Thursday 10 January 2013

Brilliant Catalaxy on misogyny



I partly reproduce the selections - 
and have 
reproduced comments below that in full.

Geoff Seidner

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Julia Gillard, Nicola Roxon, Tanya Plibersek and others suggest that they might be closet misandrists
No, they’re not. They’re leftists being fed lines by McTernan, a man.



  1. d’Hamster is a survivor!

    JamesK
    12 Oct 12 at 6:58 pm
  2. Lol Hammygar

    Daisy
    12 Oct 12 at 7:22 pm
  3. Hammylogic: athletic = misogynist.


    1. Gillard does project an unfortyunate feminine image, from her skirt and her deliberate projection of so-called hair styling. She lacks any sort of gravitas. She will pay for it at the next election.
      Ridiculous eh? So why say it of Abbott? Fool.

      Nic
      12 Oct 12 at 7:27 pm
    2. The Handbaggers don’t have enough collective brainpower to do anything unless they are told to.

      Carpe Jugulum
      12 Oct 12 at 7:28 pm
    3. Abbott is not a misogynist. In fact there wouldn’t be many men on earth who have more women close to them as Abbott.
      The nine closest people to Abbott are his wife, three daughters, mum, dad and three sisters.
      We live in the wierdest of times when Abbott and misogynist can even be uttered in the same sentence.

      jupes
      12 Oct 12 at 7:30 pm
    4. Hammy
      I’m so manly Chuck Norris is the bitch who does my laundry. Sharks have a week of TV dedicated to me. Beer is what my horse drinks. How do I like my steak? With my other steak. Cold medicine? Oh, you mean scotch. Romantic movie? What you mean fight club.
      etc.
      Whilst you may be parody the fact that masculinity scares the Government shows what a joke we’ve become.
      Identity politics is all they have to hide their piss poor management and policy failures.
      “The politics of failure have failed…and always twirling, twirling towards freedom” etc.
      It is really that easy for Abbot. Just be a moderate and call her failure. Then he can lower taxes, brutalise criminals and rule us like a (most catholic) king.


      I’m so sick of this misogyny crap!
      Misogynists capture women, rape them, torture and kill them. . They don’t marry them, have three beautiful daughters, take them to church on Sunday’s, have a female deputy and manager!!!
      Gillard is an obscenity, searching for outrage and superlatives to disguise her pathetic record in office.
      I’m so sick of the absolute effluent spewing from the mouth of this ugly, fat, insecure, INCOMPETENT cow who will put her own ego ahead of the good of this nation!
      Further, I find it incomprehensible that there is not one ALP member or independent who will resign and cause a by- election for the good of this country!


      1. OK now I’m absolutely convinced that “Hammygar” is a leftist piss take. That was all too predictable and ridiculous.

        Jeremiah
        12 Oct 12 at 8:00 pm
      2. As Ann Coulter would say, all the ALP men have been “fitted for their tutus”:

        12 Oct 12 at 8:01 pm
      3. Of course he is Jeremiah. I think he’s the Alene Composta of the Cat

        Daisy
        12 Oct 12 at 8:02 pm
      4. Kevin Rudd requested special meal on flight Told it wasn’t available, abused female hostess.Misogynist.
        Julia Gillard as President of AUS adopted a policy on prostitution which said, in part: “Prostitution takes many forms and is not only the exchange of money for sex. … Prostitution in marriage is the transaction of sex in return for love, security and house-keeping.” Misandrist.
        It’s very simple to tell them apart really.

        Spatacrobat
        12 Oct 12 at 8:05 pm
      5. I’m convinced now, Hammy is have us on.
        He’s Edna Everage in male drag.
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        http://catallaxyfiles.com/2012/10/12/misogyny-or-misandry/

        Catallaxy Files

        Australia's leading libertarian and centre-right blog

        Misogyny or misandry?

