We need boys to become feminists’

**Zuberi** · 5th-April-2011

Sarah Brown‘We need boys to become feminists’.
by JOSIE HINTON

Sarah Brown visits Camden School for Girls

SARAH Brown returned to her former school on Monday where she urged “boys and girls alike” to embrace feminism.
The wife of former prime minister Gordon Brown told sixth-form pupils at Camden School for Girls that both male and female voices are required to achieve equality.
Mrs Brown was speaking at the Camden Town school about her work for the women’s rights campaigning organization, White Ribbon Alliance, a group of which she is a patron.

Asked by a male student whether she thought it would be tricky to get boys to embrace feminism, she told him: “You’ll just have to get over it, it’s only a word.”

In other words, this whole article is bull shit.
I've never heard of any male students attending a school for girls.

**sparkwhite** · 5th-April-2011

We need boys and girls voices for feminism . . Except when the boys raise tricky issues affecting them.

**silentblood** · 5th-April-2011

We need boys and girls to realize that one sided politics are inherently harmful to everyone.

**6ame** · 5th-April-2011

Another wife of a man who has done well, speaking on behalf of all women, yawn.

She's a nobody, this is not America where wives of leaders are treated as elected officials, this is Britain, she holds no clout, and besides, not many people like GB in Britain, not because of his ability, because he is not a celebrity with white teeth and a showbiz voice, sad but true.

Notice that one of the biggest insults to men, the double-barrelled surname, is held up as a feminist ideal? Typical, fact is, any woman who uses this publicly disrespects and emasculates her husband every time her name is uttered, yes, I said it.

**byslexic_danana** · 5th-April-2011

Zuberi: In the UK, the school-leaving age is 16. At 16, most kids go on to what we call 'college' (not the same as American colleges), until 18, and then the clever (or not-so) go on to university (like your colleges). However, some schools (particularly posh ones) have what we call 'sixth-forms', which allow pupils to stay on until 18. Some boys' and girls' schools allow pupils of the opposite gender to the one they cater primarily for, in the sixth-forms (i.e. ages 16-18). Unsurprisingly, it's mainly boys' schools that admit girls in the sixth-forms, but SURPRISINGLY, in this 'girls must have girl-only things, but boys musn't have boy-only things' world, some girls' schools do accept boys. Unfortunately, I hear showers are still segregated, however....!

Asked by a male student whether she thought it would be tricky to get boys to embrace feminism, she told him: “You’ll just have to get over it, it’s only a word.”

Erm, come again? Stupid trollop, thank God her mangina husband is now out of politics.

**Celtic Druid** · 5th-April-2011

The wife of former prime minister Gordon Brown told sixth-form pupils at Camden School for Girls that both male and female voices are required to achieve equality.

When feminists like Brown talk about equality, it's not an inclusive term, she's just advocating boys becoming emasculated cheerleaders in their own disenfranchisement.

Asked by a male student whether she thought it would be tricky to get boys to embrace feminism, she told him: “You’ll just have to get over it, it’s only a word.”

I'm sure that for all those men subject to the hateful tyranny of feminism, many would vehemently disagree that "it's only a word."

'The' or 'always' are "only words" which have no negative connotations which manifest themselves in reality, unlike nazism, racism and feminism for example.

What's the next proposed absurdity, we need black folk to become Klan members?