That’s interesting, what makes you say that?
In what areas of society do women get exploited more than men?
Women complain about not getting the top jobs but men are far more willing to do the dirty, dangerous jobs or have careers in engineering or be plumbers, builders, electricians, labourers, etc.
There’s nothing stopping women doing any of these jobs but they just don’t want to do them yet want the cushy jobs that most people won’r get to do.
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Like seriously who the fuck are you talking about?
Most women just get on with their lives.
So glad we have you to speak for all women
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Yep, absolutely nothing in the past that’s ever stopped women having successful careers in fields like engineering. They’ve always had equal opportunities for everything but just love bloody complaining too much to make anything of themselves. If only they would get their hands dirty under sinks then they could be CEOs, it all makes sense now.
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Sex work in the U.S. for example—a sector where women are the majority and where they are refused banking and are punished by authorities disproportionately.
The sweeping criminalizing of abortion is another one.
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Dang dude really? Check the violence against women stats in the UK alone. Check the crime stats in the US if you want to lose faith in humanity
Its just an objective reality in the west that violence against women is entirely perpetrated by men
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This is fucking awful news 
, been speaking to family and friends down south and in Sicily most of the day and there is plenty of anger in the apathy and the stupidity and the gullibility of the Italian population who voted for this party.
This is going to make the divide between the south and north even wider than it is with even less money invested in the parts of the country that really need it.
Apparently only 50% of the voting population went to the polls and the fascists took 26% of that. Dark times ahead.
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This is an interesting map, showing the voter distribution.
They won in almost every corner of Italy.
There are many Italians here in Amsterdam and they’re all devastated by the news.
My assumption is that it has been mainly older generation who voted for the right parties while a lot of younger people perhaps didn’t vote at all. Which is always a mistake.
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Italy is a great example of what happens when you have huge levels of voter apathy.
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Sweden also went towards a hard right direction this month.
Sweden… the beacon of alleged progressiveness.
I have always maintained that it’s not necessarily that all these voters are hard right per say. I firmly believe it’s the lack of willingness of traditional leftist parties to listen to these people’s concerns why we see a shift.
It’s the same in The Netherlands. Many working class people here who used to vote for parties like SP (Socialist Party) and PvdA (Partij van de Arbeid / Worker’s Party), are now voting for populist right wing parties with hard stances on immigration. But soft, even left wing stances on economics. We see that the immigrant stance is more important than the economic to determine a party’s side on the political spectrum.
PvdA used to be the largest party over here, last decade it has been reduced to a fringe party.
You can’t just degrade your voter base labeling all kind of negative epiteths for their concerns and then cry wolf why they leave to populist right wing parties instead.
Those with little money to live have other pressing issues than the ivory tower left wing elite.
The left unfortunately has a hard time looking inward and taking responsibility for this shift in balance power as it seems to happen all across Europe.
It’s always someone else’s fault.
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But how much of that voter apathy is a result of the political wing of the culture wars? This pandering to the more extreme elements of their party.
Because I don’t think I’ve ever heard so many people referring to themselves as being ‘politically homeless’.
Is it not also the pandering to the middle ground leading to apathy.
No discernable difference leading to regurgitation of the same outlook is the definition of apathy.
Your only going to encourage more of this with younger and future generations at election time.
Heading the other way here in Ireland and our next government is very likely to be a more left leaning alliance.
Is that the case? I see most countries have vastly different political parties.
I think the US might fall under that description though.
And Britain doesn’t?
Good post.
I’ve always voted for left leaning party’s but more recently have become disillusioned with Labour, who were traditionally for working class people.
They have cultivated an image where they are seen, rightly or wrongly, as a liberal elite, who not only ignore working class people, they refuse to listen to them and it’s the Tories who have taken their vote.
The fact that Labour have lost the last two elections to May and then a buffoon prove how out of touch they are.
This is the worst government most people can remember and, whenever the next election is, Labour should win by a landslide.
But there is also a danger that, rather than shifting to the left, we could see an upsurge of right wing candidates like we’ve just seen in Italy and other European countries.
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No, I don’t think so. I think there is a clear distinction in the UK between our two main political parties, both economically and culturally.
