But bolt guns, mass electrocution and battery are not?!

Even if they are it is the taste that is still different. Draining the blood does make the taste different, whether you are able to perceive that or not.

Again, none of that is anything to do with feminism.

Not to keep dragging this on, but that depends on your own individual perspective. I would say women being bossier than men is feminism!

Please look up what that word means, you truly do not understand it!

I think the fact that I understand the term only too well, and the concurrent lesbian propaganda it also promotes actually annoys you. It is a movement to berate men, humiliate men, and overtake them as equals and reduce men into a position below women. I reiterate, I am all for equality, but the pendulum has swung too far, especially in the west. A woman should never shout or talk over a man, for example, truly obscene!!

Feminism is about equal rights and equal pay and there is still a long way to for both.

No problems with that, but with rights come responsibilities.

And sometimes, nagging is necessary! I had a roommate in China whom I adored and will always be one of my best friends in the world. However, he lived like a pig! Myself and our other roommate (a man from.NYC) used to nag him constantly to do his share of the chores. We all had jobs in the house, I cleaned, NYC cooked and Pops was susposed to take out the rubbish. In the south of China during the warmer months this needed to be done often and he would leave it days until NYC or myself ended up doing it out of sheer frustration. Once we decided to leave it and make a photo journal of how long he took, without nagging, to take it out of his own volition. We lasted 15 days before we caved and took it out ourselves. He hadn't even noticed! Sometimes, nagging is required.

So you more or less admit that it is acceptable for a woman to nag a man to death?! Who is pops?!

British women do not tend to be horrible!

My experiences differ from yours then, do they not? I can honestly say I do not like a single one...I have never had a english or british girlfriend, not once, not ever, nor would I ever want one.I would most certainly never marry one.In a fit, I once assaulted my own mother, I am not proud of that fact, but she nagged and pushed me to the point, where I was driven to it.

What a ridiculous generalisation to make. British women tend to know thier own minds and know what they want, as do most western women.

And that is why so many western men will marry asian women. A woman knowing too much of what she wants is not always a good thing. Chinese women do not need westernizing by these fat older feminist propaganda teachers....

If you want somebody who will hang on your every word and fawn over you rather than be your equal, you either need to invent a time machine and pop back to 1950 or you need to live in a country where women are still considered inferior to men... And you have previously stated those countries to be in urgent need of modernization, you cannot have it both ways!

You think we need to go back to 1950?I never said I consider women inferior, I treat a girlfriend with respect, especially if she is kind and nice to me like a lot of my past chinese girlfriends have been.I am not going to agree with the fact that women should be superior to men however.

Like your chums on here, your biggest problem is that you blame the many for the actions of the few and are wholly incapable of making distinctions between individual cases. I had a horrible boss once, made my life a misery, that doesn't mean all bosses that fit the same gender/race description are the same. You really have to learn to stop tarring everyone and everything with the same brush.

You seem to resent the fact that O'Shei, SB, and myself disagree with you. Why does it matter so much what we think? If you really believe in yourself, then our opinions should count for diddly squat. You don't need to give a flying fig about us for your own self validation,surely? Simply move on...

I will respond to the rest later, I don't have time to now as I'm off out for the day horse riding in the mountains. Enjoy your Sunday also.

Fair enough, I am getting a little bit busier also, doing some film extra work and that is going to be quite time consuming, and private tutoring work is mounting up. I am sure you can agree, busy is good, or at least better than always posting on here? Hope you enjoyed your horse ride and weekend.

Regards,
SMGS

Yes, a woman can install and move a sunbed! Don't be so archaic! We are not all little wallflowers incapable of opening a stiff jar without the assistance of a big, strong man! How ridiculous! You clearly do not understand what feminism is still, I suggest you look it up before throwing the term around again. Last time you brought this up you were under the delusion that feminism = lesbian. Now it appears you are laboring under the delusion it is someone who is bossy?

I am merely stating the pendulum has swung too far---I once slammed a skiing pole into a tiled floor out of frustration at my sister in law for her damned impertinence and lack of respect for my brother who is ten times the size of her, yet afraid of her.British women tend to be horrible, sorry, but that is the truth...I had a female boss which also shaped my perspective, she would nag me to death no end. While perhaps not justifying my views, it might give you some background as to why I despise feminism and british women.Women are killing men in the UK, quite literally.

Halal meat tastes no different to non-halal meat. If I were to cook you a steak made from both you would not be able to tell the difference.

Some might, then as I said, I do not eat red meat anymore so I would not know.

If you are suddenly finding the slaughter of animals barbaric, by halal methods, I suggest you do some research in to the slaughter houses that use non-halal methods. They are equally, if not more, barbaric.

Not suddenly, I have always found it barbaric.

As for taking the right to eat non-halal meat, again it's only the method in which the animal is killed.

