By, umm, Luciana Peker*:
But the country that led the struggle for women’s rights in Latin America has now suffered an extreme, misogynistic setback, and I, too, feel I have been forced to leave my country. Ever since Javier Milei took office in December 2023, his government has deployed a shocking strategy that plunders natural resources, attacks social justice, dismantles the state and erodes the rights of women and sexual diversity. The attacks on feminism that this environment enables are a huge problem for Argentina. It is also a very serious problem for Latin America and for women in the west, however distant it may feel to them.
Gosh.
And so, less than a month after taking power, Milei’s government closed the ministry of women, gender and diversity,
Umm.
That’s why I have had to leave the country, after threats, censorship, silencing and the suffocation of my work and income by Milei’s supporters.
I think – I think – this means she no longer gets a grant from the Ministry that no longer exists.
I have not left to be silenced, but to continue writing. And I have not left for ever. It’s not personal – it’s political.
Women in Latin America need women in the west to work with us to put an end to this violent oppression. Read the work of Latin authors, activists, writers and journalists, follow them on social media, share their content and support our women’s words, so that violence does not silence us and economic suffocation does not steal our voices again. Our freedom cannot be pushed back. Neither can our words.
Ah, so it’s a career move then?
* Indeed, indeed.
She has a set of gnashers to rival Jacinda Arden or the Honourable Member for Richmond Park.
«…dismantles the state and erodes the rights of women and sexual diversity.»
Poor deluded old bat: sexual diversity erodes the right of women to be women.
Jay and Lynn already covered this:
Humphrey: But Minister; abolishing education and science!
Hacker: No Humphrey, I am merely abolishing a government department.
I can’t believe this. A politician who was elected in December 2023 has done so much by 24 January 2024?
Can’t be a real politician. George will soon have him sorted…
The great virtue of feminism is not merely its promotion of sexual freedom, campaigning against the wage gap and stopping sexist violence. The power of feminism lies in its ability to transform the political landscape of a world drowning in resignation.
My civilisation went to Feminism, and all I got was collapsing birth rates and a country full of Muslims on the benefits I pay for.
Knowing the usual political views she doubtless expresses, how the hell would she know what a woman is anyway? And if she can’t define one, why does Argentina require a whole ministry devoted to them?
Rupert – I’m sure the columnist knows what a woman is, looks like Peker probably had sex with a few of them before the sex change:
https://www.revistaanfibia.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Peker.jpg
Steve,
“My civilisation went to Feminism, and all I got was collapsing birth rates and a country full of Muslims on the benefits I pay for.”
I’m convinced that if women did the sums, looked at the data, a lot more of them would be housewives and vote for smaller government.
The expansion of universities didn’t lead to the creation of armies of engineers. It led to armies of women with psychology degrees, which are basically worthless. The main value of university to most women is finding husbands, which is considerably more expensive than organising waltzing. And of course, someone has to pay for this, and that is mostly their future husbands through taxes. So, if they stopped doing this, their husbands would be taxed less and so they’d be getting the money.
And then there’s the expansion of the worthless public sector, which creates so many jobs for mothers. Someone has to pay for this, and it’s going to be your husband. So you go and get a job on a call centre, which then means you need a car, and then you deduct childcare, which leaves a few quid an hour. And because they’re tired from work, they then spend more money on takeaways and going to Pizza Express. Oh, and then spend a fortune of their own money or taxes getting their elderly parents looked after instead of doing it themselves. If women just voted for less government, husbands would get to keep more of it, and they’d be just as well off and could spend their days having babies and watching Lorraine.
I’m not saying all women. There are definitely some women who are career women and want to rise to the top, but most women don’t take their jobs that seriously. What they like about work is hanging out with the girls. They value who is around them much more than the money. It’s why they spend so much on their wardrobe. They have this delusion about being career women, but few of them want to put in the dedication to get to that point.
We’d be just as rich as a country if we ditched uni for most, women started work at 16, and then had kids when they met a bloke and went back to work when the kids were in secondary school. And women would generally be happier.
Contrast the report from Argentina with this NBC report horrified that people fleeing socialist hellhole Venezuela might agitate against socialism in the places they move to:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/venezuelan-immigrants-far-right-candidates-argentina-shape-us-politics-rcna134621
Read the work of Latin writers
Really? Ms Peker thinks the world would be a better place if we all followed Livy, Virgil and Cicero? Quite possibly it would, but I struggle to believe that she would agree.
WB – I’m convinced that if women did the sums, looked at the data
But they’re women, so that rarely happens.
We’d be just as rich as a country if we ditched uni for most, women started work at 16, and then had kids when they met a bloke and went back to work when the kids were in secondary school. And women would generally be happier.
We’d be richer! Higher education in the United Kingdom is now mostly fraudulent, it’s a criminal waste of time, money and people’s lives. We’d get the same economic and social outcomes if they were studying yo-yos.
“his government has deployed a shocking strategy that plunders natural resources, attacks social justice, dismantles the state and erodes the rights of women and sexual diversity. ”
Given where most people put ticks in boxes in the last general election, that’s the sort of shocking strategy that we should by rights be getting in the UK.
Some people are affronted by an example of democracy in action.
Now Milei may end up being a good thing or a bad thing for Argentina. Time will tell. But if you don’t allow democracy to work then you implicitly allow authoritarianism.
If parody were as easy as self-parody, her income would be assured.
Peker probably had sex
No, I wouldn’t.
