I'm still working around all the clubs. They keep giving me the offers to come back and I keep cancelling once I get the offer.
I'm going dry for January but pub crawl 8th feb around town with a couple of rugby mates, probably start off at Kavanaghs and go downhill from there.( Pun intended)
I thought dry January was where you left every bottle you come across dry. / Well... Not every bottle... Just the ones with alcohol in them... I don't subscribe to Trump's bleach drinking.
I had a friend on another forum say he was going to give it a go and let us know how it was. Unfortunately he must have quit the forum because he never did come back and post how it was.
so this is a question, based not on sexism but on the reaction to Jacinta Arden in general. Arden was youngest leader of NZ and there was an absolute frenzy over here due to her gender on social media, both positive and negative in terms of feminist side and also the misogynistic side. Each side lost their minds. There are also age points made on both sides that are equally as silly. She has now decides she is done at age 42. No doubt several of the same types on social media will be doing the same and judging her for her performance or legacy. I can almost hear the what's her legacy or she had no stick to it etc stuff The thing is; form this distance I don't know what she genuinely achieved in her tenure as I am not a NZ citizen. The ultra feminist types sue the scandanavian leaders and the example of arden as how much better the world would be under female rule. I've seen that trope on social media and it countered by various good and bad stuff and the usual stupidity from sexists. So she has decided she's had enough, what can she point to to show she's gone and done a great job either as a younger more relevant leader or as a female or indeed just as a person in general ( again age is another thing pointed at) some of the things i've read are not actually deliverables for people, just records set. other achievements are "eliminated covid in NZ" this is not actually true. she took the right calls initially but then went down a very strict and ears covered approach and so vaccines were very slow. she was a progressive young politician, kind of in the blair mould or obama mould where people thought they would get change. however the stats show at best marginal improvements that are far below needs in a developed country and they have a full blown housing crisis with a commission of inquiry into it. She was targeting ending child poverty and housing as key issues for her tenure however she has had to deal with covid and now global inflation it is my opinion having read the polls that she thinks she cannot win another overall majority in the NZ PR voting system so any chance at the policies she wants will be impossible due to coalitions next time round. if we leave the " dealt with a massive tragedy" and "had a child while in office" stuff aside and focus on the really really then she's not made real change on the topics she wanted to.
Positive: in the last 6 years she hasn't completely torpedoed the economy, run the health service into the ground, given the country the highest tax burden in 70 years, contributed to the biggest cost of living crisis since WW2 or driven the country to the brink of a general strike.
#notboris - definitely in the credit column #nottruss - DEFINTELY in the credit column. the issue really is that she's not delivered on her mandate and like Trudeau/Johnson perhaps has ridden a wave of personal brand popularity and got away with not delivering on the core.
If every country had a women in charge I think the world would be a lot of a better place. They wouldn’t go round swinging their dicks starting wars with each other
I raise you Thatcher and truss.. But in general I'd agree that if the types of crap that imperialists and lets be frankly right wing crap truss tried on were not in effect we would be in a better place. We have to see that the trope that females wouldn't do ex or why is nonsense though. there's enough examples through history to show that. prime examples Catherine the great in russia. You cannot think its like victoria in england, she was really actually in control and expanded russia by taking it to the black sea and taking over Crimea. they actually founded kherson and other such cities under he. It was others after her that continued this. If rulers actually cared for what they had now already as people and not what others have then things might be a little better. Arden has failed to fix housing in NZ, she's barely scraped child poverty. therefore she's failed her mandate. No amount of feminist worship (which 90% of the stuff is) changes those facts Same for Trudeau. No amount of self aggrandisements or funny colours socks and **** fixes the stuff he's systematically failed at delivering in canada. he promised cheaper phone rates, pharmacare, change to voting system, increase in support for global peacekeeping and to balance thier fiscal budget. he's done none of them. coivd is a great excuse for these leaders imo. but in truth big popularity based on gender, sound bites, slogans and **** never deliver real change. Both are like bo jo. all talk. Johnson is a tory and on the opposite side of politics to trudeau as a liberal or arden as labour but its the same issue for the people. failed promises.
I was going to mention Thatcher but I see mito has covered it. Women in power - any kind of power - are no better or worse than men. It's down to individuals, not stereotypes.
