February 22, 2009
Read This
Over at Comment is Free.
It’s by my girlfriend, Beth.
Then write to your MP asking what they are going to do about the situation. Or, alternatively, leave inane, misogynistic fits of verbal diarrhea on the comments section, as a number of Britain’s Finest Minds have chosen to do.
Duncan Money said,
February 23, 2009 at 1:42 pm
It’s by my girlfriend, Beth.
Blatant nepotism, cronyism, etc.
Good piece though.
Beth said,
February 23, 2009 at 2:22 pm
Some of my personal favourites:
”If women want these rape crisis centres, women can fund them.”
”By the way if you are a radical feminist yourself then I know I have no hope of appealing to your ‘reason’ – a radical feminist must sacrifice that at the outset because radical feminism is at heart a political ideology adhered to emotionally with more in common with a dogmatic religion than any enlightened school of philosophy.”
Clearly that’s why he repeatedly refuses to engage in debate when I’ve questioned him about some of his views.
It’s hard not to become completely disheartened by the level of ignorance a lot of these people who claim to be egalitarians exhibit. And lo and behold the swathes of anger when I linked to a male run UK organisation (http://www.whiteribboncampaign.co.uk/) that campaigns against domestic and sexual violence towards women. Traitors.