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Daily Mail on “man-bashing feminism”

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Another day, another constructive article provided to us by the Daily Mail. This time, telling us that feminism is “man-bashing” and continually fighting for equality is an “obsession.”

The Daily Mail’s target today was the Labour Party’s Deputy Leader Harriet Harman.

The paper reports that Harman held a constituency meeting last week regarding ways to increase the flow of money from Britain to other nations through “remittances.”

This is defined as “money sent by people who have settled here to family members who remain in their home countries.”

Ms Harman used this event to praise “heroic” immigrants who send money back home in this way, including, the Daily Mail say, those who claim welfare payments in Britain.

Harman added that the Government should make it easier for them to send the money home and called for tax refunds to encourage more immigrants to follow suit, in ­particular those who paid for their children to be educated in the Third World.

The Daily Mail doesn’t like this idea, calling it “absurd.”

Personally, I feel they should have pointed out that money sent home by migrants constitutes the second largest financial inflow to many developing countires, exceeding international aid.

Also, that remittances contribute to economic growth and to the livelihoods of people worldwide.

However, everyone is of course entitled to their own view. It is how the paper puts forward their argument which I find unacceptable.

Harman is “famous for her obsessions with equality and man-bashing feminism,” and “demonstrates the total absence in the space between her ears of any grasp of right and wrong.”

As for her ideas: “all one can say is heaven help Ms Harman’s husband, children or other relatives, since clearly she sees no reason to give any priority to her own kith and kin over the population of the planet.

“Take, for example, her oppressive and destructive equality laws.

“Or her campaigns against marriage and the entire male sex, which she seems to regard as intrinsically violent and oppressive towards women (one always wondered whether her trade union leader ­husband Jack Dromey was sufficiently androgynous to meet his wife’s exacting feminist requirements).

“Those who dismissed Ms Harman because she cut such an absurd figure were much mistaken — and not just because of her pernicious effect upon business, the traditional family and the male of the species.

“For Ms Harman’s extremism is rooted in a wholesale and terrifying denial of justice and reality that characterises the progressive intelligentsia in general.

“This is because the whole purpose of its political existence is to create the unattainable utopia of the brotherhood of man.”

Sexist, patriarchal and anti-feminist.

Any other adjectives are welcome.

  1. The Daily Mail: lacking in basic human decency since 1896.

  2. Hmmm, other adjectives. I want to say ‘Wanker,’ but that of course is not an adjective but rather the collective noun for daily mail journalists. Sample usage: ‘oh look, that wanker of Daily Mail journos is laughing as the BNP lynches immigrant workers’ or ‘how can a wanker of Daily Mail journalists produce so much hate-filled bile every 24 hours?’

    But you’re looking for adjectives, so I’ll stick with ‘stupid.’

  3. vicki wharton says:

    Melanie Phillips is the newspaper equivalent of junk food – over the top hyperbole to fuel the artery choaking content – and if she’s so anti feminist maybe she should fuck off back to the kitchen and leave the modern world to women who want to inhabit it – excuse the French …!

    • I agree with all of the above ladies. The Daily Mail manages to offend everyone.
      She has actually said that feminists, along with gay rights activists and… divorce lawyers… are trying to destroy Western society by attacking the traditional family.
      Also not a surprise that she won an award for “Most Islamophobic Media Personaility of the Year” in 2003!
      It isn’t a surprise to find sexist and offensive remarks in their newspaper but it particularly annoys me when they use political and policy issues as an excuse to write them, like this would make them more legitimate.

  4. Jane Osmond says:

    Melanie Philips is a disgusting excuse for a woman in my view. She sold her soul long ago for the money.

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