Britain’s benefits system is producing useless men
Submitted by Rose on Fri, 28/05/2010 - 10:37am
According to Camilla Cavendish,the benefits system has produced a generation of men incapable of finding work or a wife. Writing in the Times, she criticises the huge potential for ‘fraud’ and ‘foulplay’ within a system that has created an army of ‘unemployed, unmarriageable and unconfident men’. The women do not want them, she argues, because they can raise families on benefits without their help. Controversial?
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This is not a new argument, but, y'know, at first I thought that article had a fair point - fellas left by the wayside as the economy and society moved on without them.
And I thought I'd overlook the spurious stats about Liverpool's rate of unemployment and single parenthood; it's a slippery slope to start attributing causal relationships between two things that happen at the same time. What? If those Scousers had stayed married the decline of industrial Britain which gutted Liverpool would never have happened?
But then - yawn - the usual victim gets dragged to the stake again. Of course, it's not feckless males who can't get their act together, it's the "feminisation of education and the workplace".
Oh how utterly tedious.
Who earns the most money? Blokes.
Who's in all the boardrooms? Blokes.
Who's shafted as a dinner lady on less money than a bin man? the dinner LADIES
Are we just going to ignore the forces of globalisation that now mean traditionally male jobs don't exist in this country and conveniently blame the nebulous 'feminisation' of work.
Oh right then ladies, let's pop off home so the fellas can have the jobs shall we?