The End of Year "Report Card"..

The end of year school report card is not looking too healthy as we investigate some of feminism's efforts and claims, that bites them right where it hurts, the bank account, dignity, culpability and accountability for their effort..

Originally made by those seriously corrupted and self inflicting, non-emolience hegemony's claims are placed under the microscope of reality..

1. "Don't need no man", this statement ran lyrical with the lesbian feminists as it just states the obvious. Noting how lesbians cater to each others penchant for BDSM, plus other pain inducing activities, finding a partner of the opposite sex to join in their arrangements, was deemed impossible.
Ofcourse the rest of the population just ignored their irrelevant rantings and went on their merry way and left them with some explaining to do, while abuse workshops were compulsory attended in the hope they might forget to administer their usual caring and sharing mentality..

Mark 0 out of 10

Misandric Queen Dowd..

2. "A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle" really belongs with the above comment as it was meant to be as offensive as a similar comment made by Maureen Dowd's myopic piece of misandry named tome "are men necessary". The answer was too slow in coming for Dowd as she started complaining about not having anyone to date under the guise that "men don't like strong women", the standard dysfunctional response from any female who has problems finding a companion. Dowd ofcourse would have that same issue as feminists like herself do, they are about as interesting as drinking the last week's bathwater but Dowd doesn't know how to change from just being a mean spirited bitch. Feminism has that affect on the opposite sex as one has to make room for all those chips on their shoulders..

Mark -1 out of 10

3. 'A woman would never lie about rape", whoa, I may just let you read that again and wonder how anyone could be stupid enough to allow the brain to force that comment to verbally escape the orifice. Needless to say that it has kept copious people employed, proving beyond doubt that feminists do actually escape from their other dimension and expose to the world their very own self improved version of waxing nonsensically, lyrical..

Mark 0 out of 10

4. "A woman can do anything a man can" except participate on a level playing field. Better add to that a copious amount of other facts as well. Sadly, in their effort to compete with men, women have lost their own identity and now wonder why misery and loneliness makes up their ever increasing, privileged lifestyles. After changing everything possible in the work place, demanding equal pay for less work and effort, ensuring automatic promotion when not warranted, lowering every possible standard in order to"compete" with men. We have the final admittance that their life sucks and now refuse to join in on the fun of being a wage slave. Their burnout rate is now set at thirty, that picket fence and those rugrats that feminists screamed at them to not want, occupies them more then ever. Meanwhile the guys are standing back, sipping their beer and going, mmmmm, let me think about it!!

Mark 1 out of 10

6. "Takes a village to raise a child", those famous words were rabbited by marxist, feminist puppeteer, Hillary Clinton, claiming ofcourse that old marxist maxim of not needing a family and better yet, no Father. Unfortunately too many incarcerated, drug addicted, gang members were drawing on their non-filtered gunge-sticks while pregnant, to realise what it was they were saying. But 51 percent of the female breeding population thought it was a great idea as it guaranteed copious government largesse and automatic withdrawals from someone else's ATM and credit card. That should have worked well except they were spending way too many hours in the company of their spawn and ensured the abuse rate increased exponentially and thereby winning the competition, if there was ever one..

Mark 0 out of 10

7. "Women are not sex object" would have to be the most confusing statement ever made. One has to wonder whether or not they are just having a joke at our expense. It's a bit like the "slutwalk" mentality where dressing up as a slut would not set any precedence, traipsing around flashing boobs and skin is apparently meaningless, dressing in fashionable clothing along with makeup, perfume, Victorias little secret accessories, does not enter that argument at all. Behaving in any fashion without responsibility or accountability was demanded to be standard practise. But entering an elevator and breathing the same air or looking more than one third of a second too long, must be deemed to be abuse. New accessories will have to be stopwatches with microsecond measurements..

Mark 0 out of 10
Total = Nada..

Barbara Kay: Verizon Promoting Male Hate..

Verizon have either got employees who do not bother with the web or they have an advertising agency full of male hating feminists who determine what level of malice must be served against half the population next..

I do wonder how many more articles and sites have to lodge their objection before those misandric layabouts will actually take some notice..

Barbara Kay: A new front opens in the hate campaign against men

Today, December 6, is the anniversary of the horrific 1989 Montreal Massacre, in which 14 women were murdered at Montreal’s Polytéchnique.

