Laura Bates – the missing chapter
Laura Bates is the author of a toxic and divisive book “Men Who Hate Women’. The book tells us much about Laura, her love of confirmation bias, her disregard for nuance and normal standards of fact-checking. The book told us nothing useful about relations between men and women but received favourable reviews in The Guardian… Continue reading Laura Bates – the missing chapter
NHS Diversity A-Z
(No S for scepticism or N for Nuance) A disturbing document that reflects ideological thinking in the UK National Health Service (NHS) briefly appeared on a public facing part of the NHS website before it was taken down and hidden in a password-protected area. Presumably, this was to ensure that the taxpayers who fund the… Continue reading NHS Diversity A-Z
Victims of feminist intolerance
Will Knowland Will Knowland was an English teacher at Eton which is one of the UK’s most prestigious private schools. His crime, which led to his dismissal, was to make a YouTube video that discussed the concept of masculinity. Given that the pupils had previously had to endure the teaching from Laura Bates you might… Continue reading Victims of feminist intolerance
Lived Experience
One of the more toxic concepts of Critical Theory is the overriding importance of ‘lived experience’ and the disqualification of empirical data and statistical reasoning. The latter are seen as tools of the western white male patriarchy and not to be trusted. There are several problems with an approach that centres unverified ‘lived experience’ and… Continue reading Lived Experience
Meghan Markle and the missing 49 million men
Covid-19 has brought out the worst in some feminists. One common theme is that that the pandemic is affecting women more than men; no surprise then that Meghan Markle, who speaks fluent feminist cliché, has jumped on this bandwagon and no surprise either that her comments have been uncritically reported across a range of news… Continue reading Meghan Markle and the missing 49 million men
Laura Bates and pervasive misogyny
Laura Bates appears to believe that misogyny permeates society and the framework in which this operates is an invisible one – the patriarchy. The evidence for this is unverified ‘lived experience’ of women and even then, only ‘lived experience’ that conforms with feminist liturgy. The problems with ‘lived experience’ rather than empirical evidence will be… Continue reading Laura Bates and pervasive misogyny
Laura Bates and the axis of radicalisation
Laura Bates is something of a media celebrity and the author of books including Everyday Sexism and Men Who Hate Women. She is guaranteed uncritical acceptance on daytime TV and I have yet to see her asked a remotely challenging question. That is a pity because her most recent book, at least, is ‘full of… Continue reading Laura Bates and the axis of radicalisation
Laura Bates and Euclid
It might seem a little strange to connect Laura Bates, the author of polemics such as Men Who Hate Women, with Euclid of Alexandria one of the founders of geometry. Well, it is strange, but I am going to do it anyway. Euclid formulated a series of geometric postulates from which useful mathematics can be… Continue reading Laura Bates and Euclid
Rail ‘worker’
Interesting video from the BBC website here or just watch the video below. A man commits a heroic deed so in keeping with gamma bias the gender of the hero is not mentioned it is just an Indian rail worker. Had it been a female rail worker we can be sure the gender of the… Continue reading Rail ‘worker’
Pictures do the ‘heavy lifting’
When a newspaper or magazine article seeks to make a point, a lot of the ‘heavy lifting’ is done by the associated pictures. Even when the underlying text is perfectly well balanced, pictures can be chosen that distort our perspectives. Because most of us ‘skim’ articles in a superficial manner this can happen easily and… Continue reading Pictures do the ‘heavy lifting’
