by Julian Mann, TCW
DEAR Lord Rothermere,
Your newspaper is now clearly anti-marriage and anti-family.
If Julie Bindel’s article in the May 8 edition of the Daily Mail, ‘I know the real reason so many women are giving up on men to be LESBIANS’, had just appeared on page 34 of the femail section, that judgement might be too harsh.
However, her piece was puffed on the front page under the masthead with a different headline: ‘The REAL reason so many middle-aged women are leaving their husbands… for a woman.’ The headline was accompanied by what can unfortunately be described as a pornographic image of two young women.
This passage in Bindel’s piece reveals the anti-marriage and anti-family agenda your paper is now promoting:
‘According to ONS data, the proportion of young women in the UK who say they are attracted to the same sex rose above 10 per cent for the first time in 2022. Statistics specifically on women swearing off men later in life are hard to come by – but anecdotally they are everywhere.
‘Take the woman I met, who attended a week-long Open University summer school on the history of feminism. Away from the kids, the cooking and the infuriating reality of endlessly picking up her husband’s socks from the floor, she could relax and think about herself for possibly the first time in years.
‘She met a woman in the pub on the final evening – and they ended up in a relationship that lasted far longer than her previous heterosexual relationship.’
Away from the kids. What a brutal dismissal of the impact of their parents’ divorce on the children in this marriage.