By Mark Dent: I have a new hero. His name is David Leyonhjelm and he is a senator in our federal parliament. Last week he caused a furore here in Australia when he told a rabid feminist senator Sarah Hanson Young to “stop shagging men.” When she confronted him with confected outrage he simply told her to “fuck off.”
Why did he say it?
Why did he say it?
I have already written about the rape and murder of a young woman in Melbourne a few weeks ago. The issue of protection for women was being discussed in the Senate. Let Mr. Leyonhjelm explain what happened in his own words.
“She called out something that I’m 99% sure was ‘If only men would stop raping women,’ so she was saying that in the context of why they need something for self defense (mace was suggested), the inference being that men are collectively responsible for such attacks as happened in Melbourne. I responded by saying ‘Stop shagging men.’
“She was effectively saying ‘the enemy is men. ‘I was responding by saying, ‘you’re sleeping with the enemy’. What I was objecting to was the misandry, the blaming of men for the actions of individual criminals.”
What followed can only be imagined. The media melted and expressed outrage over this dinosaur..this uncouth relic from a dark, bygone era.