Engagement

For various reasons — chief of which being work — I tend to steer clear of particularly personal revelations on this blog and don’t use my name when posting. However, I feel that it is appropriate to document on here for posterity(!) and for those who know me, but don’t yet know what follows, that I got engaged on Christmas Eve and that my fiancée and I are very happy about that, and the prospect of our future together. I look forward to what will undoubtedly be exciting developments in my life during 2007. Happy New Year!

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"The John in your life" my arse

This is complete bollocks from the well known “all men are potential rapists” school of logic.

“…isn’t it understandable if a woman does not care to contemplate her man’s weakness for whores? But it does matter. In a book she wrote after reporting on the hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper, Joan Smith argued powerfully that the reason Peter Sutcliffe remained at large for so long — and survived nine police interviews — was that detectives were looking for a bogeyman. They had convinced themselves he was probably a loner and a weirdo. One senior officer said: “If we had 20 or 30 suspects in one room we would know very quickly which one was the Ripper.” In fact he was just a local bloke, a married man who, said Smith, shared the police’s “background and attitudes to a remarkable degree”. An acceptance of this would have saved a lot of lives”.

So the point is a warning to women is that they had better watch out, because not only might your apparently normal man be sleeping with prostitutes, but he might also be a serial killer like Peter Sutcliffe? Because men are all the same. Just a bunch of ’ho shagging, kiddy–fiddling, raping, serial killers in waiting.

Is it just me, or is the world a better place if we conduct ourselves on the basis that everyone is a decent, ordinary person until proven otherwise rather than assuming the absolute worst about everyone because “you never can tell”. Reggie Kray was allegedly nice to his mother. This does not mean as a matter of logic that we should treat everyone who is nice to his mother as a suspected Reggie Kray.

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