Tag: feminism

How feminism harms women.

It is, I believe, obvious that feminism has been harmful to men and, in particular, boys. However, this argument alone will ‘cut little ice’ with feminists in the media and in parliament. I want to suggest that feminism is also harmful to women. Not only indirectly through its consequences upon men but directly through distortion… Continue reading How feminism harms women.

A confected moral panic

Many media feminists, J K Rowling, for example, are dissatisfied with Labour Policy and, in particular, with Keir Starmer. Sir Keir has apparently ‘turned his back on women’ – ‘has marginalised women’ – ‘has erased women’. According to the ever-unhinged Julie Birchill, writing in the Spectator, ‘the climate of misogyny now being as rabid as… Continue reading A confected moral panic

Why feminism needs men’s rights activism

The unexamined life is not worth living: The unexamined philosophy is not worth having — feminism has become that unexamined philosophy…. Feminism has become the hegemonic ideology in academia and much of the media. This isn’t even a good thing for feminism. Ideologies that go unchallenged, that do not face questioning voices to keep them… Continue reading Why feminism needs men’s rights activism

Salem was not about misogyny

(History does not repeat itself, but it rhymes) A recent, post on medium.com (here) argued that the Salem witch trials were about misogyny and then drew a straight line from there to the overturning of Roe v. Wade decision in the USA. The lessons to be learnt from Salem are about the dangers of a… Continue reading Salem was not about misogyny

Feminism: Building the Rhetorical Fortress

Feminism has become an unassailable ideology. It occupies a position in the media, academia, and NGOs akin to that occupied by the church in the 19th century. That has been achieved by turning it into a rhetorical fortress that is almost impossible to criticise. The motte and bailey fallacy A motte and bailey is a… Continue reading Feminism: Building the Rhetorical Fortress

A tale of research misconduct and gullible hacks?

“A lie can travel round the world while the truth is putting on its boots“ A story about women receiving abuse while running appeared in the Guardian here and on the BBC website here. It seems that 2/3 of women experience harassment while running. The real story, I suspect, is one of research misconduct, gullible… Continue reading A tale of research misconduct and gullible hacks?

Men are not to blame for trans culture

There has been some predictable femsplaining from journalist Victoria Smith, writing in The Critic (here). Victoria is one of those ‘prolific’ journalists who could turn winning the Euromillions lottery into a feminist oppression narrative. I put ‘prolific’ in inverted commas because, in reality, she publishes the same articles over and over again. Predictably, she comes… Continue reading Men are not to blame for trans culture

Do feminists hate men?

A recent academic publication from ‘Psychology of Women Quarterly,’ claims to show that women in general and feminists in particular do not have a negative view of men (see here). The study has attracted interest in the mainstream media and among bloggers – see here for example). As you might expect, there are a number of… Continue reading Do feminists hate men?

The Death of the English Literature Degree

“Long before any ideas of “woke” had entered the mainstream, university English departments had decided what was, and wasn’t, acceptable. Woe betide you, student or tutor alike, if you deviated from the new orthodoxy” Alexander Larman writing in The Critic It might seem odd to take pleasure in the decline and possible death of English… Continue reading The Death of the English Literature Degree