In the case of a prime minister what Hospitality
could have chosen to do is play him back with jocularity. In good
humour pull his hair – because a woman could get away with that like a man
can’t (the genders are different, get over it) – or refer to his lack of hair,
whatever; keep it light hearted. People are in a café to wind down and let
their guards down, especially after a drink or three,
Hospitality normally tries its hardest not to throw this back in a patron's face: bad for business.
Hospitality normally tries its hardest not to throw this back in a patron's face: bad for business.
There's a public stock being built for me in Progressivestan on the back of the above quote, alone.
This post is in the nature of a random - totally muddled, even - discourse, and putting the lie to this post ...
My blog is two thirds read out of the US and Europe, so sorry to my readers
there, this post relates to New Zealand, though you may find it interesting.
#Ponytailgate, for the uninitiated, involves the furore barnstorming New Zealand
on our Prime Minister John Key (who runs a socialist government) tugging the
ponytail of a café waitress coming up to our general election over 2014.
Take
1: my attitude to ponytailgate?
My
previous post on
Giovanni Tiso
only concerned the free speech issues of his attack on the sponsors of Seven Sharp (with the intention of having co-anchor Mike Hosking sacked for his comment on #ponytailgate),
and then the subsequent attack launched from the grey wastelands of Progressivestan
on the tenets of our free press proper. Hosking’s offence which caused Tiso’s
umbrage taking was immaterial.
Noting
that for our entire country to be cavorting over the pulling of a
waitress’s pony tail yet bears certain inferences as to how good this country is to live in – because, look at the world – one of the problems with
campaigns such as Tiso’s, is that prudent people learn in short order to shut
up and take their opinions underground. That is a bad thing as pertaining to
living free lives, and it threatens, ultimately, the peaceful society.
That
said, and I've said it before, I am not a prudent man.
I
am a classical liberal feminist, but my response to #ponytailgate is somehow
skewing itself to a sexist one. This partly due to my ongoing campaign against a
collectivist hell threatening to be delivered on the free society via Marxist
Feminism and identity politics – which I've written just this month has for some time been committed to the
Orwellian task of destroying
language itself
– but partly due also to … well, read my tweet timeline below and decide for
yourself …
Take 2:
my attitude to ponytailgate?
Of course
Prime Minister John Key was in the wrong, and abusing his power by pulling a
waitress’s pony tail. The problem is not that he did it once (if that then my
Twitter timeline comments below would be 100% correct). The problem is he
supposedly did it multiple times after being asked to stop.
Take 3:
my attitude to ponytailgate?
There’s a
huge element of my thesis from Retrieving the Corpse of Roger Sutton from the Cross of Shesus in all this. If you want the
deep view on my attitude here, and the agendas being played out – and agendas
because The Daily Mud blog is
involved – then you would need to read that.
You’ll
note from this piece I’m a bit conflicted – this post is about honesty, (to aid
those of you who will at some stage use it against me).
Take
4: my attitude to ponytailgate?
To
hell with this. Following is my Tweet exchange with media commentator John Drinnan;
noteworthy, please, it was late on Wednesday night, 29 April.
Outside
the sexism – yes there is sexism in #ponytailgate - no one is acknowledging the
reality of what it is to work in hospitality. And my real point: neither of the
groups to which waitress Amanda Bailey has turned, that turgid promoter of
identity politics, The Daily Mud –
for my overseas readers, The Daily Blog - and now Unite Union, seems to
be considering or concerned about her future.
Is my
take that emerges from the below exchange sexist? In some aspects yes. Hell
yes, in the context of that story. I am uncomfortable extrapolating some of my
positions evident in this. But I’m not necessarily willing to let them go.
Does that
make me sexist? No.
And some
of this is important, so I’m just putting it up, you decide for yourself.
As with
most Twitter timelines this became fragmented, so I’ll simply copy and paste in
coherent chunks, then leave off with that. I realise this is rather long, but
as the radfems don’t say, it’s about me, so must be interesting. And give me life’s
flawed characters any day.
Remember this is Twitter: no apologies for the typos.
Timeline Fragment 1:
And real world: Unite Union
threatening to help John Key get re-elected, while the waitress is making it
hard to employ her I should imagine
— Mark Hubbard (@MarkHubbard33)
April
29, 2015
@MarkHubbard33
Indeed, Unite Union and Daily Blog need to examine if they are working in this
woman's interests at all. Only their own.
— Mark
Hubbard (@MarkHubbard33) April
29, 2015
@MarkHubbard33
Hasn't Progressivestan learned from Key's latest poll ratings?
Left need to drop agendas coz from Key to them, no one is
—
Mark Hubbard (@MarkHubbard33) April
29, 2015
@MarkHubbard33
... putting their mind to Amanda Bailey's future. Including every celeb
& blogger using her to build theor own profiles.
—
Mark Hubbard (@MarkHubbard33) April
29, 2015
@MarkHubbard33
All The Daily Blog ever had in mind was 'get John Key'.