        Julia Gillard and her acolytes want to smear Tony Abbott as a misogynist. Yet they have failed to provide a shred of evidence to support this claim. I have never seen Tony Abbott exhibiting behaviour that suggests he hates women. In my dealings with him, I have found Abbott honourable, courteous and unfailingly gentlemanly in his conduct to women. Far from hating women, it is clear that Abbott likes women and loves his wife and family. Abbott is not a misogynist – he is a philogynist.
        By contrast, the extreme behaviour of Julia Gillard, Nicola Roxon, Tanya Plibersek and others suggest that they might be closet misandrists with a hatred of men.
        But beyond this, the extreme Greens exhibit misanthropy – a hatred of Homo sapiens.
        UPDATE:
        According to Hammy, all of the men in this picture are mysogynists
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        October 12th, 2012 at 6:10 pm
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        1. Well giLiARd the crooked lawyer ,serial SLut ,constant LIAR ,and her feminazi lesbo handbag mob have run out of lies ? BOo hoo its mitarabbits fault !

          Borisgodunov
          12 Oct 12 at 6:28 pm
        2. Fling enough mud and it will stick. He has a penis ergo he is guilty. I really hope he wheels his family out at every opportunity and ignores the calls that he’s showing up that slattern Gillard

          Nic
          12 Oct 12 at 6:34 pm
        3. The dishonesty of the attacks on Abbott is simply breathtaking. I don’t think Gillard and the handbag mafia really hate men; they are much worse, because they don’t even do it out of misguided belief, just pure opportunism. They are a moral and ethical vacuum.

          Brett
          12 Oct 12 at 6:38 pm
        4. My own personal observation of the Left/Progressives is that they tend to reflect their own failures, inadequacies, issues and head-noises onto anyone they disagree with (most of the time, Conservatives).
          It’s an odd sort of observation, yet for me it seems to be proved over and over again. It’s like their own head-noises so consume and enshroud them that they see their own behaviour reflected elsewhere, even when it simply does not exist elsewhere. It’s almost as if they cannot conceive that other people might actually be rational, clearheaded and normal – and not share the neuroses of the inhabitants of irrational, emotional, Progressive-Lefty world.

          A Lurker
          12 Oct 12 at 6:39 pm
        5. Julia Gillard, Nicola Roxon, Tanya Plibersek and others suggest that they might be closet misandrists
          No, they’re not. They’re leftists being fed lines by McTernan, a man.

          ar
          12 Oct 12 at 6:49 pm
        6. Abbott does project an unfortyunate macho image, from his budgie smugglers and his deliberate projection of so-called athleticism. He lacks any sort of gravitas. He will pay for it at the next election.
          Malcolm Turnbull projects a much more up-to-date, sympathetic image. As an ALP supporter, I’d be quite concerned to see Turnbull back as leader. His re-elevation would be a real threat.

          hammygar
          12 Oct 12 at 6:52 pm
        7. Stop listening to the voices Hammy; they aren’t your friends.

          Brett
          12 Oct 12 at 6:55 pm
        8. d’Hamster is a survivor!

          JamesK
          12 Oct 12 at 6:58 pm
        9. Lol Hammygar

          Daisy
          12 Oct 12 at 7:22 pm
        10. Hammylogic: athletic = misogynist.

          Samuel J
          12 Oct 12 at 7:27 pm
        11. Gillard does project an unfortyunate feminine image, from her skirt and her deliberate projection of so-called hair styling. She lacks any sort of gravitas. She will pay for it at the next election.
          Ridiculous eh? So why say it of Abbott? Fool.

          Nic
          12 Oct 12 at 7:27 pm
        12. The Handbaggers don’t have enough collective brainpower to do anything unless they are told to.

          Carpe Jugulum
          12 Oct 12 at 7:28 pm
        13. Abbott is not a misogynist. In fact there wouldn’t be many men on earth who have more women close to them as Abbott.
          The nine closest people to Abbott are his wife, three daughters, mum, dad and three sisters.
          We live in the wierdest of times when Abbott and misogynist can even be uttered in the same sentence.

          jupes
          12 Oct 12 at 7:30 pm
        14. Hammy
          I’m so manly Chuck Norris is the bitch who does my laundry. Sharks have a week of TV dedicated to me. Beer is what my horse drinks. How do I like my steak? With my other steak. Cold medicine? Oh, you mean scotch. Romantic movie? What you mean fight club.
          etc.
          Whilst you may be parody the fact that masculinity scares the Government shows what a joke we’ve become.
          Identity politics is all they have to hide their piss poor management and policy failures.
          “The politics of failure have failed…and always twirling, twirling towards freedom” etc.
          It is really that easy for Abbot. Just be a moderate and call her failure. Then he can lower taxes, brutalise criminals and rule us like a (most catholic) king.

