Yes, Harriet Harman definitely is sexist. Not only does she think that “men cannot be left to run things on their own”, her response to criticism is just as revealing:

I didn’t actually say you can’t trust men, I basically said you get better decision-making in a team if it’s a balanced team with women and men working alongside each other.
One of the reasons I ran for deputy is because I thought there should be a woman in the leadership team and I don’t think women would want to step back …

Harriet Harman has done it again. She can’t even stay out of trouble for a couple of weeks when she’s supposed to be running the country! Yet again she has put her foot in it over gender, equality, and the Labour party’s internal politics.

I don’t agree with all-male leaderships… Men cannot be left to run things on their own. I think it’s a thoroughly bad thing to have a men-only leadership… I think a balanced team of men and women makes better decisions. That’s one of the reasons why I …

Only last month, the recession was proclaimed to be an event that would “reverse the huge economic gains women have made over the past few decades”. But now it is being hailed as “an opportunity for women”.
So which is it? Is the recession the death-knell of equality or its saviour?
Frankly, I think its neither. The recession does not discriminate between genders; it affects everyone regardless. Women and men will not lose their jobs or win a new one because they are women or men but because their job is no …

Is the credit crunch really a “feminist issue”? Will it really “reverse the huge economic gains women have made over the past few decades”?
The simple answer is no.
Recession doesn’t discriminate between genders. It will cause no more harm to women than to men.
The only potential difference is that more women may lose their jobs because they work in a section of the economy that is more prone to suffering during a downturn. But that is hardly a feminist issue, since woman and men will continue to be hired [and fired] …

This post at Liberal Conspiracy about the cock is required reading.

I’m talking, of course, about the booming industry of surgical penis ‘enlargement’, the nearest male equivalent to labiaplasty. We’ve all had versions of those relentless spam emails, offering in poor English to furnish us with a magnificent schlong for the price of a university education.
Yes, it’s fucking political. Male sexual neurosis is massively damaging, to feminism, to society, and to men themselves. This is not male apologism, or backsliding, it’s one feminist’s request for more discussion of a damaging socio-sexual …

Women should be encourgaed to beome MPs. But I find the reasoning that some people employ to argue for them idiotic.

Commons Speaker Michael Martin is to hold a conference aimed at finding a way to ensure more women and people from ethnic minorities become MPs.
He said he would try to end “disparity” between society and Parliament.
Currently about one in five MPs is a woman, compared with approximately half the population. (BBC)

Parliament is not a reflection of society. MPs are not delegates. They are representatives. As such, that there is only …

I don’t understand why anyone would be attacking Princess Beatrice over her weight and how she looks in a bikini [right]. She’s hardly obese, fat, or even “chubby”. Yes, she’s hardly perfectly slim, but she’s certainly no worse than at least 90-odd per cent of the British population.
Really, ratehr than attacking her, critics should be pointing her out as an example of how women do not have to be stick-insects to be attractive. And, frankly, I think that she is far prettier than the vast majority of so-called “supermodels” who …

Hillary says that she won’t be “bullied out” of the race for the White House, saying that the “big boys” – such as Senators Chris Dodd and Pat Leahy and Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico, who are all key Obama allies – are trying to push her out of the Democratic race because she is a woman. But when asked whether Barak Obama could beat John McCain in the presidential election, she said:
I’m saying I have a better chance. You cannot as a Democrat win the White House without …

Hat-tip: Theo Spark at his new blog and Tom Paine

Home Secretary Jacqui Smith’s, that is. She is complaining about journalists being “obsessed” with her cleavage and has told them “to get over themselves”. She says:
Honestly, the morning when I made the statement to the House about the terror incidents that I had faced on my first weekend… funnily enough the main thing on my mind when I got up was not: ‘Is my top too low cut or not?’I’m going to carry on concentrating on protecting the country’s borders, securing us from counter terror and bringing down crime.And I …