![]() The idea of now identifying as ‘Aboriginal’ is becoming a tantalising temptation after all, I do have brown eyes and rather dark skin from my Spanish ancestors. We’d even be called ‘uncle’ by the younger generation and we might even gain a professorship at a respected university to teach absolute nonsense we made up last week. It’d be different of course if we VALIUMs identified as indigenous, as we’d now be ‘respected elders’ able to impart our cultural knowledge and wisdom gained over thousands of years in our own lifetime. Within the Labor Party, older white males, by now hardened unionists and well indoctrinated socialists, can still readily be found however, the only older white males to be found at Teals or Greens meetings will be ‘allies’, the compliant, complicit white men there at the behest of bossy wives, or if single, hoping to find a younger female who’s still into the 1960’s ‘free love’ movement. Politically, VALIUM members remain stalwarts of their local Liberal or National Party branches where anyone under the age of sixty is a rarity. Our VALIUM members are now mostly found sequestered in rural areas, usually frequenting a Men’s Shed, the local RSL, the CFA, or a vintage car club with their polished 1964 EH Holdens. Not only do we no longer fit in with this contemporary society, we’re not welcome in it either. We’re a group of older white men ( aka: pale stale males) who have become victims of the modern era. Welcome to VALIUM, the Victorian Association of Largely Ignored Unwanted Males. ![]() Rather than just sitting around feeling powerless and sorry for ourselves, it’s time to take some positive action, so we’ve formed a new organisation. ![]() These are tough times for conservatives and realists, especially older white male ones.
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