Tonight With Vincent Browne Thread v3.0 (07/04/13 - 08/07/14)

Lapin

There'll be some crack in the Red Cow hotel up the road from TV3 after the show !


If I was in Dublin I'd nearly head out there.

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Clandestine wrote: »

Fluoride is just another conspiracy theory... just like the "patriarchy" and the "gender pay gap"

Oh I don't agree, just do a quick Google search on flouride. The UK and Germany don't use it!

jescart

Clandestine wrote: »

Fluoride is just another conspiracy theory...

"Fluoride" is a conspiracy theory??

It's a highly toxic substance and is most definitely added to our public water supply. Where is the conspiracy?

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RTE can never justify an male panel on Prime Time anymore, there's plenty that have an opinion on issues.

shroom007

is this gonna be on for long I got a mountain of ironing to do before I get me girlfriends lunch ready for tommorow

Clandestine

jescart wrote: »

"Fluoride" is a conspiracy theory??

It's a highly toxic substance and is most definitely added to our public water supply. Where is the conspiracy?

it was a joke

But the patriarchy/wage pay gap seriously don't exist in Ireland

Busted Flat.

Lapin wrote: »

There'll be some crack in the Red Cow hotel up the road from TV3 after the show !


If I was in Dublin I'd nearly head out there.

The wan talking about the lack of female CEO's in Irish companies, What about Angela Kearns, giving the hubby the cheap coffins deal.

Lisha

I'm watching this and I think it's a pity that female issues are muddied by the ultra feminist dogma.

For my the biggest oppressor of people is a lack of educational opportunity.
What provided me with a wellpaying career is education.
The greatest tool our children will have is education.

But after I had my children I decided to job share as I felt dropping kids to a minder at 7am is just too bloody hard on my kids. There is an attitude that I gave betrayed myself by 'abandoning' my career. Now there is a perception that I have down graded my career to a job.

I feel the choices myself and my husband make are based on team work and what we need to do together to manage our family life. It is very likely that as I can be the bigger earner I will return to full time employment and he will 'stay at home' .
This to me us true equality based on us working together.

So IMHO the single greatest equal user is education as it gives people greater choice.

Less feminism and more equality please!

Lapin

I'll give that one a lack of women in business but they are well represented in sports and probably outnumber men in the arts.

donfers

hotmail.com wrote: »

You took that statement personally??

well she said men collectively have to answer for it - a lot of competition for looney tunes comments tonight but that one is a frontrunner

bluefinger

brilliant last point

Lapin

Token Killiney Dame

Harry Angstrom

jescart wrote: »

"Fluoride" is a conspiracy theory??

It's a highly toxic substance and is most definitely added to our public water supply. Where is the conspiracy?

But at least it gives us nice gnashers.....

jescart

Good little feminists, give yourselves a big round of applause..

donfers

Lisha wrote: »

I'm watching this and I think it's a pity that female issues are muddied by the ultra feminist dogma.

For my the biggest oppressor of people is a lack of educational opportunity.
What provided me with a wellpaying career is education.
The greatest tool our children will have is education.

But after I had my children I decided to job share as I felt dropping kids to a minder at 7am is just too bloody hard on my kids. There is an attitude that I gave betrayed myself by 'abandoning' my career. Now there is a perception that I have down graded my career to a job.

I feel the choices myself and my husband make are based on team work and what we need to do together to manage our family life. It is very likely that as I can be the bigger earner I will return to full time employment and he will 'stay at home' .
This to me us true equality based on us working together.

So IMHO the single greatest equal user is education as it gives people greater choice.

Less feminism and more equality please!

women are doing much better out of the current education system so no mention of it

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so much for the equality myth these people claim to abide by

Usedname

take everything wrote: »

What was her point.

vicwatson wrote: »

Nelly the Elephant packed her truck and ran away with the circus

She was, I believe, referring to this story....

