(and other hypotheses) It’s a brave man who ventures to discuss the greater male variability hypothesis (GMVH). Just ask James Damore or Larry Summers. The former was sacked from Google for daring to raise GMV as a possible explanation (among others) for the greater number of men involved in coding. Similarly, Harvard President Larry Summers… Continue reading Greater Male Variability
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Feminist just-so stories
When I was a child my grandfather gave me the book ‘Just So Stories’ by Rudyard Kipling. Even then, at a tender age and longer ago than I care to remember, the stories seemed entertaining but trite. The book consists of a series of accounts of how animals acquired certain characteristics. For example, how the… Continue reading Feminist just-so stories
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
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?
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