Has no-one seen this yet? Warning - you may spontaneously combust combust

GAH! here

Yes, there do seem to be a lot of these articles lately. As the budget cuts really step up it will effect women more (class room assistants, Surestart workers etc). IMO it is to soften us up so we don't start rioting. After all, we are only women so we shouldn't have ambitions for ourselves.

[[http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/in_the_news/1066682-quot-It-may-be-better-news-for-women-to-look Here it iss]. It was Jill Kirby

Remember that woman (Tory as well) who was doing some kind of ranting about working women, and that women shouldn't work as it creates a false economy or some other such wank? MNHQ were trying to get her to come on a webchat. Will try and drag up the thread

But, unfortunately, this is pretty common IME. The UK is (again, IME) less mysoginistic than a lot of other countries and cultures I have encountered (France, RUSSIA, South Africa, India), so it's quite sad that there's this regression.

Has anyone noticed an increase in these types of article lately - particularly in the DM?

Worryingly half of them are from women. I have noticed a lot - in the papers, in magazines, on the radio - talking about how women don't actually want to work and just want to have the choice...but want to stay home.

Am getting paranoid in my old (ish) age but swear its political to try and reduce women in the workplace and therefore the unemployment stats....

SGB
He has got to be the biggest dickhead of all time. His poor wife

Mail is moderated before posting though so they might not let it through.

also i think he's trying to say that some feminists are misandrists
for some reason his expensive education missed out on that word

at SGB. Any chance you could post that as a comment on the Mail website and see how long it lasts?

Applauds SGB for possibly best post ever

He's on radio 5 right now!!

That guy is an absolute knob. I hope his wife is horrified, though I sadly suspect she's giving him a slap on the back for daring to speak up on this important issue

Ah, he is vair pretty, isn't he? Oh. sorry. Was he saying something?

I could understand his deranged rantings more if he had attended a shitty comprehensive and had truly grim, badly paid job but he has had an amazing education and career. Why is he so bitter? In what way has feminism held him back?

But it's just not something I encounter in my daily life, thank god. I word in a very equal industry (though we do need more women at the top), my friends and family are all pro-equality, so I guess I've been lucky to be so sheltered from this apparently huge anti-equality segment of the population.

"I feel like my entire world view has just changed for the worse and I don't feel well at all."

Annie, my feelings as well. It seems so entrenched and ingrained and I feel as a woman we are just bashing our head against a brick wall.
It's not being helped by the fact I am reading Backlash and the anti-feminism outlined in there is so systematic. It really is being played out before our eyes.

Poor dahling.

ITA, Ms Harman (and I don't often say that)

I'll tell you what I think. I had a look at the picture of him and his wife, and I looked at their posture.
Now my take is that they are actually in a full time subdom relationship when they're at home, and she is his Mistress. And this piece of his is not just a piece of squawky attention-seeking by a nondescript back-bencher no one would give a toss about if he hadn't pulled this stunt, it's so he can go home at night and go 'Mistress I've been ever so naughty this time' and she'll be ready with the nipple clamps, chastity device and floggers: 'Say it Slave! I have rebelled against the Supreme Female Order and deserve every punishment you can devise'....

my masters was INternational horticulture. Opened my eyes

(read Agri-Culture by Jules Pretty if you're interested )

Sorry I know that's a bit off topic, but I hadn't heard that before.

"During the Ethiopian famine in the 1980s, Ethiopia was exporting green beans to Europe" that's truly shocking.

There are even people saying women shouldn't have got the vote!

Stunned. Just stunned.

food shortages are not caused by women having children. What an ignoramous.

THey're caused by the inefficient food system (designed and run by men) whereby fruit, veg and other foodstuffs are grown in third-world countries and transported by air to the rich world. They're grown on the blood and sweat of women, who are paid a pittance for their troubles.

The waste produced by this inefficient is phenomenal. Vegetables are thrown away frequently to keep market prices competitive. FOod that is suitable for local regions are not grown there, and instead food that the western market wants are grown instead.
During the Ethiopian famine in the 1980s, Ethiopia was exporting green beans to Europe

The comment, seriously, I feel physically sick. If one man wants to rant about the awfulnes of feminism and whine about his poor life, well, OK, he's entitled to do so, I supposed.

But that so many agree with him?! I honestly had no idea how widespread the misogenistic bullshit spread! I'm absolutely horrified. Of course a few sensible women have posted but they've all got hundreds of red marks against their posts!

And they're talking about 'real' women with curves and soft skin staying at home and looking after them!

I feel like my entire world view has just changed for the worse and I don't feel well at all.