WHAT has feminism actually done for young women of today?

That was the topic of conversation in the pub last week - along with who was going to get flowers sent to them at work on Valentine's Day and what The 5000 Fingers Of Dr T actually did.

After discussing it at great length we came to the conclusion that there are a few pros - but quite a few cons.

Thanks to the suffragettes and people throwing themselves under horses we can vote. Brilliant, women get to have their say on the issues of the day and get their voice heard.

But if like one of the girls in the pub you haven't voted since you were 18 because you're always too disorganised to send back the form, it's a pain.

We get to go to work. Hmmm, probably sounded like a great idea 100 years ago when females were expected to stay at home and tend to the house, but we'd quite like to be treated like pampered princesses.

Speaking of being treated like royalty, we now have to open our own doors and we hold them open for men. And most of the time they never say thank you.

Where's the justice? Where's the chivalry?

We're not expecting you to take off your coats and lay them over puddles so we don't get our feet wet but come on, boys.

We have to stand on crowded trains while men sit down, we have to walk on the outside of the pavement - where we could get hit, or worse splashed, by a car and we get to manage our own fiscal affairs.

Whoopee-do, we get to balance our own chequebooks. Thrilling stuff.

Women were supposed to burn their bras - surely that only meant they had to go out and buy more undies, and we're now expected to Go Dutch whenever dining with a man. There's something wrong here.

Okay, girls can now go into pubs on their own, but we worked out that there is then no-one there to buy your drinks.

Or even if there is, chances are he'll be a "new man" and be quite happy to sponge off you for the evening.

And if a women had a number of sexual partners she'd be referred to in vulgar and unpleasant ways, where as a man would get a slap on the back and a pint bought for him. Where's the equality?

What else was on our list - oh, we can wear trousers. Fantastic - actually that is quite good.

We couldn't find any bad reasons to wear trousers - except that sometimes they can be unflattering on your bum/hips/thighs.

But we can live with that. Trousers can stay.

Joke of the week: WHAT do you get if you cross a centipede with a parrot?

A Walkie Talkie

1:38pm Thursday 3rd April 2008

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