The blog "Kiwiblog,"
which is apparently written by a certain David Farrar, says this about
me:
"I recall when I worked in the PM’s Office seeing missives
from Mr Zohrab that would refer to the dykeocracy which ruled the
country etc. Burton Shipley would have found them amusing."
Now, I must say that this blog is a good deal more literate and rational
than most of the responses that I used to get to my Usenet newsgroup
postings. Nevertheless, I suspect that the prime characteristic needed
to get a job in a minister's office is not being intelligent enough
to show up the minister.
I say this, because David Farrar seems to have jumped to the conclusion
that the term "Dykeocracy" was a personal attack on the then
Prime Minister, Jenny Shipley. My emails were seldom, if ever, sent
to just one politician, because I did not suffer from the delusion that
you could very often change a politician's mind by communicating with
them rationally one-on-one. Any emails referring to the Dykeocracy would
have been sent to many politicians -- and a lot of other people besides.
Moreover, when you use the word "Democracy", you are not referring
to a specific individual but to a system of government. That is also
the case when I use the word "Dykeocracy." Having said that,
I recall that it was a Lesbian National Party Member of Parliament,
Marilyn Waring, who crossed the floor of Parliament and forced Sir Robert
Muldoon to call an early election, which he lost, and which ushered
in an era of job-cutting and Right-wing economics.
A Dykeocracy is a system of government where the values and systems
follow a basically Lesbian paradigm -- irrespective of whether the individuals
holding down key positions in that system are Lesbians -- or even female,
for that matter. Feminism is New Zealand's state ideology, and it has
achieved that status by ignoring the rights and interests of men and
children and concentrating on the perceived rights and interests of
women in general, and Lesbians in particular. Lesbians have been (and
are) hugely influential in the Feminist movement, and Feminism itself
is essentially a Lesbian philosophy, in that it ignores the rights and
interests of men and children and pursues the perceived rights and interests
of women (especially Lesbians) exclusively.It is in that sense that
New Zealand, for example, is a Dykeocracy.
It is beyond the scope of this short article to prove that the statements
in the previous paragraph are correct. There is a mass of material on
this website and elsewhere which does that job.
