Our thanks to K for loading another fine performance by Belinda Brown on Woman Sour onto our YouTube channel – here (7:41).
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Justice for Men & Boys 
It never ceases to amaze me how the “b……ing” obvious is skirted round. Belinda does indeed do a good job. Yet it should be obvious that working in shops and offices schools and nurseries is just plain easier than building, engineering and the other areas girls are apparently “steered away” from. The recent floods locally brought this into sharp relief. The men fixing the power, repairing the flood defences, clearing the debris, building the sandbag parapet, checking the bridge footings, clearing the wear and repairing the sluice gates did so in wet smelly dangerous conditions. as did the firemen and policemen (not sure where the police women were) assisting in moving disabled and confused older folk. Does it never occur to these academics and media women that the choices they make to have comfort in their work might be as attractive to other women too.
Actually of much more interest would be why on earth young men still plunge into such a variety of work when our modern economy seems to offer so many opportunities to be warm and comfy.
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Agreed. I noted in the latest flood crises something I’ve seen time and again. The spokespersons for the water companies (or electricity companies, whatever) are interviewd in the media in the course of the day, and come out with comments like, ‘Last night we repaired a bridge which had been damaged by flooodwater…’. WE?!!! Women love giving themselves collective credit for the achievements of teams overwhelmingly composed of men. Why mainly men? Because it’s dangerous work in unpleasant environments, unsocial hours, maybe a long way from home, not well paid… Whenever there’s collective responsibility e.g. over social services failings leading to abused children’s deaths, women refuse to accept it, hiding behind the unfit-for-purpose tickbox cultures they themselves were responsible for creating.
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