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Originally Posted by Niamh.

Well it's very easy to spout that logic of "well I wouldn't be bothered if men were doing jobs I don't want to do" when men are not discriminated against, looked at like play thing to amuse women and are looked at like inferior beings to men. It's much more than taking jobs away from women.

There are plenty of jobs where men ARE a "play things to amuse women" and if men or women choose to do those jobs, enjoy those jobs, and actively want to do those jobs then that is no one else's business, and the idea that women now have the right to oppress other women to stop women being oppressed by men / society is ludicrous. It's not empowerment. It's judgement - what I believe they used to call "slut shaming". NO ONE on this thread has referred to the F1 girls as "objects to be drooled over yuck" or anything similar except Vicky (and by way of agreement, yourself) under the supposed guise of female empowerment and feminism. I call BS. These women have their own voices and can speak for themselves about their own careers and trying to suggest that they need other "better" women "who understand the real issues" to do it for them misses the point so spectacularly, that THAT is hilarious to me.

Trying to then shut down the opposing opinion (which is coming from males and many females alike, by the way) as "just stoopid dirty perv men wanting to drool" is incorrect, disingenuous and insulting... and doing so in the supposed vein of talking about equality and respect is blatant hypocrisy.