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Cancer Research UK: Race For Life - So Sexist It's Evil!

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I sat on the bus a few years back and saw a poster on there for Cancer Research UK's Race For Life. Two women, in boxing gloves, about to punch a man. The message was horrendously explicit: Men are a cancer, women are fighting it. "Don't talk so daft!" you might say. OK, let's reverse the idea. A poster for a male-only charity run, showing two men about to punch a woman. The are men are running to help "beat cancer". Would that be all right? Of course it wouldn't. So much of the feminine saintliness and past oppression "facts" beloved of many "women's rights" activists is built on shifty statistics and twisted facts. Take Emmeline Pankhurst. Such a heroine! Really? Then why did she support votes for wealthy women only? Why would she never go into prison for activist misdeeds, but let others do so? Why did she harass men to go to war? Just what was this woman? Not a saint, not by any means. In fact, far