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How relevant to you is the controversy over feminism?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,331 ✭✭✭Keyzer


    Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat - Hilary Clinton

    Wow. Just Wow. This is astounding.

    Surely the man (the vast majority of combat soldiers are men) who gets his head blown off in combat is the primary victim?

    I'm going back to the watches and timepieces forum - this thread just boils my piss everytime I come have a look.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,887 ✭✭✭iptba


    I came across the following on Sean Gallagher's page:
    https://seangallagher2018.com/my-vision/
    Putting Women at the Heart of Politics

    My life has been shaped by countless inspirational women, my mother Ann, my wife Trish and my daughter Lucy to name but a few. On 2nd April 2019, 100 years to the day Countess Markievicz was appointed our first female Minister, I will convene an all-island gathering of past and present female elected representatives to mark the contribution of Countess Markievicz and their role in continuing her legacy.

    This summit at Áras an Uachtaráin will also bring together the next generation of female leaders and in doing so, we can be confident that our future is bright and truly representative of the nation we have become.
    I decided to do a quick search and came across the following:
    5 of the 6 said they were feminists; the only person who said they were not is Peter Casey

    I don't know of any similar interview asking about candidates' interest in men's issues.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,887 ✭✭✭iptba


    Ireland's first and largest film festival, the 63rd Cork Film Festival, which will feature films with themes centred on LGBT, mental health, child poverty, gender equality and human rights is set to take place next month. The festival, which runs from November 9-18, will showcase Irish and international films with a focus on current global issues.
    "Carmel Winters’ highly anticipated and award-winning second feature Float like a Butterfly is a special film that fiercely challenges patriarchy and stereotypes. Carmel, and many of the cast and crew, will be in attendance for this European premiere on 9 November.

    https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/lifestyle/cork-film-festival-launches-2018-programme-of-250-films-876389.html


  • Site Banned Posts: 2,799 ✭✭✭Bobtheman


    I have an issue with metoo tweats-they dont follow natural justice or any justice for that matter. Make your complaints to the Police not social media. I accept that it seems that a majority of these claim have tended to be true but not all.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,965 ✭✭✭✭Zulu


    Bobtheman wrote: »
    I have an issue with metoo tweats-they dont follow natural justice ...
    I always felt that the baying mob was the most "natural"; in fairness, it's probably been around since we were picking ticks off each others backs.






    <joking aside, I full accept your point>


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,887 ✭✭✭iptba


    (209 seconds)
    My Problem With Mansplaining: Jonathan Pie


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,887 ✭✭✭iptba


    (UK)
    Senior police officer: Investigate burglaries and violent crime not misogyny
    Sara Thornton says treating misogyny as a hate crime could not be a priority for a service that is over-stretched".

    https://news.sky.com/story/senior-police-officer-investigate-burglaries-and-violent-crime-not-misogyny-11541512


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,887 ✭✭✭iptba


    (For what is worth)
    Lorraine Courtney: 'The big picture is that women have never had it so good'
    https://www.independent.ie/opinion/comment/lorraine-courtney-the-big-picture-is-that-women-have-never-had-it-so-good-37587817.html


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,331 ✭✭✭Keyzer


    iptba wrote: »

    I agree with a lot of what Lorraine Courtney says in this article, women in this country have never had it so good. Change takes time, in many cases too long. So I welcome this piece especially as its written by a woman.

    But, and its a big but, she shot herself in the foot with the below:

    We have a higher life expectancy than men - four years higher. We have multiple orgasms, hair straighteners and more female TDs than ever before.

    Why derail the article and its message with such a trivial statement about orgasms and hair straighteners? Surely there are more important issues for women than having an orgasm and making your hair look fabulous.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,666 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    a new york senator ....

    Kirsten Gillibrand

    Verified account

    @SenGillibrand
    19h19 hours ago
    More
    Our future is:

    Female
    Intersectional
    Powered by our belief in one another.

    And we’re just getting started.

    6,449 replies 2,737 retweets 17,080 likes
    Reply 6.4K Retweet 2.7K Like 17K Direct message

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,331 ✭✭✭Keyzer


    silverharp wrote: »
    a new york senator ....

    Ridiculous nonsense if you ask me...

