Comments by "Awesome Avenger" (@awesomeavenger2810) on "Julia Hartley-Brewer clashes with transgender activist" video.

  1. If you support discrimination against people because of their gender, you can't then argue that it is discriminatory to discriminate against people because of their gender.
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  2. flower power It's very simple. All-woman shortlists discriminate by gender. If you support all-women short lists, then you support gender discrimination. So logically you cannot then complain that not being allowed on an all-woman short-list because you're not a woman is wrong. Furthermore, once you decide that its ok to discriminate against someone, not on their individual abilities, but on their gender, then it really doesn't matter what the individual feels, or how he see's himself. That is irrelevant. Because your only criteria on who is or is not acceptable is based on gender.
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  3. The top leadership roles in the UK today are all held by females. So there clearly is no gender discrimination. Certain jobs appeal to men. Certain jobs appeal to woman. Politics generally appeals less to women than it does to men. The same can be said about other jobs. For example, not many women join the army, and teaching and nursing is an all female industry in some cases.
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  4. No, the real reason why there are few women in politics is because high power political careers do not appeal to woman as much as they do men. There are certain careers that appeal more to one gender than the other. We know this. It is the reason why there are very few women boxers, and very few male midwifes, for example. 'Affirmative action' (not very affirmative for those it discriminates against), or to give it its proper title, 'legal discrimination', actually teaches 'see, woman cannot compete with men'. It is lazy. It assumes ill intent without evidence (that there is a bias). Anti-democratic. And gives bad results (if the majority of candidates are removed simply for being male, then you will not be getting the best person for the job).
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  5. It's not 'gender programming' to recognise the fact that boys are different to girls. It's reality. We see it in the rest of the animal kingdom also. There are biological reasons for this. There are reasons why females are more empathetic and care orientated. And men more competitive. It's to do with reproduction. Which is the driving force of any biological life. Rather than recognise this age old fact, you arbitrarily decide that this is down to discrimination. Big surprise. But individuals are not groups. No matter what colour their skin is. Or what sex they are. Discrimination, whether or not you call it 'affirmative action', treats the individual as part of a group. Rather than as an individual who must be judged on their own merits. Because individuals are individuals and not groups, we now see in this video an individual that see's themselves, not as part of one particular group, but belonging to another, despite the obvious. So now who decides who is part of what group? What is it based on? Gender? Or the individual? It can't be both.
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  6. So why are there so few male nurses in the health service? Discrimination? Must be, right?
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  7. Oh, I see. You're a troll. I was wondering why someone would talk such shite.
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