mark boofhead latham

So that political disaster Mark Latham has found a new cause. Forget the fact that he almost destroyed his precious Labor Party. Now he says that there are not enough real Aussie blokes and larrikins in this country.

In  his new book A Conga Line of Suckholes Latham writes that ‘one of the saddest things I have seen in my lifetime has been the decline in Australian male culture, the loss of our larrikin language and values. Australian mates and good blokes have been replaced by nervous wrecks metrosexual knobs and toss-bags’.

So what does Macho Mark want?  A return to the pot-bellied days when it was a bloke’s world and women stayed barefoot and pregnant. While the men were at the pub the good old wife was keeping the home fires burning. Cooking the meals, doing the washing and the ironing, bringing up the kids and always available for a quick shag.

Does Latham regret that we aren’t all like him?  A big brave man who breaks a taxi driver’s arm. A Labor stalwart who steals a camera from a working man doing his job and takes it home and smashes it with a hammer. A would be prime minister who physically towers over his smaller opponent on the campaign trail, invades his space, and grips his hand in a controlling vice-like handshake.

I am happy that larrikin behaviour like that of drunken footballers who sexually assault women, who drink and drive, who vandalise hotel rooms is now being condemned and not shrugged off because ‘ boys will be boys’.

We’ve seen how Aussie larrikins behave – recently with fatal consequences. Instead of writing this rubbish maybe Mark Latham should be reading the transcripts of the evidence at the inquest into the obscene death of Dianne Brimble on the Pacific Sky.

Latham says ‘one of the saddest things I have seen in my lifetime has been the decline in Australian male culture’. To that, Mr. Latham, I say: YOU may look like Bazza McKenzie. That doesn’t mean we all have to act like him.

Monday, September 25, 2006

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