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Making sure children don't see their fathers after divorce is funny.
As is "positive discrimination" against boys in our public schools to make up for past sins.
So is pretending men can't be victims of domestic violence.
Very funny.
It must be nice to nag and whine and have men tripping over themselves to throw money, time and resources at your imaginary problems.
No, we shouldn't let women be responsible for themselves. After all, they are like mentally challenged children, and need special protections from the State.
Funny how misogynists' and feminists' viewpoints coincide so often, isn't it?
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,22726261-5001021,00.html
TOUGH new rape laws which make it clear being drunk does not constitute consent have been condemned by barristers, who insist: "It will turn our sons into criminals."
The NSW Bar Associations reckons the "No means no" law goes too far and will lobby Upper House members to vote against it when it is up for debate next week.
The law will define the meaning of consent for the first time, making it clear that being drunk or under the influence of drugs does not mean consent has been given.
It will also introduce an "objective fault test", meaning a man can no longer use the defence that he thought he had consent if the circumstances appear unreasonable.
"It will turn our sons into criminals," new Bar Association president Anna Katzmann SC said yesterday.
"For years women have been insisting 'No' means 'No'. What troubles us about this new legislation is that it introduces a new regime where 'Yes' may mean 'No'."
Ms Katzmann gave the example of a woman on a first date who might not want to have sex but after both she and the man had drunk too much said "Yes".
The next day she feels guilty and tells her mother, who goes to the police.
"That would be rape under the new laws," Ms Katzmann said. "The fact that he was drunk cannot be taken into account. The fact that she was drunk is no excuse for him.
Chair of the Bar Association's criminal law committee Stephen Odgers SC said the law made sexual assault a crime of negligence.
"The stupid, the negligent, the intoxicated, the crazy will be treated as if they are the same as the true rapist, who knows there is no consent to sexual intercourse," Mr Odgers said.
Opposition attorney general, former Crown prosecutor Greg Smith, said the Attorney-General John Hatzistergos needed to spell out the law better.
Mr Hatzistergos said the introduction of an objective fault test was canvassed during the State Government's exhaustive consultation process and had wide support, including police and the Rape Crisis Centre.
"Although Mr Odgers might like to draw a distinction between the stupid or drunk rapist and normal rapists, for rape victims they're categories that don't matter," he said.
"If a person is drunk it does not automatically mean that consent can't be given. What it means is that the onus is on the other person, usually a man, to show he had reasonable grounds to believe the woman had consented.
"It's difficult to take the Bar Association seriously on this matter when, in their own submission, they concluded that just because a woman was asleep or unconscious (it) doesn't negate consent."
Earlier this year The Daily Telegraph launched the Justice For Women Now campaign to give sexual assault victims equal justice and to encourage more women to report assaults.
I think you mean defibrillator.
Women should be able to go around completely naked if they want.
There should be no legal restrictions whatsoever on women's actions.
As for their breast issue, well, they have my support.
I'm all for it.
I'm sure the delicate female snowflakes that attend Giants games can fend for themselves.
Certainly the many minor students molested by female teachers cannot, though, and the law apparently doesn't see fit to punish a child rapist when the pedophile happens to be female:
http://www.news-tribune.net/opinion/local_story_319022339.html?keyword=topstory
Why isn't this story highlighted on BS?
Apologist feminist explanation, and feminist apologist deniers like Canuckistan Bob pretend the reality doesn't exist.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Why not include some of the bigoted tripe published on the BS blogroll and watch the lapdogs like Canucky Bob pretend everything's okay? It could be just like a women's studies class, only better.
Ironically it sounds very feminist, i.e., accepting of just about any choice a female makes, irregardless of the consequences to her children or other family members.
Interesting how the far right and mainstream feminism actually share much in common.
Women killing their children and citing post-partum depression as a default defense for their actions, women killing their husbands, and getting off on "battered-women's syndrome" defenses with or without supporting evidence. Sounds like I'm right and you're wrong.
Oh, and see
http://mw1.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/irregardless
for a definition of irregardless.
Wrong again, honey.
Irregardless of your email (yes, there it is again, you faineant, faux-grammar nerds), you have a long road ahead.
Your rigid ideology does not conform to the feminist rigid ideology that is part and parcel of the Broadsheet perspective.
Ironically, both perspectives are neither right nor wrong. The rigidity of the past has been replaced with the feminist rigidity of the present.
"Pro-choice", ironically, has come to mean "pro-abortion".
"Right-to-life" has come to mean "anti-choice".
Good luck.
Well put.