Feminists Hate the Poor!

Feminism. It's a good thing right? You know, the whole women getting treated as equals thing? Well I can understand why you would think that but no, you're wrong.  You see the lovely Minister for Universities and Science,  David Willets has been doing a bit of poking around and figured out why working class men can't get a decent job and he wants to share it with us all.

It was the ladies wot dunnit!

Now I don't want to be petty about this Mr Willets but there are a few little flaws in your arguement aren't there.  Please don't feel embarrassed, I understand the pressure you're under. Your government is ripping the country to shreads and your scared aren't you?  All those angry, young, unemployed men with nothing better to do than direct their anger at you and the rest of your corporate groupies.  Best to destract them hey?

We can all see your hard work at making sure immigration is still right up there -  lowering student visa numbers was a great idea!  Make them think that all those foreigners are sneaking in and not only stealing our jobs but stealing our education!  How dare they?  OK, you will have to lose some of the £5 Billion that students on foreign visas will bring in to the economy but it's definitely worth the message it sends.

Then you come up with a blinder!  Not only will we blame the immigrants,  we can blame the women too.  Its been years since you've had a proper go at them, they won't see it coming.

The fact that you are comparing middle class women with working class men does make the argument hard to follow.  You would think to make the point you would compare middle class women and middle class men or working class men with working class women,  you know, comparing something that actually makes sense.

I understand if you did that your argument wouldn't really stand up. Issues like poverty will start cropping up and all the people are going to start moaning that you're just for big business and hate the poor and its best if that didn't crop.  OK, maybe you don't hate poor people but they just aren't very important are they?  Pretty safe to say they aren't going to vote Tory isn't it! 

And all those university places those woman have stolen,  who do they think they are!  Let's keep quiet about the fact that the amount of university places has increased dramatically since the 1970's when the university was a male domain (ahhh the good ol' days hey Dave.)

We should probably just brush over the fact that women are still not paid the same wage as men or the fact that unemployment is rising faster for women than men and that women are far more likely to work part time.  You don't want anyone to dwell on that or your just going to look like....well, exactly the man you are - an out of touch, over privileged, sexist bigot.