It cannot be stressed enough that the tragedy was the act of a deranged loner, and a unique event in Canada’s history. The event displayed no characteristics of “domestic” violence: The women were strangers to the gunman. And yet since that day ideologues have created an industry whose message is bruited through the educational system and parroted by every politically correct man and woman in public office throughout our land and indeed in all nations of the West through the heavily-funded White Ribbon campaign: namely, that domestic violence runs rampant against women – all of whom are blameless victims – and that all men, driven by an inherent need to control women, are potential abusers.

Marketing campaigns funded by high-profile companies drill the message home with slick and costly media ads. That the message is misleading, biased and sexist is rarely noted and virtually always ignored when it is noted.

The latest, and perhaps the most outrageous example of this kind of extreme misandry is the Verizon Foundation’s new, widely distributed video entitled “Monsters,” which portrays the average American home as a secret chamber of horrors, in which a pleasant façade hides terrified mothers and children, stalked by the shadowy figure of the family “monster,” the husband and father. It is chilling to watch; any woman or child ignorant of the actual facts around domestic violence would walk away from it convinced that that they were in imminent peril, and that at any moment their beloved husband or father might transmogrify before their eyes into a veritable Mr Hyde.

I have left three media queries over the past week with the Verizon Foundation’s media communication contacts in order to query them about where they got their facts and statistics, but have received no response. This morning I received notice that a group called SAVE (Stop Abusive and Violent Environments) is charging the Verizon Foundation with misleading the public.

The “Monsters” video states that one in four women will experience domestic violence in her lifetime. That sounds ominous. But the video fails to state that one in four men will also be a victim in his lifetime.

That old canard that domestic violence is a one-way street refuses to die, even though authoritative sources such as Statistics Canada continually release data that clearly indicate that most violence is bilateral. And mostly low level – pushing, slapping, screaming, throwing small objects by both parties – certainly not pleasant or mature behaviour, but not life-threatening. If the video’s implications were true, our hospitals and morgues would overflow with women.

Reality check: domestic violence of all kinds is a chronic problem for about 7% of women and men in Canada. The overall homicide rate for women killed as a result of domestic violence is about 40 a year in Canada (about 20 men are killed by their intimate partners). That is a statistically trivial figure.

The Verizon website also makes the claim that “domestic violence is the single greatest cause of injury to women ages 15 to 44 in the U.S.” (Canadian feminists often claim the same for Canada). That is a myth. The most common reason for admissions in this age group are falls and car accidents. In the records of one hospital in Ontario I checked with, domestic violence accounted for about 1% of admissions.

SAVE rightly castigates Verizon for ignoring abuse to half the population and perpetuating false stereotypes. The children in the video were portrayed as in fear of their father alone, but in fact mothers are more likely to physically abuse their children, and cause more deaths to children than fathers do.

What other identifiable group in society besides men is subjected to such calumny? The Verizon Foundation’s ad encourages hatred of men, and more important it will certainly sow alarmism in children who view it. Moreover, children exposed to this ad who have been subjected to abuse by their mothers will be confused and are likely to feel ashamed to report it, for the ad’s silence on abuse by mothers suggests it must be kept secret.

The ad is defamatory and inflammatory. Such overt bias is unworthy of a corporate giant like Verizon. The ad campaign should be withdrawn immediately.

National Post

AGW and Feminism: Comparisons Too Close..

The Great Global Warming scam has surely and finally been uncovered for what it really was. A pot of gold at the end of the ever decreasing rainbow, instigated by the same lunatics who generated it from it's beginning. Even the epicentre of this farce, the IPCC, has backtracked and commenced their denial procedures and headed for the hills as they try and cover their butts. Gillard (feminist, female and fraud) has just positioned Aus. into this giant con with the introduction of a useless carbon tax via ignorance and stupidity. Another great example of what the world will be like when it's run by women. If anyone ever suggests that it will be a better world they need to do some history, maybe even visit some prisons and ask the latest genocide specialist why SHE (rape them before you murder them) enjoyed the annihilation of nearly a million people and how much of a kick she got from that..

Men are not excluded from this action(even though death and crime rate has dropped considerably) but as sure as hell, women are no better at it either and the implication that women are saints and free of all guilt is something that needs to be put to rest as way too many feminist clones appear to be of this opinion. They need to grow up and smell that truth..