    Refreshing though are the responses, she's been absolutely hammered.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,666 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    Keyzer wrote: »
    Ridiculous nonsense if you ask me...

    Refreshing though are the responses, she's been absolutely hammered.

    the comments are great, still has 25K likes

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 408 ✭✭Defunkd


    What does "Intersectional" mean?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,666 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    Defunkd wrote: »
    What does "Intersectional" mean?

    keep your innocence, the more you know about this the more sanity points you lose :D

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,028 ✭✭✭H3llR4iser


    Defunkd wrote: »
    What does "Intersectional" mean?

    Long story short: in its feminist variant, the concept that basically everything in the world combines (intersects...) to oppress women. Whenever it's clearly not the case (e.g. women getting lighter court sentences for the same crimes when compared to men), it's just because you can't see it as you're not "oppressed".

    If you're wondering why such a thing exists, because it sounds like a "the world is against me" conspiracy theory born out of a looney's drunken fit, well, it's because you're not seeing it...as you're not a drunken looney.

    Unless it has now evolved into something about identifying oneself as a "yellow and green polka-dotted, three bladed twin rotor autogyro" thing. You can never tell these days.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,887 ✭✭✭iptba


    Cabinet Minister Mary Mitchell O’Connor has said she is “very disappointed and annoyed” over RTÉ’s decision to replace Martina Fitzgerald as one of the station’s political correspondents.

    In a message posted on Twitter, Ms O’Connor said “one of the most high profile women in media” had been “taken out”. She described Ms Fitzgerald as “professional to her finger tips”.

    https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/television/minister-disappointed-and-annoyed-at-rt-decision-to-replace-martina-fitzgerald-in-dil-37606239.html

    I'm not convinced that ministers should be commenting on decisions like this. But then this minister has approved funding for women-only professorships.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,535 ✭✭✭Silentcorner


    Is feminism just part of modern day outrage culture or is it a cause of it, facilitated by media and social media which only polorises debate...from what I can see this all seems to be stemming from US Universities over the last number of years?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,666 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    i found this a interesting take on the whole sh1t storm coming out of the far left

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,887 ✭✭✭iptba


    https://twitter.com/RuhamaAgency/status/1081198146653487104
    Ruhama, the largest anti-sex work organisation in Ireland, was founded as a joint initiative of the Good Shepherd Sisters and Our Lady of Charity Sisters

    They were partly responsible for pushing for the Nordic model to be brought in in Ireland, where the buyers of sex are criminalised, but not the sellers.
    Current Funders include

    Department of Health - Health Service Executive,

    Department of Health - South Inner City Local Drugs Task Force,

    Department of Justice, Equality & Law Reform - Anti Human Trafficking Unit,

    Corporate Donations,

    Private Donations,

    Community Support,

    Fundraising Initiatives.
    No mention that a lot of women, according to statistics also access pornography.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,907 ✭✭✭LostinBlanch


    A new study released by the University of Essex and the University of Missouri Columbia shows that men are the more discriminated group in 91 countries compared to 43 for women.

    It uses a new score of measuring gender inequality called the BIGI or Basic Index of Gender Inequality which is based on three factors: educational opportunities, healthy life expectancy and overall life satisfaction.
    A measure called the Global Gender Gap Index has been used as the yardstick for analysing inequality since its inception in 2006.

    It became one of the most widely-used measures of national gender inequality, used by academics and policy makers across the world

    Researchers have recently grown wary of the index and claim it does not measure issues where men are at a disadvantage.

    Professor Stoet also believes the complexity of the Global Gender Gap Index makes it difficult to distinguish whether gender differences are the result of social inequalities or personal preference.

    The simpler BIGI method, he says, is a much sounder alternative.

    He said: 'No existing measure of gender inequality fully captures the hardships that are disproportionately experienced by men in many countries and so they do not fully capture the extent to which any specific country is promoting the wellbeing of all its citizens.

    'The BIGI provides a much simpler way of tackling gender inequality and it focuses on aspects of life that are directly relevant to all people.

    'Used alongside other existing indicators, it provides additional and different information to give a more complete assessment of gender equality, making it easier for policy-makers to introduce changes to improve the quality of life for both men and women.'

