Month: May 2017

General Election 2017: Greens aim to end ‘period poverty’

/ Mike Buchanan / 20 Comments

Our thanks to Nigel for this. The start of the piece:

The Green Party of England and Wales is promising free sanitary products for those who cannot afford them.

The Greens pledged to end “period poverty” by providing towels and tampons to secondary school pupils and women in financial need.

A 5% tax on sanitary products has caused controversy and 320,000 people have signed a petition to abolish it.

The Greens said the project could be funded by adding VAT to some products that are currently exempt.

The party singled out aircraft repairs and “the sale of airships” as areas they could target. [my emphasis]

Nigel writes:

Sometimes the Greens make it too easy to lampoon.

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Reporter grabs boob live on BBC

/ Mike Buchanan / 6 Comments

Enjoy (video, 0:34). It’s a good thing for the BBC reporter that the incident took place in Bradford, West Yorkshire. In North Yorkshire he’d have been committing a hate crime, because grabbing a woman’s boobs there is a sign of misogyny, while in West Yorkshire it’s still (for now, at least) a sign of appreciation.

Philip Davies’s seat, Shipley, is in West Yorkshire. Hopefully he won’t abuse the privilege of being able to grope female strangers in the street in the days remaining before the general election, at least while the video cameras are rolling.

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Kitten Holiday: The End of Women

/ Mike Buchanan / 3 Comments

Just spotted an excellent piece linked on the TCW website. An extract:

I’m sure I’ll get called out on this but there is a lot of truth to the fact that women don’t really know what we want. We say we want one thing and we think we want one thing because we have an idea of what it’s like and it’s exciting, but when we get it we are miserable. We think we want to be in charge because it looks great and excites us when we see someone else being in charge and in control of everything, but when most of us are actually put in that position, we get anxious and handle it badly. [my emphasis]

We see this happen all the time. And by this I’m not saying women are inferior or that no women can lead. I think a lot of women are wonderful. And in a truly nurturing, supportive, empowering environment we can achieve and accomplish amazing things. [Why do women need such a resource-hungry environment? Men don’t.]

But we aren’t in that environment. We are in an environment that caters to whims, coddles us emotionally and doesn’t hold us accountable.

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Miss USA is not a feminist

/ Mike Buchanan / 2 Comments

Our thanks to Stu for this. An extract:

Miss McCullough – who was born in Italy and was representing Washington DC – was also asked if she considered herself to be a feminist but said she preferred the term “equalism” and said men and women had equal opportunity in US workplaces.

“I don’t really want to consider myself – try not to consider myself like this die-hard, you know, like, ‘Oh, I don’t really care about men’,” said the contestant, who says she wants to see more women employed in government science roles.

So she says men and women have ‘equal opportunity in US workplaces’, but wants ‘more women [i.e. fewer men] employed in government science roles’. That makes sense.

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