Our thanks to Ray for this. He asks in his email, ‘Is it April Fools Day, already?’
It’s just the latest in a long line of pieces about how women demand institutions adapt to their needs and wants – rather than vice versa (unlike men) – which inevitably leads to ever more inefficient and ineffective institutions, financed by long-suffering taxpayers, mostly men. Because of women’s in-group preference, the proportion of women in senior positions, and in positions of influence, can only rise, regardless of the damage they wreak on institutions (state education, the NHS, public sector bodies in general…). It’s a train with no reverse gear.
If MPs are on maternity leave – or paternity leave, for that matter – how can they be carrying out the jobs for which they’ve been elected, and for which they’re being paid by taxpayers? They can’t. So why should they be allowed to vote from home?
They also want to vote from home if they’re ‘looking after children’. How can they be be looking after children whilst working as MPs? Is this the fabled ‘multi-tasking’ of which women are deemed uniquely capable?
The last sentence in the piece:
The idea is now being considered by Sarah Childs, a professor of gender and politics at the University of Bristol, who is carrying out an independent assessment of inequalities facing men and women in parliament for the Speaker, John Bercow.
‘An independent assessment of inequalities’? What an insult to our intelligence. ‘Professor’ Sarah Childs is clearly a feminist – as expected of a ‘professor’ of gender and politics – and her university profile is here. An extract:
My research centres on the relationships between sex, gender and politics. It is concerned, both theoretically and empirically, with questions of women’s descriptive, symbolic and substantive representation. I have published extensively on women’s political representation in the UK since 1997…
You get the drift, I won’t inflict any more on you. Now, what will be the outcome of a feminist’s ‘independent assessment’ on whether women should be offered an easy option, rarely available to men? You don’t need to be a ‘professor’ to guess that, do you?
Justice for Men & Boys 
‘ … whether women should be offered an easy option, rarely available to men?‘
Rarely? Surely you mean never?
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A sick man should be a valid comparator for a pregnant woman, ie if the year’s absence renders them unfit to carry out their duties, then they should be dismissible/required to stand down. A man or older woman known to be unable to represent their constituents for twelve months due to illness would be forced by the Whips to apply for the Chiltern Hundreds.
So should a pregnant woman.
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why dont pregnant ‘female officers’ give commands to the battlefield to conscripted male soldiers while preparing lunch for the kids in the kitchen or making up in front of the mirror ? surely,that would not interfere with their judgement or outlook on the situation in battle. Surely that would not be unfair to the men under fire,risking or losing their lives,would it ? after all,women have ‘a right’ not to be conscripted…
There MUST come a time when western men will simply say ‘ to hell with the politness’,time to tell women how it really is. Traditions or not,gentlemen or not..
This is very belated and is absolutely essential in reversing complete madness taking hold in western societies. Insanity rules supreme at the moment and heavily indoctrinated men don’t seem to grasp the extent of the disaster. It”s a tragic comedy and the joke is 100% on men and boys.
Straight out of Sphocles’s playbook !
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maybe someone can answer me this question?
Why do MPs have maternity leave or indeed any male MPs have paternity leave?
in the course of a normal job( and remember MPs like to claim that they are on a contract not permanent employment thus entilted to more pay, special perks and second jobs) your job will be covered by your employer with someone hopefully of the same skill. yet these MPs cannot be covered by anyone as their constituents elected them to represent them in parliment not a maternity leave person. maternity leave staff are thus unelected and not representing the people who voted.
better would be that if you wish to have maternity or paternity leave then you resign from your job and a new MP would be elected who actually put the time in as you are paid to do so.
You should not be working if you have very young children who need to be looked after (from birth to say 5 years of age), that applies whether you are make or female. if you are going to argue that a woman should have the right to work and look after children then that devalues the role of parent and undermines the idea that only a mother can look after children( a favourite in the custody battles).
Being an MP requires a commitment to the job( and includes either gender), not everyone can do it. If you have a child then prioritise that over the job and then return to the job when the child is older. Plenty of parents have no choice but to work when they have kids because of the piss poor pay they receive, so perhaps the MPs should resolve that issue before complaining about how they want to have the kids and work because they have the money not work whilst others have no choice
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It has taken centuries of tradition and struggle to build the set of rules that allow the parliamentary system to function at level that it does and these short sighted women want to destroy all of that because one of them got pregnant with no concern about the future impact. She took on a very important position knowing the demands of the job.
Keep her in her seat until she is ready to pop and then get her back there the day after. Ridiculous bullshit!
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