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I have voted in favour of this report for the sole reason that I believe the European Union must focus its policies on promoting everyone’s access to the rights that legitimately pertain to them, in particular those relating to knowledge. In this context, women – and also men, incidentally – must not suffer discrimination.
I regret the fact, however, that the text is unable to resist the temptation to indulge in feminist rhetoric and populism, in the guise of supposedly neutral language. Because it is so keen to serve a radical agenda of ideas and language, it does not even realise how totally ridiculous it ends up being as a result of its pretentious commonplaces and plain stupidity.
Take the rapporteur’s irony, for example – when she explicitly states her desire to combat stereotypes – but then suggests overcoming the social exclusion of ‘girls and women – immigrants, women with disabilities, the poor, single mothers and women farmers’, women belonging to ethnic minorities and the elderly, by providing role-models of ‘successful, independent and satisfied women’ in the field of Information and Communication Technologies. Can anyone take this seriously?
I also share the concern the report expresses at linguistic diversity on the Internet, and consider it to be a universal factor for social exclusion, although it needs to be said in this context that the situation is exactly the same for men as for women."@en1
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