A Shameless Petition For The State Pension Age For Women To Be Changed From 66 To 60

Via Kevin, J4MB: An utterly shameless petition launched 7 months ago. It’s attracted 318,000+ votes.
At the recent Tory party conference the loudest protest was by a group of women protesting against the equalisation of the state pension age, apparently totally the wrong sort of gender equality. I spoke to one of the (middle-aged) harpies, who defended the historically low state pension age for women (60) compared with the pension age for men (65). She said it had historically been lower for women so they could care for elderly parents. I asked her:

Do you agree men are more likely than women to be employed doing physically onerous work, so a relatively higher pension age is disproportionately unfair to men?
Should men’s lower life expectancy mean they should retire earlier than women?
Should women who didn’t look after elderly parents still have got the state pension at 60?
Should men who were looking after elderly parents have been able to get the state pension at 60?

She had no intelligent responses to any of these questions, and shrieked that I was a misogynist. Women are relentlessly privileged, yet ‘feel’ oppressed. It doesn’t say much for women as a class. My firm prediction is Theresa ‘this is what a feminist looks like’ May will cave into women’s demands for a longer period to introduce state pension age equalisation. Because heaven forbid any woman should ever suffer from gender equalisation.

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