Yet more sexism in the courts.
"A woman who laced her 63-year-old husband's fruitcake with rat poison because he was cheating on her escaped jail yesterday."
Story here and here.
Thursday, 29 May 2008
Wednesday, 28 May 2008
Frozen Babies Found in Freezer
And who put them there? Their mothers.
Germany has been gripped by soul-searching over a series of grisly cases of mothers murdering their babies at a time when the state is pushing legislation to encourage people to have more children.
...
Experts say the rate of German mothers murdering their children is no higher than elsewhere in Europe. In 2006, the latest year for which numbers were available, 82 young children here were killed by a parent, according to crime statistics compiled by the federal government.
Story here.
Note 2 things:
1. This is NO worse than in other countries.
2. I don't recall seeing this story ANYWHERE in the UK news. Somewhat hypocritical considering the sensationalism surrounding Josef Fritzl -- a man -- isn't it?
Germany has been gripped by soul-searching over a series of grisly cases of mothers murdering their babies at a time when the state is pushing legislation to encourage people to have more children.
...
Experts say the rate of German mothers murdering their children is no higher than elsewhere in Europe. In 2006, the latest year for which numbers were available, 82 young children here were killed by a parent, according to crime statistics compiled by the federal government.
Story here.
Note 2 things:
1. This is NO worse than in other countries.
2. I don't recall seeing this story ANYWHERE in the UK news. Somewhat hypocritical considering the sensationalism surrounding Josef Fritzl -- a man -- isn't it?
Cath Elliott: So Angry I Could Strip!
When are men going to get the message that whistling at women, or staring at our tits, is not in the slightest bit flattering?
When are men going to get the message that whistling at women, or staring at our tits, is not in the slightest bit flattering?
Despite the attempt by some men to deny its very existence, there's no doubt that sexual harassment of women is endemic in the public sphere.
Most women have at some point been subjected to men's boorish behaviour in one form or another, and if we haven't personally encountered wolf whistles or leering, sexist comments or downright intimidating behaviour, the vast majority of us will be acquainted with someone who has. But while we all know how it feels to be on the receiving end of this disrespect, our responses to such laddishness vary greatly.
Sunday, 25 May 2008
Sex-change para captain wins £250,000 from army for 'hurt feelings'. Most injured soldier receives only £152,000
A soldier who had a sex change to become a woman has been paid £250,000 in damages for being ordered to wear a male uniform for a medical.
Jan Hamilton, 43, has dropped her claim for sexual harassment and unfair dismissal after reaching the settlement with the Ministry of Defence.
But her case has angered families of soldiers wounded in service, who have been offered less in compensation despite their horrific injuries.Saturday, 24 May 2008
What would the world be like without men?
"It began with compulsory oestrogen injections for rapists and muggers, but such were the benefits of turning the criminal population into round-breasted, round-bottomed hermaphrodite sloths that it was soon decided that the male element in society was altogether redundant. A few die-hards insisted on such foolish old mantras as 'everyone needs a dad', but the appendage 'like a hole in the head' was soon tacked on by the rest of society."
"It began with compulsory oestrogen injections for rapists and muggers, but such were the benefits of turning the criminal population into round-breasted, round-bottomed hermaphrodite sloths that it was soon decided that the male element in society was altogether redundant. A few die-hards insisted on such foolish old mantras as 'everyone needs a dad', but the appendage 'like a hole in the head' was soon tacked on by the rest of society."
Friday, 23 May 2008
The Carlton club finally admits the 'fairer' sex
Ninety years after the first British women cast their votes in a general election, and a mere 29 years since the election of a female Prime Minister, the fairer sex have claimed perhaps their most momentous victory.
The Carlton Club, since 1832 the hallowed sanctuary of fine Conservative gentlemen, has voted to admit women as full members. Until now, only the Iron Lady herself has been granted full membership of the Georgian club in St James’s, Central London, which has been called the “spiritual home” of the Conservative Party.
Tuesday, 20 May 2008
Vicar's daughter plunges to death fleeing girl gang
The 19-year-old had been plucked from poverty as an orphaned toddler in Brazil to live a better life with a British missionary family.
On Saturday night she fell from the second-floor window of a house for the homeless in South London. She died from massive internal injuries.
Story here
Police believe Rosimeiri was trying to escape a gang of teenage bullies who were filming the assault on their mobile phones when she slipped and fell.
Detectives are reviewing mobile phone footage from two girls aged 13 and 17 arrested over a possible "happy slapping attack".
On Saturday night she fell from the second-floor window of a house for the homeless in South London. She died from massive internal injuries.
