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Eton teacher sacked for controversial lecture cleared by TRA

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Aparallaxia · 16/08/2021 17:44

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/08/15/free-speech-victory-eton-master-cleared-teaching-watchdog-sacked/

He has a rather old-fashioned idea of "radical feminism"! I haven't heard the world-without-men meme since about 1975. Nowadays we just want men to stop hurting us and discriminating against us.

Also, he does look a bit of a tw*t.

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Thelnebriati · 16/08/2021 19:23

It’s not like any women are engineers is it?

Well, quite. The video also said something about women not being able to farm because we are too tiny to handle large livestock but I was laughing so hard I couldn't take it all in.

CuriousaboutSamphire · 16/08/2021 18:51

And football, baseball...

How sad we are!

WeAreTheWomen · 16/08/2021 18:50

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CuriousaboutSamphire · 16/08/2021 18:43

Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy

Oops! Sorry I was just skipping through a flower meadow...

... thinking bout the Women's Engineering Society; Ciara Heraty, Cruz Landa, Sam Inskip, all under 25 years old when they started driving heavy plant - easy to Google too!

And many of the girls and youg women I taught doing various farming courses, degrees etc.

Aparallaxia · 16/08/2021 18:41

I think a society in which males over 12 aren't allowed out except with a woman guardian to keep them in check would actually work pretty well. Also they'd have to wear a long black robe with a tiny little slit at eye-level. That would keep them from running away.

Yes, that is a joke. The Taliban are not.

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Mycatismadeofstringcheese · 16/08/2021 18:36

@Thelnebriati

One argument in the video is that women can't operate large machines, as the machines are too big. I think women would be smart enough to build machines to fit us, but thats probably just my inner misandrist coming out.
I wonder if our feeble lady-brains could work out some kind of lever or pulley-system to make the existing machines easier to operate.

Probably not as we’d be too busy skipping through flowery meadows thinking about kittens wearing a cute hat or something.

It’s not like any women are engineers is it?

WeAreTheWomen · 16/08/2021 18:32

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Thelnebriati · 16/08/2021 18:30

One argument in the video is that women can't operate large machines, as the machines are too big.
I think women would be smart enough to build machines to fit us, but thats probably just my inner misandrist coming out.

allmywhat · 16/08/2021 18:24

One argument in the video states that the eradication of men would mean “90 per cent of the world’s present day population would die of starvation. The women that survived such a calamity would likely revert to a primitive life based on horticulture”.

Lol! I think we’d manage very well after the initial period of grief. Like the baboon(?) colony where all the greedy alpha males ate poison, and everyone lived happily ever after.

Men in a world where women were eradicated though? It would be Mad Max from Day 1 and it would keep getting worse.

I’m not in favour of eradicating men, for sentimental reasons. But I think it takes an immense amount of blindness to women’s contributions and to male vs female behaviour generally to reach the quoted conclusion!

Aparallaxia · 16/08/2021 18:01

The Teaching Regulation Agency was new to me, too, but I live in the US.

I used to teach at a university that had quite a few Old Etonians in the student population, and they were so hard to teach. They thought they knew everything already and didn’t like a woman showing them that they didn’t.

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MoreRainThanAnyYet · 16/08/2021 17:56

I must say that ‘cleared by TRA’ had me puzzled.

GNCQ · 16/08/2021 17:52

Haha yes I don't suppose anyone actually wants "a world without men" because aside from the fact the human population would die out....

Most Feminists actually rather like men. Just not the ones who treat women badly. Or the ones that are criminals and perverts. Or the ones who say "you feminists, y'all hate men when I'll tell you what without us you'd all die of starvation...."

Anyway. Twat yes.
Deserving of free speech? Yes. Like the rest of us.

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