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How many times have we read stories like this or something similar and how often must kids like her be tormented before authorities decide that feminists make unsuitable and unstable parents. How long before we witness any effort to have those abused children removed from those toxic households, those toxic environments..

How damaged do those children have to be or how damaged must they become before any steps are taken to relieve them of their misery and abuse. How many more children of feminists have to come forward and explain precisely the same problems they have faced from a psychotic feminist male hating individuals, before those children can claim protection..

The damage these mothers cause is lifelong and children are permanently scarred..

United Kingdom Feminist Alice Walker Bad Mother Says Daughter 

by Brass Monkey 

How my mother's fanatical feminist views tore us apart, by the daughter of The Color Purple author | Mail Online
"I was raised to believe that women need men like a fish needs a bicycle. But I strongly feel children need two parents and the thought of raising Tenzin without my partner, Glen, 52, would be terrifying.
As the child of divorced parents, I know only too well the painful consequences of being brought up in those circumstances. Feminism has much to answer for denigrating men and encouraging women to seek independence whatever the cost to their families.
My mother's feminist principles coloured every aspect of my life. As a little girl, I wasn't even allowed to play with dolls or stuffed toys in case they brought out a maternal instinct. It was drummed into me that being a mother, raising children and running a home were a form of slavery. Having a career, travelling the world and being independent were what really mattered according to her.
I love my mother very much, but I haven't seen her or spoken to her since I became pregnant. She has never seen my son - her only grandchild. My crime? Daring to question her ideology." 

 Another angle on the same story..

She's revered as a trail-blazing feminist and author Alice Walker touched the lives of a generation of women. A champion of women's rights, she has always argued that motherhood is a form of servitude. But one woman didn't buy in to Alice's beliefs  -  her daughter, Rebecca, 38. Here the writer describes what it was like to grow up as the daughter of a cultural icon, and why she feels so blessed to be the sort of woman 64-year-old Alice despises  -  a mother.

So once again, another example of the hate merchants spreading the hate message to both sexes as we witness once again that all and sundry are being manipulated by this feminist movement which is primarily designed to control the lives of all by trying to achieve some impossible utopian goal which in itself is toxic as well as unworkable. Unfortunately, it's always the children who will suffer or are sacrificed on the feminist Utopian Alter of good intentions..


It does not matter which way you look at feminism for it to demonstrate that it is definitely not designed to benefit anyone besides the hierarchy that's running it for their own ulterior motives.. 

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I and many MRA's have on copious occasions stated that not only was feminism a total farce but it failed comprehensively in it's goals and just delivered added misery and death to any society who fell for it's lies and grandiose schemes..

Never before has such a destructive force been accepted and applied by the ruling class to our daily lives which can claim to be so totally inclusive in every area of society that removing it will be a major operation. The only way that it can be achieved is to ensure that feminism becomes so vilified that no one will utter it's name, let alone claim to be one of it's cohorts..

More and more books and articles are surfacing about that hate movement as it evolves past it's original intentions and aims as it now wallows into irrelevancy. Two new books have surfaced, one being a rather mixed bag while the other a little more critical..

The flawed thinking behind calls for further equality legislation.

Oh yes. As life goes on then more feminist lies become unstuck. Certainly puts paid to this little saying..

“It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.”–Thomas Jefferson

Thomas was obviously was well aware of that fact. So we have this marvellous bit of work and in pdf form for you to scrutinize.
Now lets see if this author has any credibility, has any credentials.tick.
Cites her own sex, tick,
Assists in denouncing the feminasties and their lies, tick.
Three out of three, not bad..

THE AUTHOR
Catherine Hakim is a Senior Research Fellow in the London
 School of Economics. She has written extensively on women’s
 employment issues, including Key Issues in Women’s Work. Her
new book, Erotic Capital: a new theory of social interaction in
everyday life, will be published by Penguin in 2011.

We have been faced with the relentless raging by feminist demanding that women, according to their organs, should be automatically installed into the top job just because, they are..

I will list a few more facts from this study and leave you to decide the bleeding obvious..

