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Julia Collingwood, Uki

I agree with Mandy Nolan’s gripe about Old White Men (Soapbox, 19 November). I want to know – where are the Margaret Thatchers of today? If you are white, over 70 and a male, off to a re-education camp I say.

Oh, by the way, I’m not sexist, ageist or racist!

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  1. I’m not sexist or racist or ageist either, Julia, but reading Mandy’s ‘article’ today
    exposes the fools who need to pull the women of the world down to an unmanly
    ‘ditch the witch’ mentality. The threats are crazed & meant to harm all women.
    Scratch one equals scratch all.

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