The 54th session of the Commission on the Status of Women will undertake a fifteen-year review of the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcomes of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly.

The above, what a load of rubbish! What did we get out of the other 53 sessions, sweet FA. I for one have no problem with Iran being on this 'Gravey Train' at the UN, they might bring some balance to this usless Commission and who do the 'Pinko Fairies' want?

Dear Paul,

You ask:

" Who do the pinko faeries want?"

That's easy:

Definitely NOT Neanderthals
facing extinction!

"I know you didn't intend it but that comment could be seen as detracting from the huge amount of work by civil rights activists and by feminists being done in Iran. Although looked at from the outside the apparent progress is excruciatingly slow, there is necessarily an enormous amount of time and effort put into organising and other effort by civil rights activists (usually unacknowledged) and by feminists."

True Cornflower. Iran has actually made some progress and hopefully will continue to do so.

Antiseptic: <"Western women are not badly off and have not been for a long time...
... Western women are the beneficiaries of the goodwill of Western men and they have ruthlessly milked that goodwill for all they can get.">

If your predictions ever eventuate where women are dominant, you can take comfort in the thought that women will extend as much goodwill towards you as you extend to them.

You are welcome to do just as much milking too :)

Foxy- loved the comment about the Neanderthals! Rofl.

Pynchme, I always thought men preferred dominance in a woman :)

No wonder this forum always brings up subjects that can be turned into gender debates- they are always the funniest and the longest debates.

Back onto the subject at hand, I am just happy Iran has been placed into the spotlight of the rest of the world, via the United Nations, so that maybe they will look a little harder at how they treat their women.

pynchme:"You are welcome to do just as much milking too"

That's where you and I differ and it's pretty revealing of your underlying motivations. I don't have any desire to do any "milking", I just want a fair go to make the best of what I have. You, on the other hand, see everything in terms of who gets next go at the teat. You don't want to make your own living, you want someone else to hand it to you on a platter and it had better be good or else...

It's the entitlement model of feminism. As I said, it appeals to those of weak mind and weaker principles. Everything that Western women have they have because Western men have the quaintly romantic idea that women are "special" and must be cared for. We see this even here, when the odd Gamma male like CJ can't help himself, but has to try to "stand up for" one of the women. Women are under no such illusions about men, but are more than happy to make use of the men who do.

Western women know that their power is firmly based in their possession of a womb and they make sure that men pay and pay and pay for being allowed to use it. Traditional families evolved out of the recognition that if a woman wanted on-going support from a man she had a mutual obligation to him that went beyond simply using her uterus once, as largely happens today. Child support, Family Law, all the handouts given to women who use their uterus have been put in place to ensure that women can depend on that payment, without having any further mutual obligation to a particular man. They also ensure that a man pays, even if he was merely a means for the woman to acquire some sperm, while receiving no on-going quid pro quo for the payment