The subheading of my last post, Lit Crit Femsplainers was ‘the diversity problem that nobody is talking about‘ – Now I realise that this is not quite true and a better subheading might have been ‘the diversity problem that almost nobody is talking about.’ That person who is talking and writing about the problem is… Continue reading Diversity in the media
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Lit Crit Femsplainers
A Diversity Problem That Nobody is Talking About I have written elsewhere in this blog about the overrepresentation of female English Literature Graduates, from Oxbridge in particular, in our media. Most of these journalists have pronounced feminist leanings. See The Feminist Glass Escalator, Laura Bates and the axis of radicalisation. For an amusing account of… Continue reading Lit Crit Femsplainers
Abusive women
It is commonly assumed that women in the public eye face more abuse and those dishing out the abuse are men. As always, the evidence is mixed. That is why this story caught my eye (click here for a full account). In a series of emails, Sundas Alam (female) threatened Bradford West’s Labour MP Naz… Continue reading Abusive women
The Glass Blindspot*
(What do Will Knowland, James Damore, Allessandro Strumia, Larry Summers and now Glass Blind Spot have in common?) Feminists like to claim that it is they who lack power but were they to ask themselves two simple questions they might reach a different conclusion. First, how many feminists have lost their jobs for expressing often… Continue reading The Glass Blindspot*
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)
Flannery Dean
Sometimes the Guardian comes up with a headline that is so epically stupid that even my cynicism struggles to catch up. The Guardian of 30th November contained the article below. Click here if you want to read it. It was written by Flannery Dean who, even by Guardian standards, must be pretty clueless. I haven’t… Continue reading Flannery Dean
Professor Emma Renold
(Another post in the series on feminist quackademics) Emma Renold is Professor Childhood studies at Cardiff University. You might then think that her area of interest would include both boys and girls. If so, think again, her output is heavily skewed towards girls. According to her web page (here)… Working with feminist, queer and post-humanist… Continue reading Professor Emma Renold
COP26 and Dodgy Feminist Statistics
The half-truths, repeated, authenticated themselves. Joan Didion, ‘The Womens Movement’ It had to come, it was only a matter of time before gender activists put their stamp on the COP26 proceedings. As you might expect, Gender Day at COP26 only looked at the impact of climate change on women and girls there was no mention… Continue reading COP26 and Dodgy Feminist Statistics
Helen Pluckrose & Andrew Doyle
GBNews is a new, UK-based, news channel that has its share of detractors. It certainly got off to a shaky start with wildly fluctuating sound levels and poor lighting. The predictable accusation has been that it is ‘far-right’ and a UK equivalent of Fox News. However, the ‘Guardianistas’ hate it, so it can’t be all… Continue reading Helen Pluckrose & Andrew Doyle
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