Sexiest and insulting?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail....ar-correspondent.html

Do you agree with her, or do you think she is being selfish by taking a job on like this, and leaving her husband to look after their children?

[boxtops]

I think she's perfectly right, these days plenty of menfolk look after the children if the woman has the better job, or more prospects. If I earned enough and OH wanted to be a househusband, it would be no problem for us. It doesn't matter what the job is - the husbands in the Army stand risks too, nobody suggests they shouldn't go. It's not as if she's an Army wife and away for six months at a time.

[jackthehat]

Do we know how Jeremy Bowen's domestic affairs are arranged........or John Simpson.......or Patrick Mannion......or Martin Bell.......or Brian Barron......or Rageh Omaar.......?

[sara3]

no one would ever ask a man the same questions.

[tamborine]

More power to her & her excellent coverage. Her kids are safe at home with whoever cares for them and she's working for the safety of Libyans & their families, as ONLY she can.

[JonnyBoy12]

Sexiest? Whilst I love that word, I think that you mean sexist in this context!

[sara3]

JonnyBoy, I assumed he was talking about me ;o)

[anotheoldgit]

Sorry for the typo mistake, just spotted it myself.

But I knew you lot wouldn't let me down.

[sandyRoe]

Should she be bothering her pretty little head about politics and wars and stuff like that?

[DTCwordfan]

She could have become a coal miner or a prostitute.

[anotheoldgit]

/// She also said that as a woman she is able to bring a different view to reporting yet she admitted that a lot of the time she feels very scared.///

She has lost her argument by saying that being a WOMAN she is able to bring a different view to reporting.

How is that???????

[DTCwordfan]

At least she is being honest - I bet some of the male reporters out there discover that adrenaline is coloured brown......

[sandyRoe]

Nothing wrong with that. Imagine an ex-soldier as a reporter. He could bring his previous experience to his analysis.

[Sqad]

No idea.........I have been led to believe that the "majority" of women feel that it is their biological function to conceive, to give birth and to be the mainstay in bringing up children, with some support from the father who goes out to work to provide. so, from my point of view it would be reasonable to ask the young lady that very question to which this thread is based upon.

However, there now seems to be a society that accepts that the main function of the male is for procreation and there his function seems to end. Single mothers are becoming more and more popular, so with no responsible man present, the child is brought up by it's mother.

Either way the question is pertinent......who looks after the kids whilst the mother is away.

Simple question it would appear.

[Craftypig]

Guilty conscience!!

[emmie]

indeed it is sexist, they would never ask any male reporter how they manage to juggle home, family, why would you. Time these people grew up.

[joko]

i think shes right...no-one bats an eyelid when a man does this job.

and to say shes scared as though thats because shes a woman and therfore unfit for the job, id say shes scared because shes human and youd have to be crazy to be somewhere like that and not be,,,i have no doubts that all male reporters are scared a lot too...just maybe they dont say it...

the world is a different place now...woman are equal and are entitled to live their lives their way...these old fashioned society 'rules' made up by other people years ago, no longer apply.

i am 39 and always assumed id have kids one day, even though i was never too bothered...and i am now coming to the realisation that actually i probably wont...because im just not bothered...i may regret that, but my age is against me but the thought of havig one fast when i am not ready just because my body clock says so, just isnt right, andi dont want to.

not all women are maternal and envisaged their futures to be one of sitting at home cooking cleaning and minding the bairns...

[anotheoldgit]

joko

/// the world is a different place now...woman are equal and are entitled to live their lives their way ///

I am afraid no matter what 'Women's Lib' would like us to believe, that is just not so.

Not that I am saying women are more inferior to men, far from it, in some aspects women are much more superior to men.

/// These old fashioned society 'rules' made up by other people years ago, no longer apply.///

Made up by other people years ago ?????

I don't know about 'other people' but a single being yes 'Mother Nature'

Male and Females are two different species with their own different attributes, that is the way nature intended.

I agree men are no longer the 'hunter gatherers' and obviously Women no longer stay in the cave cooking and looking after her children, but women still retain the sole ability to give birth to the next generation of human-beings, and men still retain a superior physical strength (or at least some do)

If men and women were truly equal how come we still don't have mixed sporting events, (tennis apart)?