Is John Waters mad?

[EarlyBird]

What did John work at before he became a journalist. Someone told me he worked for the lost and found in a train station. Is this true?

I heard that he was a roadie/fetch it boy for various showbands.

[belvoboy]

Regarding the family law courts and the people who work there and whether they might spot bias:

- Social workers: my understanding is their education would involved reading/learning about a lot of feminist theories (e.g. in sociology and the like) and not much about views that would actually challenge some theories or comparable masculinist/masculist theories.

- I have less knowledge about what is involved in legal training for family law. One person did tell me once he was shocked how biased the course was (in favour of women/feminism theories) but that was in one university at one moment in time.

[belvoboy]

I honestly very very rarely read his articles because he tends to generate this reaction in me

This is a problem in that lots of people are not being exposed to either people challenging some feminist ideas or alternatively masculist/masculinist writing, the way we are all exposed to plenty of feminist writing.

I remember bringing this up before up before on p.ie a few years ago and person said, no, there was plenty of exposure to such views in the media such as from John Waters. At that stage, John Waters was writing very little about gender (I think he had been directed so by the Irish Times editorial team - I think he got more freedom when Kevin Myers got the boot/moved) which, given this person wasn't being exposed to much writing on the subject.

Personally I think it should be part of the education system particularly in third level colleges. But some of the ideas could be mentioned in second level - Transition Year students sometimes do Women's Studies. If there was one feminist making feminist points, they would annoy people and they would get more frustrated as they would feel they had to make points as nobody else was making them (and might seem a bit crazy). But of course lots and lots of feminists get to make points to all sorts of audiences.