Meanwhile there appears to be some correlation between feminism and the great global warming scams that require some studies as well. The BBC in Great Britain has to be one of the most feminist controlled media outlets in the world, just ahead of the New York Times when it comes to male bashing and promoting anything derogatory about our sex. The NYT does employ that male hating cretin and ageing miscreant by the name of Maureen "don't need no man" Dowd. Dowd is a great example on how a female can not only display total hypocrisy by bashing all things male but then complain about not getting any attention or offers of partnership from our sex. The menopausal drone is just another feminised minion and one of it's staunch enablers. Read just one of it's articles and you will automatically suffer grey cell damage as her dysfunctional ranting will immediately demonstrate it's cognitive dissonance..

The fact that the AGW crowd and the feminist movement reared it's nefarious head at roughly the same time does demonstrate that it's mentality stems from that same "flower power" mentality that claimed "Woodstock" was more than just some sex orgy and drug users paradise. That same mentality kicked off that same mentality that both those extremes have generated world wide and it's commencement and promotion can well be nailed to those same people..

The AGW lie has been exposed and it's leaders and promoters are all heading for cover as the truth is revealed. The "sceptics" have soundly exposed those liars and exaggerators for what they really are, in it for the money. There is a lesson to be learnt from all of this and that lesson is that when we have truth is on our side, our cause is just and we will win. The opposing side of the AGW crowd has demonstrated that a concerted effort will bare fruit and that same methodology can be applied to the MM (Mens Movement) and to MRAs as well. Our concerted efforts will claim it's reward by exposing those liars and hold them accountable. It is for this reason that every one associated with the MM can hold their head high and claim effectiveness as we witness the gradual but increasing affect we are having on that monstrous hate movement, where it's leaders are starting to head for cover as well. The one clear fact is that feminism as a movement is not supported by the general public or society in general. They are a minute movement still screaming for recognition and justification but we are here to ensure they get precisely what they deserve..

To all in the MM, a hearty, well deserved pat on the back is justified and the work undertaken by all involved can be and should be congratulated on their efforts. It's a job well done, as our movement grows daily, we can witness it's affect and it's all positive but as we hear constantly from the opposition, we have a long way to go..

Back to GGWS..

The BBC's hidden 'warmist' agenda is rapidly unravelling

Since 2006, the BBC has relentlessly promoted the global warming orthodoxy as a pressure group in its own right.The story of the BBC’s bias on global warming gets ever murkier. Last week there was quite a stir over a new report for the BBC Trust which criticised several programmes for having been improperly funded or sponsored by outside bodies. One, for instance, lauded the work of Envirotrade, a Mauritius-based firm cashing in on the global warming scare by selling “carbon offsets”, which it turned out had given the BBC money to make the programme.
Just as this scandal broke, I was also completing a report, to be published next month by the Global Warming Policy Foundation, on the BBC’s coverage of climate change. It ranges from the puffing of scare stories dreamed up by “climate activists”, to BBC reporting on wind farms, often no more than shameless propaganda for the wind industry. Part of the story told in my report is the unhealthily close relationship that developed between the BBC and organisations professionally involved in the “warmist” cause.
Some years back, the BBC adopted a new editorial policy –that the scientific and political “consensus” on climate change was now so overwhelming that it should be actively promoted, while climate sceptics, or “deniers” as the BBC calls them, should be kept off the airwaves.
A key moment in developing the new party line was a “high-level seminar” in 2006, attended by a bevy of top BBC executives. It was organised by Roger Harrabin, one of its senior environmental correspondents, and Dr Joe Smith, a geographer and climate activist from the Open University. They had set up the Cambridge Media and Environment Programme to promote the consensus line on global warming, funded by, among others, the Department for the Environment (then in charge of government policy on climate change) and WWF, one of the leading warmist pressure groups.

Who Paid For the Women's "Strong And Independent" Gloat..

I do often wonder how women can and do make the claim that they are "strong and Independent" when they actually had to destroy the lives of men to achieve that but never once mention it. The endless cauldron of women stating how superior they are in their own minds is indeed never ending and it would appear that their delusional attitude will be around for some time to come. Forget the fact that they had to change society while they were at it and then bemoan the fact that everything they promoted and acted out was not really what they wanted. There are even the odd few who have demonstrated some regret but they are not over enveloped by their ever inflating ego and so few a number as to be negligible, so few that a maths calculation would have to use way too many zeros to entry in it's final result..