    I find it strange that according to the Basic Index Saudi Arabia is the number one best country for women. To me that suggests it needs some tweaking, but it’s good to see some attempts to find better ways to measure gender inequality. Still, watch it being attacked by feminists as it doesn’t suit their agenda.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6564767/Men-face-discrimination-women.html


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,887 ✭✭✭iptba


    A new study released by the University of Essex and the University of Missouri Columbia shows that men are the more discriminated group in 91 countries compared to 43 for women.

    It uses a new score of measuring gender inequality called the BIGI or Basic Index of Gender Inequality which is based on three factors: educational opportunities, healthy life expectancy and overall life satisfaction.



    I find it strange that according to the Basic Index Saudi Arabia is the number one best country for women. To me that suggests it needs some tweaking, but it’s good to see some attempts to find better ways to measure gender inequality. Still, watch it being attacked by feminists as it doesn’t suit their agenda.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6564767/Men-face-discrimination-women.html
    Ireland came in 34th in terms of those with the least discrimination, with males being disadvantaged here according to this measure.
    ---
    No mention of this in any Irish media outlets from what I can see from a quick look at Google News.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,887 ✭✭✭iptba


    I've been reading a bit more about trans-exclusionary radical feminism (TERF; also Trans women exclusionary feminism or TWEF) following the coverage on Prime Time, a female friend of mine sometimes posting some material agreeing with it on Facebook, etc.

    To me it seems to have been quite heavily based by misandrous views.


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,237 ✭✭✭mcmoustache


    iptba wrote: »
    I've been reading a bit more about trans-exclusionary radical feminism (TERF; also Trans women exclusionary feminism or TWEF) following the coverage on Prime Time, a female friend of mine sometimes posting some material agreeing with it on Facebook, etc.

    To me it seems to have been quite heavily based by misandrous views.

    Best not to get involved. It's a clusterfúck of online nastiness.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,887 ✭✭✭iptba


    'As Speaker Nancy Pelosi - doesn't that sound great - has proved yet again, it often takes a woman to get the job done'
    Her sexist bias comes through again.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,887 ✭✭✭iptba


    The heavy toll of women’s unpaid emotional labour
    Saturday, February 23, 2019 - 12:00 AM
    By Joyce Fegan
    https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/views/the-heavy-toll-of-womens-unpaid-emotional-labour-906554.html
    I imagine newspapers would be reluctant to post such an article if the genders were reversed.
    This is where, if you’re in a heterosexual relationship, both the man and woman get home from work, and the woman takes out the schoolbooks and goes through the homework, while keeping an eye on the boiling spuds. This is where the woman keeps a mental diary of the birthdays of both in-laws and blood relatives. This is where the woman starts the financial gymnastics in August to cover the presents and food and outfits at Christmas, and the school tours at Easter.

    For men, who are at this stage protesting too much, worry not, it’s not all women, just the vast majority of them.
    When it comes to issues of social justice, women also volunteer, protest, and donate more.
    But, for the most part, those doing the unpaid, and oftentimes unwelcome, work of social change were women.

    And having to include a caveat to appease men so as to try and reduce the likelihood of getting lynch-mobbed is another emotionally tiresome activity women undertake.

    “How can I not come across as a crazed feminist when talking to this guy I like about things such as ‘Me Too’? How do I be truthful about what I feel and not offend him?” came a sincere question, which silenced the room.

    Paraphrasing, Ms Alderton spoke about how women often place the male ego ahead of their experienced injustices.

    As the conversation of the #MeToo movement continues to reverberate around the world, many women, victims and not, come up against the “witch hunt” or “this has gone too far” defence. We must temper our long-stifled rage in order not to offend men. Cue further emotional exhaustion. “Don’t come across too angry, they won’t listen,” is the well-meaning advice. Especially to women of colour.

    Actor Idris Elba was asked how hard it is to be a man in showbusiness in the #MeToo age. A woman has yet to be asked this same question. He answered succinctly.

    “It’s only difficult if you’re a man with something to hide,” said Mr Elba.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,535 ✭✭✭Silentcorner


    I know it is not easy, but we must learn to stop reading content like that, it is damaging everyone...it is targeted not just at women, but at annoyed men also...only emotive content has any chance of financial viability, which in my opinion is a flawed belief...they are selling empowerment to women and simultaneously making them miserable in an effort to secure a future for the media organisation...it is shameful!

