Female MPs in NZ ejected for speaking out of turn, feign outrage

So, a couple of female MPs who are feigning outrage over being labelled rape supporters (they're trying to keep asylum seekers in the country, some who have been allegedly found guilty of rape) but decide to go on the "I'm offended" track.

So, shouldn't they be MORE inclined to want to keep rapists out of their country?  Interesting that protecting foreigners is more important than protecting your own people from potentially, and in this case ACTUALLY, dangerous people.

Girl praised for not answering a maths problem correctly

So, as opposed to the boys who legitimately attempted to answer maths questions and were given no marks because it wasn't in the format the teacher wanted, here is the story of a girl who was praised for her hilarious response to a maths question.

What a wonderful world in which we live where a boy loses marks for failing to show an array of numbers in the right way, yet a girl is praised for citing the "girl code".

Outcry over lesbians being asked to make room for married couple

So, there's outcry over a lesbian couple being asked to move seats to make space for a married couple.

Interestingly there aren't any people coming forward saying "married couples should get preference in seating over unmarried couples, which is what happens whenever single males are asked to move away from children on flights.

I think the fact that one of the lesbians is a lawyer is the reason why the outcry.

I've been moved several times on flights, sometimes to make room for families, other times to move me away from children.  I've never complained as I've always feared being blacklisted by airlines for future travels.

The airline that I'll never fly with again is Emirates, despite their flights sometimes being cheaper.  Whilst I don't mind being moved much, I REALLY don't like being treated like garbage and a pedophile even though I'm a paying customer.

Ironically, Qantas partnered with Emirates, so I probably won't be flying Qantas on overseas flights for concerns I may find myself once again in the 'hospitality' of an airline that treated me extremely poorly.

A woman ran over a 14 year old girl, gender removed

So, a woman is alleged to have run over a 14 year old girl with her car.  Only thing is that the article has completely removed any mention of the gender of the person who was driving the car at the time.

You can be sure that if it were a man driving the headline would be "man runs over 14 year old girl with car".

This goes beyond any 4th paragraph M.O., this is outright suppression of blame!

Push for more male primary school teachers

So, Western Australia is pushing for more male teachers in primary school.

Ok, so they're not offering them more money, they're not promising them additional protection against false allegations, they're just "pushing".

Great.  Let's see how that one goes.

I'm sure the "27.4 per cent" of males studying education (up from "20 per cent" in 2012) is across education, not just in primary schooling.  Also, there's a BIG difference between studying and actually finishing.  How many men will complete their degree to become a primary school teacher once they sit the obligatory "you're at risk of false accusations, also you're going to be a suspected pedophile for most of your career" class.

Oh wait, they don't warn them about that, they just let them find out for themselves.

Female ecstasy trafficker is glorified in the media

So, here's a story about a woman who has since pleaded guilty to trafficking ecstasy, who managed to escape police custody.

The interesting thing is that we never got what we get if it were a male on the run: a running news bulletin about an escaped criminal who is on the loose.  Even now the media is holder her up as a "what an amazing person who managed to escape police", even though they were preoccupied with trying to save the woman's dogs from getting hit by traffic!

No, the headline is all about "bikini model evades police", not "ecstasy trafficker escapes police custody".

Imagine the headline if they'd just left her dogs to get hit by cars.

An all-female reboot of Ocean's Eleven

So, apparently there's now rumours of an all-female reboot of Ocean's Eleven.  One must ask why.

The reboot from the original was brought about to use the story in a modern setting and to work with the technology of today.  This reboot sounds like a "let's do it because we can" as the technology hasn't changed much to make a reboot worthwhile.

I'm guessing it's going to do as badly as the all-female reboot of Ghostbusters will do, not that I'm planning on actually seeing it to determine if it's any good.