Clearly we need to be as wary and alarmed about an influx of european artists from other centuries as about all the burquaed terrorists that keep wilfully invading our northern homeland in ricketty boats.

Foreigners!

“And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to the admission
that it has a limit. Conduct may be founded on the hard rock or the wet
marshes but after a certain point I don’t care what it’s founded on.
When I came back from the East last autumn I felt that I wanted the
world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I
wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the
human heart. Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was
exempt from my reaction–Gatsby who represented everything for which I
have an unaffected scorn. If personality is an unbroken series of
successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some
heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related
to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten
thousand miles away. This responsiveness had nothing to do with that
flabby impressionability which is dignified under the name of the
“creative temperament”–it was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic
readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it
is not likely I shall ever find again. No–Gatsby turned out all right
at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the
wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the
abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.”

As no Luhrmann fan,Australia being close to one of my worst films ever, I only went after being surprised to see Jane Gleeson White’s recommendation in her excellent Bookish-girl blog.Much truer to the book than I expected, only the party scenes going Baz ott, acting a bit wooden but somehow appropriate – Toby Maguire a good bet for supporting actor award. 3.5, maybe even four stars!

Mr Chong, likewise, thanks.
My first reaction reaction was disappointment that I was not there to hear Krien’s tone, to catch the inflection, to know the context of the whole conversation, to write q.e.d. under her question.
Then I began to look at her question.
And then, after a while, there was only your amazement.

Young women are FOUR times more likely to be the victim of bullying than men (with the perpetrators being other women) . The topics of the victimisation are normally around appearance and sexual proclivity. That is where the grey area becomes confusing because some women portray one type of sexual morality when they in they fact have a different moral compass.

In order to fit within their group they often put themselves into positions that they would not if they were not pressured by their male & FEMALE companions.

I’m an ex police officer and after speaking with a complainant about a sex assault I walked into our office where there were four females (Only persons present). One a senior detective, a junior detective and the two others were experienced uniformed officers.
I won’t go into the details of the complaint for fear of identifying the individual but the response from the women was “Nah can’t be right we have had three false complaints this year, we need another two before we get a genuine one”.
This knowledge of the prevalence of unfounded complaints will never be reported or discussed.

I make the point to illustrate that there are many views of what constitutes that grey area that is being discussed and that MEN are not at the centre of this discussion.