The March on the New Feminists http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/the-march-of-the-new-feminists-1830514.html

This has been fostered by the media and that fact that lad culture is now aspirational – and in fact rewarded think Russell Brand and Jonathon Ross.

Not forgetting of course the way in which women are depicted and written about in pop culture.

And sadest of all is the fact that young women have now been so conditioned by this onslaught on public degrading of women that they accept and sometimes participate in it.

It seems so strange that of all the liberation movements of the 70s eg Gay Liberation and Black Liberation, that it is only Women’s Liberation that has become the object of public ridicule.

An example of how far the backlash against feminism has gone is that a response to a CiF (Guardian) article was a man saying that feminists are the same as the BNP and white men are the equivilant to members of BME communities suffering racism??!!

So part of me isn’t surprised that young people bought up in a culture permeated with acceptance of laddish culture should think that putting on a Playboy Mansion event is somehow acceptable.

Grace

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?ref=name&id=36911866#/group.php?gid=334723665073

If it doesn’t I can forward the message to her. We had a deeply frustrating Union Council meeting yesterday, where the Welfare and Sports and Societies Officers defended the night, and even suggested the comments above were provoked and shouldn’t be taken seriously.

I’ll delete the add above.

Or the Groups Administrator referred to in the article.

Thanks

Grace

(PS the previous post to mind seems from the web link to be a commercial ad.)

Sometimes it is merely amusing – like the number of people who responded to an article I wrote criticising Jeremy Clarkson to tell me I was wasting my time – and thus wasting their own time in the process.

Other times it is rather more sinister. I did have a series of anonymous threatening phone calls which included rape threats (although thanks to the can’t-be-bothered attitude of the police we still don’t know whether they were related to my website or not).

But then in a way it’s good that we find out what people really think. Hopefully in the long run it will lead to a wider acceptance that there IS a big gender problem in this country which needs radical action to tackle it.