Unfortunately WordPress doesn’t give me the option to publish that heading in green ink, and unfortunately for Garvnor from Redbridge, the Daily Mail website doesn’t give its readers that option either.
All things considered though, it’s probably for the best.
Anyway, here’s the comment in full, under this article on today’s fantastic news that the Coalition has now dropped plans to grant anonymity to defendants in rape cases:
“Oh well there is a suprise!! What a joke I thought in this country you were innocent until being proved guilty! Rules for one not for the other! Women can have woman only gym’s, clubs, driving schools, insurance,trains, taxi’s and on and on!! Yet men if they want a private Mens club or any other men only establishment were all classed as sexist!! THIS COUNTRY IS AT IT’S END were finished!!!!!”
Meanwhile Timon from London has this to say:
“So, once again, the Tories have caved in.
This is no surprise. I’m just glad I wasn’t stupid enough to be fooled by this treacherous party.
So all the lying women can continue their war on men. The facts show that over 90% of rape accusations are lies, made up by these evil women to ‘get back’ at a man who has dumped her, or to try to deny responsibility for drunken sex later regretted, or simply to earn money from the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme.”
Yep, apparently “the facts” show that over 90% of women are evil lying scheming bitchez. And when we’re done stitching up innocent men with our false accusations of rape, off we pootle in our women-only trains to our women-only clubs and gyms, courtesy of course of all that dosh we’ve managed to rip off from the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme.
It’s no wonder THIS COUNTRY IS AT IT’S END.
Were finished!!!!
Too Much To Say For Myself 
“Another spineless decision, what with all the false rape accusations just like the DM story today. They shouldn’t be named until proven guilty ,surely!”
‘Honest Bob’ of Houghton-le-Spring has a vague idea that commas are necessary, so he will press the curly key every so often and hope for the best. The end of that first sentence is too depressing for words.
Oh dear, I’ll be staying away from Redbridge, come the apocalypse. Where are the women only trains? I only ask because on my way to That London yesterday, a dude on the way came and sat in the seat next to me and then proceeded to take up half my seat with his coat and his elbows and his newspaper, to the extent that I was forced to move. On the way back, the train was absolutely rammed out, people were standing in the aisles (fortunately I had a reservation) and the dude next to me kept randomly standing up, so I kept standing up, thinking he wanted to go to the loo, or the shop or something, and then he’d sit down. And then he nicked the paper I’d just put down and read it, without even asking! Bring on the sex segregated trains!
I am also REALLY in favour of men only gyms, since all the men who currently hog the weights room at my gym (so it is in effect a men only weights room) could go there. And I could build muscles too.
I agree about the country being at it’s end though, we should probably sell it to China. Who we’re very nice to, despite their mass female infanticide, inter alia. Meanwhile we fight a war in Afghanistan because we’re very concerned about the women there, apparently.
its, not it’s.
‘Its’ possessive never has an apostrophe, because otherwise you’re writing ‘it is’ apparently.
I’m done with apostrophes now. I’m planning on ending every comment from now on with
“Were finished!!!! “
I don’t know why, but it makes me chuckle every time. 🙂
You do have to hope Garvnor never runs into Lynne Truss…..
Spot the deliberate mistake made by Timon of London. Timon of course meant to write ‘the facts show that over 90% of rape accusations made against men by women are true!! But only a tiny minority of accused men are charged, prosecuted and subsequently convicted. That’s why we live in a male supremacist/patriarchal society.’ So says Timon of London.
I’m going to spend ages trying to work out why he settled on “over 90%”. It must have something to do with the low conviction rate and a really interesting bullshit statistic he can’t remember properly, but it’s a very weird number to go with. I’d have just gone with “most” or “all” in his shoes.
I gather that Timon of London went with the 90% figure because that is roughly the number of reported rapes that don’t get to trial (I think the actual percentage is around 80%), but I do feel compelled to end the sentence in multiple exclamation marks for no reason at all !!!
As for the women-only places vs sexism schtick, there is a damn good reason to have women-only places like gyms, trains*, driving schools and taxis – these are ALL potential places for unwanted sexual approaches / rape / murder, the stuff we women live with every fucking day of our lives.
The “women only insurance” is a misnomer really, because the dude is talking about companies like Sheila’s Wheels, who actually will insure men as well. The main reason to promote a female-biased car insurance is that males constantly prang into things, and women are statistically better drivers from an insurance point of view. Suck on that dudes.
Above I outlined the actual NEED for women-only safe spaces, which is to do with SAFETY not sexism. Would the testerical dudes mind answering why the Freemasons are still men-only?
*Women-only trains are in Japan, not the UK. It was brought in due to the horrendous levels of sexual harassment women experienced.
My gawd, you would think these testerical dudes could get their facts straight, wouldn’t you? In a word, hyperbole.
Hahahaha!! Love it.
IT’S POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GAWWWN MAAAD!
laughter is the best medicine right? because timon makes me want to cry.
fuckwit!
FAB Libber, nice use of the word ‘testerical’ there, I hadn’t heard it before but will definitely be adding it to my vocabulary to use in feminist rants in future!
When I was in Japan I didn’t really understand the women-only trains thing, I went in women-only carriages a few times (by accident, not ‘cos I’m scared of men) and there were often men in there. They don’t exactly check your gender at the door. Maybe they’re stricter during rush hour times? Still, I’m kind of uneasy with quoting that fact because I suspect that lots of people using it are relying on horrible racist stereotypes about Japanese men being sex-starved pervs. Not that I’m suggesting that’s happening here. I think I might be derailing now. Let’s go back to talking about the Daily Mail!
What I find strange about the Daily Mail is how some of the articles attract quite sensible comments. Clearly the ones quoted above are mad, but the most recommended ones in today’s article about housework are fairly on-the-ball: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1329246/How-70-women-say-LIKE-doing-housework.html. The ones on the ‘celeb’ gossip stories are usually quite smart too. I’d love to see an algorithm for how likely it is that a DM article will attract sane commenters!
Nice term, but I didn’t invent it, not sure where it originated.
The day-to-day sexism and sexual assault is very much invisible in most societies, it is not that Japanese men are any better or worse than any other variety. Being groped on the train, leered at, propositioned, are every day experiences if you are female. At the lesser end of train etiquette are males that insist on either taking up at least 1.5 seats, or spreading their legs so far apart you could drive a lorry between their legs. I am unsure if this is some sort of mating ritual in which we are to be impressed by the manliness of the leg-spreader, as it just invokes extreme hostility in myself.