Story here
Police believe Rosimeiri was trying to escape a gang of teenage bullies who were filming the assault on their mobile phones when she slipped and fell.
Detectives are reviewing mobile phone footage from two girls aged 13 and 17 arrested over a possible "happy slapping attack".
Why does Harriet Harman hate marriage?
For decades, feminist zealots have told us that family structure is irrelevant, fathers are unnecessary for child-rearing and marriage is outdated.
These views have had a disastrous influence, encouraging the state to preside over the breakdown in the traditional family. The results are everywhere - in crime, in benefits dependency, poverty and the rising costs to public services.
Story here
Yet, amid all this wreckage, hardliners still cling to their dogma. And none is more hardline than the High Priestess of British Feminism, Harriet Harman.
In an extraordinary interview published yesterday, she declared marriage was 'irrelevant' to public policy and described high rates of separation as a 'positive development', as it reflected 'greater choice' for couples - never mind the children.
These views have had a disastrous influence, encouraging the state to preside over the breakdown in the traditional family. The results are everywhere - in crime, in benefits dependency, poverty and the rising costs to public services.
Story here
Yet, amid all this wreckage, hardliners still cling to their dogma. And none is more hardline than the High Priestess of British Feminism, Harriet Harman.
In an extraordinary interview published yesterday, she declared marriage was 'irrelevant' to public policy and described high rates of separation as a 'positive development', as it reflected 'greater choice' for couples - never mind the children.
Sunday, 18 May 2008
Feminist, Rosie Boycott, and why she thinks twice about employing young women
"I found myself in a dilemma. If Sarah became pregnant, I would be legally obliged to keep paying her for a full year after she’d given birth – which the business could ill afford. Now, on top of this, the government has announced that parents of children up to the age of 16 (as opposed to only up to six) will have the right to ask employers for flexible working arrangements."
Obviously, if a well known man - such as Alan Sugar for example - had said the same thing, he'd be reflexively accused of sexism.
"I found myself in a dilemma. If Sarah became pregnant, I would be legally obliged to keep paying her for a full year after she’d given birth – which the business could ill afford. Now, on top of this, the government has announced that parents of children up to the age of 16 (as opposed to only up to six) will have the right to ask employers for flexible working arrangements."
Obviously, if a well known man - such as Alan Sugar for example - had said the same thing, he'd be reflexively accused of sexism.
Wednesday, 14 May 2008
My costly Hollywood divorce 'will be worth every penny', says a wheelchair-bound John Cleese.
As he wrangles with divorce number three, John Cleese knows marriage is no laughing matter.
As he wrangles with divorce number three, John Cleese knows marriage is no laughing matter.
Yesterday, however, he still managed a smile after a judge ordered him to hand his estranged wife £77,500 a month in temporary maintenance while they battle it out over his fortune.
"It's going to be very, very expensive - but it will be worth every penny," he said as he left court.
Tuesday, 13 May 2008
Charity makes £100,000 payout to disgruntled female employee
What ever way you cut it, this is nothing less than stealing money from sick and needy animals.
What ever way you cut it, this is nothing less than stealing money from sick and needy animals.
Monday, 12 May 2008
Fire-bombs, mugging and gang warfare - just what has gone wrong with girls?
'For several years, there has been a disturbing rise in the number of girls committing violent crimes at ever younger ages.
Last month, rival girl gangs used snooker balls in socks to batter each other in a mass brawl at a railway station at Shoreham, West Sussex.
In March, a 15-year-old girl was jailed for using a mobile phone to film two drunken teenage male friends beating a man to death in Keighley, West Yorkshire.
The reason for this parlous state of affairs lies in a combination of a collapse of family life and parenthood, depriving children of the love, security and discipline that are crucial in producing orderliness from within, and a parallel collapse in the willingness of the criminal justice system to impose orderliness from without.
On top of all this, however, modern feminism has added an extra and unforeseen twist.
Story here
The original 19th-century feminist pioneers, who fought for women's rights in a society where they really were second-class citizens, would surely have been appalled without measure had they been able to see into the future.
Last month, rival girl gangs used snooker balls in socks to batter each other in a mass brawl at a railway station at Shoreham, West Sussex.
In March, a 15-year-old girl was jailed for using a mobile phone to film two drunken teenage male friends beating a man to death in Keighley, West Yorkshire.
The reason for this parlous state of affairs lies in a combination of a collapse of family life and parenthood, depriving children of the love, security and discipline that are crucial in producing orderliness from within, and a parallel collapse in the willingness of the criminal justice system to impose orderliness from without.
On top of all this, however, modern feminism has added an extra and unforeseen twist.
