tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1926775615646909337.post973278075411053519..comments2023-10-15T10:32:17.331+01:00Comments on Tales from a Draughty Old Fen: shelterFrugal Dougalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07459572116047155640noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1926775615646909337.post-21777941358852457662009-08-08T05:39:16.435+01:002009-08-08T05:39:16.435+01:00I've heard a lot of good things about her. I&...I've heard a lot of good things about her. I'd love to have met her.Frugal Dougalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07459572116047155640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1926775615646909337.post-64350449719422290362009-08-08T03:33:37.837+01:002009-08-08T03:33:37.837+01:00They are famous - started by Dorothy Day's fol...They are famous - started by Dorothy Day's followers.Pam H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/01223991201236433802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1926775615646909337.post-46786655121388829212009-08-06T23:51:12.656+01:002009-08-06T23:51:12.656+01:00Actually the one person in my life who is on a ped...Actually the one person in my life who is on a pedestal is my wife - sometimes she complains about it, for the reasons you state!<br /><br />Your local shelter sounds interesting.Frugal Dougalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07459572116047155640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1926775615646909337.post-33750537868945601792009-08-06T23:33:32.564+01:002009-08-06T23:33:32.564+01:00Re Ms. Harman's comments: Women are people, t...Re Ms. Harman's comments: Women are people, too. We screw up, just like other people. Do we really have to make everyone else put us on a pedestal? Because I don't really like being on one.Pam H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/01223991201236433802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1926775615646909337.post-15062199162311289852009-08-06T17:01:24.007+01:002009-08-06T17:01:24.007+01:00What riled me is the politically correct diversity...What riled me is the politically correct diversity agenda being applied without any reference to how things happen in the real world. My interpretation is that the existing shelter is being closed down because it doesn't admit battered men in the building as it exists.<br /><br />Another example of this agenda is that radical socialist feminist Harriet Harman, standing in for Gordon Brown for a week, has spent so much time advancing statements like women tend to run things better than men, Lehman Brothers wouldn't have run into problems if it were Lehman Sisters, etc. She may well be right, but she spent so much time on this that, in the real world, proposals to raise the number of successful prosecutions for rape have had to be put on the back-burner.Frugal Dougalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07459572116047155640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1926775615646909337.post-7931586287568140652009-08-06T01:49:46.558+01:002009-08-06T01:49:46.558+01:00Not quite sure I understand. Wouldn't there b...Not quite sure I understand. Wouldn't there be separate (wholly separate) areas for men and women, if a single agency did both? Our local Catholic Worker house has separate buildings for men and women (includes abused women), with the women's house surrounded by barbed wire and steel doors that, unless a Worker is present, aren't opened for visitors.Pam H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/01223991201236433802noreply@blogger.com