1. INTRODUCTION
Equal opportunities policies have been successful in the UK,
stimulating massive changes over the past 30 years and
transforming women’s lives. Women today have more choices
than men, including real choices between a focus on family
work and/or paid employment. For the first time in history
women in developed societies are free to take up any
occupation or career on the same basis as men. In 2005, the
Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) celebrated these
changes shortly before it was merged into the new Equality and
Human Rights Commission.
In Then and Now, the EOC set out how life has changed for
women. The fertility rate fell from 2.37 in 1971 to 1.78 in 2004.
Average gross household income almost doubled from £324
per week in 1970 to £552 per week in 2002/3 and disposable
income rose by a similar amount. In 1970, two-thirds of students
in higher education were male. By 2003, over half were female.
However changes in female employment have been relatively
small. Among women of working age, six out of ten had a job in
1975, compared to seven out of ten in 2005. The increase in
female employment has been primarily in part-time jobs – not
2
only in the UK, but across much of western Europe. Women’s
full-time employment rate has remained constant, hovering
between 30% and 40%, about one-third of the age group since
at least 1850 in Britain, similar to many other European
countries.1 Across western Europe, full-time equivalent (FTE)
employment rates2 remain around 50% for women and 75% for
men. It is only in the Nordic and post-socialist countries, where
public policy has pushed women into paid work for decades,
that the female FTE employment rate rises to around two-thirds
of the 15-64 years age group, still well below rates for men (see
Table 1). Even this is illusory. Swedish economists have shown
that Sweden and the US are almost identical in women’s
average actual hours of paid work and household work, even
though Swedish women appear to have labour force
participation rates 20% higher than in the US.3 On average,
working wives still contribute only one-third of household
income, husbands contribute two-thirds. When wives without
jobs are included in the analysis, the overall contribution of
wives is even smaller.4

Employment patterns among graduates are no so different, according to a
March 2010 report in The Economist. For example a study of MBA graduates
of the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business by Marianne
Bertrand and her colleagues found that 10 to 16 years after graduating, in
2009, around half of those with children were working full-time, one-quarter
were working part-time, and one-quarter had left the workforce to become
full-time mothers and homemakers. Vere 2007 also shows that even
graduate women have realised that ‘having it all’ does not work in practice
for many.

Women and Work Commission report chose not to recommend
further legislation to promote gender equality, opting instead for
moral exhortation, models of good practice and other advocacy.
Harriet Harman ignored this to ensure that the 2009 Equalities
Bill included prescriptions for action. The main purpose of the
Bill was to synthesise and harmonise equal opportunities laws
across all the relevant social groups and criteria (sex, age,
ethnic group, religion, disability and sexual orientation). However
Harman insisted it should also include new obligations on
employers, most notably compulsory gender pay audits for
public bodies and companies, and a strong push for employers
to use positive action (in effect, positive discrimination) in favour
of women, so as to make business ‘more representative

Hat tip to Feckblog..

Sex, Equality, And Kidding Ourselves 

Fred on Everything..
"Take Away Reason And Accountability...." 

