Tag: toxic feminism

You’ve got to be carefully taught

You’ve got to be taughtTo hate and fearYou’ve got to be taughtFrom year to yearIt’s got to be drummedIn your dear little earYou’ve got to be carefully taught” Rogers and Hammerstein , South Pacific So goes the first verse of ‘You’ve Got to be Carefully Taught,’ a beautiful song from South Pacific. And that brings… Continue reading You’ve got to be carefully taught

The Trans Blame Game

Men in women’s sports was where queer theory collided with reality but it wasn’t where it started. As we have swung from one extreme to the other, the issue of trans ideology generates a lot of heat but not much light . Formerly, to question the belief that trans-men are men or trans-women are women… Continue reading The Trans Blame Game

Young women are radicalising

men were some of the least radical demographic groups of the whole country. “ An interesting article from New Statesman (here) runs counter to the standard populist narrative that young men are porn addled misogynist extremists. It seems that there may be more problems with young women moving to the identitarian and progressive left, and making… Continue reading Young women are radicalising

Misogyny the Manosphere and Online Content

Earlier this year the Women and Equalities Committee of the UK Parliament held a consultation on misogyny and the manosphere. Unfortunately, it was a rigged consultation with hand picked experts/activists. The committee has become ideologically captured and almost exclusively looks at issues affecting women and even then from only one perspective. This problem has got… Continue reading Misogyny the Manosphere and Online Content

The bias we dare not speak of

‘One particularly puzzling aspect of academic and public dialogue about implicit prejudice research has been the dearth of attention paid to the finding that men usually do not exhibit implicit sexism while women do show pro-female implicit attitudes‘  Implicit bias tests have been an important tool in the armoury of Human Resources departments. The idea… Continue reading The bias we dare not speak of

Feminist Faction

Propagandists have always known that fictional portrayals of events are the most powerful form of propaganda. They can hit home in ways that factual narratives can’t. This can be used for both good and evil. The fictional representation of the post office scandal, Mr Bates v The Post Office, gave an issue that had been… Continue reading Feminist Faction

Female radicalisation

At last, some attention is being paid to pathways of female/feminist radicalisation. This matters and it is not merely ‘whataboutery.’ After all, it is no more rational to dismiss an argument as ‘aboutery’ than it is ‘whataboutery.’ Radicalisation isn’t just about online silos or echo chambers, though that can be a problem, it is also… Continue reading Female radicalisation

Female Power

Or the gender lobbying gap ‘Female lobbyists are more likely to gain access to meetings with policymakers, regardless of the policymaker’s gender, indicating gender is used strategically by interest groups to improve their influence, finds a new UCL led study.’ A common feminist claim is that men occupy most positions of power and as a… Continue reading Female Power

A Hornets Nest of WASPI’s

The furor about state compensation for 1950s women over supposedly lost pension entitlements is dying down. Now it seems to be confined to a few die-hards on Twitter and oven those cases are attracting less and less interest. Here are a few thoughts on the matter. Since 1944 women have received their state pension 5… Continue reading A Hornets Nest of WASPI’s