    If they think women have it bad now, wait until more and more women work longer hours in more pressurised environments...I know businessmen, who had to work without wages for periods of time, who carried that weight alone for as long as they possibly could...

    Life is a struggle for both genders, I heard a great quote somewhere recently, when one gender wins, both genders lose!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,887 ✭✭✭iptba


    I know it is not easy, but we must learn to stop reading content like that, it is damaging everyone...it is targeted not just at women, but at annoyed men also...only emotive content has any chance of financial viability, which in my opinion is a flawed belief...they are selling empowerment to women and simultaneously making them miserable in an effort to secure a future for the media organisation...it is shameful!

    If they think women have it bad now, wait until more and more women work longer hours in more pressurised environments...I know businessmen, who had to work without wages for periods of time, who carried that weight alone for as long as they possibly could...

    Life is a struggle for both genders, I heard a great quote somewhere recently, when one gender wins, both genders lose!
    What they do on Men's Rights on Reddit is to use archive.is for articles they disagree with, so the media outlet doesn't benefit from the hits.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,887 ✭✭✭iptba


    Irish Times today:
    Pilita Clark: ‘Women must insist on right to be as useless as men’
    http://archive.is/ZfF19

    I think the Irish Times would be reluctant to use such a heading if the genders were reversed.


    ‘Twice as good’

    Not that long ago, she wrote a thoughtful blog on the dearth of female chairs at large companies that included this eye-catching advice to women: “At interview, we need to be twice as good as the men, to overcome the gaps in our CVs and the perceived risk in being different. I don’t think we quite realise that.”
    I wonder is this really true. Indeed, there may be some positive discrimination in favour of women.
    That question is the title of a new book by a professor of business psychology named Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic who thinks inept men benefit from our tendency to confuse confidence with leadership ability.

    He says overbearing narcissists, who are statistically more likely to be men, find it easier to vault into top jobs at the expense of more able, considerate and humble people, who are often female, and we should rethink the way we judge sound leadership.

    He has a point. I can think of plenty of quiet, modest people, male and female, who are beaten to top jobs by arrogant unfit loudmouths. Yet the belief that women are intrinsically nicer or better than men is fraught. It is just a slippery step away from the biological determinism that has long held women back in the first place. It is also uncomfortably close to that annoying urge to lionise the best and brightest on International Women’s Day.
    I think many people would be reluctant to publicly say something similar with the genders reversed and similarly papers will be reluctant to publish it.
    Yet there is a serious case to be made against the wearying expectation for women to be always more able, more ethical, more generous and more inspiring. We must demand the right to be as incompetent, lazy and useless as any man. That is where true equality lies.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,535 ✭✭✭Silentcorner


    iptba wrote: »
    What they do on Men's Rights on Reddit is to use archive.is for articles they disagree with, so the media outlet doesn't benefit from the hits.

    I guess what I meant was the content that receives the most clicks and shares on news websites and social media (news outlets have descended into tabloid type journalism in a desperate attempt to remain viable) is content that is emotive, and the more negative the content is, the more it gets shared.

    News websites get a huge amount of their clicks through social media.

    Women are more likely to click and share on negative content like this, women are the desired audience on account of the power of their wallets...or purses...

    What we are witnessing is not a collective female awakening of their oppression by men, we are witnessing the fall of media and its influence on the broader population....in short, media is in the toilet and is dragging public discourse with it!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,887 ✭✭✭iptba


    I guess what I meant was the content that receives the most clicks and shares on news websites and social media (news outlets have descended into tabloid type journalism in a desperate attempt to remain viable) is content that is emotive, and the more negative the content is, the more it gets shared.

    News websites get a huge amount of their clicks through social media.

    Women are more likely to click and share on negative content like this, women are the desired audience on account of the power of their wallets...or purses...

