Over the last week or so I have been preparing my first report due in for my PhD. However to prevent madness I have been keeping the occasional eye on twitter to remind me that there is a world outside. And so, even in my isolation I still heard about Nadine Dorries’ 10 minute bill on giving “empowerment to young girls” by teaching them abstinence. My immediate reaction to the tweets I saw and subsequent news articles I read was to think “you are a silly woman Nadine, with a highly flawed sense of logic” (although with much stronger language). However the skeptic on my shoulder reminded me that all I had read was second hand information and that maybe I should find out more, so I did.
