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Rights in the UK

Postby Oddquine » Thu Apr 29, 2010 4:27 am

Been posting mostly on American political forums lately (and they are horrific!)

But got into a Womens' rights thread (which I kinda inadvertently started)..and that got me thinking that the only disadvantaged group in the UK today are white British males who are not gay/transgendered/transvestite, old, disabled, women or a parent.

Strikes me that that is discrimination as much as any which has now been addressed.

You think it is fair that, just because, at one time, men had the upper hand in our society, they are now in the position of being less than the "special" groups our PC ethos has elevated to "special" status?
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Postby Rowan » Thu Apr 29, 2010 6:31 am

No not fair at all but then as we were told - life isn't fair.
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Postby toolip2 » Mon May 03, 2010 9:49 pm

Men used to call the tune but women woke up one fine day and completely turned the tables in many ways, got out of their prams, so to speak and rendered the male sex "impotent" figureatively speaking.

It seems that fathers are not important, families are mocked and scorned and considered passe. and who by? I will kep schtumm on that issue. :rolleye11:
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Postby Victors Mate » Mon May 03, 2010 10:11 pm

toolip2 wrote:It seems that fathers are not important, :


Until a mouse turns up in the kitchen or a spider in the bath. :twisted:
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Postby Rowan » Mon May 03, 2010 10:13 pm

They're not really Toolip - only the worst of fathers. Most men can be close to their children in a way that just wasn't done forty years ago - I welcome it.

Anyway, I'm not feart at mice or spiders!! :cheeky4:
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Postby toolip2 » Tue May 04, 2010 10:41 pm

it's only those soppy lot who scream "diversity" that conjure up these ridiculous notions. I too welcome the new father. Our sons ages 40 are fantastic dad's as was their own dad, my husband. Role modelling, IMO
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Postby Oddquine » Wed May 05, 2010 10:17 pm

Rowan wrote:They're not really Toolip - only the worst of fathers. Most men can be close to their children in a way that just wasn't done forty years ago - I welcome it.

Anyway, I'm not feart at mice or spiders!! :cheeky4:


Where I have problems is with those "feminists" who think, if it is male, it is a waste of space....as in our feminists in charge in the Nulabour Government...even arch man-hater Germaine Greer has moved past that attitude.

We have equality under the law now...............so we should not be having feminist-invented "problems" and arguing for laws to address them in our favour any more.....when there is nothing I can see which cannot be addressed using the laws we already have.

I want to be equal...not superior....and I'd rather see an attitude educated into the UK which removes the need for positive discrimination of any kind...than laws which give parts of our society more rights than other parts.
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Postby Rowan » Wed May 05, 2010 10:23 pm

Absolutely - anyway superiority we have always had and its a daft male who doesn't realise it!!
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Postby Victors Mate » Wed May 05, 2010 10:40 pm

Of course you are superior Eve. Now be a good little girl and fetch Davey a beer from the fridge. :hide:
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Postby Steve » Wed May 05, 2010 10:55 pm

She has trained the dog to do that one VM. :banana:
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Postby Monika » Wed May 05, 2010 11:28 pm

A lot of people (especially women) don't recognise the fact that, yes, the genders are equal, but different.

I've always liked being a woman; Vive La Difference!
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Postby Rowan » Thu May 06, 2010 6:30 am

Me too -I wouldn't want to be a man.
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Postby Anya » Thu May 06, 2010 7:13 am

For someone supposed to hate men, German Gear went through a fair few of them, in her time. By her own account :banana: :banana:
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Postby Rowan » Thu May 06, 2010 10:52 am

She did though - dirty besom!!
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Postby dita » Thu May 06, 2010 11:24 am

:roflmao: :roflmao:
I would'nt like to be a man either I'd have me bossing me about.

Being equal is nothing like superior, think lots of woman take advantage of this :tantrum2:
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