BEWARE OF THE FAIRER SEX THIS FESTIVE SEASON The festive season is fast approaching. Last year I wrote about the bad experience of going to the shops during this ‘season to merry’ period. Already everyone is bursting at the seams with the frustrations of the economic recession and credit crunch. It’s been a hard year. And when we all finally get a bit of a break in December, the fairer sex is expected to do more than the usual amount of cleaning, preparing, cooking and shopping.

Growing up, when females used to be the fairer sex, they were bombarded with the message that anger and aggression was unfeminine.
But in today’s climate of joint incomes that has gone down the tubes.

These days the fairer sex has to juggle the stresses of home, work and financial issues.
Traditionally they suppressed anger, but like everything else that is bottled up, the bottle eventually bursts.

 

We are living in an age of rage, and if men are still expecting their spouses to take sole responsibility for catering to the family needs during the holidays, while they down beers, watch rugby and be merry - as usual - we are in for an explosion of trolley rage come December.

Worldwide, women are becoming more and more aggressive, with stressful situations increasingly leading to acts of physical violence.

Statistics show that the number of women and girls being sentenced for crimes has hit a five-year high, that the number of females involved in alcohol-related trouble has increased by almost a third in two years, and that females are now involved in a quarter of all violent attacks.

It’s going to be a war-zone out there this festive season! Expect violence.

Kader Khan
Editor
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