From the Telegraph:
Research suggesting that it is better for mothers to stay at home to look after children up to the age of three is sexist and mistaken, the Equal Opportunities Commission said yesterday.
It said there was no reason why the father could not look after the children rather than the mother. It also said that full-time working mothers whose children were looked after in day nurseries or by child minders or nannies had perfectly “healthy and happy” offspring.
Except, of course, when they don’t. I find it very interesting how Science rules all, except of course when it violate the progressive agenda of the Equalitarian Society, in which case it can be dismissed as “sexist and mistaken” on the sole basis of its conclusions. There’s no criticism of the methodology, (as there is, for example, in the supposedly anti-scientific criticisms of evolution), just a blanket statement that the study is wrong because its conclusions violate the Equal Opportunities Commission’s core belief.
Because we are all the same, there is no difference between any two individuals and if you happen to perceive any such differences, then you are sick and in need of behavioral and attitudinal adjustment.
I imagine the irony inherent to that mindset likely escapes those who hold to it.