Scaredy cats and Nannies
November 10, 2005 – 10:02 pmpeople are such a bunch of scaredy cats sometimes. i swear there are so many wusses around who masquerade as ‘big strong men’ it makes me laugh. what our friend indian capitalist says: ( from one of the ‘debates’ on the guardian newsblog - poor state of affairs -
” Do you even know that many of these old men are rampant womanizers and drunkards? That is why don’t have money. If they live in a decent fashion, then they can manage very well with their savings.
I am against nanny state. Let every person young or old take care of his or her own needs. “
haaah..’rampant womanizers and drunkards..’ dear me! there seems to be a flavour of a moral panic about that phrase. Sounds so much along the lines of… a screaming Nanny shouting ‘..rampant womanizers and drunkards about! Young ladies hide!!..”
oh but..he is against a ‘nanny state’.
Chortle Chortle
Cartoon from The Vote, a newspaper published by the Women’s Freedom League (February, 1911)
9 Responses to “Scaredy cats and Nannies”
Wow! Thank you for immortalizing my name yet again by a mention on your esteemed blogsite and granting me that elusive free publicity. Now I am starting to make out that you are a closet-capitalist yourself, but peer pressure forces you to hide your true ideology. (most UK Asians are liberals because they lack self-confidence and also because they misguidedly think that the Tories are racist. But the fact is that we Asians are most racist of all people and hence we tend to tar everyone else with the same caste-ist brush of our own mindset.)
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“Do you even know that many of these old men are rampant womanizers and drunkards?â€
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what I meant by this statement was that age has nothing to do with morality. A twelve year old boy can be a criminal and so can be a 80 year old man. Just because someone is old that does not give him a blank cheque over morality and over my cheque book.
If a old man has to have my help then he must deserve it first. I have to know how he came to be in such dire circumstances. Why couldn’t he save? Was it because he was a spendthrift who lived the life of Pasha of Dubai when he was young?
People usually get in life what they deserve. So if an old man is poor then he probably has brought his misfortune on him and we should not spend our valuable time and money in helping that idiot. Let them rot at 100 GBP a week. They are not your problem.
By IC on Nov 11, 2005
Oh was I too ruthless in expressing myself in the earlier blog. But the ideology is correct. No man has the right to make himself a burden on others. Young or old all have to fend for themselves.
By IC on Nov 11, 2005
Thanks IC for highlighting that! yes..on many occasions indians are the most racist of the lot! ( as you are showing your true colours..:-)) When i went to university I hadn’t realized quite how narrow-minded most people in the world are..However a lot of the British Asians i met were more than happy to engage in a bit of ‘othering’ along the lines of we’re like this and you guys from asia are like that.
also sometimes people keep asking if i’ve ‘experienced racism’ in england - and i have to keep saying well no actually not. unless you want to count as ‘racism’ the fact that a lot of ethnic minority groups who feel very strongly about their ‘minority’ status imagine that i too feel the same and have been affected in the same way, hence pre-judging my ‘attitudes’ to society and interaction because they think it must be the same as theirs.
otherwise with regards to my brown-ness - i don’t see why everyone thinks its such a big deal - i love my brown skin!Its not representative of ‘oppression’ for me - its just a colour. And I love colour!
and im always getting compliments on my brown skin.. its only when im floating around somewher in the indian sub-continent people say…”Oooh! you’d better not get too much of a tan!” .and the usual colour discrimination against darker -skinned ‘women’ in particular - kicks in. Of course- how would the match-making old ladies manage to place us on the list of ’suitable women for marriage’ otherwise?!
and as you’ve made it clear - who’s been expressing the most racist and xenophobic viewpoints on the Guardian blog? You and Ven…
By sonia on Nov 11, 2005
Sorry, but I have no inferiority complex about me so I can’t be racist. Moreover, I don’t believe in religion, not in any scumbag groups like that of communists who are always fearful of leaving the herd of fellow leftists. Being a staunch individualist I don’t know how you can tag me with the libelous term of racist.
By IC on Nov 11, 2005
Racist (definition not from any dictionary, from my own perception): A racist is a person who is traumatized by a deep sense of inferiority complex, which he cannot afford to reveal to anyone or even to himself. So he tires to hide his weaknesses under a bombastic show of cultural superiority. He has nothing to feel superior about in himself, so he tries to identify with a group that he feels will somehow lend him the tag of some kind of superiority. Communists are most racists of all, though their race is mental rather than physical. Anyone who is bourgeois (a man with competence) is abhorrent to them.
By IC on Nov 11, 2005
Sonia,
I am not a racist. My advisor here at Cornell is an African American, a BLACK. You know me, goto the website and look at the picture of my advisor. An extraordinarily brilliant BLACK American whom I respect like my foster dad, for that was how he interacted with me last five years. I never had issues with Buddhists, Christians, Catholics, Falun Gong, Animistic religions of Africa. On Christmas eve I go to churches. (you can of course choose not to beleive me for it wont effect my argument about MUSLIMS)
As far as MUSLIMS are concerned, facts speak for themselves Sonia - Kashmir in India, Chechneya in Russia, Aceh in Indonesia, Uighur in China, Southern Thailand, Mindanao in Phillipinese, Southern Sudan, Nigeria, 9-11 in America, Palestine in Middle east, Kosovo in Serbia…… MAJORITY of the current problems in this world are because one of the parties involved are muslims. Are all the major cultures - Chinese, Russian, Indian, American, South east Asian insane SIMULTANEOUSLY? Or is there a problem with one? Choose your pick.
You are a Good person, judging by your writing style. Perhaps you being a Muslim your self, your defense mechanism rationalizes that we are Xenophobic and Racists. Just go to the real ISLAMIC countries and look at how they treat HINDUS - IDOL WORSHIPPERS.
Do you want to know what happens to some Hindus in Bangladesh ? http://www.faithfreedom.org/Gallery/10.htm
By ven on Nov 11, 2005
ah you poor things. why do you imagine i would try to ‘pretend’ there are no atrocities occurring in a mad place like bangladesh? see unlike you i dont bother fooling myself about ‘my group’ and ‘your group’. As far as ive seen there’s plenty of shit things happening EVERYWHERE - including a country like the one i come from - where people kill the headmistress of a school if they don’t like her. nevermind religious differences - they’re as bigoted as indian capitalist and yourself. i hear the muslims slag off the hindus, i hear the hindus slag off the muslims, its the same…its so sad that’s why i write the stuff i do.
By sonia on Nov 13, 2005
I just don’t have anything to say right now.
By snymrik on May 16, 2006
Hello Jane, great site!
By geroin9l on Jul 28, 2006