My brain hurts after reading the objectives of the Women’s Equality Party. It gets worse. Their response to, ‘Why us, why now?’ is this. The latter starts with this remarkable claim:
Every day in the UK women face inequality at home, at work, in politics, and in daily life.
A theme that runs through WEP materials – apart from the relentless whining – is the absence of recognition that inequalities of outcomes (e.g. a minority of MPs are women) are the natural consequences of women’s (and men’s) freely-made choices – in this case, far more men than women seek to become prospective parliamentary candidates. Inequalities of desirable outcomes, anyway. Inequalities of undesirable outcomes are just fine, not even worth mentioning.
I don’t see the WEP calling for “Women’s equality” – what a ridiculous term! – with respect to the 20 areas in our general election manifesto.
Another meaning for WEP occurs to me:
Whiny Entitlement Princesses
