(The gender sympathy gap) The Conservative MP David Amess was stabbed to death at his constituency surgery in Essex and a 25 year old man of Somali extraction has be been arrested. It is believed that it was a terrorist attack and the perpetrator Ali Harbi Ali is being investigated by counter-terrorism police. There was… Continue reading The Murder of David Amess
Month: Oct 2021
APPG for Men and Boys
This post may not mean a great deal to readers who are based outside the United Kingdom. I am nonetheless very grateful for their interest and apologise that this post is particularly UK-centric. All Party Parliamentary Groups (APPGs) are informal groupings of Members of Parliament (MPs) who take an interest in a particular topic. They… Continue reading APPG for Men and Boys
Kelly Oliver
In order to be revolutionary, feminist theory cannot claim to describe what exists, or, “natural facts.” Rather, feminist theories should be political tools, strategies for overcoming oppression in specific concrete situations. The goal, then, of feminist theory, should be to develop strategic theories—not true theories, not false theories, but strategic theories. These chilling words were… Continue reading Kelly Oliver
Arwa Mahdawi
(Another Angry Oxbridge Eng Lit Feminist in the Media) In another post, I have commented on the over-representation of English Literature graduates from Oxford and Cambridge in the UK media. Many of these journalists have pronounced feminist leanings – see post The Feminist Glass Escalator. These include Katherine Viner (Guardian editor) Gabby Hinsliff (Guardian), Marina… Continue reading Arwa Mahdawi
toxic feminism 