tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post6253392347246321385..comments2024-03-28T09:16:33.241+00:00Comments on Diary of a Benefit Scrounger: Sticks and StonesSue Marshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14849801822216267250noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-83156633124512532692012-05-07T08:15:12.025+01:002012-05-07T08:15:12.025+01:00If the sexist comments solely consisted of people ...If the sexist comments solely consisted of people calling Mensch names like stupid bitch I'd agree with you, but I read <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/owen-jones-the-battle-that-men-who-arent-sexist-must-fight-7712188.html" rel="nofollow">Owen Jones's article</a> and there were a lot of comments which clearly fall into the category of sexual harassment or threats, including the suggestion of strangling her and a magazine asking Occupy protesters if they'd have sex with her. As he says, no man who defended Murdoch is subjected to this sort of thing, and a number of women who have engaged in certain debates online have been bombarded with abusive replies of a sexual nature including threats of rape.Matthew Smithhttp://www.blogistan.co.uk/blog/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-40148956086619645672012-05-06T11:37:22.868+01:002012-05-06T11:37:22.868+01:00Thanks for the comment, nice to "meet" y...Thanks for the comment, nice to "meet" you :)Sue Marshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14849801822216267250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-13998318173271603242012-05-06T10:14:05.095+01:002012-05-06T10:14:05.095+01:00Dear Sue,
I've just read your blog via a newl...Dear Sue,<br /><br />I've just read your blog via a newletter I receive from CAP. I watched your video too. I'm sitting here gobsmacked at what you do, it's either that or crying at the injustices you continue to suffer.<br /><br />We are a family of seven, mum, dad and five kids, two of whom have left home. Out of the remaining five, four of us are on DLA. I was diagnosed with ME in 1992 and spent many, many years bedridden, although those dark days have gone I've been left with fybromyalgia pain, a prolapsed disc in my spine, terrible IBS and migraines.<br /><br /> My husband worked until 2008 when a massive MS relapse caused a significant drop in his ability to walk, left him with poor cognitive functioning when exhausted and he frequently falls due loss of balance.<br /><br /> Our soon to be nine year old son has type one diabetes which is totally unstable, it's not unusual for me to lose many hours of sleep on a fortnightly basis preventing middle of the night hypos or giving emergency injections and dealing with vomiting and ketones. We have been home edding him since Feb 2009 as he was losing to much schooling due to poor health and the system wanted shut of him as it didn't look good on the attendance records.<br /><br />I must admit I've found it hard to keep up with the disablity reviews due to ongoing probs at home, it is frightening. My husband has had a change to his DLA which has had enormous ramifications to our IS, we're still OK at the moment, but if they came in and re-assessed me for instance we would be in a right mess.<br /><br />I will keep checking in to see how you're doing and whatever small amount I can do for the cause count me in.<br /><br />As for Mensch... handbags at dawn I say!!!<br /><br />Sending my very best wishes to you and your family<br /><br />San xSandra Annhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16260644073051470011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-61210038782036980602012-05-05T21:29:28.694+01:002012-05-05T21:29:28.694+01:00Errr bacause in their dreams they think she can su...<i>Errr bacause in their dreams they think she can suck a golf ball down a hosepipe. And that they are in with a chance.</i><br /><br />Best laugh I've had today, (which has been spent marking essays, so funny it's tragic) but also true, the banalities of my sex never fail.Revd. Neal Terryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09542436308490963201noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-68956847768877704092012-05-05T12:57:15.494+01:002012-05-05T12:57:15.494+01:00The big problem for Louise Mensch is that she'...The big problem for Louise Mensch is that she's good looking so no one is going to be able to get the message across to her that she should be more modest and act like a lady<br />she has got all of the men under her thumb so she can do with them whatever she wants<br /><br />She will end up no doubt being the party leader at some pontAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-12103508950808091312012-05-05T01:54:49.090+01:002012-05-05T01:54:49.090+01:00"Why were these men defending her honour like..."Why were these men defending her honour like some medieval chattel?"<br /><br /><br />Errr bacause in their dreams they think she can suck a golf ball down a hosepipe. And that they are in with a chance.<br /><br /><br />Louise Mensch is a vacuous gold-digger who thinks she is a very important person. This brings out the worst in rich old men who think they are in with a chance.<br /><br />Being full of yourself is not the same as being a good politician. She is regularly wrong, sometimes spectacularly wrong - and that is part of the unforgiveable bit.<br />That and then turning into a pathetic girly when the going gets tough as that invites knights in shining armour.<br /><br />Brace up Mensch, you big wimp.hossylasshttp://ouchtoo.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-44513411058191881632012-05-04T11:42:31.513+01:002012-05-04T11:42:31.513+01:00Mensch is an idiot..YOU aint end of.....Mensch is an idiot..YOU aint end of.....sarcboynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-2714159685688946522012-05-04T11:07:57.661+01:002012-05-04T11:07:57.661+01:00Agree
