Just as a quick catch up linking through to the additional comments and commentary and debate about Dominic Raab's excellent and forthright comments this week as covered on the site (1, 2 and 3).
Mr Raab continues to stand up for himself and will not be brow beaten. The fact that many newspapers ran with the story that he was slapped down by the Home Secretary and Minister for Women and Equalities, Theresa May MP, shows how embedded the anti-male culture is in our politics. Harman (Labour) was bad enough and now we have Theresa May (Conservatives) and Lynne Featherstone (Lib Dem). Can someone really say what the difference is anymore, three leading people from three different parties but all anti-male.
It is also the hypocrisy of May when she says we should end the gender warfare - she is the Minister for Women but there is no Minister for Men. Unbelievable.
Men's Network - MP makes a stand for men against female bigotry '(Glen Poole)
Daily Mirror - MP gets dresses down 'feminist bigots' slur backbencher
Press Association - May slams MP over feminist remarks
BBC - Theresa May slaps down 'feminist bigots' MP
Daily Telegraph - Are men victims of obnoxious feminism (Dominic Raab MP and Fay Weldon)
The Guardian - Four myths about feminism and the one he is right on (Laurie Penny)
Posted by Skimmington
Can I suggest that people add supportive comments to his blog for all to see as well as emailing him. Here's the relevant entry:
http://domraab.blogspot.com/2011/01/equality-cuts-both-ways.html
Posted by: John Kimble | Monday, 31 January 2011 at 00:17
The really revealing bit of this whole affair is the fact that his comments are quite moderate and even feminist (in that he advocates shared leave) his actual crime appears to have been to suggest some feminists have gone off into female chauvinism. May women writing over recent years including old time feminists have made exactly the same observation. I hope Mr. Raab isn't put off his critique of what is one of today's holy cows.
Posted by: Groan | Thursday, 03 February 2011 at 08:35
Worrying that every single party has their own resident nasty (and stupid) feminist.
The Tories have May, Labour have Harman (and so many others) and the Lib Dems have Featherstone
Posted by: Bob | Tuesday, 08 February 2011 at 02:43