Going back to past agricultural decision-making... you Aussies didn't really get a good start, did you? Convicts dumped on the other side of the world had to use what they knew, sort of thing. That sort of history isn't easy to escape from. But at least Permaculture began in Tasmania!

Seeing how she dealt with Og, I don't think Servalan would approve of pets in her Federation. Probably banned them.

I suppose that one way of looking at it is that it does inform Justin's character. He is happy with starting a relationship with a young girl he is tutoring (presumably in her home, and under her father's nose), and he is happy to use questionable methods to create the radation-proof animals. In both cases he has no problem with ethical grey areas.

It's more about which multinationals own everything.

Maybe not. But the younger a woman/girl is the more likelihood of an abusive/power imbalance situation. I’m more than happy with the current definition of legal age.

Yeah that’s true.

A pity. A white persian cat would just suit her.

What??? White fur on all that black? Maybe when she was Servie and not Sleer.

I suppose that one way of looking at it is that it does inform Justin's character. He is happy with starting a relationship with a young girl he is tutoring (presumably in her home, and under her father's nose), and he is happy to use questionable methods to create the radation-proof animals. In both cases he has no problem with ethical grey areas.

And I've attended the wedding of a 12 year-old girl and 13 year-old boy. It's all relative and depends on culture and mortality.

But I agree to bringing the marriageable age of women up to the same level as that for men. Actually, scrub that. Men are never old enough.

Just to let you know, I won’t be here next week. I’ll be at a f-ABBA-lous function in Melbourne.

Just to let you know, I won’t be here next week. I’ll be at a f-ABBA-lous function in Melbourne.

LOL

It’s when they marry 12-year-old girls off to 50-year-old man that I throw up.

It’s when they marry 12-year-old girls off to 50-year-old man that I throw up.

OK, that's all folks! Time I did something useful, I guess. Hope you get some better weather in Aussie. Take care, everyone. Until next time, when we hit what, for me, is probably the silliest B7 ep of all. But never mind, I'm sure we'll find something tangental to talk about.

It does occasionally happen the other way round. But the problem is that 50 year old man can still father children, so are still valuable in the marriage market, whereas 50 year old women are much less useful.

I am currently reading a biography of Margaret of York, Duchess of Burgundy. She didn't remarry after her husband's death, although she was still quite young, and the fact that their marriage had been childless seems to have been a big part of that. As a barren woman (or so it was assumed), she wasn't very useful. The other part of it was that she was rich, and did not need to marry. She seems to have been quite happy with this state of affairs.

We go on about it in 'The West', but it isn't as common as our famously biased White Men's Media (WMM) would like to make out. It's part of building our revulsion of 'the Other', something that the WMM would like us to feel so that we keep okay-ing their little wars.

Blokes were quick in the past to assume it was the woman's fault. Marriages amongst the Bedu are undone for this reason, but I know a lady who went on to have several kids after she found a new bloke. All power to her. She didn't need that first idiot after all.

Blokes were quick in the past to assume it was the woman's fault. Marriages amongst the Bedu are undone for this reason, but I know a lady who went on to have several kids after she found a new bloke. All power to her. She didn't need that first idiot after all.

Yeah well look at Henry VIII he blamed all his wives (except Jane Seymour). Much more likely that he as the ‘common denominator’ was the problem.