Story here
The original 19th-century feminist pioneers, who fought for women's rights in a society where they really were second-class citizens, would surely have been appalled without measure had they been able to see into the future.
Thursday, 8 May 2008
Who needs role models?
"But really my point is this: why should a lack of predecessors be a deterrent to anyone? The jobs are ours for the picking, and the choices ours to make. If we choose literature over IT that's our decision, and we sure as hell don't need a Vogue pullout "A to Z of icons" to guide us safely to our career destination."
She makes a great point. Women are themselves to blame for being under-represented in the sciences. There's nothing to stop them doing what they want in this society.
"But really my point is this: why should a lack of predecessors be a deterrent to anyone? The jobs are ours for the picking, and the choices ours to make. If we choose literature over IT that's our decision, and we sure as hell don't need a Vogue pullout "A to Z of icons" to guide us safely to our career destination."
She makes a great point. Women are themselves to blame for being under-represented in the sciences. There's nothing to stop them doing what they want in this society.
The glass ceiling in women's heads
“If you were to predict the future on the basis of school achievement,” says Susan Pinker, in her new book The Sexual Paradox, “the world would be a matriarchy.”
And it is not just a motherhood issue: educated women without children are also not choosing the same paths, in the same numbers, as educated men. As Pinker puts it: “Even with all the barriers stripped away, they don't behave like male clones.”
Why? Pinker believes that the answers are mainly biological.
Story here
And it is not just a motherhood issue: educated women without children are also not choosing the same paths, in the same numbers, as educated men. As Pinker puts it: “Even with all the barriers stripped away, they don't behave like male clones.”
Why? Pinker believes that the answers are mainly biological.
Story here
Why women are to blame for killing off real men
When we longed for the coming of what we once liked to call the New Man, don't you sometimes think we should have been more careful what we wished for?
We told men we wanted them gentle and undemanding - and they gave us what we asked for. Bit of an own goal, I'd call that.
Story here
We told men we wanted them gentle and undemanding - and they gave us what we asked for. Bit of an own goal, I'd call that.
Story here
Monday, 5 May 2008
PD James: Political correctness ruining society
Modern life is bedevilled by political correctness, PD James, the crime author, said last night.
Story here
There was a growing risk that Britons would live in "ghettos" and experience little contact with other people, she said in a speech on policing in the 21st century.
Baroness James of Holland Park, who is best known for creating the detective Adam Dalgliesh, told an audience in the Palace of Westminster: "Our society is now more fractured than I, in my long life, have ever known it.
"Increasingly there is a risk that we live in ghettos with our own kind, with a strong commitment to our local community but little contact with those outside it.
"Mutual respect and understanding and recognition of our common humanity cannot be nurtured in isolation. And in our relationships we are bedevilled by the cult of political correctness."
It would be "unfortunate" if the police became "enamoured" of political correctness, which she described as "a pernicious if risible authoritarian attempt at linguistic and social control".
Story here
There was a growing risk that Britons would live in "ghettos" and experience little contact with other people, she said in a speech on policing in the 21st century.
Baroness James of Holland Park, who is best known for creating the detective Adam Dalgliesh, told an audience in the Palace of Westminster: "Our society is now more fractured than I, in my long life, have ever known it.
"Increasingly there is a risk that we live in ghettos with our own kind, with a strong commitment to our local community but little contact with those outside it.
"Mutual respect and understanding and recognition of our common humanity cannot be nurtured in isolation. And in our relationships we are bedevilled by the cult of political correctness."
It would be "unfortunate" if the police became "enamoured" of political correctness, which she described as "a pernicious if risible authoritarian attempt at linguistic and social control".
Sunday, 4 May 2008
Josef Fritzl, a Typical Man
Here's an article from Cath Elliot, a feminist.
It begins with the story of Josef Fritzl, and ends -- somehow -- with the conclusion that men are violent bastards.
A discussion follows. (I'm on there.)
It begins with the story of Josef Fritzl, and ends -- somehow -- with the conclusion that men are violent bastards.
A discussion follows. (I'm on there.)
Vogue ads to find women arts chiefs
Minister attacks male dominance.
THE arts minister, Margaret Hodge, has attacked the “ludicrous” underrepresentation of women in the boardrooms of British cultural institutions and accused them of “paying lip service” to equal opportunities.
Minister attacks male dominance.
THE arts minister, Margaret Hodge, has attacked the “ludicrous” underrepresentation of women in the boardrooms of British cultural institutions and accused them of “paying lip service” to equal opportunities.
Hodge plans to advertise in women’s magazines such as Vogue, Marie Claire and The Lady in an attempt to raise the proportion of women running museums, galleries and theatres from a third to a half.
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