Julie Burchill lands at the Daily Mirror:
Retribution is a feminist issue, and execution – sod pole-dancing or cupcake-baking – would be a truly empowering thing for women worldwide who increasingly feel that there is some sort of undeclared global jihad against them merely by virtue of the gender they are born into.
If a racial or religious minority faced the same scale of ceaseless attacks that females do, we’d call it terrorism, persecution, genocide. As it is, we seem to see it as the luck of the draw. Draw the X chromosome, and your life will be one of X-rated horror – good luck, little girl!
On the other hand — as I was just saying about being “agnostic”:
Two years later, Coronation Street actor found not guilty of raping girl with teddy bear or whatever the hell it was.