Non muslims should not have to eat it though, but I will concede here.

I see no problem serving halal meat in public establishments because the method in which an animal is slaughtered is not important to meat eating observant Christians, nor is it to meat eating atheists.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UylNf59b8pE

Check this link. Why is it that subway had to go halal, and not kosher or appease any other religious dietary requirements. Again, we know why.

I agree that we tend to see Islamic extremism more than we do Christian or Jewish. That is not to say it doesn't happen, it's just that Islam has yet to drag itself in to the 21st century.

Agreed. And considering the fact that numerals, maths and science was a core part of arab history, I do not understand why it does not want to progress.

But it is still present in other religions; the Israelis did some pretty awful things during the recent activity in and around Gaza, with many Palestinian civilians being slaughtered.

There was that american girl, Rachel Kerrie (?) who got run over by an Israeli bulldozer in the gaza strip. It's very simple, you throw stones at soldiers or windows of a jeep that could crack and get glass in the eyeball of a driver, you get shot at. It's chess, not checkers. In wartime (and yes I believe Israel is at war!), you play the game to survive as best you can. Someone throws a stone at you, what do you do? Yes, there have been abuses and many children and women have been sadly killed, but all the arab countries have to do to end it is recognize Israel and stop financing terrorists. The fact is they won't even recognize Israel, even if they get a palestinian state and jerusalem to themselves.The whole thing is a sad mess, and I fear we will never see the situation resolved peacefully.I support the two state method with Jerusalem being under UN protection as a world religious city, but I doubt we will ever see that happen.

There are American Christian training camps where young children are indoctrinated in to being part of 'Christ's army' (there is a full documentary on YouTube about it). Most recently there was the story of an American woman whose attempts to troll liberals resulted in a very illadvised photo that drew a lot of comparisons to ISIS.

I can well believe it,I also find firebombing and death threats at abortion clinics/doctors to be monstrous, and I know there are lunatics in any religion, much like the hasidic jews in Israel who curse at and stone secular israeli people for having a bbq on the sabbath or girls for wearing swimwear (lighting fire, using electricity, is considered a huge taboo to them on the sabbath).

Although I do believe that there are some that do want to change western values and to them I quote the mayor of Rotterdam "If you do not like our freedoms, then just fuck off"

Quite right, and I don't take the daily mail as sacrosanct btw.

Have a good sunday,
SMGS

Respectfully, I will dissect your posting, if I may?

Firstly, I am not a feminist. I believe women should have equal pay and rights and that's the
end of my feelings on the matter. Secondly, the eating of halal meat is absolutely
nothing to do with feminism. Eating halal meat is not radical nor is it extremist...
Just as simply being Muslim does not make you radical or extreme. I lived in London for
the vast majority of my life and have many friends both Muslim and Jewish.

The feminist accusation comes from the way you seem to round on men over anything you consider a perceived slight. We found common ground on the mong comment, I won't tolerate mocking the disabled at all, I was previously tutoring a girl with downs syndrome, very challenging, but at the end of the day, she is still a human being. Equal pay and rights is all well and good, but when women start demanding men to do things and being outrageously bossy, then I draw a line. A woman is just not as capable as a man at some aspects of life, not being sexist, but it is what it is. Can a woman move and install a sunbed by herself? Nothing against women being pilots or anything like that, but there are still come differences. You are right, halal meat has nothing to with feminism, so I shall leave that there. I did not say being muslim equates with being radical or extreme, but the fact is, there is a minority of muslims, note minority, who are happy to abuse our laws to get their own ends. As can be evidenced by the fact that students of all creeds and faiths no have no freedom of choice as to what they eat. I have muslim friends also and have studied islam a little.I still won't defend ISIS or choudary however. I believe britain should be as it is, a multi faith secular country, free from any religious extremism.

There are kosher delicatessens
dotted around England, especially in Tottenham where I'm from, just as there are halal
butchers. There is no distinction to be made between the two, both are specific
preparation of food in accordance with religious belief. What another person eats and
why is of absolutely no interest or business of mine or anybodys.

True, but jews still prefer to eat their own kosher food. You are not a spurs fan are you? You are right what another person eats is none of our business, but when a blanket decision to adopt one food is imposed, and we must like it or lump it, then I disagree. What happened to the freedom of choice NOT to eat halal food?

As said
before, the only difference is the manner in which the animal was slaughtered

Which I find barbaric and repulsive. Also aussies and brits and yanks alike, like a bit of blood in the steak. there is a difference in taste and texture between halal and non halal meat, whether you can detect it or not. I don't eat red meat anymore as I am a pescatarian, only fish and vegetables, but I could taste the difference if the two meats, esp. chicken, were placed before me, even if you may not agree with that. Not saying it tastes bad, when I taught in Oman, I had fond memories of eating at eid, when I did eat lamb/mutton.