As a man was passing the elephants, he suddenly stopped, confused by the fact that these huge creatures were being held by only a small rope tied to their front leg. No chains, no cages. It was obvious that the elephants could, at anytime, break away from their bonds but for some reason, they did not.

He saw a trainer nearby and asked why these animals just stood there and made no attempt to get away. "Well," trainer said, "when they are very young and much smaller we use the same size rope to tie them and, at that age, it's enough to hold them. As they grow up, they are conditioned to believe they cannot break away. They believe the rope can still hold them, so they never try to break free."

The man was amazed. These animals could at any time break free from their bonds but because they believed they couldn't, they were stuck right where they were.

Like the elephants, how many of us go through life hanging onto a belief that we cannot do something, simply because we failed at it once before?:D

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Lisha wrote: »

I'm watching this and I think it's a pity that female issues are muddied by the ultra feminist dogma.

For my the biggest oppressor of people is a lack of educational opportunity.
What provided me with a wellpaying career is education.
The greatest tool our children will have is education.

But after I had my children I decided to job share as I felt dropping kids to a minder at 7am is just too bloody hard on my kids. There is an attitude that I gave betrayed myself by 'abandoning' my career. Now there is a perception that I have down graded my career to a job.

I feel the choices myself and my husband make are based on team work and what we need to do together to manage our family life. It is very likely that as I can be the bigger earner I will return to full time employment and he will 'stay at home' .
This to me us true equality based on us working together.

So IMHO the single greatest equal user is education as it gives people greater choice.

Less feminism and more equality please!

Feminism is about giving equality to women. I don't know why some people, even women, find the word feminism, so offensive (My own hunch is because men have successfully made it a dirty word).

The odd extremist in the feminist movement doesn't own the word, nor can they undo the key aim of feminism - the advocacy of women's rights on the grounds of equality of the sexes.

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donfers wrote: »

well she said men collectively have to answer for it - a lot of competition for looney tunes comments tonight but that one is a frontrunner

Unless you traffic women, then it wasn't directed to you.

Lapin

I have to say I enjoyed that.

I'd love if VB had them in every month.

I love women. Can't figure them out but I love them all the same.

Sometimes I wonder why they can't relax and be like the rest of the human race.

My OH will be sorry she missed that tonight.

I'll have to tell her all about it when she gets in from the pub.

shroom007

everyone back to coppers then

donfers

hotmail.com wrote: »

Unless you traffic women, then it wasn't directed to you.

it was directed at men, I am a man - try to figure it out

Lisha

donfers wrote: »

women are doing much better out of the current education system so no mention of it

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so much for the equality myth these people claim to abide by

I agree completely. Your point echoes a conversation that happened in my house this evening. Which is why my husband who had bugger all educational support growing up is very adamant that our son (as well as our daughter) sees college in his future as a certainty rather than a possibility.
Education needs to be supported in the home not just in the schools.

Busted Flat.

hotmail.com wrote: »

Unless you traffic women, then it wasn't directed to you.

Posts like that is what is wrong with feminism.

vicwatson

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

But at least it gives us nice gnashers.....

I'm ok, I brush my teeth and shower in Evian

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Lisha wrote: »

I agree completely. Your point echoes a conversation that happened in my house this evening. Which is why my husband who had bugger all educational support growing up is very adamant that our son (as well as our daughter) sees college in his future as a certainty rather than a possibility.
Education needs to be supported in the home not just in the schools.

Women have been doing better in Irish education for decades, the issues lie after education.

vicwatson

Ailbhe Smith AKA Louis Walsh (at weekends)

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Busted Flat. wrote: »

Posts like that is what is wrong with feminism.

One post deflates a whole belief. Eh ok (a belief that most agree with now, equality for men and women).

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I'm surprised Susan hasn't got angry about the GAA gay porn story.

Harry Angstrom

I like Susan. I can imagine her in an Aga Saga.

Lapin

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