Rod Liddle has written an engaging piece in the Sunday Times of 12/12/21 that you can find here. Rod laments the plan in New Zealand to give traditional Maori ways of knowing equal billing with science within the science curriculum of schools and universities. Naturally, Maori folk law and history should be taught in New… Continue reading Emma Renold and Jessica Ringrose
Month: Dec 2021
Two BBC Headlines
(A tale of gamma bias at the BBC) Two articles from the BBC News website tell us a story about the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). When suffering involves women, gender will be to the foreground. The story may not even be entirely about women, it only has to be a majority for the headline to… Continue reading Two BBC Headlines
The Guardian and Judith Butler
The Guardian appears to believe that the works of Judith Butler are sacred canonical texts that are beyond disproof or criticism. For those of you are not familiar with the work of Judith Butler she is a ‘philosopher’ who’s work is rooted in postmodernism and the author of books such as Gender Trouble: Feminism and… Continue reading The Guardian and Judith Butler
Female academics and ‘wokeness’
It is by no means settled that the feminine soul is possessed of only sugar and spice and all things nice” Mary Harrington, The new female ascendendency This post was prompted by an article penned by Noah Carl that briefly appeared on the front page of The Critic entitled Did women in academia cause wokeness.… Continue reading Female academics and ‘wokeness’
Professor Emma Renold (2)
(More on the boy-blind professor of childhood studies) Feminists love their neologisms. Mansplaining, manspreading and the shecession are recent examples culled from daily newspapers in the UK. Today, I would like to coin my own neologism – andranopsia (an means without, opsia means seeing and andros means man), a condition the renders men and boys… Continue reading Professor Emma Renold (2)
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