          .
          12 Oct 12 at 7:40 pm
        15. Malcolm Turnbull projects a much more up-to-date …
          LOL, up-to-date is so out-of-date.

          manalive
          12 Oct 12 at 7:45 pm
        16. Malcolm Turnbull projects a much more up-to-date, sympathetic image.
          You mean he’s fat.

          wreckage
          12 Oct 12 at 7:49 pm
        17. I’m so sick of this misogyny crap!
          Misogynists capture women, rape them, torture and kill them. . They don’t marry them, have three beautiful daughters, take them to church on Sunday’s, have a female deputy and manager!!!
          Gillard is an obscenity, searching for outrage and superlatives to disguise her pathetic record in office.
          I’m so sick of the absolute effluent spewing from the mouth of this ugly, fat, insecure, INCOMPETENT cow who will put her own ego ahead of the good of this nation!
          Further, I find it incomprehensible that there is not one ALP member or independent who will resign and cause a by- election for the good of this country!

          Anne
          12 Oct 12 at 7:51 pm

        18. Dead Soul
          12 Oct 12 at 7:55 pm
        19. Well said Anne!

          Daisy
          12 Oct 12 at 8:00 pm
        20. OK now I’m absolutely convinced that “Hammygar” is a leftist piss take. That was all too predictable and ridiculous.

          Jeremiah
          12 Oct 12 at 8:00 pm
        21. As Ann Coulter would say, all the ALP men have been “fitted for their tutus”:

          12 Oct 12 at 8:01 pm
        22. Of course he is Jeremiah. I think he’s the Alene Composta of the Cat

          Daisy
          12 Oct 12 at 8:02 pm
        23. Kevin Rudd requested special meal on flight Told it wasn’t available, abused female hostess.Misogynist.
          Julia Gillard as President of AUS adopted a policy on prostitution which said, in part: “Prostitution takes many forms and is not only the exchange of money for sex. … Prostitution in marriage is the transaction of sex in return for love, security and house-keeping.” Misandrist.
          It’s very simple to tell them apart really.

          Spatacrobat
          12 Oct 12 at 8:05 pm
        24. I’m convinced now, Hammy is have us on.
          He’s Edna Everage in male drag.

          manalive
          12 Oct 12 at 8:07 pm
        25. A knife eh?
          I used to carry a knife, before I was old enough to kill a man with my bare hands.

          .
          12 Oct 12 at 8:09 pm
        26. Malcolm Turnbull projects a much more up-to-date, sympathetic image. As an ALP supporter, I’d be quite concerned to see Turnbull back as leader. His re-elevation would be a real threat.
          I concur.
          As a young boy, I dreamed of being a baseball.

          .
          12 Oct 12 at 8:11 pm
        27. Malcolm Turnbull projects a much more up-to-date, sympathetic image. As an ALP supporter, I’d be quite concerned to see Turnbull back as leader. His re-elevation would be a real threat.
          Hammy works his reverse-psychology magic: “if I pretend Turnbull is a threat, these Liberal fools might bring him back, ignoring his woeful performance when he was leader – and then Julia might have a chance.”
          Wow, Hammy. Genius move there, bud.

          Abu Chowdah
          12 Oct 12 at 8:20 pm
        28. Malcolm Turnbull projects a much more up-to-date, sympathetic image. As an ALP supporter, I’d be quite concerned to see Turnbull back as leader. His re-elevation would be a real threat.

          Infidel Tiger
          12 Oct 12 at 8:21 pm
        29. Best site ever, bar in the GS Elevator.

          .
          12 Oct 12 at 8:41 pm
        30. I’m so sick of the absolute effluent spewing from the mouth of this ugly, fat, insecure, INCOMPETENT cow who will put her own ego ahead of the good of this nation!
          This person who signs as Anne is definitely not a female. A male pretender!

          hammygar
          12 Oct 12 at 8:45 pm
        31. Hammygar is a TROLL. It is probably IMPERSONATING a leftie.
          I am so fed up with the energy dedicated to it here I can hardly be bothered reading comments anymore. Can people please ignore it. It contributes nothing to the debate.

