LEFTISTS OPPRESSING WOMEN

Lefty collectivist blogger Paul Norton has compiled statistics on the gender of contributors to Quadrant. Suffice to say, most of the contributors are men. Norton attributes this to:

I think the simplest explanation is that the Australian intellectual Right, in style, content and priorities, is not attractive to intelligent women, and has not done the necessary intellectual heavy lifting to be able to contribute something of merit, which engages with women's concerns and experiences, to debates on issues of gender, family and sexuality.

This is a subset of the wider issue of the absence from Australian political debate of an authentic democratic conservative discourse on these issues, and the hegemony within the Right of authoritarian revanchist reactionary discourses.

Whatever.

I did some gender equity research of my own and I bet it took a lot less time and effort than Norton's. I went to the Larvatus Prodeo collective's homepage from which I was able to quickly work out that less than 20% of LP's posts were written by women – the posts of several authors whose gender wasn't immediately obvious were included as women; Christopher Sheil was given the benefit of the doubt and included as a male. There was no need for Norton to stray from home in his search for gender bias.

I think the simplest explanation is that the LP males are closet oppressors of females. Stealthy sexist pigs!