Paul Henry’s dickhead privilege vs Max Key’s dickhead privilege isn’t news

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Martyn Bradbury
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Paul Henry has shot his mouth off in an interview while Max Key yells out ‘Real men ride women’ to a bunch of cyclists.

Ugh.

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Let’s start with Paul Henry.

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Beyond the teenage giggling over ‘Titties’ and making a women feel uncomfortable in public, beyond the narcissistic self destruction and moaning about his privilege there seems to be a very sad and lonely bloke who can’t connect with others. I’m less shocked and angered as I am feeling pity for him to be honest.

Based on how much he was drinking, he was pretty sauced and someone has to ask hard questions within Newshub as to why he was allowed to do this in the first place. His minders shrugging off of any attempt to reign him in during the interview suggests someone was asleep at the wheel.

What should make us gag is his naked misogyny in a year when locker room talk has taken on some sort of testosterone fuelled sexual assault bragging club where the first rule is ‘I’m only kidding’.

Then there’s Max Key’s juvenile ‘real men ride women’ yelled out at passing cyclists. Is it honestly surprising that the son of a multi-millionaire has all the social awareness of a drunk frat boy at a strip club?

What pisses me off far more than what these clowns have said is that there is so much bloody media focus on them!

We have 41 000 homeless, 300 000 kids in poverty, a housing crisis about to burst, our Government are lying about SAS troops in a war zone, we have over 560 suicides a year, we have massive extensions to secret state powers, pay inequality, a minimum wage that is not a living wage, a Police force who are proactively spying on activists, 10 000 people in a racist private prison empire that is only gaining more power, state house privatisation, CYFs torturing young people, Health services falling apart, record migration scams, crime on the rise, inequality growing and a Government who have cut back so viciously on welfare they have created a $1.8billion tax bribe.

And yet we are eclipsing all that with Paul Henry and Max Key?

Rich dickhead privilege is not news!

 

23 COMMENTS

  1. Martyn, why even bother to compile an article featuring dickheads when there are so many crucial aspects of society and the environment that are under incessant attack by ‘neocons’ in NZ and elsewhere? After all, we already know the ranting of the featured dickheads is irrelevant crap geared to keeping the masses distracted and entertained, and that is the very reason they are given such prominence by the MSM.

    ‘The true nature of western civilization is hard to grasp from within, says Professor John McMurtry, because we perceive it through media whose primary purpose is not to convey the truth, but conceal it. What is actually playing out is a global war of empire and capital against the Earth and her people, backed up by the omnipresent threat of overwhelming force.’

    ‘The first duty of the mass media is to conceal……..’

    http://www.theecologist.org/Interviews/2986750/genocide_ecocide_and_the_empire_of_chaos.html

    • The concentrating [of powers] in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation that these powers will be exercised by a plurality of hands, and not by a single one.
      Thomas Jefferson

  3. I agree

    But I think your intro has a typo – “real men ride bikes” should be “real men ride women” – (that’s if max key is shouting it – personally, I agree – real men do ride bikes

    • Tyranny seldom announces itself…In fact, a tyranny may exist without an individual tyrant. A whole government, even a democratically elected one, may be tyrannical.
      Joseph Sobran

  4. Donald Trump and some men don’t respect women. http://mashable.com/2016/10/19/donald-trump-women-laughing/#dRXgl1PbVqqH

    Real men have respect for women.

    Real men don’t touch up strippers. http://m.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11711414

    Real men don’t touch ponytails after several warnings. https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2015/04/22/exclusive-the-prime-minister-and-the-waitress/

    Real men don’t lasciviously comment on a woman’s mammary glands http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/celebrities/85870837/Paul-Henry-criticised-after-expletive-ridden-interview, or asked Dr Richardson if she had an affair with Richard Branson http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/aap/article-2693943/Viewers-offended-Paul-Henry-sex-joke.html.

    Real men don’t yell sexist comments at men wearing lycra out the windows of their cars. http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/celebrities/85869544/nadine-chalmersross-max-key-still-lives-at-home–what-does-he-know-about-real-men

    Real men aren’t dipshits like Paul Henry, John Key, Max Key, Donald Trump and some of the Chiefs rugby team.

    Real men have respect for women.

    • The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience.
      Albert Camus

  7. This is where we are heading, back to the past, not the future. Look at Trump in the US, and how the up to forty percent of potential voters still support the man, no matter what insults, what sexist comments and worse he has been responsible for.

    There is a strong “f*** you” sentiment among a fair share of the populations in many so-called “developed” western nations, and possibly also outside these.

    People are in significant numbers going back to politically incorrect talk and behaviour, and some in the MSM think it is all just fun and acceptable humour.

    “Locker room banter” for some, “horsing around” for others, including our PM, so Max Key may have felt encouraged by the conduct of people around him, maybe even his dad, who gets away with so much.

    With this we are heading to have future dynasties, I fear, like they now have in the US, the Bushs, the Clintons and what else their names are, we will have the Keys and so forth.

    Riches and power corrupts, and while others face the stiff cold wind in their face, when they dare do something inappropriate as a poor sod, the privileged pricks can simply shrug it off, and carry on as usual.

    Paul Henry has been allowed to get away with far too much for far too long, it disappoints me that even Greens, Labour MPs and various VIPs calling themselves “liberal” have frequented his show and the useless “panels” he offers.

    So perhaps we should call them what they deserve to be called also, as they use inappropriate language, we may call them dickheads and what else comes to mind.

    But then again, we will lower our standards too, which they may simply exploit to turn it all up another notch, and to go further down the gutter language alley.

  9. It’s ironic that he made his comment while driving in a car – he didn’t get that, in his own opinion, he wasn’t a real man either.

    And he is 21 – he’s meant to be a grown-up. All these excuses about him being so young – it’s not like he’s 17 so that hormones and sexual insecurity can somewhat excuse it.

    • When you are raised or allowed to roam by rich and elite parents, no matter what political views, many youth like Max Key will take longer to mature, as they will be too protected from the normal social interaction and responses from others, in the form of “social behaviour correction”.

      That is why they easily lose touch with reality, develop arrogance and superiority complexes, and in their later lives they will become the typical sociopaths, as life is catching up with them, but they cannot accept it and treat all others as either servants or just crap.

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