Life isn’t Easy for Political Scientists

Just some of the twittered messages emerging from the International Political Science Association summit in Brisbane.

Let Canberra University’s Linda Botterill  commence proceedings:

 

 

 

 

 

Those selfish straight people, at it again. Why, they’re almost as bad as men!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Men have their “domination techniques”,  which is a “problem”, as are “norms associated with family and parenting”:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What point indeed, other than inventing academic buzzwords?

 

 

 

 

 

Sometimes real-world opinions can burst the academic bubble:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You just get your strategy aligned and along come those darned white men, with the “dominant view” no less, to ruin everything:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Men! Again! Is there no end to their wickedness?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Enforced pre-pubescent hormone treatments would fix those deep, dominating male voices:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Enforced pre-pubescent hormone treatments now!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Inspiration is where you find it:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If men aren’t the world’s most pressing problem, what about Baby Boomers?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The photographer must have picked up a secret penis-to-penis signal. Men send and receive them all the time.