(Open Letter to the Ministers of Sport and Employment)

 

Dear Grant Robertson and Willie Jackson,

The Australian professional tennis player Nick Kyrgios has criticised a double standard in a tennis in Acapulco, when (Daria) "Gavrilova threw her racquet across the court in frustration and almost hit a ball person." She suffered no penalty -- after all, she was a woman and the ball person was a ball boy! Kyrgios makes the point that "I would be banned for 6 years and been on every paper and news channel for the next month"... I also assume that the consequences would have been more severe if the near-victim had been a ball girl.

But, as everyone knows, there is an overarching set of double standards in tennis, which affects the whole context in which such incidents occur, i.e. men and women play in separate competitions for virtually the same prize money, which is a gross double standard, because there would probably be no female tennis player capable of competing with men in a non-sexist, non-apartheid system!

So, since the whole context in which tennis is played is one of sexist, apartheid double standards, it is only natural that this double-standards mentality would flow through into other aspects of the game, such as umpiring decisions!! How can you have double standards over-all, but non-discrimination in particular subcategories of behaviour? That is too hard for people to adjust to!

Moreover, there is no employment sphere (and these players are professional, of course) where men and women are separated out because men would not be able to meet the women's higher standards!

If we turn to the employment category of Police Officer, again we have a situation of sexist double standards which benefit women. Men, on the other hand, are denied employment as Police Officers if they only meet the physical entry standards of women. Men have to achieve higher standards to get in!

So, since the whole context in which the Police are employed is one of sexist, apartheid double standards, it is only natural that this double-standards mentality would flow through into other aspects of the policing, such as arrests and prosecutions!! Many men suffer from these double standards, which attract zero media coverage and zero academic research!

Since your Government is currently going on about so-called Pay Equity, could you -- under the Official Information Act -- please inform me about any plans you have to:

Summary Haiku:

Men have no rights,
but aren't less human.
We blame sexism.

I received the following reply from Hon. Willie Jackson:

 

• Equality for Hermaphrodites

• Discrimination is always Negative

• Los Angeles Times Propaganda about Brains

• Men Die Because Female Police are Physically Incompetent

• Equality for Men in Brazil's Bahia State Military Police

• Police Legal Adviser Calls Police Human Resources Manager a Liar

• "Common Sense" replaces Democracy

• Women Bully chess.com Into Insanely Enforcing Lies

• Double Standards in the US Military

• Andy Murray, Defender of Truth and Sex-War Hero

• Bad Money Driving Out Good: Police Bias, Sexism, Stupidity and Incompetence

• Police Management Discriminating Against Older Male Police

• Anti-Male Discrimination in the Workplace

• Women's Brains and the Feminist "Research" Scam