One of my friends on Facebook occasionally posts spoof Adele quotes.
I love them.

Professionalism my boy, always with professionalism .

Just had Dad on phone.It's bad news and my mum is going into hospital on the 7th of March.

I'm sorry to hear that, but the good news is that she's going into hospital. I imagine things wouldn't improve if she wasn't.
Fingers crossed for you all.

That my new A200 tablet is awesome

That blog post has made me angrier than I've been in a long time.

I am starting to get really pissed off with that brand of particularly horrid, pseudo-feminist arse.

Really - the general point she's making...



...would seem to be good advice.

On the surface it looks like good advice. But it's not good advice. At all.

It's just as arrogant and sexist as what she claims to fight against. She arrogantly gives advice to men without ever considering the possibility that she's as clueless about men as they are about her. She makes wild derogatory assumptions about "men" i.e. all men. And she never, EVER considers even the vaguest possibility that the woman in question may have given out a signal that was mis-interpretable as an opening.

Secondly, it's a bit hard to swallow after recent protests.

A policeman quite correctly tells women that they could decrease their chances of being attacked by dressing modestly. Suddenly we have marches all around the globe.
Meanwhile, I have to blindly accept that I have to spend the rest of my life trying my level best not to act like a rapist. But that's okay because I'm a man and therefore it's all my fault.

Lastly though, and most importantly, she doesn't realise the farcical nature of her position. The "guys" doing the damage - the players, "gangstaz" and other assorted pricks - won't be changed in the least by what she says. No - the men who will heed this advice are the ones women need to meet; the ones who would make great friends and spouses if someone would just give them a chance, who already struggle around women and who, because of this tosh, their self-esteem just wilted a little bit more.

But it's okay to dance on the grave of many men's self-confidence. That's fine because we have to protect teh wimminz.

[Sorry for the (probably nonsensical) rant but this touches a very raw nerve indeed]

Erm, I think you've read a little too much into that Tinny.

It's the same for horses, you can stroke them on the head when out in a field, but do it in a corner and they're likely to flip out (maybe like a ninja).

I suppose it's the same in any situation when you're faced with someone stronger than you potentially being able to control your space, it's not the time to suggest "anything".

I stopped talking to children a long time ago because I don't want to be labled a paedophile. I'd better stop talking to women now incase I get labelled a rapist.

Well I guess it might be OK if it's been arranged by their parents and they're formally shaparoned, like in the good old days when everyone realised women were weak and didn't pretend to treat them equally.

I accept that, yes. And if she'd stopped at the end of the first sentence, fine.

But she didn't stop.


Okay. That's not my fault but fine - I get it.


Hang on a minute... I haven't ... what...


WTF?

She's not saying that's what you're doing on purpose, she's saying that what her instincts are telling her, and there's nothing you can do about it

I have to control my instincts - she can control hers...

You can't control your subconscious, otherwise it would be called your conscious.

But you can control some of how the conscious deals with the information from the sub-conscious.