Men of today's older generation grew up in the chivalric miasma of their time, which held that women were morally superior to men, and that civilized men protected women against any available vicissitude. A corollary was that women needed protecting. So common has this understanding been throughout history that one may suspect it of being based in ancient instinct: In a less hospitable world, if men didn't protect women, something disagreeable would eat them, and then there would be no more people. So men did. And do.
Instincts have consequences, particularly when the circumstances requiring them cease to exist.
Because women were until recently subordinate, and in large part played the role of gentility assigned to them, men didn't recognize that they could be dangerous, selfish, or sometimes outright vipers. They were no worse than men, but neither were they better. Men believed, as did women, that women were tender creatures, caring, kind, and suited to be mothers. Males deferred to women in many things, which didn't matter because the things women wanted were not important.
When women came into a degree of power, it turned out that they were as immoral, or amoral, as men, probably more self-centered, and out for what they could get. Not all were, of course, as neither were all men, but suddenly this became the central current. This too followed lines of instinctual plausibility: Women took care of children and themselves, and men took care of women. It made sense that they should be self-centered.
These newly empowered women knew, as women have always known, how to wield charm, and they quickly learned to enjoy power. The men of the old school didn't notice in time. They deferred, and they were blind-sided. They gave gentlemanly agreement to one-sided laws hostile to men.
Political deference became a pattern. It remains a pattern. It probably springs in part from the male's instinctive recognition that, by giving women what they want, he gets laid. Between individuals this worked tolerably well, but less so when applied to abstract groups.
When women said they wanted protection against dead-beat dads, the old school fell for it. They were attuned to saving maidens and the sheltering from life's storms of white Christian motherhood. "Dead-beat dads" was of course that sure-fire political winner -- an alliterative slogan of few words that embodied a conclusion but no analysis. So sure were men that women were the kinder gentler sex that they never bothered to look at the statistics on abuse of children, or the track records of the sexes in raising children.
The romantic elderly male believed -- believes -- that women were the natural proprietors of the young. This led to laws virtually denying a divorced father's interest in his children, though not the requirement that he pay for their upkeep. The pattern holds today. Male judges in family law defer to women, almost any women no matter how unfit, and female judges side with their own. The demonstrable fact that women can and do abuse and neglect children, that a female executive clawing her way up the hierarchy may have the maternal instincts of a rattlesnake, that children need their fathers -- all of this has been forgotten.
The reflexive deference continued. Feminists wanted congress to pass a vast program of funding for every left-wing cause that incited enthusiasm in the sterile nests of NOW. They called it the Violence Against Women Act, and men deferentially gave it to them. Of course to vote against it, no matter what it actually said -- and almost no one knew -- would have been to seem to favor violence against women. A law to exterminate orphans, if called the Domestic Violence Prevention Act, would pass without demur.
There followed yet more male deference to female desires. When women wanted to go into the military to have babies, or a Soldier Experience, men couldn't bring themselves to say no.
When the women couldn't perform as soldiers, men graciously lowered standards so they could appear to. It was the equivalent of helping a woman over a log in the park, the legal and institutional parallel of murmuring, "Don't worry your pretty little head about a thing."
On and on it went. The aggregate effect has been that women have gained real power, while (or by) managing in large part to continue to exact deference and, crucially, to avoid the accountability that should come with power. A minor example is women who want the preferential treatment that women now enjoy, and yet expect men to pay for their dates. In today's circumstances, this is simple parasitism.
Today men are accountable for their behavior. Women are not. The lack of accountability, seldom clearly recognized, is the bedrock of much of today's feminist misbehavior, influence, and politics. Its pervasiveness is worth pondering.
A man who sires children and leaves is called a dead-beat dad, and persecuted. A woman who has seven children out of wedlock and no capacity to raise them is not a criminal, but a victim. He is accountable for his misbehavior, but she is not for hers. It is often thus.
Consider the female Army officer who complained that morning runs were demeaning to women. A man who thus sniveled would be disciplined, ridiculed, and perhaps thumped. Yet the Army fell over itself to apologize and investigate. Again, men are held accountable for their indiscipline, but women are not. Men expect to adapt themselves to the Army, but women expect the Army to adapt to them. And it does. The male instinct is to keep women happy.
Note that a woman who brings charges of sexual harassment against a man suffers no, or minor, consequences if the charges are found to be unfounded -- i.e., made up. A man who lied about a woman's misbehavior would be sacked. He is accountable. She isn't.
Yes, large numbers of women are responsible, competent, and agreeable. Few engage in the worst abuses, as for example the fabrication of sexual harassment. Yet they can do these things. A man cannot throw a fit and get his way. A woman can. Only a few need misbehave to poison the air and set society on edge. And the many profit by the misbehavior of the few.
People will do what they can get away with. Men assuredly will, and so are restrained by law. Women are not. Here is the root of much evil, for society, children, men and, yes, women.

Bill from The Spearhead as many others having been involved in a toxic marriage would agree that some people just do not deserve to be married as their interpretation is that the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence and once you get there, alone and without any chance of a relationship, that green grass was just an illusion that feminists created in order to destroy the good relationships that men and women had carved out for each other over aeons. A method that worked really well until feminist lies and exaggerations were screamed from lofty heights to inform all women that the life that you are enjoying at the moment is not really a life at all. So the feminist hegemony went to work destroying that compatibility with outrageous lies and continue to this day to malign and denigrate both sexes for having the temerity to actually co-exist with a member of the opposite sex and enjoying that, just not on.

So they convinced women in particular that they should become wage slaves just like them men, sacrifice your life in the pursuit of money and lower the wage level in the process. A method heartily supported by business leaders who saw an opportunity to lower wage bills, increase turnover as a broken homes requires more stuff, donated millions of dollars to the feminist hegemony on the condition that they ensure men and women work their butts off and not have a life. Did that work or what ?

