Helen Andrews’ article, The Great Feminization, in Compact’s online magazine exploded on the internet in October 2025. Commentaries and interviews with Andrews followed rapidly. I will post links following this post. It is curious that, for the first time, I recently came across this quote from George Orwell’s 1984:
“It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy.”
Coincidentally, I recently found this shocking demonstration of the fundamental difference between male and female moral and political thinking HERE.
How many of us have had to give up talking to a screaming, overwrought female, as here with this poor man?
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The Great Feminization
Helen Andrews, COMPACT, 16 October 2025
In 2019, I read an article about Larry Summers and Harvard that changed the way I look at the world. The author, writing under the pseudonym “J. Stone,” argued that the day Larry Summers resigned as president of Harvard University marked a turning point in our culture. The entire “woke” era could be extrapolated from that moment, from the details of how Summers was cancelled and, most of all, who did the cancelling: women.
Part 2 in Mervyn Bendle’s excellent series on the 1960s. Highly recommended reading.
Liza’s Journey: Australia in the Sixties, Part 2
Mervyn Bendle, Quadrant, Dec 13 2025
The Great Chasm. As we saw in the first installment of this series, Liza was beginning her university studies as a ‘great chasm’ had opened up between the optimism and self-belief of the broad mass of Australians and the nascent Intelligentsia, which was invariably critical of its own country. It appears this split had its origins in the tendency of frontier and nation-building societies, like Australia, to value pragmatism and the ability to engage productively with the concrete here-and-now, rather than be pre-occupied with more abstract matters like culture, ideology, and theories. This nation-building was exemplified in the post-war period by massive immigration, the Education Revolution, and colossal infrastructure development, spearheaded by the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme (1949-74).
The Australian Legend. Such activity saw the resurgence of nationalism, a native intellectual tradition that found much to be valued in Australian history and culture. The key text was The Australian Legend (1958) by Russel Ward, which argued that the shared hardship that characterised Australia’s convict and mining origins and the ‘frontier experience’ of the outback bushman had generated a heritage of egalitarianism, co-operation, and mateship that had manifested itself in the Anzac tradition, and was being called upon again in the post-war period as Australians undertook the immense task of transforming their country into a thriving modern nation. This ‘origin story’ of Australian history became very influential while Liza was at university, and later became a hated target of the New Left. This radical neo-Marxist cohort was a by-product of Australia’s passage into post-industrialism, and especially of the Education Revolution, and it quickly established a stranglehold over Australia’s intellectual life and culture.
Mass Immigration. As a nation-building country, Australia benefited greatly from the turmoil in post-war Europe. The Iron Curtain had descended, condemning most East Europeans to a totalitarian fate; 8 million Germans were driven from their homes as their devastated nation was chopped in two; Italy, Greece, and of Yugoslavia were in chaos, and Britain was on the verge of bankruptcy. Massive numbers of migrants began streaming out, determined to start life afresh ‘down under’, including 170,000 Displaced Persons (or ‘refos’ as they were affectionately known). Most were assisted by the Federal Government on the basis that they agreed to stay for at least two years and work in the jobs available. Many found work with the Snowy Mountains Scheme (and incidentally pioneered the snow-skiing industry in Australia). Others opened shops and businesses, worked in department stores, factories, heavy industry, or as labourers and farmhands.
Females head up Australia’s two biggest airlines. One of those female CEOs has publicly stated that she will follow quota guidelines for recruiting airline staff, including pilots. Pilots will be chosen based on identity rather than competence.
Sorry, I’m not stepping onto a plane without knowing who’s flying it. That will probably never happen again.
Professor Nigel Biggar and Dr Stephen Chavura discuss the historical nonsense that is shoved down the public’s throats and is force-fed to our schoolchildren.
For examples of state indoctrination, there’s no need to go to Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union or Communist China. We have our own indefatigable Goebbelses, beginning with the government-funded ABC and SBS.
Mervyn Bendle’s series of three articles in Quadrant is of particular interest to me because the 1960s is the setting of my Sixties Series. The articles make interesting background reading for my series.
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Liza’s Journey: Australia in the Sixties
Mervyn Bendle, Quadrant, Dec 06 2025
This is the first of three articles that tracks a young woman’s intellectual and emotional journey through the 1960s in Australia. It was inspired by the book, play, film, and TV series, Ladies in Black, set around Christmas 1959, which focusses on Leslie, a shy, naïve, bookish, and mousy 16-year-old schoolgirl who takes a summer job in the high-end fashion section at Goode’s, a prestigious Sydney department store, while awaiting her exam results.
An only child in a working class family, Leslie had excelled at school and looks forward to going to university, where she can study literature and pursue her dream of becoming a poet. At Goode’s she is befriended by the older sales assistants and becomes part of their lives, changes her name to a more poetic and feminine ‘Lisa’, is introduced to the many social and cultural changes happening to Australian society, and begins her transformation into a confident, stylish, and worldly-wise young woman.
Or does she? This series of articles looks at the world that another fictional young woman, Liza (name changed for copyright reasons), might enter after she leaves her holiday job and begins literary studies at the University of Sydney. It briefly reviews the international scene at the height of the Cold War as it impacted on Australia, and the nature of Australian society as it left the conservatism of the 1950s and plunged into the radical changes of the 1960s. It then takes a more detailed look at life in Sydney at the time, including the activities of the ‘Sydney Push’, the bohemian vanguard of intellectual, cultural, and romantic life that flourished around the University, and into which any young aspiring poet and intellectual like Liza would have been drawn.
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Liza didn’t know what to make of it! It was if those exciting movies, The Wild One (1953) and Rebel Without a Cause (1955), had both come to life in Sydney! Kevin Simmonds was renowned as “Australia’s most fearless jail escapee whose Hollywood looks made him a teen idol as he ran circles around police”. Kevin (right) had been in trouble with the police since he was 14 for car theft and burglary, and after several stints in Boys Town and a Youth Training Centre, he eventually spent two years in Goulburn Gaol. A talented singer and musician – he had even cut a few records – he charmed the magistrate into sending him there because of its music program and, he said, because he wanted to hone his skills so he could go straight when he was released. In reality, he just wanted to be reunited with a mate so they could plan the jobs they’d do when they got out.
The frivolous spite of young women. The video below is remarkable for the opening scenes portraying young women describing their ways of attacking the ‘patriarchy’. There are thousands of videos like this across the internet. They pop up everywhere.
It seems reasonable for someone (not necessarily white) who cherishes historical accuracy to object to a coal-black African actress playing lily-white Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII, in a television drama.
But, no, to wonder about the point of this egregious case of race-swapping is to trigger howls of racism. Even worse, to suspect the purpose of white replacement and erasure is to send the white-haters into paroxysms of rage. How dare you object to our racism?
Alas, colourblind casting and race-swapping are de rigeur in the movie and television industry, particularly under the direction of a female.
Hatred, flag burning, antisemitic abuse, Palestinian flags, and so much more
Below is Channel Nine’s fairly comprehensive coverage of the festivities on Australia Day. Among the scenes of the recognisable Marxist-inspired hatred, in this instance through whipped-up, white Aboriginal fury, we see mostly peaceful scenes of Australians marching with their flag held proudly aloft.
Imagine if an Australian burnt the Aboriginal flag, a political creation in 1971. There would be combustible outrage.
To top off the hate-filled scenes, we see the radical Palestinian flag, fluttering over the white-hot hatred to demonstrate the treachery, treason, and cowardice of our so-called leaders.