Gum showing above short (but more especially long) teeth…eeuch
And of course it’s all due to ‘Dark Money’
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/06/rishi-sunak-javier-milei-donald-trump-atlas-network
It’s a particularly amusing article from someone as paranoid as Murphy as it Suggests Sunak is doing the same in the UK – So Steve, you might be getting your taxes back…
We must brace ourselves for a wave of former Argentinian civil servants in rubber boats in the Channel.
@phillip
“We must brace ourselves for a wave of former Argentinian civil servants in rubber boats in the Channel.”
Were that true you would see the entire force of the British Government out sinking boats.
asiaseen – yes, this is one case where we don’t need to see if her elbows are too pointy.
VP – George says: the Atlas Network, a global coordinating body that promotes broadly the same political and economic package everywhere it operates. It was founded in 1981 by a UK citizen, Antony Fisher. Fisher was also the founder of the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), one of the first members of the Atlas Network.
Ok who was Antony Fisher and what did he want?
On 15 August 1940, Fisher saw his brother Basil plummet to his death after Basil’s Hurricane was shot down and his parachute caught fire.[4] The experience both traumatised Fisher and, according to a biography, galvanised him into a belief that he must act to make the world a freer and more prosperous place where nation states would not go to war.[4]
George’s problem might be that Fisher was, unlike the painfully weedy George, a real man. We already know that physically weak men are more likely to be leftwing. I wonder how much of Lefty politics is girly men seeking revenge on more masculine ones.
Revenge for how they laugh, how they smoke, how they tell dirty jokes and bed women. Revenge for their confidence. Revenge because they know how to change a tyre.
You or I may like Lord Flashheart and blokes of that ilk, but to seething almost-men with their tiny biceps and girlish emotions, such men are a living insult. Arnold J Rimmer could never forgive Ace Rimmer just for being himself.
Smoke me a kipper, blokes.
Steve
From a show we both liked:
Whatever happened to Gary Cooper? The strong, silent type;
That was an American!
He wasn’t in touch with his feelings, he just did what he had to do
My guess is George isn’t a fan of the ‘Strong, silent type’….
The chances are that most women in Argentina are going to be better off than they would have been under the past regime as it did its best to emulate Venezuela.
Of course that’s their real worry, that Melei turns Argentina round and builds a succesful economy. Same with Putin and Ukraine and Xi and Taiwan, they can’t have succesful neighbours showing how inept and cruel they are.
Revenge because they know how to change a tyre.
Seems a bonkers notion until you factor in that spare tyres became weedy slivers that girly men could lift and are now being deleted altogether in favour of spray cans (in the name of greenery).
Scott Adams suggested that Amy Comey Barrett really (subconsciously-clitorally) wants the southern border open to let in lots of masculine mate-worthy males because she’s surrounded by feeble male feminist tossers. Sounds bonkers too, but it makes more sense than whateverthefuck her reasoning was.
I believe the phrase goes – I like him already, no need to sell him to me,
VP – I could talk about The Sopranos for hours. What a great show that was and still is.
But Dr Milfy had a point too, a lot of what Tony told himself was lies. We need archetypes but it’s unrealistic to expect human beings to be archetypes. Even Gary Cooper was a fictional character played by Gary Cooper.
I think we’ve gone too far in the peevish geography teacher direction tho.
PJF – I dunno about Amy Coney Barrett, but I’d believe that explanation if it was applied to William Hague.
Longrider – Milei keeps threatening Argentina with a good time.
That’s why I have had to leave the country, after threats, censorship, silencing and the suffocation of my work and income by Milei’s supporters.
From the looks of her, she’ll be able to exist for a month or two on her stored calories.
Then again, nothing says “I’m being persecuted!” like half a dozen rolls of fat.
“And so, less than a month after taking power, Milei’s government closed the ministry of women, gender and diversity,”
No doubt to much applause and exclamations of “Finally!! Good riddance!!” .
As someone mentioned above, probably some gasps of incredulity ( and possibly some heart attacks) at the mere sight of a politician actually following through on his campaign promises as well..
The Dept of Education doesn’t teach
Ministry of Defence doesn’t fight
Dept of Health doesn’t do medicine
Culture and Sport doesn’t play
Office of Budget Responsibility isn’t responsible for the budget
Ministry of Agriculture doesn’t produce any food
Dept of Business doesn’t make a profit
Foreign Affairs embroils us in far away wars
(And others I’m too lazy to remember)
So I suggest there’s a fair amount of fat to cut. Westminster and Whitehall have become a donkey sanctuary and should be funded by private charity.
If you push anyone claiming social injustice to explain themselves, it will sound similar to this woman’s account. Pathetic.
most women don’t take their jobs that seriously
Not sure about that. I find that many women take their work very seriously, the problem is the work itself eg HR and other busywork is not serious.
@VP – nothing demonstrates Moonbat’s halfwitted lunacy more than his delusional belief that Sunak and the Tories are right wing, small government extremists.
@asiaseen, I believe the phase is ‘Not even with your Peker, chum!’
Marius
I think it’s an article of faith (it’s shared by my brother who knows Murphy) that the Conservatives are on the ‘Far Right’ even though they’re very close to North Korea in many ways. Delusional doesn’t begin to cover it.
Horror of horrors, apparently he’s going to scrap the state tango subsidies – that’s the dance not the drink.
If Millei can hold on for long enough, Argentina is gonna fully B-ark these people.
Anyone else thinking about going to Argentina and claiming political asylum?