the enemy of the people never was the Union...Agree<br /><br />the enemy of the people never was the Unions - it has always and will forever be, the elites and the politiciansAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-12651129766157258502012-05-03T19:01:06.889+01:002012-05-03T19:01:06.889+01:00To Sue I can only say Hear, Hear.To Sue I can only say Hear, Hear.Susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08121391585218744991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-15034843445233880822012-05-03T17:54:48.884+01:002012-05-03T17:54:48.884+01:00if Louise Mensch believes that Rupert Murdoch is a...if Louise Mensch believes that Rupert Murdoch is a trustworthy person then she'll never make pm as her judgement is well off the mark<br />Tom Watson is no better thou as he was involved in the expenses scandal so both of them shouldn't even be on the committee at all <br /><br />It's only the likes of them and David Cameron in power that have allowed the likes of Murdoch to get so powerful and out of hand in the first placeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-8873805585296541342012-05-03T15:32:31.538+01:002012-05-03T15:32:31.538+01:00Yes! It was this damage that made me so cross. The...Yes! It was this damage that made me so cross. The sexism was incidental to calling her stupid. Crying wolf sets us all back decadesSue Marshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14849801822216267250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-8102633975433136062012-05-03T13:25:28.787+01:002012-05-03T13:25:28.787+01:00Disregarding Mensch there is a wider issue here. S...Disregarding Mensch there is a wider issue here. Sometimes as a woman you have to put up with a lot when working in a male dominated environment. You may even struggle to be taken seriously. <br /><br />For instance I was forbidden to use my name when I first started publishing academic papers but had instead to use my initials. I was told that I had to establish myself as an authority first, before people "caught on" to the fact that I was a woman. When I challenged this I was told that it was my own fault for "choosing" to work in the male dominated area of maths. <br /><br />I had similar issues stemming from the fact that I was also disabled.<br /><br />This is totally wrong and needs to be fought tooth and nail. You simply cannot say it is to be expected and is your own fault for working in a male dominated/disabled free environment. <br /><br />With the current Mensh situation I think we need to be very careful not to make any statements which appear to support this train of thought which so many otherwise apparently respectable and openminded people believe.<br /><br />I totally agree however that it doesn't help if, when you do something wrong, you hide behind the fact that you are a woman/disabled and pretend that is the only reason you are being criticised. Quite the contrary that damages any progress that might have been made.Spoonydochttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05530660179706960529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-22648135497050807582012-05-03T12:40:15.901+01:002012-05-03T12:40:15.901+01:00The Tory trick is misrepresentation. Witness Grayl...The Tory trick is misrepresentation. Witness Grayling on Newsnight the other day yet again trying to misrepresent everyone receiving Housing Benefit as being unemployed (the majority far and away aren't). Witness the umpteen DWP press releases trying to misrepresent benefit claimants as scroungers etc. etc. If they had genuine reasons for their policies which weren't antisocial, and if La Mensch were genuinely capable of constructing a reasonable argument, they wouldn't have to be trying to misrepresent their positions all the time, would they?Bill Krusehttp://www.economania.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-45552166945905710962012-05-03T12:29:58.705+01:002012-05-03T12:29:58.705+01:00These were horrible insults and I di believe in ch...These were horrible insults and I di believe in chivalry, but Mensch is a clever politician who used faux outrage to deflect public anger at her defence of Murdoch. Once a politician always a politician. When they start out they may be trying to do good but those at Mensch's level-not all- are cleverly trying to save their own skin. I hope Kaliya has recovered from that disgraceful attack love to hermrswupplehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10012555558218665781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-82952421354203053292012-05-03T12:16:38.599+01:002012-05-03T12:16:38.599+01:00The force of a clear argument always makes an impr...The force of a clear argument always makes an impression made by judgement and reason, and not by perverseness or any inhumanity.William Boylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03385727608445383230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-72174617593423746902012-05-03T12:00:02.872+01:002012-05-03T12:00:02.872+01:00here here, bBxhere here, bBxbetsybouncehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12794399254014208836noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-4495344504601590852012-05-03T11:59:47.534+01:002012-05-03T11:59:47.534+01:00Well said SueWell said SueJayneLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00512594513221073398noreply@blogger.com