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"Women casued the credit crunch by going out to work"!

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prettybird · 25/02/2009 09:18

I came across this article in the Irish Times.

I don't think it is tongue in cheek - but thought of Mumsnet and waht you lot would think of it!

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intheLiffey · 25/02/2009 12:39

It makes me really angry. It's like blaming Jewish people for economic problems. No less idiotic and misguided! What's he going to do, get rid of all women though??

I think solid is right, he's trying to stir up a name for himself. I'm in Ireland and I've never heard of him, so he's not a well-known journo.

KNOB, I'm going to look on rollercoaster now and see if he's getting the pasting he deserves on soapbox.

intheLiffey · 25/02/2009 12:40

I mean, in germany in 1939 this is, I should have clarified I wasn't talking about NOW>

But that need to blame some sector, make some sector of society carry the blame for an economic downturn, it's the same ludicrous and illogical idiocy.

HecateQueenOfGhosts · 25/02/2009 12:41

"Women also have an important role to play in jobs that are too demeaning for men, like teaching"

Come on - there is no WAY that is anything but a joke! It is no doubt meant to take the piss out of such attitudes, to ridicule them.

LadyGlencoraPalliser · 25/02/2009 12:46

Reasons I'm glad I emigrated, number 1027: I don't have to share airspace with this knobjockey.

OrmIrian · 25/02/2009 12:47

Oh come on. It has to be tongue in cheek. Surely?

Mind you MIL has always asserted that women working fuelled the property boom. And also incidentally that women should be at home with children. She has asserted both these truths time and time again, often to me, although she 'doesn't mean me' apparently

georgiemum · 25/02/2009 12:49

It's a joke. His pieces are a bit Swiftian (poor to eat their own children).

thekillingofdaftpunk · 25/02/2009 12:52

i agree with him....life would better for alot of people if the husband had a good job earning enough to support his family...problem now is, alot of the good jobs are taken by women who are usually stresed out, (and paying another woman/nursery to bring up their dc.)

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prettybird · 25/02/2009 14:07

If all the women did give up thier jobs, then there would be a whole load more re-possessions - and then everyone would be stressed!

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thekillingofdaftpunk · 25/02/2009 14:18

no...nothing will change now...damage is done.

Aranea · 25/02/2009 14:21

Am I the only person who thinks it's funny?

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prettybird · 25/02/2009 14:26

No - I also thought it was funny - in a gobsmacked, "he cannot be serious" "what planet is he living on" sort of way.

What I thought would be even funnier was Mumsnetters' reactions to it!

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intheLiffey · 25/02/2009 14:28

I just got a computer generated reply from the irish times explaining to me that it was a satirical article.

Well, it's not good satire. It's too soon for this to be presented as satire when this is still a fairly common misogynist mindset amongst older men in Ireland (not Irish Times readers, probably, in fairness, The Daily Star readers, the older ones perhaps, but still)

In 1974 women had to resign from bank jobs and post office and civil service jobs in Ireland when they got married. So it's just too soon to present this as satire. In another fifty years it might seem funny.

It's disingenuous to present it as satire now. I'm angry the bastards explained to me that it was satire.

AitchTwoOh · 25/02/2009 15:03

i thought it was satirical, in a fairly obvious button-pushing clarkson-esque sort of a way. and there is an essential truth there at the kernel.

intheLiffey · 25/02/2009 15:11

Put there will be old men sitting there with their flat caps and their pint, they buy the paper and go down to the pub to read it, and they'll sit there nodding, thinking, at last, some plain speaking, some good sense!!!

It's too soon for this article. Try again in 2059.

AitchTwoOh · 25/02/2009 15:14

people always say satire is too soon.

OrmIrian · 25/02/2009 15:16

"and there is an essential truth there at the kernel"

?

Or was that satire too?

Northernlurker · 25/02/2009 15:30

The essential kernal of truth is surely that misogyny is alive and well and being published in national newspapers....

OrmIrian · 25/02/2009 15:38

Oh OK.

That's a relief

scrooged · 25/02/2009 15:41

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

Typical. Written by a man!!!

intheLiffey · 25/02/2009 16:09

And if his wife gives up work, is he going to give up his car and his 42 inch hD tv and his sky sports subscription, OR will she have to give up her car and her gym membership???? hmmmmmmm

thekillingofdaftpunk · 25/02/2009 16:18

is that what women sacrifice time with their children for... cars & gym memberships?

scrooged · 25/02/2009 16:19

more like to help pay for the household expenses!

intheLiffey · 25/02/2009 16:22

I bet if newton and his wife's joint finances needed to be culled, his car/gadgets would be safer.

Lilymaid · 25/02/2009 16:23

He is, apparently, a satirist. Is he the Ian Hislop of Ireland?

scrooged · 25/02/2009 16:31

He is also not funny!!!!!

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