Rakstam par Īrijas referendumu BBC izmanto attēlu no Father Ted festivāla. Saprotami, ja nodoms acīmredzot bijis par katru cenu piemeklēt mūķeni, kas saka nepatīkamu tekstu.

Paši referenduma rezultāti ir labi. Pirms gada jau par šo tematu te citēju Mēriju Heringtoni:

"Meanwhile, this elite feminist drive to abolish every cultural, political or legal recognition of sex asymmetry lands differently further down the socio-economic scale. Here, Article 41.2 reads more like sex-specific protection against the neoliberal understanding of people as sexless units of economic production: a profoundly humane provision for the unique nature of mothering, and now vanishingly rare in developed-world legislation.

This referendum proposes, in practice, to strip protections from less privileged mothers that serve, in however small a way, to shield them from the brutal, sex-indifferent exigencies of the market. Doing so may well serve the interests and priorities of elite women. But it should not be understood as ‘feminist’ save in the most class-blind sense."