EU politicians propose to dissolve any company with <40% female board members

[d000hg]

Politics at the school gates.

It is all about sex. They do not do big jobs in business because they do not need to. For every man becoming a Steve Jobs a Bill gates or even a DimPrawn is the ultimate Alpha male achievement - it will bring power totty and a F*** off boat. If women want these things they do so for entirely different reasons and when they do they tend to marry into them. The drive to get to the top is simply not there. Their instincts are geared more to the nest and procreation.

Have you fallen through a time-warp from the 50s?

Women are essentially a commodity for men to use.

You need to work better at sounding believable. Take some lessons from DA.

[vetran]

there you go, now be quiet dear the men are talking

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[SueEllen]

. Finally – do you really think men are best places to look after children. I can just see it now, Call of Duty with my 6 years old, and running round the garden in our pants in the rain. I have explained the premise of capitalism to him though, and why taxation is bad. LOL.

Don't put yourself down.

Kids like doing things with men.

Lots of kids would be extremely happy to play a naughty video game with their dad and run around in the rain in their pants. (Though you better encourage the kid to wear more clothes if possible in case of the nosey neighbours.)

As long as you clean them i.e. give them a bath, make them wear clean clothes every now and again, feed them which sometimes include fruit and veg and act like you care - they are very happy.

Many children particularly boys misbehave if they are stuck nearly 100% of the time with just female adults.

[darmstadt]

Don't put yourself down.

Kids like doing things with men.

Lots of kids would be extremely happy to play a naughty video game with their dad and run around in the rain in their pants. (Though you better encourage the kid to wear more clothes if possible in case of the nosey neighbours.)

As long as you clean them i.e. give them a bath, make them wear clean clothes every now and again, feed them which sometimes include fruit and veg and act like you care - they are very happy.

Many children particularly boys misbehave if they are stuck nearly 100% of the time with just female adults.

I have to say that this is perfectly true...My dad still lets me run around in the rain in my pants

[darmstadt]

Never underestimate women

AS you say:

[Scoobos]

I would rather be a bigot than a hypocrite

Firstly, I have to accept that you are old enough to remember the actual events of the early to mid 80's , so I suppose I have no argument there ; other than if you had been on my side of the fence you would perhaps have different views. But such is life. I really had you down as a youngster, like most black and white thinkers. So apologies there...

Hmm. still didn't read through those old links. Bigoted and forgetful.

Last little spar we had, you had me down as benefiting from Thatcher because I contracted.

Given I contracted OVERSEAS in Canada, Australia, Indonesia , Malaysia and now work for an international Charity; I fail to see the link.

"big·ot (b g t) n. One who is strongly partial to one's own group, religion, race, or politics and is intolerant of those who differ"

Hypocrite noun 1. a person who pretends to have virtues, moral or religious beliefs, principles, etc., that he or she does not actually possess.

And finally, I think the most apt one for you to learn :

Cliche - trite or overused expression or idea

Watch come fly with me, if you excuse the pun.

[Scoobos]

Don't put yourself down.

Kids like doing things with men.

Lots of kids would be extremely happy to play a naughty video game with their dad and run around in the rain in their pants. (Though you better encourage the kid to wear more clothes if possible in case of the nosey neighbours.)

As long as you clean them i.e. give them a bath, make them wear clean clothes every now and again, feed them which sometimes include fruit and veg and act like you care - they are very happy.

Many children particularly boys misbehave if they are stuck nearly 100% of the time with just female adults.

Totally agree with this.

As a child who grew up with only 1 parent (while she was well at least) I can only agree with this 100%. I have had so many problems to overcome because of not having a male influence.

Now I have to witnesses 2 people going to work and leaving the child with carers 50 hrs a week ; in the name of their "best interests" and I just dont understand... I'm not necessarily blaming the parents either, many HAVE to both work Full time just to pay the bills.

My view on this whole topic is it is silly.. Quotas are silly. The notion that its acceptable for both a dad and mum to work and leave the kids elsewhere is silly and the big one - the notion that women don't face barriers at work is also quite daft from what I've seen. It's so rare to have a female director and its because of so many reasons.

[escapeUK]

Totally agree with this.

As a child who grew up with only 1 parent (while she was well at least) I can only agree with this 100%. I have had so many problems to overcome because of not having a male influence.

Definitely. 95% of my gay friends either had no Dad, or he died, or he left, or they hated each other. People arent born gay in my opinion.

[d000hg]

Definitely. 95% of my gay friends either had no Dad, or he died, or he left, or they hated each other. People arent born gay in my opinion.

This is actually a source of discussion in my world (i.e church). This gets bandied around quite a lot by those who struggle with the idea that being born gay is possible when being gay is not right... i.e. why would Gog create gay people.

I don't think that's a sound theological argument but I always wondered if it was truthful when they talk about gay people being a symptom of not having a proper parental unit (which clearly fits together quite nicely with pushing for old-fashioned family values), or if it's just a case of finding claims which support what you want to believe and using that to prove you're right (which is common to all causes I feel).

When you say 95% how many gay friends do you have?

[escapeUK]

When you say 95% how many gay friends do you have?

At this exact moment probably about none, but there always seems to be loads in IT and especially telecoms.