Saturday, November 15, 2014

State Election looming - who to not vote for...

With the state election looming and with both parties doing their best to point out the faults of the other party at the same time as making so many promises, it has occurred to me that perhaps the parties could benefit from the more simple things to offer.

Therefore, I'd give my voting preference to any candidate that actually changes the Victorian government website to recognise men as a part of their community.




Maybe my expectations are too much.

Friday, November 14, 2014

A brief timeline of the downfall of sperm donation

I've written several times about how Australia is both anti-male as well as not really wanting men as sperm donors based on their treatment of them:

1980 - First baby born in Australia using IVF
1988 - Read 2010 below.
2010 - Single women and lesbians given access to IVF (and subsidized by Medicare)
2010 - The laws in most states changed to give any child conceived using sperm donation access to their details, backdating the access to information as far back as 1988.
2011+ The number of sperm donors is dropping, even though both the population of Australia has increased (more available men) and the demand for donors has increased.

I don't have a big issue with lesbians accessing sperm donations as long as they are self sufficient.  Nothing annoys me more than a government that purposely seeks to create a welfare class by giving single women access to a subsidized way of having children.

There are several kinds of women who get to the point in their life where they're running out of time to have children, but they can be summed up as:

  1. Women who have prioritized their own person life (career, fun, travel) ahead of having a family; and
  2. Women who are incapable of maintaining long term relationships.

The first group of women may be able to switch their focus to a child, but it could be doubtful, especially since a single woman will usually need to keep working to afford to raise a child.

The second group is the group that we should be most concerned about as it is a very bad idea to help a person incapable of maintaining a relationship on a long term basis the responsibility of raising another human being who can't walk away before he or she is 18 years old.  Remember, statistically speaking, the number of prison inmates who grew up in single mother households is dis-proportionally high.

Of course it may actually be beneficial for the child of a single mother to know there's a father out there they'll be able to contact when they turn 18 years old, or maybe it won't.  Only time will tell.

The media is really trying to sell sperm donation

Well, I saw this article about a guy who donated sperm and ended up marrying the woman who carried his baby.

When we see articles like this we really do realise that the mainstream media is trying to sell us a bunch of crap about sperm donation.

It's the old bait and switch, now calling all lonely 20 - 30 year old guys, donate your sperm and maybe you've got a chance at the woman tracking you down and falling in love with you.

Either that, or you'll spend the next 18 years wondering where that woman you helped have a child went until you get a knock at the door from some child wanting to know who you are.

Do you think that we'd ever see any articles talking negatively about sperm donation?

Here's one about a woman who turned against her 'father' after she found out during an argument that she was conceived by IVF.  Two things stand out to me in this article: the woman hates the man that raised her and treated her as his own and she hates the man who donated his sperm to give her life because she's unable to track him down.

Whilst I think the authors of this article think they're trying to argue the case that the abolishing of anonymous sperm donation is a good thing, but all it had me thinking was that if I were infertile I wouldn't want to resort to sperm donation because I could be dropped as 'father' as easily as a heated argument.

What a way to be remembered: you spent 20 of the best years of your life raising that were not biologically your own, but now they know they're not biologically yours, you're out of the picture.

The picture she paints leaves me with the same feeling I get when people talk about marrying women with children.  At the end of the day you could do absolutely everything in the world for the child or children and you'll NEVER be their father and you're more than likely to never appear on their family tree except as a footnote for who their mother married.  Is it really worth it?

It makes more sense as to why men are going their own way every day.

Thursday, November 13, 2014

Woman threatened before partner killed

Another case of the media preemptively jumping to the defense of a woman accused of a crime:

Woman threatened before partner killed

So, basically she was found to be trying to get someone to kill her ex-boyfriend of FOUR YEARS because he was allegedly threatening her and, when she couldn't, said "Don't worry, I will f***ing stab him myself".

The article then goes on to mention that when the victim turned up at the Marrickville home he was stabbed five times.

What is the article leaving out?  Was he lured there?  Were his abusive messages just messages?  Did he have a history of documented abuse?  Hearsay should not be admissible as 'evidence'.

Depending on the outcome of this trial (I believe she'll get a suspended sentence at best), the lesson to all women looking to kill an ex-partner is to tell all of your friends in the months leading up to the final act that the guy is being abusive.  Doesn't matter if he is or not, because as far as the media is concerned all that matters is that you SAID he is to your friends.

It takes a certain kind of person to try to hire someone to kill another person, and it's not a normal kind.

UPDATE:  The link to this article no longer works.  I wonder why yahoo removed this story.

Penis chopping woman eligible for parole this month

Jian Chen, known for chopping off her ex-partner's penis and then ONLY getting three years jail after he DIED from his wounds, will be eligible for parole this month.

I wonder if the media will cover this newsworthy article in light of the spate of articles denouncing domestic violence and partner deaths.

Oh wait, no they won't.

If I wanted to stir the pot I could suggest the reason that no one cares is because the guy who died was Asian, but the reality is most likely that it's because he was male and she was female.

I wonder if any newspaper will do any kind of tribute to Xian Peng and tell his side of the story, much like they do when a woman is the victim, but I highly doubt anyone would even know the name Xian Peng let alone have a newspaper report about a guy who died in a gruesome way or at least a story about any children who have lost their father.

I'm not holding my breath on that one.

Woman slices daughter's boyfriends penis whilst high, only gets home detention

Well isn't this a doozy of an article:

Woman who sliced teen's penis with box cutter escapes jail

What I think is amazing is how, when men are arrested for doing violent acts they are usually charged with and punished for multiple crimes for the same act.

Let's play a little game with this one and see how many charges this woman should have faced:
  • Assault with a deadly weapon
  • Deprivation of liberty
  • Occasioning grievous bodily harm
  • Reckless endangerment of life whilst under the influence of drugs
  • Attempted murder (she did threaten his life by telling him to choose between his member and his life)
Let's not forget that she was unapologetic about the whole incident because, despite saying "she only wanted to scare the teenager and didn't mean to hurt him", the article has her quoted as saying "she wanted to scar him so that he would have to look at it every time that he had sex in the future" - doesn't sound like she "didn't mean to hurt him", unless she thinks that getting scars doesn't hurt.

I guess we shouldn't expect much justice for the guy, it's not like he had a right to safety or anything.