So, how did that sex actually achieve that outcome and how valid are their boasting rights when one has a look at how they went about it..

1. Females changed the education system and curriculum to their own advantage by using their normal thinking processes and behaviour to be calculated as being an educational standards and were granted rewards for doing so. Their normal penchant for talking everything to death was deemed to be an educational plus and were given passes for just doing what they did naturally..
2. Feminists ensured that the majority of students at college and Universities were females by falsely claiming that they were being held back and introduced positive discrimination for women only, which explains why the majority of students are now females. They ensured their rise by ensuring that every possible assistance be granted to females by forcing all educational centres favour women whenever any awards, scholarships etc. were awarded. They ensured female inclusion into the educational system by ensuring a forced method of promotions for females only..
3. In the work place the same attitude was fostered. Females would sue at the drop of a hat if they perceived any possibility of "discrimination" existed even though in most cases it did not exist at all as those same standards were dealt out to men without complaint but women wanted special treatment and got that via copious court appearances and forced public humiliation and denigration on the company or business involved. They would protest to get their own way and every time they did, more and more men were replaced, sacked and replaced by those privileged princesses..
4, Women demanded special treatment every where else. Their own Health departments, their own multi billion dollar programs for women only and every time another new women's program commenced, it disallowed any other programs to commence for men or children due to lack of funds..
5 Unemployment is now rife with men being the majority, an enough of the majority for it to be renamed a mancession. Meanwhile women suffer no such thing as their often useless positions in education or government offices were kept even at the risk of running the country into bankruptcy..

So there are just a few examples of the truth about the female rise to power. Not via ability or experience but via coercion and threat, via favouritism and largess. All at the expense of men and they now wonder why men are opting out of a society, a society who apparently refuses to realise that they even exist or are just fodder to the female ego, female avarice with that associated self congratulatory air that has become so insufferable as to be toxic and to be avoided at any cost.

So the next time you read or see those words "strong and independent", it should put a smile on your face and a slight shake of the head should follow as you incredulously, finally comprehend what that statement actually means, who has paid for it and how superficial that whole argument is as it echoes into emptiness and falls on deaf ears..

Take a Photo and You're a Pedophile..

I came across similar instructions when called upon to do some consultation work at a swimming pool, (maintenance issues) and was informed that "no camera" applied right across the nation apparently. That same hysteria appears to be worldwide and we know precisely which male hating, sexist, hegemony is responsible. Funnily enough, I have never witnessed any female copping it for precisely the same behaviour even though they are the greater child abuser and murderer of children..

Family photos, paedophile scares and the Stasification of Britain

By James Delingpole Society Last updated: October 10th, 2011

Take pictures of your kids and you'll be called a sicko (Photo: Getty)

No doubt you're as shocked as I am by the story of the photographer in Scotland questioned by police after taking pictures of his 4-year old daughter eating ice-cream in a shopping mall:

Staff at an ice cream stall in Braehead shopping centre, near Glasgow, became suspicious when they saw Chris White taking pictures of his four-year-old daughter Hazel with his mobile phone at around 4pm on Friday afternoon.
'He [the security guard] said I had been spotted taking photos in the shopping centre which was “illegal”… and then asked me to delete the ones I had taken,' White told Amateur Photographer (AP).
When White said he had already uploaded two images to Facebook, and refused to delete them, the guard called police.

But what's more depressing is the Braehead Centre's non-apology apology. (H/T Welsh Toy)

Although Friday’s incident had nothing to do with a potential terrorist attack, the two retail assistants and the member of our security staff were faced with a situation they genuinely thought was suspicious. They witnessed a man taking photographs of a child, unaware that the man and the child were related.
I’m sure people will agree it is better safe than sorry.

