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

[LadyBlaBlah]

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I am speechless

See it is so bad I stuttered when I combust-ed

Yes - its being discussed here. Although I have to say I am disappointed (although not surprised) that this has now made the Daily Mail.

the comments in the DM are almost universally in favour

I daren't read the comments - that would probably make me spontaneously combust.

Thanks - I thought it must be somewhere. I didn't think such twattery would escape the gaze of MN

but he's young

I pictured an old wanker man in his dotage, just about to drop and wasn't too worried about the whole thing

BUt he's practically my age!

We've got more problems than I thought

That was my thought too Sakura. It means I can't use my usual line of "meeting people like you makes me really optimistic about the future, because people with your twattish views will all be dead soon."

Oxford and the public schools are full of young men like this.

I bet Theresa May thinks he is an annoying little squirt.

Poor Erika!

Ooh my blood is boiling! What did I look?!

Here's a gem, from the comments":

"Its the 'mumsnet' mothers with young children that are the worst. Oooh look at my brat making a noise, got to have time off to take him to school, the doctors, etc. Aren't I wonderful, producing another person for the planet (like we need some more,with food shortages). Take these priveliges of late work starts, early leaving away, or let the men take the kid to school, see the uproar then"

what a twat

"We've got more problems than I thought"

This government are so ill-informed! They are making policy based on their own very limited and privileged life experiences, not on the basis of any actual fact or evidence as far as I can see.

Take Gove's education policy - he just seems to have picked what he thinks should work, based on the eduction he had in a bizarre one-size-fits-all way. Where are the studies backing his prejudices policies up?

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Aghast at how there really genuinely men out there who think they are getting a raw deal.

Mostly I'm horrified at the apparent popular opinion that the dwindling pay gap is a bad thing!!!

what, like everything Labour did was evidence-based? yeah right....
they used to talk a lot about evidence-based policy and apply it very selectively when it suited them.

TBH I am quite pleased that one of these right-wing woman-haters has finally admitted that there is a pay gap, and that it is at least 10%.

Was PMSL at (paraphrasing, because I'm not opening that up again) "the pay gap has dwindled to 10%...does this sound like a society riddled with discrimination?"

Erm ...YES. YES IT BLOODY WELL DOES. Shall we cut his pay packet by 10% and see if he notices?

Because Dom, if you're reading, I can think of some really good uses for your £6,573.80 if you can't.

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.

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

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

Stunned. Just stunned.

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

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

my masters was INternational horticulture. Opened my eyes

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

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'....

Poor dahling.

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

"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.