          Rob
          12 Oct 12 at 8:45 pm
        32. The best site ever

          .
          12 Oct 12 at 9:06 pm
        33. I think he’s the Alene Composta of the Cat
          …except without the subtlety and wit

          papachango
          12 Oct 12 at 9:16 pm
        34. I’m so sick of this misogyny crap!
          Misogynists capture women, rape them, torture and kill them. . They don’t marry them, have three beautiful daughters, take them to church on Sunday’s, have a female deputy and manager!!!
          This person who signs as Anne sounds like a woman to me, Hammy, and I should know. She says what most of us are thinking, and that many of us have already said ourselves, about this despicable female Prime Minister and her disfunctional rabble of a government. Anne, welcome to the Cat.
          Yes Rob, Hammy is a troll deliberately mouthing inanities. Go ahead and call me a male pretender Hammy, and a Hairy Ape with considerable masculine clout will have a strong desire to object by meeting you outside and saying something very Irish to you. That will teach you to cast doubt on his wedded wife and his excellent choice in females.
          Thinking women object to Gillard claiming to speak for them. Suck it up, troll.

          Elizabeth (Lizzie) B.
          12 Oct 12 at 9:20 pm
        35. Hammy believes Anne is a man simply because he does not believe a woman could find fault with the Lying Slapper or use the words she did in describing her.
          Anne was actually understated in her insults and totally unfair to cows.

          Megan
          13 Oct 12 at 12:29 am
        36. Malcolm Turnbull projects a much more up-to-date, sympathetic image.
          In what way? In that he is a shade closer than Tony Abbott to the emasculate, effete metrosexual the Australian Left sees as the ideal male these days?

          13 Oct 12 at 1:17 am
        37. Hammygar is probably one of those idiots that sits in the Q&A audience and declares himself a Liberal to balance the numbers, and thinks he’s being terribly subversive and splitting the Liberal vote by loudly proclaiming Malcolm Turnbull would be a better leader than Abbott. Gee, now where have I heard that before? Oh, that’s right, from about a million other chuckleheads who think they’re terribly clever.
          And here on the Cat, he’s an exceedingly low-rent troll. Far better trolls have come before him (I actually just wrote out this comment previously, but it was moderated because I mentioned one by name.) I mean, seriously, Hammygar couldn’t wind up a car window, let alone your average Catallaxian. His attempts at provocation are boring, derivative and ineffectual. You fail, Hammygar. Massively.

          Oh come on
          13 Oct 12 at 2:51 am
        38. Turnbull seemed like a nice bloke. With some manners.

          Boris
          13 Oct 12 at 3:11 am
        39. While Aboott beat Turnbull with the help of Slipper

          Boris
          13 Oct 12 at 3:12 am
        40. Hammy works his reverse-psychology magic: “if I pretend Turnbull is a threat, these Liberal fools might bring him back, ignoring his woeful performance when he was leader – and then Julia might have a chance.”
          I don’t think Hammy is as clever as this. He genuinely believes Turnbull is more threatening to Labor as a leader. I am not sure of that. Still he is a nice bloke. With manners.

          Boris
          13 Oct 12 at 3:15 am
        41. Let’s face facts. Regardless of his manners and niceness, Turnbull was a very unsuccessful Liberal leader, Boris. Whereas, to the surprise of many (including myself, I must admit), Abbott has been a wildly successful leader. He may not be particularly well-liked, but within days of assuming office, he pretty much single-handedly prompted Rudd into making a series of unforced errors and soon he found himself in a position where the elected PM’s stupid party thought it would be a good idea to throw him over for Gillard. Then the Abbott-led coalition narrowly lost an election that, going on past precedent, should have been an absolute cakewalk for the ALP – but only after forcing them into an alliance with the Greens which has proven to be so profoundly toxic that it’s not entirely unthinkable that the ALP might go the way of the UAP within a few years.
          The simple fact is that Abbott deserves the leadership of the party. Turnbull doesn’t.

