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The paternal state - politician sperm donors? No thanks! : Comments
By Melinda Tankard Reist, published 24/1/2005Melinda Tankard Reist examines Gab Kovac's plan to get politicians to donate sperm.
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I have read about the Dr Summers issue. It seems that it was just a casual remark he made that “certain” people then wanted to make political mileage out of. If there is a comment or report that is in someway negative about the female gende,r then this group will “shout to the top”, but if there is any type of report or negative comment made about the male gender, then complete silence. They term this “gender equality”
It is interesting that there have been reports that boys often struggle in areas of education because of problems such a colour blindness, autism, and there have been some reports that boys often have problems with writing skills at an early age. (EG “Handwriting is a basic skill that serves us all our lives. Unfortunately, a problem that primarily affects boys is rarely on anyone's list of educational priorities.” At ... http://softwareforschools.com.au/news16.php ). However you never hear “certain” people even remotely suggesting that there needs to be special attention given to boys with these problems, as that would not be gender equality.
This OLO article is obviously an attempt by the author to extract as much sympathy for herself from the reader as possible because she is a “mother” with “children”. These are like key words that have to be mentioned repeatedly in “certain” types of articles, although words such as “father” need not be mentioned.
The author appears to be hinting at affirmative action for women in government, but I feel that certain people will try and get into government through affirmative action (like they have in the Spanish government), but these people will be highly unlikely to consider both the female “AND” male genders in their decision making once they are in government.