Protecting Amanda Bailey was never a consideration for them.
But
— Mark Hubbard (@MarkHubbard33) April
29, 2015
@MarkHubbard33
why would it. For the Left, individual's exist only to be sacrificed to
the greater good. Bailey's future was immaterial.
—
Mark Hubbard (@MarkHubbard33) April
29, 2015
Timeline Fragment 2:
@Zagzigger No.
Think about qualities you need to have to work in hospitality. If you are, say,
cafe or hotel employer, going to employ her?
— Mark Hubbard
(@MarkHubbard33) April
29, 2015
@Zagzigger Or is
she just too much hassle now. Hospitality is highly competitive & cut
throat. Who can afford to take the risk of her?
— Mark
Hubbard (@MarkHubbard33) April
29, 2015
@Zagzigger I
don't think anyone has been thinking of Amanda Bailey's best
interests at all.
— Mark Hubbard (@MarkHubbard33) April
29, 2015
@Zagzigger By
qualities I mean like it or not you have to get on with 'happy
happy' customers. Be upbeat. Convivial.
— Mark
Hubbard (@MarkHubbard33) April
29, 2015
@Zagzigger Of
course not. You're being stupid now. You know what I
mean.
— Mark Hubbard (@MarkHubbard33) April
29, 2015
Timeline Fragment 3:
@MarkHubbard33
You do seem to start from the view that she should just suck it up because she
needs a job - and after all it is the PM
— John Drinnan
(@Zagzigger) April
29, 2015
@Zagzigger
Possibly. But you can also decide to enter the spirit of those who are out to
relax, that's hospitality. I headed that thread
1/x
— Mark Hubbard (@MarkHubbard33) April
29, 2015
@Zagzigger reality
... thus how are future employers to assess her suitability to their
workplaces, whether behaviour of customers is PC 2/x
— Mark
Hubbard (@MarkHubbard33) April
29, 2015
@Zagzigger or not.
Progressivestan will use every tweet in this thread against me, but no one has
advised Bailey in terms of *her* 4/x
— Mark Hubbard
(@MarkHubbard33) April
29, 2015
@Zagzigger
future.
And such a shame her 'public'
appearance was The Daily Mud. That does put issue some unknown where between
sexism 5/x
— Mark Hubbard (@MarkHubbard33) April
29, 2015
@Zagzigger *as
well* as agenda.
But the whole thing is also part farce
...
— Mark Hubbard (@MarkHubbard33) April
29, 2015
That!
‘But
you can also decide to enter the spirit of those out to relax, that’s
hospitality.’
In
the case of a prime minister what Hospitality could have chosen to do is play him back with jocularity. In good humour pull his hair – because a
woman could get away with that like a man can’t (the genders are different, get
over it) – or refer to his lack of hair, whatever; keep it light hearted. People
are in a café to wind down and let their guards down, especially after a drink
or three, Hospitality normally tries its hardest not to throw this back in a patron's face: bad for business.
Much
of hospitality is an attitude you choose to have, within context of the
customers.
Timeline Fragment 4:
@MarkHubbard33
You've lost me - but for such a big advocate for individuality you do
seem to be demanding she subsume hers
— John Drinnan
(@Zagzigger) April
29, 2015
@Zagzigger Yes,
partly. But only while at work. We all do at work don't we? I'm
deliberately conservatively mannered at work. Again, no
1/2
— Mark Hubbard (@MarkHubbard33) April
29, 2015
@Zagzigger one is
thinking this issue in terms of the hospitality industry. Or Bailey's
best interests. Just my opinion.
— Mark Hubbard
(@MarkHubbard33) April
29, 2015
Timeline Fragment 5:
@MarkHubbard33
Your philosophy is starting to sound quite barren
— John
Drinnan (@Zagzigger) April
29, 2015
@Zagzigger What
I've said here is in line with reality, not my philosophy. Though I
think Bailey, individual, has been used by every agenda.
—
Mark Hubbard (@MarkHubbard33) April
29, 2015
I
shall definitely regret that tweet at some future date.
@MarkHubbard33
apart from her - and she is to be disregarded because you don't like
the medium she used.
— John Drinnan (@Zagzigger) April
29, 2015
@Zagzigger I
didn't say disregarded. I said this issue lies in an unknown place
between sexism and agenda, side by side.
— Mark Hubbard
(@MarkHubbard33) April
29, 2015
@Zagzigger And to
quote the radfems, it's not about you, John. I couldn't care
less if you think my view barren. I hate your shirts.
— Mark
Hubbard (@MarkHubbard33) April
29, 2015
Pretty
much it by this point. Other than a thanks to John: it’s so nice to have a
grown up conversation on Twitter for once.
@MarkHubbard33
we're all entitled to a view - even uppity waitresses at the PM's
favourite cafe - lets leave it there ;-)
— John Drinnan
(@Zagzigger) April
29, 2015