Course fees, asylum seekers, and the disabled on benefits
I was astonished this week when I discovered that, as a disabled person not in receipt of Disability Living Allowance—I’m still in the process of appealing the decision not to award that to me—I am not entitled to any discount on evening and weekend part-time course fees at my local college. But imagine my surprise to discover that if I were an asylum seeker—note, not a person who has successfully won the right to stay here, but someone who is waiting to find out—I could do the courses for free. How is that fair? But take note: this is not a blog entry attacking asylum seekers. No way. Read on…
tags: asylum seekers, bigotry, course fees, education, gay, incapacity benefit, inequality, lesbian, parapsychology, prejudice, unemployment benefitLambrou the Lesbian vs the lesbians of the world
Aside from politicians, it’s not often that complete lunacy makes it to the main headlines of the mainstream media, but a looming court battle over the claimed appropriation of the word lesbian by, er, lesbians is receiving quite a lot of coverage right now. You might be forgiven for thinking that an inhabitant of the Greek island of Lesbos might rightly be termed a Lesbosian, but no, not according to Dimitris Lambrou, a publisher of a small and presumably very earnest magazine about ancient Greek religious issues. An islander on Lesbos, he’s a Lesbian (note the all-important capital L), or so he claims.
tags: court, dykes, gay, Greece, homosexuality, law, lesbians, Lesbos, nomenclature, prejudice, Sappho
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