          Oh come on
          13 Oct 12 at 3:29 am
        42. Malcolm Turnbull, for all his quality, is not the Liberal leader because his views on many issues, eg. climate change, the republic, gay marriage, etc, are too progressive. People who hold those views are more likely to vote for the Greens/Labor, than for the Coalition. That is why the Coalition trailed Labor in the polls while Turnbull was leader. Tony Abbott is a genuine conservative on social/environmental issues, which enthuses the Coalition base and gives people a reason to vote for him. He offers an alternative set of policy positions to the Greens/Labor status quo. This is the real reason (not his alleged misogyny) why the government and it’s supporters hate him so much and would prefer Malcolm Turnbull as Liberal leader.

          Kookaburra
          13 Oct 12 at 7:40 am
        43. The problem with Turnbull is that he doesnt represent the conservative view. He was as far left as labor and there was no one representing me or my opinion. I imagine others felt the same way. So when Abbott stood up and said we are against the ETS i was rejuvenated.
          It must feel like this in China where the government is all in agreement…..both sides lol.

          andrew
          13 Oct 12 at 8:03 am
        44. What we need are some politicians to change their names. Here are some ideas:
          http://www.cracked.com/article_14982_the-9-manliest-names-in-world.html
          #7 gets my vote.

          e-girl
          13 Oct 12 at 8:29 am
        45. What we need are some politicians to change their names.
          I agree, Julia should from now on be named – Lying Cankled Duckarse.

          Old Fridgie
          13 Oct 12 at 8:39 am
        46. It’s easy to play the gender card when you have been lulled into thinking you are above criticism by a compliant media. The fact that the criticism of the Prime Minister has not been because she is a woman but because she is an incompetent Prime Minister is the issue here. As an avid reader of many newspapers and blogs I have noticed the greatest condemnation of the Prime Minister as a woman has come from other women. Those of us who entered the workforce in the 60′s can tell of horrifying discrimination against female employees but the worst offenders were OTHER WOMEN.
          None of the screechers against Tony Abbott ave anything to offer the nation except the fact that they were educated by the union movement to be good little socialists, do as they’re told and they will get the rewards. The hypocrisy of it all makes my blood boil. Playing the victim of male chauvinism and then labeling decent men misogynists is a cowardly attack by a woman our of her depth. Those who agree with her diatribe are those who have no courage, no stamina and no morals. She is the embodiment of everything that demeans women, not elevates them. Had all the successful women we have played the gender or victim card we wouldn’t have any successful women. They just got on with the job and proved their worth like men have to. We want equality, not patronage.

          mags
          13 Oct 12 at 9:07 am
        47. Anne,
          Ugly, fat, cow????? All irrelevant if true, and commonly used to demean women. Lets just stick to relevant descriptions, i.e. insecure and incompetent. Both make her unfit as prime minister.
          Duncan

          Duncan
          13 Oct 12 at 9:10 am
        48. CAGW also destroyed Mal as leader of the opposition. The Libs had never seen the like of it. An email / phone / collar local member mass revolt happened when our Malcolm thought Julia’s carbon scam was a good idea for comrades and associate comrades.

          Alfonso
          13 Oct 12 at 9:28 am
        49. I lurk here often for the robust call-it-as-you-see-it.
          Anne posted at 7.51 last night a polite version of what I think of the female occupying the office of Prime Minister.
          I have made an appointment with my local Federal Labor MP and will tell him exactly what I think of the PM, the Labor Party and how ashamed I am of him for voting to retain the reprehensible Speaker, the filthy-minded Peter Slipper.
          Barnaby Joyce so perfectly described how the current female PM appointed the Speaker, Peter Slipper when the Liberal party were disowning him, in words to the following effect: “We were putting the smelly wheelie bin out on the street and Ms Gillard drags not to the side of the house but into the kitchen.”
          And Michelle Grattan, Philip Coorey and others of the handbag-hit squad, most of the MSM and the ABC – it was a stroke of genius. that’s turned out well hasn’t it?

          Tintarella di Luna
          13 Oct 12 at 9:47 am
        50. Most of what Plibeserk says is like something out of Orwell, or even Kafka.

          blogstrop
          13 Oct 12 at 10:13 am
        51. [...] Do Julia Gillard, Tanya Plibersek and Nicola Roxon hate men? [...]
        52. Well said, Mags. Speaking truth to power.

