From the hysterical heading of the article below by cub reporter Natalie Brown, one would think that Muslim terrorists had invaded Sydney University and shot and stabbed the whole place up.
But, no, Natalie, who looks like one of the affronted students she writes about, is reporting on the 97th meeting of Sydney University’s Student Representative Council (SRC), notorious for its control year-in-year-out by SU’s far-far-far-left.
At issue for whimpering Natalie is ‘a landmark report that [allegedly] exposed the systemic culture of sexual violence, hazing, elitism and inaction at Australia’s university colleges’ which report two (you guessed it) male students disparaged and questioned, and a third ripped up before the appalled faces of its far-far-left (and likely lesbian) manufacturers. Of course, the male student’s action was misogynistic in essence and typical of the male species. This is the usual display of the man-hatred endemic in the West.
First, the unknowledgeable reader of student politics should be aware that SRC meetings are always a crowded rowdy affair with the left and far-left dominating the shouting and (sometimes) violence. It was rather brave of the three male students to take on the far-left crowd at the SRC annual meeting. Well done, boys. There should be more of it.
Second, the readers of this website will know that a variety of highly credentialled women have vigorously attacked such reports as the one ripped up and scorned by the three male students. Such reports are the political product of incorrigibly prejudiced feminists whose occupation is tearing down the ‘patriarchy’. I refer the reader to the articles by Bettina Arndt and Janice Fiamengo.
Third (a secondary point), it is a show of vomitous hypocrisy and sanctimony for news.com.au to support their cub reporter’s whimpering about male misogynistic students at Sydney University when its website is full of degrading photos of bare tits and bums, and the lascivious behaviour of the famous and infamous.
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‘Rip it up’: Horrific scenes at University of Sydney student council meeting
A “reprehensible display”, caught on camera, at a University of Sydney student meeting on Wednesday night has been condemned.
Natalie Brown, news.com.au, 31 Oct 2024
University of Sydney students have been left appalled by a “reprehensible display of misogyny” at a student council meeting on Wednesday night.
During the meeting, two male students tore up copies of a landmark report that exposed the systemic culture of sexual violence, hazing, elitism and inaction at Australia’s university colleges.
The annual meeting – held after the student elections for Representatives-Elect of the 97th Student Representative Council – was recorded and live-streamed in its entirety by USYD’s student newspaper, Honi Soit – a fact that attendees are fully aware of.
The incident occurred during a presentation by incoming SRC Women’s Officers and current Sexual Violence Officers, Ellie Robertson and Martha Barlow, that addressed the recent bullying incident at St Paul’s College and the “years and years of abhorrent and disgusting behaviour” at USYD, particularly at its “unreformable” residential colleges.
“Even after The Red Zone Report – which we are handing out to all you college apologists – and the Broderick Report, we have seen more instances of hazing, bullying and sexual violence. This is a continuing result of the elitist culture of these institutions,” Ms Robertson told attendees, while Ms Barlow passed out copies of The Red Zone Report to the elected Student Representatives.
“This is a continuing result of the elitist culture of these institutions.”
In response to Ms Robertson and Ms Barlow’s presentation, two male students ripped up the report – one remarking “no one cares”, while a third male student picked up the shreds of it and threw them in the air. All three boys are affiliated with the campus’ Young Liberals-aligned political group.
News.com.au has contacted the group for comment.
‘It is a quite frankly reprehensible display of misogyny.’ Picture: Supplied
A photo of the shredded Red Zone Report. Picture: Supplied/Honi Soit
‘A reprehensible display of misogyny’
The students’ actions have been condemned by the university, meeting’s attendees (most of whom were “appalled by the behaviour”), and the authors of and participants in The Red Zone Report, who spoke to news.com.au about the boys’ “insulting and shameful” display.
Ms Barlow, who was the one to pass out the copies of the report, said it was “horrific, but perhaps not unsurprising” that the response of the Liberals and colleges’ representatives was too [sic] “laugh in my face, tear it up, and throw the pieces at us”.
“It is a quite frankly reprehensible display of misogyny to so blatantly laugh . . . (at the) victim-survivors (in the report), and an incredibly telling one,” Ms Barlow told news.com.au.
“Just like the colleges themselves, these student representatives would prefer to ignore the problem of sexual violence altogether and pretend it doesn’t exist. To this we say that the time is long past to sweep this under the rug.”