    What we are witnessing is not a collective female awakening of their oppression by men, we are witnessing the fall of media and its influence on the broader population....in short, media is in the toilet and is dragging public discourse with it!
    That's one way of looking at it. But it's not as if academia/educational institutions, public bodies, the commercial sector, etc. are immune from looking at gender issues through a feminist prism.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,887 ✭✭✭iptba


    Not for the first time, I've seen journalists describe themselves as a feminist in their bio:

    https://twitter.com/alisonoconn
    Alison O'Connor
    @alisonoconn

    Journalist, broadcaster, and commentator. Feminist. Opinions obligatory.
    Normally it would seem to be expected that journalists would at least appear to be unbiased, but it seems with feminism that isn't always required


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,887 ✭✭✭iptba


    An ad on Twitter today.
    Not the most objectionable thing feminists say but it would be interesting to see whether it is taxpayers' money that pays for it: I know they get a lot of their money from grants

    https://twitter.com/nwci/status/1103010747196604417

    I'm just looking at their Twitter page https://twitter.com/NWCI and one of the signs in the profile claims "women are 27 times more likely to be harassed online" which I have great difficulty in believing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,887 ✭✭✭iptba


    I see that the Central Statistics Office has tweeted at least 8 tweets about women for International Women's Day.
    I see that a motto for International Women's Day is gender balance.
    Balance would be if agencies and companies did the same sort of thing for International Men's Day, but that isn't likely to happen in many if not most cases.

    https://twitter.com/CSOIreland/status/1103690867456557057
    https://twitter.com/CSOIreland/status/1103692328567476225
    https://twitter.com/CSOIreland/status/1103692728951599105
    https://twitter.com/CSOIreland/status/1103693575097864197
    https://twitter.com/CSOIreland/status/1103969934193893376
    https://twitter.com/CSOIreland/status/1103969936219820033
    https://twitter.com/CSOIreland/status/1103969938245599232
    https://twitter.com/CSOIreland/status/1103969940175024130


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,043 ✭✭✭KrustyUCC


    My cousin posted a story on FB about Aer Lingus giving priority boarding to women this morning

    It will be interesting to see if they do the same for men on International Mens Day


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,887 ✭✭✭iptba


    Patricia Casey: 'Women's Day is more about virtue-signalling and socialist activism than tackling real issues'
    https://www.independent.ie/opinion/comment/patricia-casey-womens-day-is-more-about-virtuesignalling-and-socialist-activism-than-tackling-real-issues-37891273.html


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 964 ✭✭✭Reviews and Books Galore


    I like how they mentioned the lower number of men. Gotta be above to be equal :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,887 ✭✭✭iptba


    Jane Merrick: 'Incompetence brought down May, not the fact she is a woman'
    https://www.independent.ie/opinion/comment/jane-merrick-incompetence-brought-down-may-not-the-fact-she-is-a-woman-37965894.html
    This week, a minister suggested that the way May has been hounded over her own exit was misogynistic, and that a male prime minister would not be bundled out of office by his MPs. I don't think that's true. Yes, Margaret Thatcher was forced to quit after pressure from her ministers, but she had refused to listen and be flexible - much like her woman PM successor.

    Male premiers have also been pursued by their own side: Tony Blair by Gordon Brown; Gordon Brown by Blairite ministers; David Cameron, effectively, by the Eurosceptic wing of his party.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,887 ✭✭✭iptba


    Patricia Casey: 'Trying to homogenise the sexes is doomed to fail - men and women are simply different'
    https://www.independent.ie/opinion/comment/patricia-casey-trying-to-homogenise-the-sexes-is-doomed-to-fail-men-and-women-are-simply-different-37991666.html


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,887 ✭✭✭iptba


    Forty five per cent of men felt “the #metoo movement had gone too far,” along with 38 per cent of women.

    https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/two-thirds-of-people-say-ireland-is-too-politically-correct-1.3871647


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,887 ✭✭✭iptba


    Catherine O'Mahony: 'If you pine for a time when the words 'gender equality' are no longer needed, you are in for a very long wait'

    https://www.independent.ie/opinion/comment/catherine-omahony-if-you-pine-for-a-time-when-the-words-gender-equality-are-no-longer-needed-you-are-in-for-a-very-long-wait-38190264.html
    Even the highest-scoring countries - and Ireland is among those - have plenty more to do, particularly on complex issues such as climate change, gender budgeting and public services, equal representation in powerful positions, gender pay gaps, and gender-based violence.

    [..]

