Responses to 'News items'

Some examples of responses on the BBC's Have Words online discussion to Scottish Chairman George McAulay featured in BBC1 Counterblast programme on Monday 24 January 2000 :

peter withers - 09:52pm Mon 24 Jan 00
well done george thank god there are people like you about. you have all my support

Eileen Cockerell - 09:50pm Mon 24 Jan 00
I watched quite by chance, what a piece of luck. Couldn't agree more with your views. I work full time, am divorced and brought up my children alone. You definitely have the right ideas.

Brian Bamford - 09:50pm Mon 24 Jan 00
At last...and here's me thinking I'm the only person to have noticed the insideous take-over of women. The TV adverts that always seem to show the men being 'put-down', the newspaper and magazines ads. that do the same and the institutions that are loaded in favour of women. I'm immediately going to join George's Movement in support of men and do my best to promote it in my area. Why don't you do the same? Why not write to those TV advertizers who try to show men are inferior and tell them, that because of their bias and non-humourous ad., you will refuse to buy their product(s) and will encourage as many people as possible to do the same....Well done George!! Brilliant!

Tony Luxton - 09:46pm Mon 24 Jan 00
Great programme, George. That could have been me talking tonight - just ask anyone who knows me! I've been saying all this for ages, but congratulations on saying what we men have been thinking but have been too much like wimps to come right out and say.

Diane Shearn - 09:45pm Mon 24 Jan 00
“I think that women's vanity and materialism in modern society has become untempered." If there is an element of truth here. If partly true - why do you think that is? Do you think that sometimes women may resort to retail therapy because they lack confidence, or feel powerless?

Mike Doyle - 09:25pm Mon 24 Jan 00
George is angry and so am I. I'm angry that 10,000 men a year die of prostrate cancer and only �47000 is spent on research. Compare to research on womens diseases.  I'm angry that a recent home office report concludes that domestic violence is equally split between men and women but there is no support for men. I'm angry that males of all ages commit suicide at far greater rates than women but no-one seems to care. There are 34 female labour M.P.'s illegally elected because of women only lists. The list goes on. I'm angry that feminism presents women as all good and men as all bad. Femninism is about womens rights not equality. Its the most ridiculous ism since communism.

Peter Harbach - 09:38pm Mon 24 Jan 00
I only saw the last 10 minutes of the program but I know exactly what George is talking about and can't agree more. I can understand why you seem shocked by George's views because men say these things to each other and not to women. You would be surprised just how many men have a similar opinion. The problem as I see it is the breakdown of family life as we know it. No longer do men and women seem to work in tandem when married. They are complete individulas and therefore do not form a solid base for fimily life. A man has to be the head of the family. This is NOT sexist it is completely natural. Ragards, Peter.