Equality for Women?

David Irving (Ed: noted British author) spoke on the holocaust in Ottawa last November. His views about women, made during intermission in his lecture, are less publicized than those of the holocaust, but they are not less controversial. He said women's brains are 10% smaller than men's. “The tragic thing is that it's not just any 10%. It's the important 10%. Mem are basically upright, honest, decent and true, and yet women lack these qualities.” He also said women in university deprive men of space, and the world was a lot better when women knew their place. He identified the world's two problems as equal rights and the advent of birth control. “Unemployment could be solved in a day if they made it a criminal offence to employ a woman.” He said that reading TV news is a man's job. “I think that at the end of the main broadcast, when all the important news has been broadcast, then they should have a woman coming on to read the women's news like the latest knitting and cooking and sewing tips.” The British writer has a wife and four daughters. (excerpted from The Charlatan, Carleton University. Nov. 15, 1990)

From “Humanist in Canada” Spring 1991 (#96)

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Sexism

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