/// Police figures show that 214 women were sexually assaulted in the capital last year after getting into illegal minicabs and 54 raped. ///
But it would appear that the Transport for London is withholding information on the number of women who are sexually assaulted when they get into taxi cabs, why could this be?
anotheoldgit // 'Our women', is a patronising and unpleasant term. /// It is a well known collective term, some of you will get upset over the smallest of matters. Lol. Mr aog Just imagine our English roses on AB going to the cinema together 75 years ago and settling down to Pathe News! "And here's Winnie again visiting a war production factory somewhere up...
/// BTW...I really dislike the phrase “our women” I am not anybody’s woman. ///
The things some choose to be offended about, they must lead a very lonely life.//
I haven't even read beyond this patronising remark...but I'm bloody offended by it also. It smacks of the same possessive attitude some accuse certain other ethnic/religious groups of having.
One day we had women here banging on about how they are as fit as any squaddie and should be allowed as infantry troops to act out their natural Bodicea roles charging after Johnny Taliban. Now ,on this thread,we have tears and the vapours because they are regarded as (nearly said O?R) equals. :-)
One thing that struck me though...I don't think that AOG was necessarily trying to be condescending with his term 'our women'. I think he was using it in the context of 'one of our own'. A phrase he used on a thread about white farmers being kicked out of their land in (I think) Zimbabwe recently. Contextually, I take it that 'our women' are simply 'women who are part of our collective society, as opposed to any ownership status that men have over women.
One thing that struck me though...I don't think that AOG was necessarily trying to be condescending with his term 'our women'. I think he was using it in the context of 'one of our own'. A phrase he used on a thread about white farmers being kicked out of their land in (I think) Zimbabwe recently. Contextually, I take it that 'our women' are simply 'women who are part of our collective society, as opposed to any ownership status that men have over women.//
Follow the safeguards many of us have put on this thread and you'll have done your level best to safeguard yourself and if anything feels wrong - don't enter the car and make a report.
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