Back on topic, What are your views about this FGM business?

Ouch!

A barbaric practice that should be eliminated, regardless of protests by some about it's cultural importance.

Those men who insist on having it done to women should have their chap sliced open to see how they like it.
Woman who insist on having it done to other women need their heads examined.

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Life on earth is the global equivalent of not storing things in the fridge.

On a more positive level:


High flyers: Why aren't there more women airline pilots?

"It's a career I absolutely love. There's nothing else I'd rather do for my job."

Helen McNamara is a senior first officer flying the Boeing 767 for British Airways. She's been flying for 14 years. But despite it being nearly five decades since the first woman became a commercial pilot, she's still very much in a minority.

Globally only about 5% of pilots are women...


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Perhaps less women want to be pilots than men. You can't force them into a career they don't want just for the sake of equality.

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Life on earth is the global equivalent of not storing things in the fridge.

As i've said before; People should be allowed to go into whatever career they want, without discrimination based on gender, colour, etc, provided that they have the necessary aptitude for that career.

Some people are very good at calling out sexism as a default response, often where it didn't exist. If sixteen men and four women apply to a job, without any other considerations there's still an 80% chance the job will go to a man. Some would call that sexism, i call it statistics.

If less woman than men want to be a 'Job A', and more women than men want to be a 'Job B', then it stands to reason that Job A will be mostly men and Job B will be mostly women.

Anyone who wants to argue with the above can go hang.

In the UK, 87% of primary school teachers are women (stats). Why might that be?
Maybe (controversial idea alert) it's because more women than men want to be primary school teachers.

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Life on earth is the global equivalent of not storing things in the fridge.

To answer the pilot question, less are trained in combat aircraft due to regulations preventing women in combat. The rest having to put up with A**h*** idiot sexist boys club BS.

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It is getting better though, and so it should, but unless we wipe India and the Middle east off the map, nothing much will really change in reality for most of the world's women.

Go to Defcon 1, severe handbagging alert

That seems a little harsh, even though i understand what you mean.

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Life on earth is the global equivalent of not storing things in the fridge.

It is getting better though, and so it should, but unless we wipe India and the Middle east off the map, nothing much will really change in reality for most of the world's women.

Right, lets improve the condition of women by killing them all in certain countries. Because that makes total sense and isn't entirely based on racist attitudes towards those everyone living in those places.

We want more real leaders like Boadicea, Elizabeth 1st, Thatcher etc

Agreed. A good female leader will advance the cause far more by not being a 'good female leader', but simply a 'good leader'.

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Life on earth is the global equivalent of not storing things in the fridge.

We want more real leaders like Boadicea, Elizabeth 1st, Thatcher etc

Agreed. A good female leader will advance the cause far more by not being a 'good female leader', but simply a 'good leader'.

Or another good one like Winnie.

Fat chance we have of that :-(

Too young to understand nuances?

There is nothing nuanced about saying that the only way to improve the condition of women in the world, we need to murder over a billion people.

.. and silly self centred tarts like ..."

Chris, I had promised myself I wouldn't respond to any more of you offensive posts, but I still have a job as a moderator here.

So I am warning you as mod, please do not post misogynist comments in a thread that is supposedly about how terrible misogyny is.

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Reality Internet Personality

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-sexual-harassment-metro-20150219-story.html

1 in 5 riders face unwanted sexual behavior on L.A. Metro, survey says
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The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, which polices Metro, received 31 reports of indecent exposure in 2014 and made 12 arrests; 62 reports of inappropriate touching and made 18 arrests; and six reports of inappropriate comments and made two arrests, Gonzales said.

One point of concern, officials said, is the relatively low number of police reports compared to the number of passengers who say they experienced harassment.

"Many people who are having this kind of experience aren't reporting it," Gonzales said. "We want passengers to know this isn't a part of life."

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Princess Awesome: the fight against 'pinkification'

We have to start young to stop girl's worth being defined by ability to be ornaments. No reason you can't look good and do math and science.

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Princess Awesome: the fight against 'pinkification'

We have to start young to stop girl's worth being defined by ability to be ornaments. No reason you can't look good and do math and science.

There aren't 'Good Looking' Female Mathematicians or Scientists?

There are, of course, but girls are encouraged to value their looks more than their brains from a very young age.

for a woman, beautiful > intelligent

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Princess Awesome: the fight against 'pinkification'

We have to start young to stop girl's worth being defined by ability to be ornaments. No reason you can't look good and do math and science.

There aren't 'Good Looking' Female Mathematicians or Scientists?

There are, of course, but girls are encouraged to value their looks more than their brains from a very young age.

for a woman, beautiful > intelligent

Having raised 2 Daughter's, and 4 Grand Daughter's:

How much is Nature, and how much is Nurture?

A significant portion is nurture.

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As part of the story against women, is this where Turkey wakes up a little?


Men in miniskirts campaign for women's rights

How did men in miniskirts become a protest meme on social media?

Turkish men aren't known for wearing skirts. But it's expected they will turn out in large numbers in Istanbul later to protest about violence against women in Turkey.

They're joining others outraged by the murder of 20-year-old...



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Oh dear, wonder how this would be viewed in Sharia Law...

Rape filmed & shared in Pakistan

Oh dear, wonder how this would be viewed in Sharia Law...

Rape filmed & shared in Pakistan

That is where the culture has to change and instead the perpetrators stigmatized and humiliated:

"... (not her real name) had thought that if she kept quiet, it might protect her from the humiliation of being known as a rape victim."


The elders and their culture are the ones that are on trial there...

At least by the power of the internet and mobile phones, such horrors are now getting unhidden for the eventual positive benefit of all.

How quickly can you improve education and culture and upbringing to drag all up to something better for all?



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Martin

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How quickly can you improve education and culture and upbringing to drag all up to something better for all?

Good luck with that one! Dragging the Muslim world into the 21st century from the 13th is going to take much longer than what life you have left.

Football in the news again...

England & Sunderland player arrested on suspicion of under-age sex