Why is the UK Daily Mail asking "Why is it never a woman's fault'?

Question

Why is it NEVER a woman's fault?
By CAROL SARLER

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=431000&in_page_id=1879

Excerpts:

"Yet instead of asking, as we sensibly should, where Mummy was while all this was going on, the popular judicial line has been that obviously she was so cowed by the bad guy - and make no mistake, he is a bad guy - that she couldn't possibly have been expected to do anything about it. No, not even intervene to save her own child's life."

"It is a pernicious corruption of the once progressive principles of feminism that today women are responsible for nothing and therefore guilty of nothing."

"Blame it all on the boys, no matter what the wickedness. 'The girl can't help it,' has become the anthem of our times."

"We know that many - or should that be most? - of these groups which set themselves up as anti-rape and antiviolence are led by militant feminists, whose real agenda is anti-men."

And why *is* it never a woman's fault?

Ausblue: You based your argument on a false dichotomy - the child dies or the man does. Both happen to be irresponsible but they are by no means the only two options.

Answer 1

Interesting. The Daily Mail is a respectabe newpaper: often your 'sources' are found on rather interesting web pages also carrying stories about alien space invaders and such. This time I actually bothered to look. In order for you to put the author's particular mindset into context you may wish read more of what she has written. She appears to be disgusted with YOUNG WOMEN of TODAY who have "PERVERTED" the goals of feminism - not 'feminists' in general. She even goes so far as to use the word "BETRAYAL" in reference to them. Interesting... and to a great extent I agree with her. I (like she) am older; my sharpet memories are of what the world was like when you were still in diapers. As she sees it, the hard-won advances women made beginning in the late 1960's have been undermind by STUPID LITTLE GIRLS. She uses the example of the "Spice Girls" band to set a timeline: the advent of the Stupid Little Girls is the early 1990's:

"Just when we thought we were doing so well, too.
The 30 years before the Spice Girls came along had seen unparalleled changes in the lives of women; it’s hard to believe, now, that in 1966 there was not even ready access to the contraceptive Pill that would hand us the chance, for the first time ever, to control our bodies, and therefore our lives.

We seized that chance with relish. If we never quite managed to have it all, we nonetheless gave it a damn good shot as we taught ourselves and, later, our daughters that diligence, hard work, honed skills and the occasional good old strop for ‘wimmin’s rights’ would win the day. In the process, perhaps we even persuaded reluctant men that they could trust us to be competent, able and equal partners at home and at work.

[The Spice Girls] mocked the efforts and the goals of their predecessors by reviving an image of young women that depended entirely on the superficiality of appearance, looking and acting as if they were unthreateningly stupid, and all the while emphasising the importance of flashing enough flesh to grab yourself a man.
While their slightly older sisters had striven to get the jobs to earn the money to buy the hammers to smash through glass ceilings, and while their slightly older cousins, especially, perhaps, the Asian girls of modest backgrounds and equally modest dress, were queueing to take their places to study medicine, finance and law — in other words to prove, to really, really prove they were as good as any man — this bunch of chumps thought their over-sexed antics constituted female power".

I see her point. This younger generation, boys and girls alike, are INDEED quite stupid. They have precious little life experience and yet think they know everything!

Answer 2

I never thought it would happen, but in this case I agree with you. This article was very disturbing, and in my experiences, very true.

An acquantance of mine was accused of "date rape" after having drunken sex with a consenting women. Yes, she was drunk. Yes, she might not know what she was doing. But so was he! Why should he be the only one held accountable for their drunken actions? Why should a pair of drunkards have mutual consensual sex whilst drunk, but only one be responsible for it? Are they saying that men have more control while they are drunk than women do? Cause in my experience, women and men are usually both out of control whilst drunk.

Yes, I am sure that there is some women out there who are so afraid for their life that they dont seek help from abusive relationships. However, I think it disgusting when a mother allows her child to die. She should be held accountable, and I am glad the woman in this case was sent to jail, albeit for a short sentence.

In fact, I really love the last few paragraphs:

We know that many - or should that be most? - of these groups which set themselves up as anti-rape and antiviolence are led by militant feminists, whose real agenda is anti-men.

But if they really think that their anti-men propaganda is the same thing as pro-women politics, they are in cloud-cuckoo-land.

Everything they achieve, they do so at the cost of women; at the cost of acknowledging the strength of a woman's determination - and at the cost of allowing a woman the ultimate equality, without which all else will fail: an equal right to make mistakes.

Answer 3

I one way or the different doubt that could want to do any sturdy. an entire-blown rapist might want to work out that as starting to be subordinate, subsequently improving the concept of administration and potential... i imagine she'd be more effective powerful dealing with him down with a .38 and declaring an identical element..

Answer 4

I do see your point there
they must be very weak women although some men can be very vicious & the woman is too scared to do anything ( & some women are very weak & scared ) BUT if some man was hurting my child I would not sit back & let it happen I probably would kill him & then
I would be one of the other women you seem to hate also
so really how do we get your approval
I myself don't like the feminists neither!!!

Answer 5

i don't know i don't care but i do disagree that men are better whoever made that sexist comment is so idiotic both sexes have good and different qualities and gender roles suck! nothing matters ok just treat everyone fairly goshdarnit

Answer 6

You bought the paper, you read the ads, regardless of an opinion, they win.

Answer 7

just remember men are better

Answer 8

because, IT NEVER IS