Meanwhile, it took some women a while to catch onto that plot, they actually realised that nothing is gained without the cost being paid. Also, some men noticed their lifestyle totally destroyed by maniacal divorce court judges who cowtowed to the feminist utopia. It is a lot easier giving away someone else's money than your own. It was the right thing to do ofcourse. Women ofcourse came under scrutiny as well as they fell victim to that same lunacy that men had already faced for many years, and when they faced the same hypocrisy and lies that divorce courts allow as well as the family courts when deciding "for the sake of the children" they also came to the realisation that this system sucked. Not only did it discriminate against all men which was just fine as far as they were concerned but when the same thing happens to them by a doctrine that claims to be for equality only then did it open some eyes and women started moaning and whining out loud, how is it possible for the fallacy that is feminism, destroy both financially and psychological the sex that it was supposed to help..

Feminism screwed up in major fashion. Those middle class dysfunctional, self interested, white females actually got it wrong. Now they have enemies on all sides as they start to duck for cover and hope they don't face well deserved charges of crimes against humanity..

Meanwhile back at the ranch -

Marriage Reform Page Up by W.F. PriceIn the first step in my effort to make a positive change, I’ve started collecting and linking material relevant to marriage reform. I’d like to invite others who have some interest in the issue, especially those who have written on the subject, to visit the page and post links. Attorneys with experience writing prenups or simply in contract law are also very much welcome.
The goal is to give people who want a better form of marriage the guidance and tools to make it possible. Default civil marriage as it exists today has become an evil and destructive institution that must be changed. People who remain in civil marriages do so despite the incentives to divorce and engage in gender warfare. For the weaker and less sensible it is too often a disaster that literally ruins lives, including those of the most innocent — our children.
Feminism may have done a wrecking job on the Western family, but I am optimistic that this can be turned around. The fight against feminists must continue, but it’s time to start discussing reconstruction, and reforming the devastated institution of marriage is where it should begin.

Well, how affective are we when the Leader of the Opposition and from the look of it, the next Prime Minister of Australia Tony Abbott, makes this comment -

"It's those man-hating femo-nazis," he told talkback radio. "They've never had a real man in their ballot box!".
Link..


So, there we have one of the tags that was introduced by the MRA's as a deliberate explanation to what feminism is all about and it can only be compared to Nazism as it's doctrine, mantra and intrusion into the law and eduction indicates that they are followers of that holocaust inducing doctrine which can be matched almost word for word to their brain-rinsing methodology which they have done so well..


Meanwhile, Australia wallows in feminised female stupidity as they make every effort to try and destroy it. We have a feminist based Government led by a load of neurotic women determined to demonstrate clearly that any country run by women and influenced by the disease that feminism is, it clearly reduce the brain's power to exclude the cognitive thinking process, while their tunnel visioned, myopia is introduced into policy without so much as any opportunity of long term thought process or even considering short term benefits as this government has already clearly demonstrated..

Then we have Christine Nixon, another feminist and former police commissioner, demonstrating it's total incompetence and lack of leadership qualities, she dined in a restaurant while Victoria was burning and hundreds of Men, women and children died in the process. Here she is claiming in her book, that the reason she was sacked was because it was "fat", cognitive dissonance is a required precondition for feminism as feminists suffer from this affliction because their doctrine cannot be accepted by the normal functioning mind. It would and does reject it's downright hypocrisy and female supremacist mentality, it is akin to claiming copper is gold. The normal, average, human being capable of reasoning and able to realise that one cannot introduce a new dysfunctional, societal changing thought process without destroying the society that we have created over centuries. They demand it be expunged, totally replaced with their inane, socialist, Marxist influenced stupidity designed to replace it without people even noticing as they hide their manipulations to ensure that outcome..

For those of you who have read George Orwell's 1984, would recognise how feminists have copied his thought comparing processes and insane methodology, with which he demonstrates (in parody form) how communism works, like "Hate is Love" and "War is Peace" from that book can be directly compared to the same lie feminists tell, lies like they are for "Equality" when in reality everyone knows they are not and also utilise the "war is peace" method by waging a war on all men and boys and declaring that to be either just some side affect or claim that it was not what they intended which ofcourse is another lie..

