Mike Long

Sorry Robert, listing a set of cliche undesirable traits does not prove that the overwhelming majority of women go for tall dark haired men. Evidence please, not stereotypes or your narrow experience. Evidence.

Indeed Simon, considering like, a third of Scottish men are ginger/blonde, does that mean that most of their girlfriends settled for them?

I’d be extremely interested to see evidence that the overwhelming majority of women are interested in tall dark haired men. Please back this up.

I’d also like to see evidence that men are turned off by strong women who could kick some douchebags ass. Please provide evidence for that.

Evidence please (and keep in mind, you didn’t claim this was a…[Read more]

You’re not a victim. You’re a survivor.

It was not your fault.

This!

Do you think she should’ve been locked away in a mental institution instead?  Society needed to be protected from her  inability to control herself, somehow.

Of course she blames you. You were the ‘Mata Hari’ that drove her to madness and despair etc etc.  When you got together with her, this behaviour wasn’t on the table with you saying fin…[Read more]

It just saddens me that many people here, who are otherwise progressive, tolerant and thoughtful, seem so “hard done by” at the face of demonstrably harmed people speak out about their struggles and are characterised as “woke people” and how they “go wrong”. I play on an ice hockey team in Edinburgh, filled mostly with working class construction…[Read more]

You might note that very little changed in terms of women being sexually harassed, assaulted or raped (at least in open dialogue about it) until the me too movement. Until then, no matter how much people asked politely for it to stop, it changed at a glacial pace. All the while, women being harassed, assaulted and rape in ridiculously high…[Read more]

Most people who are dismissed as woke, are simply standing up for their own equality and dignity. I’m sorry, quietly asking people if they would kindly treat others with respect and equality does not work. This is, once again, a conservative overreaction to people standing up for their rights, equality and dignity.

A few decades ago, the…[Read more]

Thank you. I needed someone to explain this to me like I was 10. Have been walking around doing my lawn, cutting the hedges, and power washing my driveway and the word woke is banging around the sides of my brain. I really had no reference or idea about WOKE. So thanks.

Any time.

Unseen, free speech is not absolute. If you don’t have any problem with curtailing free speech when it comes to libel, copyright, endangering others (shouting fire in a cinema), then I don’t see why you’d be against particularly harmful hate speech which demonstrably leads to violence and suicide against vulnerable people. Perhaps you don’t care…[Read more]

Schoolyard bullying is so bloody nasty in Anglo-Saxon countries it is flabberghasting it has taken this long to be addressed. IT is far less of an issue in many countries (including much of continental Europe though not all). I don’t remember any bullying at all when I studied in Germany but in Canada it was so vile and out of control, people were…[Read more]

Woke has become a snarl word, used by those who resist change to old structures that give an unfair advantage to certain people and keep us from giving the respect and equality to all.

Yes, some who campaign for equality go to far and use silly language. Conversely, some conservatives use vile bigoted language that paint all conservativism as…[Read more]

You are under the illusion, Unseen, that any government respects the public. With very few exceptions, governments, in fact leaders of any kind, do so to suit their own interests and to maintain the interests of those who keep them in power. Yes, ideology does shape to some degree how they word bills and what they focus on. Over all…governments,…[Read more]

I don’t care what mode of destruction is used against combatants during a war. Well, I do care, but if war is going to happen, combatants are fair game. Civilians are not. Once you allow civilians to die (or pointlessly suffer to get a country to end things sooner), then there is no point in following any rules any more. If you kill civilians (a…[Read more]

That’s why we have a democracy. To keep such matters from being settled by violence.

It seems that Enco, and the rioters who stormed Congress…have a different idea of what Democracy is.

Without giving any spoilers for the movie Serenity and it’s prologue TV show Firefly, anything can be said to “work”. It all depends on the purpose.

I see. So suddenly…you are a relativist? Yeah it was pretty clear, it works if avoiding pointless deaths is more important to you than the illusion of absolute rights. I guess I simply wasn’…[Read more]