feminists baying for Bettina Arndt’s blood

So the feminists are once again out for Bettina Arndt’s blood.

For the benefit of those outside Australia (where she’s been quite a celebrity for more than forty years) Bettina Arndt started out as a controversial and outrageous feminist sex therapist back in the 70s. She then reinvented herself as a journalist and social commenter and more recently she has reinvented herself again as a men’s rights activist. Along the way she abandoned feminism and embraced social conservatism.

She started doing horrific things like suggesting that maybe men weren’t responsible for every problem. She even had the temerity to suggest that maybe some of the problems men and women encountered in their marriages might have something to do with the fact that men and women are different and react differently emotionally.

This year she was honoured by being made a Member of the Order of Australia. And all hell broke loose, with feminists foaming at the mouth. Labor and Green senators passed a motion calling for her to be stripped of the honour and, predictably, the supposedly conservative LNP senators behaved in their usual craven manner and joined in the witch hunt.

What makes this story more interesting than most such stories is that when attacked (and she’s been attacked countless times in the past) Bettina Arndt does not back down. She does not apologise and she does not grovel. So, predictably, she has now launched an energetic counter-offensive.

For those not familiar with this colourful and courageous woman here’s a link to her website.