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

[prettybird]

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!

never heard of him lilymaid, so he's no more famous than I am.

I hate myself for walking into his little plan to make himself famous though.

GeorgieMum - Yes, it reads a little like Swift's 'A Modest Proposal'.

I actually think it's quite well executed and is an effective piece of satire. I can't imagine that anyone, even old fellas in pubs, would take it seriously.

LOL at 'Central Gender Mainstreaming Unit at the Department of Justice'.

King Rolo, you been to Arklow?!!?!?!!?!?

I take the point that some people make, satire is always risky and 'too soon' but when women still earn less than men for doing the same thing, I really think it IS too soon.

OK I'm doing to shut up about it now before I bore myself.

Imagine if it was in the Daily Mail... I saw the publication title and knew it would be a joke. He reminds me of my old boss.

What on earth was his motivation for this? I mean, he is clearly taking the piss, but to what end? I notice he carefully left the health service out of his list of "important public sector jobs" - i'd like to see what happened to that if all the female nurses and mws were sent home!

And, tbh, what was the editor's motivation in printing it? To flush out all the neanderthals who agree with this? or to cause more marital upset in one fell swoop since the bra-burning years?

Nutters.

I think it is satire, but fairly inept satire. Satire needs to have a point, and his is?

button-pushing, ladyg.

the kernel of truth is that more income fuelled the property boom.

which left us with less disposable income and more need to work. catch 22

My MIL could well have written this.
And it would not be tongue in cheek...

You could say more income aitch - or you could argue that it is in fact people forming life partnerships later and therefore living alone longer and the number of seperated families increasing which has fuelled the property boom.

If Pam lived with her parents till she married Dave then they moved into a family house and stayed married as di there parents then thats a total of three homes across the unit - but if

Pam's daughter Patsy leaves home at 21 and lives independantly till she's 33 at which poin she marries Al who has also been living independantly till then and meanwhile Pam and Dave split up and Dave marries Julie who is also divorced from Roger who because of the divorce buys a small flat where his daughter faith can't live with him because there's no room so she buys a flat with her boyfriend and then they split up but property has gone up so they can both afford to invest their profit in another house each......well I've lost count of how many property transactions that lot generates!

di there??? 'do their' that should be!

The fallenmadonna, that's my point, when there are people still alive who really nod while reading it, then it's too soon to be passed off as satire!

about 40% of adult women live on their own now anyway I thought.

yep, tfm, that too. collapse of society, innit?

I blame the building industry, they priced new houses at the absolute maximum a couple could stretch to, when there was a shortage of houses for sale for first time buyers (I remember people queuing to put their names down for houses not finished, about 2001 I think)

It's a pisstake

But a good one though

It's not women working per se, but I firmly believe that things started to fall apart around the time when it became the norm for both parents in a family to work. What isn't clear to me is whether double incomes or increased property prices came first. Either way, none of us has gained financially out of this. Furthermore, those of us on a modest income who really don't want their baby or young child in full time childcare find it almost impossible to achieve a decent standard of living.

But notwithstanding the above, women caused the credit crunch?! Erm no. A surfeit of testosterone caused the credit crunch - a hormone found mostly in the male population I believe.