          Gab
          13 Oct 12 at 10:21 am
        53. Tony Abbott will never be PM because he is Tony Abbott…. the only thing in his way is him….he is his own worse enemy because of the way he has handled the ‘job’ of LOTO, he has lowered the standard of political debate and debased the Liberal Party with his constant negativity. He is leading the LNP down a track with NO way back.
          Malcolm Turnbull and his faction are trying to drag this once great party into the 21st century with his intellectual style of leadership, unlike The Abbort who has’nt got out of his 1950′s sandpit.

          LOVO
          13 Oct 12 at 11:25 am
        54. Agree Mags, ‘equality not patronage’.
          And now to that quality list of tough-named real guys linked by e-girl. I have made my choice. No, not number 7, Maxie boy Planck is certainly an intellectual strong man and his name comes highly recommended by e-girl. But look ladies, we are Aussies and should support the local charmer, who is nominated in part because he has withstood an Australian upbringing, which we know means he comes out fighting in spite of the sisterhood’s best efforts to tame his manhood. Number 4 it is, Stirling Mortlock, hobnailed Captain of the Wallabies. Interogate his name in a post-modern deconstruction: a stirling guy (maybe a bit mediaeval but a shining knight, metal 100% grade A), mort means death, so it’s a deathlock (real or metaphorical) applied with vigor to anything or anyone in his way or who should be unwise enough to insult you (that counts!). I’ll have that one thanks.
          Come to think of it, just add a touch of Maxie Von Plankey and I do believe I’ve got a number 4 already, (the Very Hairy Irish version). ;)

          Elizabeth (Lizzie) B.
          13 Oct 12 at 5:18 pm
        55. Now LOVO.
          Really, Sinc, you have some heavy duty Spring cleaning to do in order to maintain a streetscape where one is not stepping in this sort of excrement so often. It’s like being forced to go to a cheap sideshow freak tent when you really want to see the photography or floral exhibits, something, anything – edifying. They just don’t have an original thought to offer and are ugly as well.

          blogstrop
          13 Oct 12 at 5:28 pm
        56. Tony Abbott will never be PM because he is Tony Abbott…. the only thing in his way is him….he is his own worse enemy because of the way he has handled the ‘job’ of LOTO, he has lowered the standard of political debate and debased the Liberal Party with his constant negativity.
          Your writes am totally good. Please types them more and I are being convinced a lot while you type.

          wreckage
          13 Oct 12 at 7:14 pm
        57. It’s almost like having a one in a million lucky monkey at the keyboard. A near miss. It was nearly “what he is is him … for this he came’.

          blogstrop
          13 Oct 12 at 8:37 pm
        58. My apol’s did’nt reelize ’twas an Anglish Lit. blog….. ‘oping lots that whom gott thier daily dose of elitjism…..bet you get ‘told’ everyday…. have you bin ‘told’ 2day, if not, consideritdone :D

          LOVO
          13 Oct 12 at 9:25 pm
        59. P.S. El Gordo sent me :lol: *waves*

          LOVO
          13 Oct 12 at 9:39 pm
        60. Who the hell is L. Gordo? And what does the L stand for?

          wreckage
          13 Oct 12 at 10:33 pm
        61. Don’t you know???????

          LOVO
          13 Oct 12 at 10:40 pm
        62. Yep, lobotomised leichhardt lezzo stormfr@nt is back – back, Baby, BACK!

          Rabz
          13 Oct 12 at 10:47 pm
        63. Another troll who speaks in riddles is my guess wreckage.

          Splatacrobat
          13 Oct 12 at 10:49 pm
        64. Another troll who speaks in riddles is my guess wreckage.
          Aha! Our resident agrarian socialist.

          Rabz
          13 Oct 12 at 10:59 pm
        65. What? Who? Who’s a socialist?

          wreckage
          13 Oct 12 at 11:02 pm
        66. Heres something to help your
          literary technique…….you word-smiths you… :D
          http://www.theglobalmail.org/blog/word-of-the-day/421/

          LOVO
          14 Oct 12 at 11:19 am
        67. LOVO,
          I suggest you get a strong dose of Thorazine and Clonazepam, trepanation and a frontal lobotomy.
          :Smiley face:

          .
          14 Oct 12 at 11:27 am
        68. “Wordsmith” is not hyphenated.

          Gab
          14 Oct 12 at 11:28 am
        69. Misandry and Philogynist in one article! Impressive.

          15 Oct 12 at 10:17 pm

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