A fatuous and inflammatory comment, whistler.

Not my ticket Poirot, I'm with the freedom riders.

I think that the slope to stoning (or its equivalent) lies in the doctors attacks on men far more than in the use of a title.

The doctor denigrates men as a gender quite consistently and tries to hold individual men responsible for the actions of other men in situations where there is no-valid linkage.

Perhaps an editorial oversight but the article isn't published with Dr at the front of the authors name so Whistlers objections seem somewhat out of place.

R0bert

The slippery slope to stoning begins with cohenite calling Dr Scutt Ms.
whistler,
Why, is she a Mrs ?

Perhaps we can get back to the topic :)

Jon J.'s comments, right at the beginning, that ".... many, many more men die through acts of violence than women, by a factor of well over ten to one....." needs to be held up to the light: presumably, he means through warfare, but he ignores the terrible fact that, every year, mainly in the developing world, perhaps millions of women die in childbirth, and many thousands more die from beatings, being burnt to death (India/Pakistan) raped and murdered in wars, etc.

His factor of "ten to one" perhaps needs to be backed up with some basic evidence.

Here in Australia, in the NT, almost all women murdered are Aboriginal, around a dozen each year, 'little women' [I look forward to the outraged leftist TV documentary by that name] usually beaten to death over many hours by their beloveds, the easy targets of weak b@stards. Aboriginal women die in childbirth at a much greater rate than non-Aboriginal mothers.

Yes, many Aboriginal men die violently too, but perhaps not by a factor of "ten to one". In custody, as we know, Aboriginal people are proportionally no more likely to die than non-Aboriginal prisoners, but outside of custody, out in the wonderfully supportive 'community', suicide rates for Aboriginal people, tragedies of desperation, are five and ten times the non-Aboriginal rate, including for women.

Yes, there certainly is an urgent need to protect Aboriginal women from rapists and thugs and weak tyrds, before the 'community' completely dissolves.

Joe

Stoning is one of the most barbaric of tortures man can inflict on fellow man & woman. I shudder to think how many women have been the victims of this heinous practice at the behest of dictators' wives'.