Comments on: Hairy, dungaree-wearing, lentil-eating, man-hating Guardian wimmin…

By: amphibious

amphibious — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 02:09:22 +0000

Which brings to mind the old skoolboy joke when the Kingsgrove Slasher was terrifying (male) Sydney in the 1950s - would soon start targetting women coz a box was needed…

By: Helen

Helen — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 07:04:34 +0000

but we haven’t heard of the epidemic of “disappearing penises�? for a while now.

If you find them, could you have a look to see if our missing socks are there?

By: amphibious

amphibious — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 12:44:53 +0000

Graeme - as you said. Don’t unnerstan but follow their ‘intutition’. Better than the cajone/loss terror of tuthers.
Just a heads up but we haven’t heard of the epidemic of “disappearing penises” for a while now.
It’s a patholgy which sweeps the muslim (duhhh!)world about every 7-11 years. And, cop this, it affects women too!
No, don’t ask. WTF!
But I guarantee it’ll pop up soon unless the GWoT has given them something else to think about.
It used to traverse the world, usually starting in India (among Hindoos - go figure) but always take up by muslims, spreading to ME the Africa before expiring in inherent idiocy.
Oddly, given mass communications, it’s actually well over due. Mal sehen.

By: su

su — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 10:05:52 +0000

A baby with Down’s syndrome, please Skepticlawyer.

By: Graeme

Graeme — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 09:49:38 +0000

I love The Guardian - the one bright spot on grey tubed mornings in London. And strength to them for committing to a feminist page for 50 years, in the face of some pretty hearty ribbing from the likes of Private Eye.

All papers have pages and sections pitched to women, but few are serious news or analysis. Most are arts-oriented, or health-conscious, or just celebrity-ful. I used to scoff, or pretend it was the inverse of the sportspages. But I know (and care for) too many women like my wife, who read them to the exclusion of the rest of the paper. Offer them a newspaper and they go straight for the ‘Life and Leisure’ section or the glossy mags. My wife: she’s a PhD, politically minded and critical.

I’ve stopped wondering at this phenomenon. I take it now as a form of wisdom: politics and sociological analysis are interesting, but overrated in any quotidian or experiential sense.

By: skepticlawyer

skepticlawyer — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 09:26:22 +0000

There’s some great writing in there, especially the account of the famed British ’stiff upper lip’ and the woman with a Downs baby.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 08:55:04 +0000

A woman wants to be in control of sex? But…but…we men…with our glorious appendages…surely…nature intended…wanted…hoped…the castration of men is complete!