They claim continuously that they don't hate men, that is in public, but their minions continually demonstrate the direct opposite on their hate sites and forums, see for yourself..

 If you have not read it "1984", do. It will definitely open your eyes to show you precisely what feminism has copied and how they will try and achieve a new world order via their doctrine as we can already see in the United Nations doing as they favour women over men and boys and at the same time have fresh minds to pollute with their male hating message..

In regards to the above journalist comment, she will ofcourse claim that she was only joking..

This is how toxic feminists have made all men and boys..

Bear in mind also that feminists have no interest in boys except maybe to allow female teachers sexually abusing them as they voice not a single protest on that point..

Those bigots and feminist enforcers follow that group-think that philosophers have predicted many years ago would be the case and feminist leaders would be well aware of that warning. It's akin to the same group-think that eventuated in the Nazi era against the Jews and I use that example only because it is the only recent comparison that comes to mind that compares precisely what feminists have encouraged..

From FRS.. 

'. . . It’s a wonder I allow myself near my sons'by ArchivistIconoclast Chad Hermann has no use for ideological purity, political correctness, or partisanship. His political views are all over the map, and his Pittsburgh Post-Gazette blog can best be described as a repudiation of bullshit.  He's the guy who demolished the one-in-four lie: see here.  Among other things, this is what he wrote today:
"• This past Tuesday in Pocatello, Idaho, some parents saw an old man taking pictures of children in a public park. They approached him, yelled at him to stop, and immediately called the police. When officers arrived, they discovered the man had been taking pictures of his grandson, whom he had brought to the park to play. An updated media report — that’s right; a local television station ran a story about a suspicious man before anything had been confirmed or investigated — eventually declared that police [were] no longer worried about the man, and he is not suspicious. Which is doubtless a relief to grandfathers, aged uncles, and prematurely gray-haired men everywhere.
"• Forget that none of those paranoiacs bothered to talk to the old man before calling the cops or verbally assaulting him, and just ask yourself: what was the more likely outcome there? That the man was related to one of the children? Or that he was some sort of stark-raving, playground-stalking pedophile?
"• It’s a wonder I allow any of my male friends or relatives near my sons. For that matter, it’s a wonder I allow myself near my sons."

As the wheels falls off the feminist money wagon, we witness more and more in the media lining up just to ensure they are recorded as at least casting a few stones or flinging a few arrows in their direction. As we witness more politicians realising that the damage that feminism has caused is not just on the nose but has the foulest smell in existence, they have no issue with ensuring that the Feminist Hegemony has got to go as it's as popular as the bubonic plague with the accompanying stench of fly blown, rotted flesh..

Apparently, due to ignorance or just oversize ego, they are just not that aware of it. That will take time ofcourse, as for some, the obvious is just too subliminal. They need to not only witness the wheel falling off but require a complete four wheeled disaster to eventuate before they will let go..

This what we are witnessing now. They have for so long been allowed to rant and lie that there is no alternate world as far as they are concerned. Their learned lines are so etched into their cerebral cortex that only therapy or electric shock treatment could instill in their behaviour or thinking that a change is gonna come and they are just not a party to it..

Therapy products may be a great future stock option..