    Our pay packets also still tell a dispiriting story as men still earn 14pc more than women here, according to the latest report from Eurostat.
    An average gender pay gap doesn't necessarily mean discrimination. We don't live in a Communist society: some jobs have better pay attached to them (though pay is only one measure of a job, e.g. some jobs are more dangerous and they tend to be mainly done by males).

    I have recall seeing gender budgeting being mentioned in an Irish context in relation to females or by feminists; it never seemed to be about ensuring there wasn't any problems for men
    Melinda Gates, as it happens, is pretty good at identifying where the crux of the problem lies. In her own house, she has explained, she noticed that her children and her spouse (that would be Bill) had in theory agreed to clean up after dinner, but in practice left it to her most nights.
    I think it's worth noting that Melinda is worth billions of dollars due to the work of her husband.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,887 ✭✭✭iptba


    Not that important but it occurred to me that I don’t recall seeing that generally in heterosexual couples, the man drives when they are together. It’s generally more relaxing to be driven around than doing the driving. This is in relation to complaints about the division of domestic labour. Also in couples where travel costs are paid for individually e.g. couples not living together, it’s an expense just on the male.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,666 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    cue incoming articles "again" about pay not being equal in football

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,964 ✭✭✭Blueshoe


    silverharp wrote: »
    cue incoming articles "again" about pay not being equal in football

    Men's world cup final has one of the highest viewing figures of any event

    Women's world cup final? More people watch Sunday mass on tv.
    Pure garbage


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,287 ✭✭✭givyjoe


    Blueshoe wrote: »
    Men's world cup final has one of the highest viewing figures of any event

    Women's world cup final? More people watch Sunday mass on tv.
    Pure garbage

    Hope solo was banging on about it, women paid less due to 'male chauvinism'. Delusional.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,907 ✭✭✭LostinBlanch


    I'd be careful saying that in front of Hope Solo. She might batter you like she did her teenage nephew and sister.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,887 ✭✭✭iptba


    Head of ITV comedy drops all-male writing teams

    https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jun/18/head-of-itv-comedy-drops-all-male-writing-teams
    ITV’s head of comedy has said she will no longer commission any show with an all-male writing team, or one that has just a “token woman”.

    Saskia Schuster took action after an audit of her shows revealed “an awful lot” of all-male teams and a “significant lack” of women in scripted commissions. She said for every five scripts sent to her by a man, she would receive just one by a woman.
    ---
    This looks like it could lead to "positive discrimination" if it's an industry where there are a lot more male than female workers.

    I doubt they will ever get to the stage that every minority/grouping would be part of a writing group; yet again, the focus is on gender.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,907 ✭✭✭LostinBlanch


    ITV has comedy?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,887 ✭✭✭iptba


    Lorraine Courtney: 'Career women will keep paying motherhood penalty until men do their fair share at home'

    https://www.independent.ie/opinion/comment/lorraine-courtney-career-women-will-keep-paying-motherhood-penalty-until-men-do-their-fair-share-at-home-38245955.html

    Lots of digs at men in this.

    I have slightly controversial views on this: women seem more focused on the state of their homes than men on average (this also comes up in how much they want to redecorate and spend on their homes*). So for example, a house might be cleaned because somebody is coming into the house. If the house was clean enough before they were coming in, it seems that some of this has been done for appearances. Why should a man have to do 50% of such work. And in general if a man would like to do X amount of hours of housework per week, and a woman would like to do X+Y hours, why should the correct amount of hours be X+Y?

    *A lot of the money for this can come from men


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,887 ✭✭✭iptba


    Mary Mitchell- O’Connor tries to justify the women-only positions she created in the Irish third level sector.

    People on a mission to save a particular group can sometimes cause problems e.g. for other groups
    On that very day, I made a promise to myself - and to the female academics all over the country - to do everything possible to accelerate the progression of women within our hallowed halls of learning. While I was in charge of higher education, things were going to change.

    https://www.independent.ie/opinion/comment/mary-mitchell-oconnor-backlash-about-femaleonly-posts-is-rubbish-we-need-to-right-the-balance-38258187.html

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,763 ✭✭✭...Ghost...


    iptba wrote: »

    Need to have an account to read the story. Maybe quote the text as well as having a link.

    The only thing I think about when I see her name is.....

    Stay Free



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