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Apart from riding m'bikes real hard and aerobatics in a Pitts Special my thrillseeker moment was at a lunch with many leading feminists. My host and I being both male kept our lips sealed as to the discourse over the meal.
I was asked point blank what I thought of the feminist movement by the then leader of the Nurses Federation. My answer was simple yet succint. It gets the women out of the kitchens and laundries into the bar where I can attempt to 'interact' with them.
There was an instant of stunned silence! Mine host spurted his beer. Women were very angry. If looks could kill I was dead!.
Jocelyn Scutt a leading Labor Lawyer then asked me simply "What do you really mean Bert?" My answer was simple, that I was all in favour of equality but let us not lose sight of what that means. I told her I was sick and tired of being portrayed as a stereotype of the unthinking male chauvanist pig. Your reaction Ladies and I use the term loosely is typical of a Pavlovian reaction.
Jocelyn Scutt a week later had a two page essay in 'The Age' and her total argument was along the logical lines I was putting forward.
I did escape alive but the ex-wife gave me hell all the way home!
Bert
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