5 Ways Feminism Has Ruined America 

By PAUL BEDARD 

Posted: March 4, 2011 

With the debate of feminism revived by Sarah Palin's recent claim that she's one of them, Phyllis Schlafly is jumping in with a new book that suggests the 1960s "women's revolution" movement is ruining women and the country. Written with her niece Suzanne Venker, The Flipside of Feminismprovides readers with a new view of women in America.
[See photos of Sarah Palin and her family.]The bottom line, says Venker, is that, "Feminism has sabotaged women's happiness." Worse, she adds, it's flipped male-female relationships upside down. Just one example: Men more than ever are seeking love, marriage and kids while women want independence.
As Schlafly's niece, Venker grew up seeing an alternative view to mainstream feminists views on TV and in the media. Now as a mother in Missouri, she's trying to help her aunt highlight what conservatives feel is wrong with feminism and to build a new understanding between men and women.
The book is controversial, especially in liberal circles, for lines like this: "Unfortunately, once feminism came along, women abandoned their pedestal in droves and decided they wanted to share the man's pedestal with him. They claimed they wanted both sexes on the same pedestal to represent equality and prove men and women are the same. Instead, they found themselves in conflict. Since there isn't enough room on a pedestal for both of them, feminists pushed men off to make room for themselves." She added, "That's not equality. That's matriarchy."
On sex: "Sex is a problem, too. More and more wives today say they're too tired for sex. ...Naturally, this poses a problem for husbands, who are rarely too tired for sex. Sex is a man's favorite past time, and the wives who are too tired to have it are often resentful of this fact. If change is going to come, it will have to come from women—they are the ones who changed the natural order of things. Moreover, men aren't the ones who kvetch about their place in the world—not because they have it so great, contrary to feminist dogma, but because it's not in their nature. Men tend to go along with whatever women say they need."
The duo have also raised concerns about Palin calling herself a conservative feminist. "You can't be both," says Venker, who adds that Palin is "confusing" conservatives by calling herself a feminist.
[See a gallery of editorial cartoons about Palin.]Mainstream media and liberal politicians and pundits also take a big hit, blamed for promoting feminism. They are especially critical of the "feminist elite" including Oprah, first lady Michelle Obama, CBS anchor Katie Couric, and Arianna Huffington. "What these women have in common is clout, and they believe they know that's best for women," they write, adding: "The problem is that the majority of women in this country don't have the power—feminists do. And feminists influence liberals as well as conservatives to confirm to the feminist message."
[See photos of Michelle Obama.]From the book and our recent interview, Whispers has pulled this list:
Five Ways That Feminism Has Ruined America
1. It hurt marriage. Women want to wait so that they can keep their identities longer and men are finding easy sex, taking away a big reason for marriage.
2. Undermines child rearing. More kids are in childcare where discipline is lax resulting in a "epidemic" of bad kids, childhood obesity, and bullies.
3. Two-income trap. With both husband and wife working it's hard to live without life's luxuries.
4. Undermines college sports. Title IX has ended many male-only sports at some colleges.
5. Emasculates men. It's better to be a wuss than speak up or mouth off and face charges of harassment or chauvinism.

There would appear to be justice in this world. Not that long ago I did post some rather interesting facts about the feminastie movement with the following party of lapdogs called feminised manginas and lo and behold, we have this..

It does appear that Gabrielle is just one of many millions of women who were conned by the great feminist lie and finally realised that that road leads to misery, loneliness as well as a deep founded sense of loss. As I have no time for those demented and blatantly ignorant feminised women, I do have time for someone who has finally woken up and seen the light, the truth that feminists go out of their way to hide and dissuade..

Hello
As I’ve written in my profile, I’m a:

“Single, childless, 'career' (ugh) woman in her early 40s who's just woken up to the fact that for her whole life she's been sold a cruel lie by feminism. This has left me bereft, cut off from my true femininity and devoid of male love and nurturance that is vital to make me whole. I hope that it is not too late to change the damage that has been wrought on my life and my psyche, and that I can become to the fully-fledged wife, mother and lover that is my birthright.”

Even though I had done “everything right” that my parents and society asked of me; I went to university, worked hard and got a good job, I found myself facing my 42^nd birthday feeling desperately empty and lacking in purpose. I didn’t understanding where it had all gone so wrong. I would cry myself to sleep for lack of a good man to hold me at night. So I’m solvent and ‘independent’, that word so abused by feminists. Well, I can tell you that a career is no consolation for the lack of love and companionship that I have never found. Why has this happened? Because feminism tricked me into becoming a pseudo-man, has stripped me of my feminine power and castrated my fellow men.

Inhabiting this emotional desert I came across Henry Makow’s ‘Cruel Hoax’ and with each turn of the page the true horror of the deception that had been perpetrated on my very being became ever more apparent. I am still reeling from the shock and feel as though I have been hit by a freight train. I am devastated.

So where do I go from here? Is it too late for me? Can I find my inner womanhood and repair the damage of decades of feminist propaganda? I truly hope so. Joining this forum is one step in that direction. I believe we can help each other out of this mess. I feel for the guys just as much as I feel pain for my own loss. We have all been conned.

I see there are a lot of men on this forum (and so there should be!) but I wonder if there are also women here who are in a similar position to me.
Gabrielle.