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 where 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’
Jordan Peterson and Toxic Femininity*
*Mystery Man Muses has just written very thoughtfully on this subject in his blog post of October 6th that you can find here. He differs over some aspects of this topic and I hope you read his post as well as mine. It is interesting to see Jordan Peterson wading into the concept of toxic… Continue reading Jordan Peterson and Toxic Femininity*
The Labour Party’s Problem With Men
Pundits have been, quite properly, quick to point the finger at Boris Johnson and the Conservative Party when it comes to sexist attitudes. However, the Labour Party has some serious problems of its own with its attitudes to men. Their last election manifesto was strongly gynocentric and the men who comprise 49% of the population… Continue reading The Labour Party’s Problem With Men
All Party Parliamentary Group
It is good to be able to report some good news for a change. An All-Party Parliamentary Group on issues affecting men and boys has been formed within the UK Parliament. In large part, this is due to campaigning by Mike Bell of Equi-Law UK. I would encourage everyone to donate to Equi-Law UK to… Continue reading All Party Parliamentary Group
Misogyny Hate Speech
To a man with hammer, everything looks like a nail” Mark Twain At first sight, a misogyny-hate-speech law seems unobjectionable. Who would defend misogyny? Certainly not me. Unfortunately, some feminists have weaponised the awful circumstances surrounding the death of Sarah Everard in London to push for hastily constructed misogyny-hate-speech legislation. I believe huge dangers are… Continue reading Misogyny Hate Speech
COVID-19 Vaccination
In a previous post of August 2020, I discussed a ‘scientific paper’ that went viral. I use inverted commas because to the best of my knowledge the study has never made it into a peer-reviewed journal and remains in a preprint server. You can find the report by Supriya Garikipati and Uma S Kambhapati here.… Continue reading COVID-19 Vaccination
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