Men are useless?

[ladyofastolat]

While most of the comments in this article are doubtless tongue in cheek, it still leaves me fuming in righteous indignation. I doubt that reputable journalists would get away with writing things like "men have always known that women are a bit of a waste of space" nowadays, but apparently it's quite okay for women to say such things about men. (Would fume in more detail, but work calls.)

Totally unrelated: The Google Street View camera had its lunch in our work car park today...

EDIT: And also totally unrelated: This may well be common knowledge, but it's new to me. If anyone has any forthcoming railway journeys in the Southern Railways region, tomorrow is the day to buy the ticketd, since they're offering 90 percent off tickets booked in advance. (Or "advanced tickets", as the picture shows, although they look pretty basic to me.) I've not read the small print yet, though, so there may well be millions of exceptions.

Comments

[segh.livejournal.com]

Cannot make link work - is it just me?

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

Sorry. Typo in the coding. I normally check all links, but was posting fast at work.

[segh.livejournal.com]

Indeed. Do you know Dillie Keane's song, "Wouldn't it be nice to be a lesbian?"?

[segh.livejournal.com]

Correction: it's actually called "Song of Sexual Re-Orientation".

[torkell]

Sounds like a wonderful idea... if you're the sort of person who plans their train journeys that far in advance.

I did once look into buying advance tickets for a couple of journeys, but abandoned it as a) very few times actually had tickets available and b) this was when booking two weeks in advance. Besides, I get a 33% discount anyway with my railcard.

[squonk79.livejournal.com]

Yeees, i've been reading the articles about this with interest because i'm interested in the science. But there seems to be precious little about the science and an awful lot of sensationalist "men are redundant!". For a start off, there's nothing to say this is even viable yet, it's just a breakthrough for something that might help infertile men have a child. It's not about replacing men altogether.
And lets face it, if a woman wants a baby without a man in the picture, she already can with a sperm donor. But the vast majority of women still and always will (for all their faults) want the man to go along with the sperm.

And you're totally right - if it was about women there'd be uproar. I could start a whole new rant about how "equality" doesn't mean subverting men, but this comment is long enough already!