Women should be encourgaed to beome MPs. But I find the reasoning that some people employ to argue for them idiotic.

Commons Speaker Michael Martin is to hold a conference aimed at finding a way to ensure more women and people from ethnic minorities become MPs.
He said he would try to end “disparity” between society and [...]

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I don’t understand why anyone would be attacking Princess Beatrice over her weight and how she looks in a bikini [right]. She’s hardly obese, fat, or even “chubby”. Yes, she’s hardly perfectly slim, but she’s certainly no worse than at least 90-odd per cent of the British population.
Really, ratehr than attacking her, critics should be [...]

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Hillary says that she won’t be “bullied out” of the race for the White House, saying that the “big boys” - such as Senators Chris Dodd and Pat Leahy and Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico, who are all key Obama allies - are trying to push her out of the Democratic race because she [...]

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Hat-tip: Theo Spark at his new blog and Tom Paine

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Home Secretary Jacqui Smith’s, that is. She is complaining about journalists being “obsessed” with her cleavage and has told them “to get over themselves”. She says:
Honestly, the morning when I made the statement to the House about the terror incidents that I had faced on my first weekend… funnily enough the main thing on my [...]

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Seems like a good idea…
Firms who lose wages tribunals would have to carry out a “pay audit” of all their staff under Tory plans to end sex discrimination at work.Shadow minister Theresa May said the problem with the current system is that tribunals heard cases individually.That meant firms found guilty of discrimination are not forced [...]

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Girls do prefer pink:
Parents who dress their boys in blue and girls in pink may not simply be following a tradition: new research has suggested that these are indeed the usual favourite colours of each sex.The long-established idea that men and women differ in their choice of favourite colours has been confirmed by scientists at [...]

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I was directed to this, the “Shewee”, and I thought I’d share the pain…
Shewee is a molded plastic funnel that provides women with a simple, private and hygienic method of urinating without removing clothes whilst standing AND sitting.When positioned securely under the crotch, and with underwear pushed to the side, Shewee directs urine away from [...]

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Gender-equality? Not in Italy, where a beach has now been declared “men free” - bar a hairdresser and a lifeguard:
“Italy’s long-standing tradition of male chauvinism has been delivered a bitter blow with the opening of the country’s first women-only beach.Visitors to Beach no 134 on the 50-mile stretch of coastline linking Rimini to Riccione on [...]

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