2 days ago
UN's call for second referendum is an insult to voters
L ast week, a United Nations panel called on the government to rerun last year's doomed 'care' referendum and take another shot at removing from the constitution all offensive references to women's lives 'within the home'.
The UN's Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (Cedaw) recommended that the state conduct 'an independent evaluation of the referendum, carry out information campaigns on the negative reinforcement by article 41.2 of gender stereotypes about women's roles in the home, and undertake inclusive public consultations to find alternative wording with a view to holding another constitutional referendum on article 41.2 of the constitution to remove the stereotypical language on the role of women in the home'.
Let me just paraphrase their message for you, especially my hard-of-thinking female readers. Since you were too stupid to understand what you were being asked last time, and voted like lemmings to maintain your constitutional enslavement, we'll just use really, really simple language with lots of big letters, short words and coloured pictures to con you into agreeing that you no longer do the lion's share of the work in the home and that your contribution to rearing your children and running your household, while probably holding down a full-time job as well, is no more valuable than that of any man. Probably less so, in fact, since when some men actually do their share, we never hear the end of it.
