My eldest son is the primary carer for my grand-daughter, and he has found a reasonable welcome at swimming classes, music club, day nursery etc. but few other men, and the women don't much include him in anything social.
On a more sombre note it caused him a lot of problems when they lost a child that all the support, both 'official' and from friends, was aimed at his wife and not him, when he actually needed it just as much. He was left to sort it out for himself.

That is a shame. I have no objection to dads at events but maybe others are not like minded.

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Why would that be a surprise? Only if you assume that a woman who is presentable must be merely decorative. Or if you decide that the first paragraph of your profile will concentrate entirely on her appearance and sexuality.

In the next paragraph she's:

No mention of brain or hard work regarding this woman who "happens to be" powerful. Still, she has several things going for her that Dominique Strauss-Kahn did not: she's tall, and she speaks English "with no hint of an accent". Vital attributes for the job.
Also:


Well, that's because she studied law, which is taught at la fac and not at the grandes écoles. Still, she graduated from Paris X (quite posh) and Sciences-Po in Aix, which is pretty much a grande école. Funnily enough, Strauss-Kahn also graduated from Paris X law faculty and Sciences-Po — though apparently without Gallic flair.

Finally we find out about Lagarde's résumé:

This from a country ruled by Old Etonians.


One of her recent predecessors as finance minister, Francis Mer (2002-04), had never been in politics before. I'm sure there was a German businessman, too, who went straight into government. What about Barack Obama?
And the "VERY risqué dominatrix drawing" (as promised in the headline)? It's a political cartoon, one among many that she keeps in her office.
Pathetic Mail.

A few weeks ago, they published some pics of Lagarde on holiday, in a bikini. The headline included the term 'IMF-oxy'.

It's official! Women drivers ARE more dangerous behind the wheel, scientists discover

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... z1RQSsrqtp

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Lack of sleep drove me to the brink of madness

An awful lot of comments along the lines of "shut up and deal with it". That's right, ensure struggling new mothers feel the need to bottle things up even more. That'll definitely help.

Not an article I would normally read, but the attitudes of the commentators here beggars belief.Apparently any women who is not smiling 24/7 is a bad mother! Even her choice of activity is criticized.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/ar ... alley.html

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A hatchet job on ITV’s director of factual and daytime programmes. She’s a woman, and she's from the north, so you know what’s coming:

There's also an appearance by a tearful wronged wife whose husband this vixen has stolen.


Man calling himself Goat = not that arousing either

Some like to create a character for themselves in those comments don't they? As if it will make their stupid comments so much more bearable and people won't notice their stupidity.

Animal alter egos in particular seem to be getting more popular.

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complete and total rubbish, remeber ladies who rise to the top do it because they sleep there way too the top in dailymail land

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The Third Doctor Invasion of the Dinosaurs (1974)

Meet Generation X
Women born between 1965 and 1978 aren't having children OR success in their careers... Why?

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/artic ... z1SkEbqVUz

Oh, a false dichotomy in the Mail. I'm shocked.
Measuring the success and impact of feminism by the number of female CEOs isn't going to tell us much except that sexism hasn't disappeared. And we have Femail for that.
Also, more than half of these 'Generation X' women are still under 40, the youngest are 32. It's all rather premature. (As well as being a load of bollocks.)

A profile of:

Mail readers struggle with the concept of placing a monetary value on housework. According to a survey by a mobile phone company, the average mother spends 70 hours a week on chores and childcare, which is worth £37,000 a year at the going commercial rate.



Mrs Nettles would be a millionaire. After one date.



Wife replaced by cleaner. Classy.



Men work for money. Women work for self-respect. And so it ever was.


Yes.


We didn't ave much but we was appy.



You, sir, are cunt of the day.

Ha fucking ha.

This article bears a close resemblance to a piece in yesterdays IoS, which began:


and featured exactly the same quotes from Jo Swinson and the BBC. Bizarrely, the Mail's piece was written by a hack in its New York office.

The draw of a Lib Dem talking about gender politics is irresistible to the Mail's neanderthals:



She was no doubt wrong to claim it on expenses, but the insinuation here is that make-up is a 'trivial' purchase. Of course if she didn't wear any, the Mail and its readers would be calling her a hag and a lesbian. Can't win.