Thursday 16 August 2012

How’s That Sauce, Gander? Pretty Tasty, I’ll Bet!

A children's play centre has barred fathers from attending with their children
*yawn*
… and is now facing an investigation by equality watchdogs.
*wakes up* Oh!
Emma Cross, of Manchester-based law firm Pannone and a specialist in discrimination law, said: ‘Under the Equality Act it can be lawful to limit your services to one gender or religious group, but you must be able to “objectively justify” what you have done.
‘To my mind it would be difficult for the centre to show it has met this test when it could have offered women-only sessions or days of the week instead.’
*rubs hands together, gets popcorn*

So, what's the response in the community? It must welcome it, surely?
Councillor Habib Rehman, a Muslim father-of-four, said it was a ‘worrying situation’. He added: ‘There’s something wrong when a dad can’t take his kids to a play centre.’
Ruksana Ayub, a Muslim mother-of-one, said while Muslim women may feel ‘more able to relax’ in a setting where they don’t ‘feel they have to cover up’, she thought it ‘quite shocking in this day and age that men aren’t allowed in’.
Another resident, who only gave her name as Gemma, said: ‘I have four boys, luckily all under the age of nine, but if one of them was older, I wouldn’t be able to take any of them.
'It’s not fair to leave one of them out.’
Well, well, well! Wonders will never cease!

And, as Quiet Man points out, had this been any other sort of group, one might expect the Guardianistas to be up in arms. Instead, nothing.

It remains, of course, to see if anything is done, or if these are just empty threats.

5 comments:

SadButMadLad said...

And covered by Lenore Skenazy from Free-Range Kids at The Agitator here...

http://www.theagitator.com/2012/08/08/no-men-or-even-boys-over-age-9-allowed-at-indoor-playground-via-free-range-kids/

Anonymous said...

Julia M,

This is completely off-topic but a certain Mister Higham has been quoting you from 'a post not yet up.'

Apparently,this gentleman feels that he is 'politically astute,' unlike the masses of ignorant people who don't have a clue what is going on. The NWO and the anti Christian conspiracy that is hidden in plain sight. Crazy ranting about the opening and closing of the Olympic ceremonies.

This bloke is ignorant, obsessive and plain daft. He writes like a man demented and almost certainly disappointed by life. I get the impression that despite his impeccable credentials, he is in a mess. Why? Because women (and he 'loves' them, really he does) have taken his job, in fact, they have displaced all the deserving men. According to this man there is hardly a woman in any position of authority that is not a 'parachutee' put in there to satisfy quotas.

I hope you know that this mad man is using you to bolster his credibility. If you are happy with that, it says a lot about you.







James Higham said...

Apparently,this gentleman feels that he is 'politically astute,' unlike the masses of ignorant people who don't have a clue what is going on. The NWO and the anti Christian conspiracy that is hidden in plain sight. Crazy ranting about the opening and closing of the Olympic ceremonies.


I think the fact that this comes from "Anonymous" is all the comment I need to make about his/her comment.

There is no Anonymous at my site - you say who you are.

On the topic of this post, Julia, the discrimination law in this country is bizarre, simply bizarre and because it is, then these sorts of situations are going to arise over and over again.

JuliaM said...

"And covered by Lenore Skenazy from Free-Range Kids at The Agitator here..."

Interesting article!

"I hope you know that this mad man is using you to bolster his credibility. "

I hardly see how - on the subject of the modern predilection for appointing unsuitable people to gain a 'score' on a diversity check-list, we are certainly singing from the same page.

Anonymous said...

Julia, I think you meant hymn sheet. Fair comment though. I have my reasons for using your blog as a conduit and I sympathise with your irritation.

Faint praise for James though. Don't knock yourself out defending him. I stand by my remark that you write alongside lunatics and can't be left untainted. What ever happened Henry North London?

I'm not writing this to score points. Just to let James(should he happen to drop by) know that 'Chrysalis' is not responsible for my remarks. Sorry for any grief C.