Open Question: Are outdated feminist views harming Harriet's reputation?

**RSSreader** · 8th-August-2009

Open Question: Are outdated feminist views harming Harriet's reputation?

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http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk...l/article.html AFTER a week with Harriet Harman in charge at Downing Street, I shudder to think what would happen if this arch-feminist was the real Prime Minister. In a few days she has turned her guns on men in a way which not only reflects her obsession with sexual politics but suggests she is aiming to indoctrinate young children with her anti-male prejudices. What else can you say when Ms Harman, pictured, comes up with the crackpot idea that lessons on the evils of wife-beating should be given to pupils at primary school? Her central plank seems to be that men abuse women almost institutionally. We are a nation of wife-beaters and potential rapists. There could be one living next door to you. On a different tack, the deputy Labour leader says "men can't be left to run things on their own" and believes the banking crisis could have been avoided if Lehman Brothers had been Lehman Sisters instead. Besides being laughable piffle, this is overtly sexist. But if you're Harriet Harman, you can get away with it. I have never come face to face with Harriet, but I did once interview her husband Jack Dromey when he was a union leader. He struck me as someone with a mind of his own, certainly not the type to stay at home and look after the kids. I'd like to know how far he supports his wife's low opinion of men. I wish I could believe that Harriet is playing a shrewd game with these headline-grabbing pronouncements. But I'm afraid she's still fighting the battle of the sexes, as if little had happened to further the cause of women since the rise of feminism in the 1970s. Someone should tell her that the battle is over. We elected a female Prime Minister 30 years ago. Here in Stoke-on-Trent, we've had a woman chief executive of the city council and a woman head of police. There hasn't been a female Chief Constable of Staffordshire yet, but it'll probably come. Where I cross swords with Harriet is over her belief that women have the right to be appointed merely because they are women rather than on their ability to do the job. As someone with a graduate wife and graduate daughter I have no quarrel whatever with equality of the sexes. But I object when equal rights for women mean inequality for men. Indeed, the idea that women can circumvent the rules on equal opportunity became clear in the Labour Party's attempt to introduce all-women shortlists for elections. In other words, I believe that feminists like Harriet Harman regard the notion of equality as something which should be biased in women's favour. This seems to be Ms Harman's policy in the legal minefield relating to rape. She is proposing tougher laws. I understand she is looking for changes which include moves to discount whether or not a woman has given her consent. To my mind, this is a crucial factor. Charges of rape fail in large numbers because juries are unwilling to convict when there is an element of doubt about consent. The deputy Labour leader's objectives seem to be more about increasing convictions for rape than preserving the basic principles of justice. So although it's been a bad week for the male of the species, it's been a worse one for Harriet Harman. Her onslaught on men has done neither the Labour Party nor herself any favours

**shaazam** · 8th-August-2009

her reputation !!! hahahhahahahhhahahhaahah

**Yan Yan** · 8th-August-2009

20 years ago we wouldn't have seen anything like that article in a regular newspaper.

Things are looking up.

The more feminists show their true colours the more they dig their own graves.

**RebelliousVanilla** · 8th-August-2009

Don't you have hate speech laws in the UK? Someone needs to sue her for that.

**outdoors** · 8th-August-2009

Quote from RebelliousVanilla

Don't you have hate speech laws in the UK? Someone needs to sue her for that.

its only hate,if u say the same thing about women.

I have tried using the "system" to shut down the hate machine in Canada

not a chance in hell

**RebelliousVanilla** · 8th-August-2009

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its only hate,if u say the same thing about women.

I have tried using the "system" to shut down the hate machine in Canada

not a chance in hell

I know. Same shit about the minorities shit. If they say hateful things towards the majority, it's fine.

**Ledburian** · 8th-August-2009

HARRIET HARPERSON HARM-A-MAN HARMAN

This nutjob was interviewed on "Woman's Hour" this week and, seriously, she is getting more bizarre by the day - I really can't believe that anybody, man or woman, could get to the position she has - Deputy Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the House of Commons!

Of course, she is there simply because of the procedure she has advocated all the time and still bleats about...positive discrimination in favour of women.

All those women who achieved Ministerial Heads of Government Department since this crap$hite Labour (Mis)Government came to power in Britain on 01 May 1997 (a Day that will live in Infamy, as some American guy once said decades ago) - all of those women - were either kickarsed out or were obliged to resign simply because they could not hack it...were not up to the demands of the job and/or turned out to be inadequate and/or incompetent...as much use as a ladder is to a carpet layer or a chocolate teapot.

The Prime Minister went on holiday, so Harman stood in for him while he was away, and immediately took advantage of her position by totally ignoring all the real issues facing the country and instead went on to rant how useless men are, how men can't be trusted in any position of power, how there must always be a woman present alongside a man to keep him in check, that Lehman Sisters would not have destroyed the financial sector in the way the Lehman Brothers did!

Instead of discussing the recession, the economic situation, the plight of the unemployed, the immigration problems and crime generally....anything of real concern for the life of the United Kingdom....all this single track bovine could bleat on about and preach to the House of Commons about were the problems of women who have been raped, how rapists get away scot free, how women must be given priority in just about everything in life and that the most important issue in the country today is that come the next General Election in the UK, which MUST be held before 03 June 2010, is that ALL shortlists for constituency candidates in ALL winnable seats for Labour MUST be women only....NO men permitted to be nominated!

This bloody woman is totally insane!

PS: Now Harman herself has buggered off on holiday even though the Prime Minister is still away himself on holiday. She simply decided to take off, like a rat leaving a sinking ship, leaving nobody in charge of the Government! It's as if she said "Sod you all, I'm off on my hols so poops to you all...it's my right as a woman to have time off so you can all look after yourselves, guys!"

How very typical! I've seen the like all before from other women laughingly "in charge". They want to go, so they go so sod all the rest of you!