Dude?
This afternoon.
O’Connell Bridge, Dublin 1
A MALE cyclist unwittingly (or driven by primal, patriarchal impulses) photobombs demonstrators at an International Women’s Day protest organised by Time4Equality, an International Women’s Day coalition including Unite the Union, Union of Students Ireland, ROSA and Ruth Coppinger TD.
Typical, really.
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In fairness, he didn’t throw the leg over until out of shot.
The wage gap…
Not a word about the “hours worked” gap
Or the “who does the risky jobs” gap
Or the “99.9% of Sewerage workers are men” gap…
Or the “we want it to be “Bin People” and not “Bin Men” to encourage women into the DDDD job space
Women only want to cherry pick the ACC jobs (Air Conditioned Comfort) while leaving all of the DDDD jobs to men (Dirty, Dangerous, Deadly & Demeaning) need to be done by men.
Equality??? Don’t make me laugh.
I doubt you laugh much, you scallywag.
He’s right, it never gets a mention, you rapscallion…happy womens day!
No doubt he’ll receive abuse before an answer though…
Thank goodness Meremortal is here to explain what women want to us.
The NWCI post earlier quite clearly explained what they wanted; cushy jobs at the top of the civil service.
Is that what everyone wants, in fairness?
Paid lots for doing little and excellent job security.
Grand bit of meresplaining in fairness.
Still no counter point…just mockery
Women Want Good Jobs Suddenly Men Pretend To Care About Working Conditions In Dirty And Demeaning Jobs shocker. Why aren’t you advocating better pay and conditions for people who do thise jobs? Why don’t you examine the actual reasons those jobs are dominated by men rather than blaming a group that have historically been excluded from huge sections of the job market? Why don’t you dance through a few arbitrary hoops when something you do care about is questioned?
WOW is all I have to say Nigel. Your responses never cease to amaze.
I’m blaming someone here for something?
Fighting for binmens rights?
Examine reasons why men dominate the waste disposal industry? Cop onto yourself and try harder to answer the age old question above? I can try and answer but this is only my humble opinion. WE ARE NOT EQUAL….or to put in a more acceptable way…WE ARE ALL EQUAL…but…IN DIFFERENT WAYS. Why people cannot accept these differences is beyond me! Women have babies, men dont. Men are stonger, women are more emotionally intelligent. These are all ‘pros’ in my eyes if we (men and women) work as a unit. Just more of us & them, divide & conquer….it’s boring cos I say that all the time…but it’s just so apparent to me anyway.
This bit especially went flaming past my head..”Why don’t you dance through a few arbitrary hoops when something you do care about is questioned?”
Enjoy your day!
You’re making as much of a generalisation as if I were to say all men only want to sit and watch football in the evening and aren’t bottomed helping out at home, which does your point little credit.
I think most people would agree that men do predominantly work in the industries you’ve listed, and many more, and further, that most everyday feminists would tell you that part of feminism is opening opportunities to a more equal footing to everyone. And most women would be the first to admit this, and support men in an equal endeavor.
Social media is something of a double edged sword, especially in terms of feminism. It has done wonderful things for women, in raising awareness of the injustices women have faced in different cultures etc, and helping the movement gain traction, but in the same way it also allows the loudest and most vocal of those to be given a much more public stage to air their views, which are frequently polarising and/or extreme. It’s unfortunate.
If the same amount of energy went into addressing men’s issues, like mental health and domestic violence against men to name a few of the bigger ones, without making it an “us versus them” battle of the sexes thing, so much more could be achieved in terms of true equality.
Yeah but feminism and social justice are increasingly about “equity”…this is about outcome and possibly reparation. I have no idea why that should appeal to any female born after 1980. I hate to say it but I haven’t seen a level of inequality in my lifetime (in Ireland)…certainly not enough to warrant 19-21 year old students getting out on the street. This shows how thing the social contract has become.
The questions around women’s safety are more complex and I notice it’s a go-to area when a 3rd wave feminist loses a debate on gender pay gap…
Women, famously, do not need to campaign to get dirty dangerous deadly or demeaning jobs, notwithstanding your cherry-picking two male-dominated professions. Men in those professions who do not necessarily object to work that is dirty but who quite rightly find the dangerous deadly and demeaning part a problem are more likely to find sympathy for their plight from feminists than from MRA types who only care about it on IWD.
#andacyclist
+1 Superb. Touché.
So the bridge blockers weren’t ‘petty bourgeois feminists’, but right-on femtrot radicals. That should be something for the IT to report after its recent disclosure.
Christ the USI are insfferable. Imagine being a parent and shelling out 3.5 grand a year to get your kid a 3rd level qualification so they can actually get a career going and the fupping “feminist” right-on USI president tells your precious darling that she needs to “go on strike” by taking a day out of college.
” she needs to “go on strike” by taking a day out of college.”
Oh the humanity, however shall we survive this!
Do you have a point? I recon your comment is missing a paragragh or two in which you articulate your thoughts.
That’s a very poor quality protest. I can hardly read what’s on those posters. Is it too much to expect legible writing from graduate-level activists?
Why must women’s rights be tied to a joined up international movement? As in, women in different countries, different regions of countries, in different working situations and different personal situations face different challenges…when not everyone has suffered or been fortunate to the same extent. But to acknowledge that would undermine this movement.
I know plenty of women in Ireland who have been savvy in their careers without being overly brilliant and also plenty who have worked hard academically but generally all have had the same opportunity to move up in their careers…particularly in the sector I work. I’ve worked at 2 multi-nationals from 2006 onward where I believe women had greater opportunities than men.
If women are underpaid because they are more inclined to vocation positions in the care and charity sector….then that becomes a very different conversation about these sectors, as opposed to gender-based discrimination.
And this movement reaches from everything from gender pay gap to paying for sanitary products – if you want sanitary products freely distributed in a school, nothing stops you from seeing if there is consensus among the parents and if so, going to the board of the school and making the case for it. If it succeeds, it will be adopted elsewhere. What is wrong with people today?
Why get caught up in some international injustice movement that arguably fetishises female violence (here’s looking at Lana Del Rae)…but that should be using the platform to actively encourage women to report any violence they have suffered so that the next person is less likely to fall victim and the likelihood of detecting the criminal is higher….but no, let’s just have some outrage.
Women’s rights have and continue to advance more than people like to acknowledge because of ordinary people pushing day by day without using a movement to raise their public profile or benefit politically. I raise my glass to these women, not the people you see marching out on the street today who adopt the victimhood position and see putting half the planet into a “minority” group as a positive thing. This should be about empowerment.
feel threatened much?
I bet the Repeal campaigners are kicking themselves they didn’t take this ort of stage advice from a wise man troubled by all these women making a show of themselves.
Is it any wonder ….
Thank God they spent the rest of the day helping homeless women and not virtue signaling to their privileged pals.
I teed off the ladies tee down in our club yesterday, to celebrate equality etc.