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http://www.lse.ac.uk/genderInstitute/pdf/Confronting-Inequality.pdf
“FINDINGS FROM THE LSE COMMISSION ON GENDER, INEQUALITY AND POWER.”
A paper written by social marxists, this will be fun to read …
Edit:I’ve tried to read though this paper, it’s pretty painful. Lots of demands employee quotas. Hire people based on merit, rather than discriminating based on race and gender, that’s the oposite of equality.
Infact I wrote a clause into my company’s ethics code that specificly prevents contracting to companies that use these kinds of discriminatory quota systems.
Minimum wage. Sick pay. Holiday pay. The NHS. ccess to the House of Lords. A Equality (men and women) in same sex relationships. Access to the legal system. Bank accounts. Pension rights. Mortgage rights. Birth control.
What do any of these things have to do with femminism?
Maternity leave.
If femminism is for equality, then why is paternity leave significantly worse than materinity leave.
Divorce rights.
Heavily favours women, especially if children are involved. I see no equality here.
Female MP’s
Many of the femminist MPs are supremacists (Jess Philips). Other than that I don’t really care what gender MPs are as long as they are good at their job, not that any of them are.
Abortion.
I have shifted more towards pro-life views since having children, so I would disagree with this depending on specifics.
Equal pay.
I’m not aware of a time when there was ever a real pay gap, if you have evidence of this then I would like to see it.
Voting rights.
Women were banned from voting in Britain in 1832, before this only land owners could vote (which includes women). I don’t think there were any femminists before the 1830s. They were given the right to vote again in 1918 after WW1 finished, unless feminists ended WW1, they are not directly responisble for this.
In america women have automatic voting rights, men have to register for the draft before they are allowed to vote, so again there is not equality here (favouring women).
Here in the UK, where ideological austerity is disproportionately targeting women and children.
Extrordinary claims need extrordinary evidence.
For example women in violent relationships had to prove those relationships are violent, before they could access full legal aid. This has now been overturned by the Court of Appeal. Just another example though how women are still treated like second class citizens. “The Court of Appeal has today (18 February 2016) ruled that evidence requirements which have been operating to prevent survivors of domestic abuse from getting legal aid for family cases are unlawful.”
I’m not really sure about this one, but legal aid for this even avalible to men? Cases that include women being violent against men are laughed out of court most of the time if they even make it there. Also, I hate the term survivor, just call them victims no need for such emotive language.
“Women are bearing the brunt of the government’s austerity drive in the public sector, according to figures showing that twice as many women as men have lost jobs in local government since 2010.”
I haven’t read through the source you provided yet, but does it actually explain why this is happening? Maybe women are more represented in jobs like cleaning that are easier to cut?
Drac,
welcome back to the boards.
I’m so pleased that you’re out of hospital and recovered. There are precious few people here who take debate about issues seriously without getting involved in insults, and you are one of them.
Thankyou.
But is that always the case? I have known same-sex relations, especially between women, were once prone to real tension and physical violence – there was a famous play called The Killing of Sister George in 1964. Maybe this has changed???
I don’t know if it’s always the case, she’s the only woman i’ve been with, for 7 years now. But from my perspective it doesn’t really seem so much like the role of the ‘man’ and the ‘woman’ are actually linked so much to their physical gender. I’m sure that it probably predisposes people towards cetain roles in a lot of cases. But in my relationship my girlfriend does all of the housework, cooking, cleaning, looking after our children ect. And it is my role to go out and earn money to support them. This is fairly typical of gender roles, but I don’t think I see myself as being a man in any regard.
I havent seen any statistics that indicate a higher rate of violence, and it’s not something that I have experienced personally.
I’m not a feminist – I’m very critical of radical feminism in particular – but I also think it’s had a serious and positive role in changing women’s attitudes.
Why do you think it is such a cancer? I’m genuinely interested.
I am refering specifically to modern femminism, I view it as a supremacy movement. I’m too tired right now to find specific evidence of this, but there are lots of examples and I will find some for you if you are interested. I don’t know a whole lot about historical femminism, but I know at worst the suffragettes were actual terrorists.
*ignores*
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I’ve briefly read though the thread now, I think I might be able to provide a different perspective on this topic. I’m in a same sex relationship, but we still have the same roles that are generally split along gender lines. I think it’s just a natural way for a relationship to work.
I haven’t read through this discussion yet but I say femminism mentioned.
Femminism turns everything it touches into cancer.
One of the fakest, staged pictures ever and which is even more hilarious judging by the irrational hysteria that accompanies it. Supposedly lost consciousness immediately and fell injuring his nose, which then bled profusely, no visible blood and both his arms are raised above his head/at the side dramatically, which of course would be impossible. His mac/raincoat was being carried on the same arm as he was carrying his briefcase, yet somehow is flattened out perfectly underneath that arm and he is still tightly grasping the suitcase, even though his muscles would have relaxed as he fell, an automatic bodily response that stops further injury. No CCTV has emerged, other than that one still picture from that one CCTV camera. Funny as hell, fake as fcuk and we know that the tories want him to jump ship…
I haven’t heard this conspiracy theory before, why would the hospital allow him to stay there if he wasn’t injured?
read the papers, lad..I rely on them, because I don’t know much without them
I think I found your problem Scep.
It’s illegal to read these emails, even though we swear they are fake!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=14&v=7DcATG9Qy_A
By a large margin? how do you make that out?
Clinton was forced on the defensive for most of the debate, and avoided most of the questions that were asked.