I personally don't see why so many are offended by this

Again, freedom of choice. Just like many would not like to eat at a kosher subway, because of the dairy and meat laws in the torah, many want the freedom of choice to not to have to eat halal food. It's not a matter of offence, it is a matter of the freedom to choose and not have it imposed in a frankly outrageous manner by the few.

but saying the radicalised idiot jihadists
are indicative of all Muslims is like saying the westboro baptist church is indicative
of all Christians.

Difference is, christians and jews do not get offended to the extent they start burning embassies and people alive in tires, and burning flags and calling for caliphates. Egypt has been publishing anti semitic and anti western propaganda for ages, yet you don't see british or american or israeli people burning egyptian flags, and calling for a boycott on visiting the pyramids or the red sea. It is about maturity and accepting criticism. If islam wants to be the dominant force in the world and take the place of the old USSR or the current USA, then it will have to learn to accept criticism, pure and simple. To quote hitchens:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee8f8nWVWZA

Halal meat is not Muslim food, it's just the same as non-halal meat except for in one the animal has it's throat cut and in the other it is either electrocuted, bolt gunned, bashed in the head or a combination of the three.

The daily fail is just scaremongering, feeding and profiting from the ignorance of middle England. Shame on you for perpetuating such tripe.

As a feminist I am very curious as to why you defend extremist/radical islam, which would deny you the lifestyle you lead and the rights you have, but that is a whole other post.

There is something about respecting the host culture. You don't see jewish people in the UK demanding kashrut law and kosher food,they keep that to themselves. When I lived in Israel and I had an Iranian Jewish (Sephardic ancestry) girlfriend, I respected her culture and diet, that is the sabbath and the food rules as such:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_and_meat_in_Jewish_law

Frustrating to me as an anglo saxon with some italian ancestry, but I accepted it, because it was her country and her culture. The thing is why should we accept the way they want to do things, but other minorities do not try to impose their ways upon us. Regardless of how you view it, we are under the threat of war, and the british egalitarian way of life is being destroyed for everyone, by the few. Students have the right to decide what meat they want to eat...it is not up to the uni bosses or politicians to kowtow to pressure by the few.

Thr only difference between halal meat and 'normal' meat is the method in which the animal is slaughtered. Halal meat is not Muslim food, it's just the same as non-halal meat except for in one the animal has it's throat cut and in the other it is either electrocuted, bolt gunned, bashed in the head or a combination of the three.

The daily fail is just scaremongering, feeding and profiting from the ignorance of middle England. Shame on you for perpetuating such tripe.

I do miss the blue cap milk; the only thing you had to watch out for, where I was growing up, was the damned magpies. Nothing could sour your morning mood more when going in to bring in the milk, and to find out the flying rats have pierced the foil and had their dirty beak inside it.

Yes and the little finches also. The cream would rise to the top of the milk in those days....it doesn't seem to now!! It was the cream the birds were after. i think that in the area I was living what made me cancel my milk delivery was that they changed the shape of the bottles, making it harder to carry multiple bottles at once- the spout became shorter.

I am of the opinion that fresh cow juice is better than some god awful chemical filled stuff called formula.Always fresh milk and fresh orange juice to the door in England when I was growing up.Vegans think everything is bad for you, I could become a vegetarian no problem at all, but sorry I am not going to use artificial or soy milk in coffee/tea. As a northerner tea with milk and sugar is too much a commonplace way of life. It's like asking your average chinese man to stop smoking, it simply won't happen.

Blue cap full fat milk is the only thing for tea. It always amuses me, peoples shopping trolleys {chocolate cakes, pork pies, crisps, fridge raiders, et ceteras...and an incongruous looking bottle of skimmed milk to watch them calories} hahaha.

Over Christmas I purchased an ashtray because we expected our neighbours on Christmas Eve. Having never been a smoker I don't really mind fags that much, I don't have all the zeal of the convert. However when they arrived he brought his electronic fags with him, a present from his wife. So, got an ashtray anyway for the next smoker who comes our way. More serious things to worry about in life than fags. They are trying to ban council house tenants from smoking here- bloody police state it's getting! I'm all for ending state benefits though..not all just most.

The insistence that I am either a man, a militant feminist, unattractive, old and a whole host of made up cliquey insults that at no point have you mentioned. I personally feel it is fine to 'attack' those posters, but I reserve those attacks for when they attempt to sully the profession I love with their idiotic attitude towards teaching, or their quite vile opinions about women and Asian people.

Well they like saying and claiming the complete opposite of how things really are even when handed incontrovertible proof- for example your pictures which to anybody not blind reveals an attractive intelligent woman. Without trying to be familiar, very attractive, and if Esther turns out like you we'll be well pleased. But you know all that already.

Started Esther on cows milk in her porridge this morning and there was no crying at all. Maybe formula tastes disgusting!