men’s team.”
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The Mocker zeroed in on the high cost of virtue: Gillette took a $12bn beating, due in no small part to an ad that offended a large swathe of its male shaving constituency. Among them Peter:
“I gave up Gillette immediately and I am not going back. Plenty of shaving choice out there. In fact, that is what the ads asked me to do: make a choice and I did.”
And Lawrence:
“Same here. My wife also stopped buying Gillette too. Gillette seemed to believe that it would make no difference as women do most of the buying anyway. They also thought that wives and girlfriends would be happy to see their men demonised.”
And Jennifer:
“Same here. No longer buy Gillette for husband or myself. Yes, I shop for him and wouldn’t have it any other way.”
And Ken G:
“I saw the ad and dumped all Gillette related products. Over-sensitive? No. Just tired of the endless supply of total nonsense from the Politically Correct Elite telling me what my values should be and how I should think. The arrogance and hypocrisy of this lot is breathtaking. To me this drop in sales is a win for the (once) silent majority who are saying ‘enough is enough’.”
Michael was gobsmacked:
“And to think quite a few creatives and execs would have had to think this was a good idea for a brand with mostly male customers!”
Bernie’s blast:
“Gillette can go and get Schick’d, as far as I’m concerned. They’ll not be seeing any of my pennies ever again — and obviously they don’t want them, as I’m a conservative white male with a wife and whole bunch of kids and grandkids who doesn’t reckon he needs a lecture, channelled via Gillette, from the feminist likes of Van Badham, Caro, Ford and all the other gimlet-eyed misandrists like them.
“I’m not “woke” and I very much intend to stay that way. So the ad was produced by Australian woman Kim Gehrig, was it? Well done Kim — clap, clap, clap.”
Dannielle declared:
“Brilliant. I switched to the other major razor company when this nonsense started. Seems a lot of others did too. I also looked up what other products the parent company, Proctor & Gamble made and moved away from them too.
“Schick recently sponsored Gotcha4Life (‘established to reverse the tide of declining mental health and to reduce suicide in men and boys’) during mental health week. A much more positive corporate push.
“I enjoyed the hell out of this article and the schadenfreude of the multi billion dollar loss has made my DAY! I was so offended by this campaign on behalf of my father, brother, husband and sons.
“And just for the record gents, most women DO NOT feel this way. I admire men for their courage when they dive to their death to save little boys in caves, run into fires, build freeways for me to drive on, fix my car (I’ve got no idea) and generally mostly slog their arses off to provide.
“My own husband displays ALL these non toxic masculine traits every day. I admire men for all these things just as I admire women for a different but equally impressive set of traits. Glad to see that the silent Australians protested with their hip pocket! Time for the mainstream to take back the conversation.”
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Adam Creighton weighed in on the high cost of fat, the dangers of sugar and how 50 years after we put a man on the moon, we still can’t decide if cereal and banana or bacon and eggs make a healthier breakfast.Amanda’s experience:
“I’ve been obese. I lost 30 kilograms and have kept it off for almost 10 years now, after more than two decades of trying almost every way I could think of (short of surgery) to lose the weight I put on when I first moved out of home and then had two kids.
“Counting calories consistently is the only thing that worked. Eat less. Don’t worry about what you are eating too much — over time you learn that some foods are higher in calories, so you eat fewer of these foods (for example, alcohol, chocolate, fried foods — these are very high in calories, so you soon learn to cut them out or have them as treats. Or in my case, give up alcohol altogether).
“Once I lost the weight, I continued to monitor my caloric intake. If I put some weight back on, I counted calories again until the weight went back down. I went from a size 20 to a size 8-10. Recently I changed jobs and have put about two kilograms back on because I was not paying attention to what was going in. Now I am counting calories again until the extra kilograms are gone.”
From John:
“Look at history and you will see the food pyramid was a wartime strategy to minimised meat and fat consumption by increasing carbohydrate consumption because more crops could be grown than meat raised. Also, in the UK, where this push was strongest, meat was imported by sea and vulnerable to submarines and a lack of shipping space.
“The bureaucracy simply carried the wartime advice forward into peace time as part of their planned economy. Carbohydrates were cheaper too.”
Same same but different, said BJ:
“Adam’s lament that there is not a one size fits all physiology is problematic. It would be nice to have a single cause that we could build policy around but that’s just not how humans work. That variability will come in handy when the icecaps melt, or the aliens hit us with an EMP, or the pixies rise up in revolt.
“That being said. I’m a 46 year old who loves a drink and a feed. Three months ago I commenced a very low carb, moderate protein diet and have dropped more than 12kg without more effort than resisting the cravings for a sandwich and a bowl of ice cream. Keto worked for me too. Do I sound like a vegan?”
Last word to Lisle:
“People will not face the hard truth. They are always looking for the magic diet or gym program to fix their overweight and diabetes problem.
“Eat sparingly, there is no rule that says we have to eat three meals a day with two smokoes and supper thrown in.
“Walk or ride part way to work and stop worrying about the minor detail of what you ingest to sustain yourself. And the community should not be held responsible for the medical costs for what is largely self inflicted disease.”
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