Actually, I'm sure most people will agree that Braehead are a bunch of idiots.
You see, most people, when they see a man taking a picture of a child eating an icecream are not going to go: "Yikes! I wonder if that icecream contains Semtex and that camera button is the triggering device."
Nor are they going to go: "Alert! Alert! Paedophile! That man is DEFINITELY a paedophile."
What they're far more like to do, even in this age where paedophiles and suicide bombers are apparently lurking behind every hedge, is think: "Ah. How sweet! There's a dad taking a picture of his little girl." Or possibly: "Rather him than me. They're so much easier when they get a bit older." Or: "Wish my girl were that age again. God teenagers are a pain!" You know: normal stuff; healthy stuff; sane stuff.
But for how much longer? The overreaction of the security guard – and subsequently of the police – are very much in line with a worrying socio-political trend. I experienced this myself about four years ago when an au pair took some family photos of a recent holiday to Jessops in London's Strand to get them developed.
Next thing I knew I got a call from the Jessops branch manager.
"Are those your photos?" he asked, with a certain officious menace.
"Yes," I said. "What's the problem."
"Well I'm afraid we're unable to develop them. They contain inappropriate material."
"What ARE you on about? Oh God. You mean the pictures of the kids playing nude badminton? Is that it?"
"I can't go into specifics. But the staff member who had to process them felt uncomfortable. He thought the material was inappropriate."
"What, you're worried I'm a paedophile. Is that it?"
"No one's saying that sir. I'm just saying that we are unable to process your holiday photographs."
"Because the sight of eight-year olds, in the nude, playing badminton makes one of your staff members uncomfortable and he thinks it's inappropriate?"
I later established that the Jessops staff member who had complained was an 18-year old male. There was a time when I would have wondered quite how thick or pervily overimaginative an 18-year old you'd have to be to read something sinister into a bunch of very obviously normal family photographs, just some of which happened show kids having fun with no clothes on. But not any more.
As a culture we're now so paedophile-obsessed that when my kids sing the song that used to go "Never smile at a crocodile" they now sing "Never smile at a paedophile". And when I hug and kiss them they sometimes call me a perv.
But even worse than this contemporary variant on 17th-century witchfinding is the jobsworthery and officiousness by which its absurdities are entrenched.
The only sensible, decent and right response of that the Jessops manager would have been a) to apologise profusely to the offended customer (who needless to say hasn't used their services since) and b) to take the "offended" junior staff member aside for a quiet word to tell him to use his noddle in future.
The only sensible, decent and right response of the appalling Braehead shopping centre would have been a) a similar profuse apology to the photographer for the embarrassment and inconvenience (possibly with a gift voucher for Fried-Mars-Bar-U-Like or similar) and b) a quiet word with the security guard for having been such a heavy-handed, thick-skinned prat, and for bringing the name of BRAEHEAD SHOPPING CENTRE IN GLASGOW into disrepute.
Neither happened. This is how the Stasi gained such control over Soviet-bloc-era East Germany: thanks to the compliance of its many useful idiots in the broader society.

Be Careful When You Fight the Monster..

So you do not become one as well..

"Someone is watching You"

I do have to wonder where it's all going. When one of the main MRM sites predicts inevitable deterioration of all things male and the all out effort by the feminasties to ensure that target is achieved via endless articles, supported by the traitorous and homogenised MSM. Even with the assistance of that same sex who benefits the most from a healthy, hard working man in their life. The female attitude is akin to coming across a vehicle accident, sufficiently bad to know there will be body bags involved but she just has a quick glance, shakes her head, comments "that looks bad" but keeps driving, ignoring the pain and suffering that she does not want to get involved in issues, in most cases, she has introduced herself..
This is the same attitude they have towards the men's rights issues. They cluck their tongue, shake their heads, agree that something should be done because even though they notice something is wrong (that car crash), but just continue on their way because whatever happens, they will inevitably come out on top with the possibility of even more benefits than before..

It's the typical win, win, situation for them and they are indeed very aware of it. What they fail to comprehend is the fact that there are a few spanners in the works that will eventually (as they say on AVfM site)FTSU (f*ck their shit up) and that is precisely what we will do, one way or the other. In reality, the MRM is just a toddler in nappies, as we have really not got going that long ago. The time span may be debatable, it is my guess that it has only been really serious over the last couple of years and everything before that was just practise, fine tuning, brushing up on our debatting skills and recognising who was and is capable of doing whatever it takes to succeed, creating databases of information on the enemy, etc.. The membership drive is underway and amazingly enough it's all via people searching and wondering if there are other people who been put through the same hell feminists have put into place. Membership numbers per se, via feminist's unrelenting anti-male operations, guarantees it..

