Ms-quote of the day

“Women now make up over half the workforce and the proportion is growing.”

The deputy chair of the Equal Opportunities Commission, Jenny Watson, mystifying her audience at the launch of the “sex & power” report, Who Runs Britain (pdf).

My first reaction to this was regret since, obviously, I don’t. But then my second was a rush of optimism from the equally obvious fact that the possibly cute but not acute Jenny Watson never will either.

Update

Found her here but decided to leave my post as is. Erm ... sure there are lots of ways in which she is lovely. Being a lobbyist and human rights artiste may not be two of them, though.

Further update

Is it possible to be ungallant to a feminist?

Posted by Guessedworker on Thursday, December 30, 2004 at 04:17 PM in Feminism
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Posted by Geoff M. Beck on December 30, 2004, 07:06 PM | #

I’ve heard it said, that in today’s world, the British are Greeks, and the Americans are Romans. It was quite common for the newly rich Romans to import Greeks to teach them about running an empire, art, music, philosophy and the like.

Well, I’ve been keeping a list of Greeks - er uh, Britons - I’d like to see exit America’s Empire:

1) Karen Armstrong, author of numerous stomach turning books about the evils of Christianity and the wonders of Islam.

2) Tina Brown, elitist editor of the elitist New Yorker Magazine.

3) Timothy Garton Ash, one word: Humbug; post-modernist fool whose simple ideas spellbind the simple minded of America. In 5 years he’ll be forgotten. Is he a knob polisher? Sure looks it.

4) Niall Ferguson, not a bad fellow, really. But a big booster for American Empire and writer of a terribly flawed book of American History. I think he came to America to cash in, to strike a gold mine. Ought to learn how to dress from Timothy Garton Ash.

Now nobody get angry with me. I’m a huge admirer of Albion, and niegboring tribes.

Posted by Mark Richardson on December 30, 2004, 09:48 PM | #

Geoff, I don’t think that I as a Melbournian can follow your lead and complain about British imports as it was we who exported Ms G Greer to the mother country (and Prof. Singer to your own).

BTW, I notice that the Equal Opportunities Commission leads off its list of modern day inequalities by complaining that female full-time workers are still paid less than male full-time workers.

This is a sneaky argument, since it suggests that equal things are being compared. In fact, male full-time workers work much longer hours on average than their full-time female counterparts.

For more information, see here. As for fewer women being in leadership positions, a Norwegian study found that women were offered as many promotions as men but were more likely to quit.

Posted by Marc on December 31, 2004, 08:37 AM | #

Geoff,

Don’t forget Andrew Sullivan!

Posted by Geoff M. Beck on January 01, 2005, 02:30 AM | #

Sullivan. The children that write for National Review Online sure fell for his act, now they got pie, er..., testosterone all over their faces.

Have you read this bit by Sullivan?

http://www.photius.com/feminocracy/testosterone.html

Posted by Marc on January 01, 2005, 08:52 AM | #

Ugh. Yes I have. His ode to testosterone! Only Sullivan could make it so long, so drawn out, so clunky…

I never understood the appeal of that man, except perhaps that he articulated well what the whole pro-war crowd is all about.

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