The Woman’s Own columnist has her say on bald men, dogs and wine
BLOW FOR THE ELDERLY
In yet another round of bashing the older generation, the government is considering moving the age at which you can access free prescriptions to the current pension age of 66.
Oh brilliant idea. Stop even more vulnerable elderly people getting the health care they’ve paid in for all their lives! There’s this myth that all baby boomers are wafting around their fully paid for mansions on gold-plated pensions. That they’ve had it easy all their lives compared with younger generations. Oh go and do one, will you?
One in five UK pensioners lives in relative poverty and the UK state pension is one of the worst in Europe. Stop demonising the old. They didn’t always have it easy and deserve nothing but our respect. If you really want to find out who the ‘entitled’ generation are, take a look at the 2.7 million economically ‘inactive’ people in the UK who are under 25. Most of them don’t want a job.
FLASHING IS NEVER OK
It’s time indecent exposure is taken much more seriously
When we were kids there was a scrubby, overgrown river that we used to play near. There were more supermarket trolleys than fish in the water but we had huge fun building dens, riding bikes and having the innocent fun gangs of kids did back in the 70s.
One day though, all that finished. A bloke from the nearby garage decided that the part of the riverbank we played on was the perfect place to have a lunchtime masturbation session. In full view of a group of little girls. My sister was probably only five or six at the time.
He knew exactly what he was doing. He was loving every minute. He stared at us to make sure we were watching.
And of course we did, frozen in some kind of morbid fascination, even though we were too young to really understand what was going on.
We knew it was wrong. We knew he was enjoying our discomfort. We fled.
I’d like to say I told Mum and Dad and that the perverted scumbag was reported to the police. But I didn’t. Deep down I guess I thought that if I had, my sis and I would be the ones locked up and banned from going out to play.
God knows what became of that creep but one 2014 evidence review found that 5-10% of flashers escalate this behaviour to more serious sexual offences.
The piece of filth who kidnapped, raped and murdered Sarah Everard had a history of indecent exposure going back to 2015. Earlier this month he had 19 months added to his whole life sentence for exposing himself – twice at a McDonald’s drive-through. If his behavio
