(AFP) 2 May 2008: Rising Equality

There are indeed areas where men and women are becoming more equal: for example, in the UK, the levels of female public drunkeness have risen by as much as 1,000 percent in some areas to the same as that of men.  Now it's true that having a larger number of women so drunk that they pass out in the street is not normally thought of as an advance in the civilization, but there is another way of looking at it.  Among the younger groups men and women are indeed seen as socially equal now.  Well, it's a straw to cling to, isn't it?