Thursday 6 August 2009

We Can’t Teach Them To Read Or Write, But We Can Teach Them That ‘Girlz Rool! Boyz Drool!’….

Pupils as young as five will be taught about the evils of 'wife beating' and the need to form healthy relationships.

The lessons are part of a controversial drive, unveiled today, to reduce violence against women and young girls.

They will include teaching boys that they must not beat their partners or any other female.
But beating other boys is OK, then? And will the five-year-old girls receive the same advice, or are they to be allowed to grow up into little charmers like these?
Last night, critics warned that ministers are cramming the already over-stuffed National Curriculum with lessons that should be taught in the home or in the community.
And so it should come as no surprise that one in five pupils leaves primary school unable to read and write
The Government claims that violence against women is costing Britain an astonishing £40billion.

It has emerged they are carrying out five separate reviews into the causes and how women can be better protected.

This is despite evidence showing that boys and young men are more than twice as likely to fall victim to violence, and that young women are becoming increasingly aggressive.
Well, like the ‘man made global warming’ scam, some things obviously don’t require anything so jejune as ‘evidence’…
In a document peppered with the language of Miss Harman's equalities-agenda, the Government says the first ever Violence Against Women and Girls strategy is in production by departments across Whitehall, and will be published this autumn.

It declares: 'Our vision is a society where women and girls feel safe and confident in their homes and communities so that they can develop fully, live freely, contribute to society, and prosper in their daily lives. We want to overcome women's and girls' fear of crime and the gender-based violence that they experience.'
Men, presumably, can just f*** off…

How is this, in any way, shape or form, an ‘equality agenda’? Don’t words have their usual meanings any more?
As well as the lessons, the already stretched Health Service has been ordered to conduct studies into how it can improve treatment of women at risk of violence, and police must carry out a review of domestic violence incidents.

Separately, Dr Linda Papadopoulous is carrying out a 'fact-finding review of the sexualisation of girls and links to violence'. All will report back later this year, and lead to the publication of an action plan.
Whoopee! An action plan! That’ll fix everything…
Jill Kirby, of the Centre for Policy Studies, said Miss Harman and the Government should not be creating the impression violent crime is men against women, when the statistics show this is not the case.

She added: 'It is young men who are most likely to be the victims of violent crime. It is a distortion to suggest otherwise. It appears that everything must be viewed through the prism of 1960s feminism.'
Ouch! That’s going to leave a mark…
Shadow Home Secretary Chris Grayling said: 'This Government answers every problem with another review instead of actually taking real action to get to grips with violent crime and its causes.'
Of course they do.

They are bereft of ideas and solutions, and have sucked the coffers dry; all they can do now is await the axe that will fall at the next General Election, and try to cause the incoming party as much damage as possible to clean up….

9 comments:

Mike said...

Thank the maker, some one who also believes that as we speak there are plenty of boys and men bieng subjected to violence directed by girls and women.
The issue is non gender specific. It is one of violence and percieved blame and responsibility. While we still have joke postcards with a wife waking her husband round the back of the head with a frying pan because he is late back from the pub and a chalk board in my ex's kitchen detailing a woman's joyfull expression as she says 'saw my ex the other day while driving, ran him down, looked in the rear view mirror and put it in reverse'. Men who fear grabbing hold of thier female significant other's wrist to stop themselves bieng slapped then we are in difficult waters.
All domestic violence support is sexualy baised. All advice and authorities approach to voilence considers gender more importantly than it should be.
Violence is violence whoever dishes it out and whoever is on the recieving end. My advice - teach people how to cope in difficult and potentialy violent circumstances instead of building expectations of having to suffer voilence and where victims should go to deal with the concequences of it.
Much is made of behaviour, dress and language that our armed forces employ to difuse potentialy violent situations. Why arn't our children taught these coping mechanisms.
I feel so strongly about this I just thumped it out on my keyboard and hit return without proof reading it so appologies for typos. *thinks, coping mechanism*

Mike said...

in fact if you want to talk about emmotional violence is not not females that are general best at making thier enemies miserable where males are more likely to take it out on some one unrelated and probably male or themselves?

Sue said...

You would think that all the money they spend on quango's and ridiculous research would be better spent on EDUCATING THE KIDS!

I despair, I really do.. I'm beginning to believe that Socialists do this on purpose. If you have an entirely uneducated underdog, the chance of staying in power is greater. After all, the political elites, including the socialists, all send their kids to private schools.

I think Labour Party MP's and their families should all be forced to use the services that they condemn the rest to use.

They should be made to live in the worst estate within the constituency they represent, made to use the schools, hospitals and transport systems.

I thought Socialists believed in equality? Only for us though, not for them!

Harriet Harman needs stringing up! I volunteer!

Anonymous said...

Wouldn't it be cheaper to teach boys not to drink Stella?

Mike said...

Stella has no emotion as cocaine, pot and the plethera of other substances used and abused that are often blamed for a range of behaviours.
A lesson I was taught and seems lost on many is that I am responsible for my emotions. Certainly I will be held accountable for any actions that are a concequence of my emotions.
Stella is a rubbish beer as far as I'm concerned but if people want to drink it fine. Choose to drink it when your in a good mood might be good advice.
Teach kids how to cope with life and aviod risk not how to find support for the various forms of victim they will become.

JuliaM said...

"The issue is non gender specific. It is one of violence and percieved blame and responsibility."

Indeed. Make it unacceptable to resort to violence for both sexes. What could be wrong with that?

Well, apart from not allowing the huge victimhood culture to exist, as it currently does. So lucrative...

"...is not not females that are general best at making thier enemies miserable..."

We may be the weaker sex, but that's purely a physical description... ;)

"I'm beginning to believe that Socialists do this on purpose."

If not, these policies are awfully coincidentally useful for them.

JuliaM said...

"A lesson I was taught and seems lost on many is that I am responsible for my emotions. "

Nowadays, it seems emotion is the driving force, before which people are helpless - 'he dissed me, innit?'

Foxy Brown said...

Will female genital utilation, forced marriage and "honour" killing feature, I wonder?

JuliaM said...

"Will female genital utilation, forced marriage and "honour" killing feature, I wonder?"

You'd hope so, wouldn't you? I suspect they won't though...