Nice find, Feckless, but a little dated. That was quite a few years ago and she died last year (or was it the year before?).

It is always worth quoting though.

Source helps

Yeah i remember this article, it was a long time ago.
the only newspaper i ever buy is the independent (only cos i like the crossword) so it may have been in there.
althoug at that time i would have been printing the sun ... but the article dosn't mention tits aliens or footy so it would'nt have been in there.

It may be an old article, but the above quote has been very fitting over all my years on this Earth, it still stands true to this day.

True.

I know stuff I post is getting older but hopefully it is still interesting.....usually I am fighting through entire german blogs and post interesting things in the English / German section. And I think the source is lost forever....oh googling helps

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Ar...238674,00.html

Should this be in the facts and figures forum section?

That used to be my signature. It's one of my favourite quotes.

NO, the great woman is still alive. She's doing a booksigning at the National Theatre in London on 24th September!

Well, I am glad for her health.

But, chaps, while she is a good quote to throw back at feminists, remember this -

She is an old-school feminist. One of the originals from pre-WW2.

She is like a flag-waving Nazi complaining about the noise from a friggin' Hitler rally.

It was she and her now knackered old sistas who urged on the marauding hordes of female-wreckers who now take every opportunity to savage men, just like Nazi fraus cheered on when the SS dragged Jews from their houses, smashed their windows and stole all their belongings. They dragged the poor sods off to extermination camps.

Just what the fuck did she expect? That men would get a nice friggin' holiday?

(By the way, Stefan, I am very impressed with your continued researches. You do a great service resurrecting stuff and bringing it to us, along with all the new things you bring to our attention.

May I take this opportunity ( and calm myself down from an hour of ranting ) to say that I think you, sir, are one of the best men on this site and it is a privilege to sit in the foxhole with you. )

Thanks a lot. Resurrecting was one of my favorite classes in school (but don´t get me started on the zombie massacre 1998). Comming from you mouth that means a lot. (I should print it out and frame it ).

Which makes her anti-feminist statements all the more forceful.

Lessing, imbued with a newly found conscience - 'possibly' realizing her impending mortality, admits to the negative fallout men and BOYS (alongside society as a whole) are suffering as a result of something she actively and enthusiastically engaged in for decades.

But, despite her recently (temporary?) found conscience, it doesn't seem to extend too actually doing anything about it.

Surely it is the duty of any influential writer who purports to have a conscience (even if it is temporary, retrospective and self concerned), to remind people, whatever their 'supposed' greatness or distinguishment - of their destructive transgressions. No one is above what is right and wrong. Therefore, if offence is necessary in order to facilitate a greater good, then so be it!

Also, I think "silliness" is a rather diluting, excusatory and obfuscating phrase to explain away feminisms insidious and methodical attempt to dehumanize the whole male gender.

It's one thing to deny the existence of a great wrong wrought upon a group of people. But, it is moral cowardice to admit it's existence and then do nothing about it.

Thankfully, history has been blessed with those people who COULD be bothered!

They need more than reminding. They need the stocks. They need an old-school woman like Lessing to apologise strongly for the faults of feminism - her chosen idiocy - and to point fingers at those responsible.

She 'can't be bothered' but nevertheless is accountable.