4 Jul
“The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned”: Yeats
IRISH REFERENDUM 2018
I saw Ireland hanging naked in the rain
dead to her faith
a miscarriage of justice
scrawled upon her skin,
death by referendum.
Why use long-fought freedom
to ape the English sin?
When “the centre
cannot hold” what is to be done?
A woman with an empty womb
hangs in a muddy sky.
The old country is not a home.
Julian O’Dea
17 May
The tough Alabama and other State laws in America virtually banning abortion are causing a frenzy among progressives and feminists.
Women only have themselves to blame.
And both men and women are calling them to order.
There used to be a social contract: men endure the risks of work and war; women endure the risks of childbirth. But women have dropped their bundle while expecting men to continue with ours.
Women have abused a “right” to abortion, which was only ever meant to be used in extreme circumstances, to have their unborn children killed in huge numbers.
This has taught men and conservative women a lesson: women can’t be trusted with too much freedom.
Time for a bit of patriarchy.
11 Oct
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7 Oct
A recent comment on a photo showing the way women used to be but are now:
” You feel an intense sense of loss, but you feel better because you know things were better once, and you think, you start to believe, that somehow there can be a restoration of that better state – after all, here is the proof, sitting right in front of your very eyes! “Things were once nice like this, surely they can be again, right?” “
Good comment, and here is another old photo of how women used to be:
1957. Leeds General Infirmary, England. Prayers at the start of a shift.
10 Jan
Many of the claims of social change can be tested by observing what the free market shows. This was a point made I think by Warren Farrell. In that case, he remarked that what men and women actually spent their money on, for example what magazines they bought, was a very good indicator of what they were truly interested in.
It is often claimed that young women don’t change their names on marriage as much as they used to in places like Australia. The existence of prominent advertising for this product suggests that many are still keen to do so:
Julian O'Dea 
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