It's time to crackdown on geriatric spinsters

Thanks to theLwerd for posting such a considered an eloquent response, which is no less than any regular member would expect from her. However, it behoves me to illustrate with all due respect, that, generally speaking, married women with children get a raw deal compared to spinsters. You see, in the beginning, Mother Nature explained to humanity that the roles of the two sexes would be broadly organised as follows: Men would get the best paid jobs and every day after work they would get to go to the pub, have a few beers with their pals, boast about their new mid-engined V10 twin-turbo Italian sports car, chat up the barmaid, play the fruit machine and then go home for his evening meal. After that he would watch sport on TV and drink some more beer until it was time to go to bed. At the weekends he would have a hobby, something exciting like power-boating or motor-racing or flying light aircraft - about which pastimes there would be loads of magazines in the newsagents. Meanwhile, women would get the low paid jobs and after work, pick up the kids from school, go and do the shopping and then go home, clean the house up and prepare the evening meal. After that she would clear away the dishes, put the kids to bed and do some sewing until it was time to go to sleep. At the weekends she would do more shopping, more housework, more sewing and ferry the kids from pillar to post in her 4-cylinder, seven-seat Korean-built MPV. On hearing this, the girls felt a bit short changed so they turned to Mother Nature and said: Girls: Hey you miserable bitch, that's a flipping swizz! How come the boys get to do all the fun stuff while we do all the work? Mother Nature: Okay, I see your point. I tell you what, if you are ever on a trans-Atlantic liner that hits an iceberg and sinks, you and the children will be first in the lifeboats (offer applies to First Class ticket-holders only). Girls: No, you'll have to do better than that. How about some hobbies? MN: You won't have time for hobbies. I tell you what though, I'll make your domestic chores your hobbies as well so by instinct you will really enjoy shopping and cooking and sewing and looking after the kids and there will be loads of women's magazines full of articles about buying clothes and recipe ideas and knitting patterns pull-outs and pages of childcare tips. How about that? Girls: Yes, okay, but how about some compensation for the trauma of childbirth? MN: You drive a hard bargain, but okay, I'll tell you what I'm going to do. I'll let you all live about five years longer than men so that you'll have a little bit of well-deserved "my time" in your retirement. What do you say? Girls: Okay, missus, you've got a deal. And so the pact was made. However, some of the girls said to themselves, ‘I'll take the priority seats in the lifeboats and the extra five years of life but there's no way I'm going to skivvy about looking after a husband and some snotty kids, I'm going to sit at home all day watching Jerry Springer and soap operas on TV". So you see, while I agree with the arguments my opponent made in her first four points, this does not detract from my overall argument that geriatric spinsters have, in effect, had their cakes and eaten them. ...Cont./ in 'Comments' due to character limits.