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The only elephant is in your own head, your talking nonsense. One minute we're supposedly onside with Andrew Bolt, then we are supposedly like the United Firefighters Union, then we are tiredly justifying the oppression of women ! ! !

And here I was thinking you are reading every word , but you must have missed these articles, so I will repost them just for your benefit. By the way it may come as a shock to you but did you know that the working class number about 6 billion people and half of them are women ! Defend them against war ! Defend them against poverty ! Defend them against the treachery of the Liberal and Labor parties and trade union bureaucracy !

Some of the articles at WSWS are written by female members and supporters, so if you are concerned about their welfare you can always contact them thru the http://www.wsws.org/ and just you know, check up on the level of oppression they are experiencing etc etc.

"Von Otter criticized the #MeToo herd mentality. “What has happened,” she asked, “to our independent, critical thinking?”"

Opera singer Anne Sofie von Otter blames #MeToo witch-hunt for her husband’s suicide

By David Walsh
3 August 2018

Anne Sofie von Otter, the famed Swedish mezzo-soprano, is speaking out to the press for the first time about the March 2018 suicide of her husband, Benny Fredriksson. She recently gave a lengthy interview to Die Zeit, the German weekly newspaper.
Anne Sofie von Otter in 2011
After Aftonbladet, a leading Swedish newspaper, published anonymous accusations that he was guilty of sexual and psychological abuse, Fredriksson resigned from his post at the Kulturhuset Stadsteatern (House of Culture and City Theatre) in Stockholm, the country’s premier cultural center and theater, in December 2017. On March 17, while accompanying his wife on tour in Australia, Fredriksson killed himself.

Toward the end of his life, his widow disclosed, Fredriksson was afraid of going out into the street for fear of being recognized. “Suddenly he turned inward and everything was about ‘what did I do wrong?’” she said, according to the Irish Times. Von Otter criticized the #MeToo herd mentality. “What has happened,” she asked, “to our independent, critical thinking?”
An investigation by the city of Stockholm, whose results were published after Fredriksson’s death, revealed there was no evidence of sexual abuse.

Fredriksson’s death was the tragic and terrible product of the ongoing sexual harassment witch-hunt, spreading within affluent upper middle-class circles from country to country like a plague. Many of the vices of this social layer—selfishness, subjectivism, vindictiveness, professional jealousy and ambition—show themselves in the Fredriksson case.
In a recent article, the Washington Post noted that for 16 years Fredriksson led the Kulturhuset Stadsteatern: “He discovered his love for theater at the age of 13 or 14 … and began working in the city theater at 16. The playhouse was an escape from Fredriksson’s hard-knock childhood, circumscribed by the one-room apartment where his family lived. His mother was an alcoholic, his wife said.”


Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story—“Do good anyway. … Think big anyway. … Build anyway”

By Joanne Laurier
6 August 2018

Alexandra Dean’s documentary Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story is an account of the life and career of famed Hollywood actress Hedy Lamarr. Dean’s film focuses on Lamarr’s recently uncovered career as an inventor whose efforts paved the way for secure Wi-Fi, GPS, and Bluetooth, cell phone and military technology.

Hedy Lamarr

Cursed to a certain extent by her beauty, Lamarr appeared in many forgettable films. Her most interesting ones were made in the World War II era: Algiers (1938), Boom Town (1940), Tortilla Flat(1942), Experiment Perilous (1944), The Strange Woman(1946) and Dishonored Lady (1947).

The backbone of Dean’s film is an interview with Lamarr (recorded on audio tapes) conducted by Fleming Meeks—a Forbesmagazine staff writer—for a 1990 article, ten years before her death. The movie also includes comments by members of her family, biographers and admirers such as Mel Brooks and Robert Osborne.
In the Meeks interview, Lamarr comes across as a warm, thoughtful and perceptive human being. She lived in convulsive, often tragic times and was obviously determined from an early age to do something important with her life.
Dean’s Bombshell suggests that Lamarr was largely wasted by the film industry, which could make little use of her personality and intellect. “Any girl can look glamorous. All she has to do is stand still and look stupid,” contends Lamarr. In a good number of her film performances, she has an other-worldly look as though her mind is elsewhere. The documentary hints at some of the things she might have been thinking about.