You picked it Proxy. The girlcott has been applied. The women on OLO continue to demonstrate their complete inablity to think independently, with very few exceptions.

Poor old foxy got out of her depth quickly, Severin was always stuggling and of course Suzie makes an art out of saying "me too". I'm a bit puzzled by Pelican though. Despite a strong natural desire to do what the other girls tell her to, she occasionally has shown some capacity to work things out for herself. That seems to be diminishing.

What i find the most hysterically amusing in all this, is that I was deliberately arguing for more support for mothers, but couched in terms that placed the onus on one of the girls here, to whit, Severin, for her decision not to have kids.

Instead of a chorus of approval for seeking more support for those women who breed, I got the crow's chorus for sugesting that women should have any responsibility at all for anything at all, even their own decision not to breed.

It's funnier than Jon Stewart on a good day. It's also tragic: you women have become so dependent on the free ride that the mere concept of responsibility is anathema. Poor things.

"We all need to stand up for the status of women on this forum too."

Posted by suzeonline, Sunday, 9 May 2010 6:06:00 PM

Why? I could demand we all stand up for the status of Billy Goats or should I say Nanny Goats, or for the sake of political correctness Goats of no particular gender. I for one, don't want to stand up just for the status of women, or goats for that matter.

I want to stand up for the ststus of all, men women and children.

More UN shenanigans:
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010/05/11/anne-bayefsky-iran-united-nations-human-rights-council-libya/
According to the proffered logic, Libya's appointment to the UNHRC should mean another important step forward for human rights.

Proxy
Don't you think including countries like Iran and Libya will do more to influence human rights issues in those countries than exclusion? There is nothing to lose, only the possibility of something to gain.

Anne Bayefsky:

'On April 28, 2010, the U.N. elected Iran a member of its main women’s rights agency, the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). After EYEontheUN found the outcome buried in U.N. documents and Fox News brought the result to national attention, prominent women’s rights activists around the country began gathering signatures urging Secretary of State Clinton, at a minimum, to denounce the move after the fact. They will remind her of the famous 1995 declaration she delivered at the U.N. World Conference on Women in Beijing: “If there is one message that echoes forth from this conference, let it be that human rights are women’s rights and women’s rights are human rights, once and for all.” Fifteen years later, Democratic priorities have changed.

Evidently, there was a backroom deal on Iran, which until recently was on the ballot for the Human Rights Council elections. The United States would look the other way when it came to an Iranian seat on the Women’s Rights Commission, if Iran withdrew its candidacy for the Human Rights Council. While the Obama administration, European Union members, and even some U.N. officials, worried Iran’s election to the Council would be a potential embarrassment, they had no such sensitivities about a women’s rights agency.'

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010/05/11/anne-bayefsky-iran-united-nations-human-rights-council-libya/