I have in the past quoted the odd passage from Nietzsche, a philosopher who is deemed to be nothing short of being a psychotic, one whose insight should be totally written off as the rantings of one with a screw loose. But as I noticed, his commentary on the female psyche looks pretty good from where I am sitting..

What about writing off other lunatics and psychotics like Eve Ensler and her vagina fetish, disguised as well, you pick something, mine would be "how to ply an underage female and molest her in the process", which ofcourse Ensler was forced to remove and replace with a legal age teenager . Also Betty Friedan, the author of "The Feminine Mystique", another lunatic according to her husband's expose.Many white knights and feminists alike could not wait to malign and write Nietzsche off as one of those sufferers. To some degree that may have some merit..
But have a read of some of his comments,sound fine to me..

Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.”― Friedrich Nietzsche

“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”― Friedrich Nietzsche

“What labels me, negates me.”― Friedrich Nietzsche

Nothing wrong with those words of wisdom as far as I can tell, matter of fact, some of those quotes have been quoted by feminists themselves in the comments section here. There is no way all of his observations could be written off as either irrelevant or insignificant..

The main part of the argument is ofcourse that end goal, feminism's efforts is aimed at the total destruction of all things male, regardless of the fact that society would not be where it is today, both technologically, include into that the accommodation you now enjoy, the food that is available three times a day, that is keeping your ungrateful arse alive and you, breathing. Even a child's minds can work out that obvious statement. Destroy the male and you will destroy society. Simple as that..

But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!

Friedrich Nietzsche

Disclaimer..I have to include what should probably be a standard disclaimer - As usual, whenever generalising on any issue or about either sex, there are always exceptions to the rule. I do know of and recognise the fact that there are quite a few women working with and for the same outcomes for men and boys in the Men's Movement. In some cases they have been even more enthusiastic than anyone to educate and fight against the injustices feminism has introduced into every sphere of our lives and it is something that I am grateful for and heartened by. It does at the same time restore my faith in society and it does demonstrate clearly that they are not all the same, thank goodness for that..

Cocaine: Preferred Life Enhancer for Women..

Well, what can one expect when not only are women generally the most unhappy as they have ever been before which is ofcourse the by-product of feminism as they have promoted and forced legislation to ensure that they are not held accountable and can pursue any option from false tape claims to laughing about male mutilation. The growing loathing that women face world-wide will and should have the appropriate affect that will force women to act against what created that loathing. It may take a little time longer but any woman would be well aware of that fact just by logging onto the Internet and if they continue to ignore that then only they will promote and encourage it..

Taking cocaine as we all know may have some minor denial illusionist affect but it's is detrimental to one's sanity. They are already well aware that their life generally sucks as well as their future, even though they have every possible advantage, preferential treatment in every area in government and industry, yet claim that they are responsible for their own promotions and positions when in reality is was forced onto society to employ them at the expense of men and promoted in preference to them even though their experience and ability were lacking..

The men they are working with and witness their preferential treatment are well aware of it and the rising and valid loathing would be there for all of them to "feel"..

Cocaine use by women in 20s soars

Julie Robotham and Kate Hagan

July 27, 2011

Link..

YOUNG women's cocaine consumption has skyrocketed in the past three years - and the drug is most popular among educated, high-earning city dwellers, federal government statistics show.

One in 20 women aged in their 20s used the drug last year, a 60 per cent increase from 2007.

The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare's drug survey, released today, showed that cocaine use overall was most popular in NSW, where 2.9 per cent of residents had used the drug in the past year, followed by Victoria at 2.3 per cent.

Recent users were overwhelmingly childless young singles in big cities.

They were most likely to be employed and relatively highly educated.

Across all age groups, women last year were nearly three times as likely to use a dealer to buy cocaine as they had been in 2007, suggesting they were seeking out the drug rather than taking it more opportunistically.

But men's cocaine use remained higher than women's, though it had grown less steeply.

The director of the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre at the University of NSW, Michael Farrell, warned that the national cocaine binge - which has increased the overall number of recent users by 100,000 to 380,000 - was likely to bring serious health problems.

''Cocaine is a very problematic drug,'' Professor Farrell said. ''We associate cocaine with mood and anxiety disorders and increased risk of self-harm and suicidal thinking.''

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