When Gender Politics goes really bad:
http://sophiaofthescythes.wordpress.com/2009/08/31/when-gender-politics-goes-really-bad/ (http://sophiaofthescythes.wordpress.com/2009/08/31/when-gender-politics-goes-really-bad/)
8/31/09
A man parks his car where it says "parking space" in the middle of an almost empty car park. and a traffic warden arrives. "You cannot park there sir, please move the car to the next slot". The man a little confused does this. following the traffic warden's hand signals. As he gets out of the car the traffic warden says "I told you that you cannot park there, please move you car to the proper place" (Which is the original parking space). The man begins to wonder what is going on but complies. When he has parked the car again, the warden says: "Right sir you are going to get a ticket, if you continue to do this I will have to have your car impounded". At this point the guy is totally confused so he says. "I have moved the car twice now, did you not see this?" and the traffic warden replies. "You said you are confused, this means you are being abusive I am not prepared to take any risks" and before the guy could grab his coat, the pick up arrives and takes the car to be crushed.
Welcome to gender politics and I am not talking about the "Battle of the sexes" either. It is the sort of gender politics most people just want to be shot of quite frankly, the above is an illustration of the sort of "Conversation" you can expect if you go against a gender politician. In fact it is a commonly used tactic.