We strongly recommend the website Viva La Manosphere! http://vivalamanosphere.com/ which is a great source of material from around the world. We’re always delighted when the site picks up our pieces because we get a strong spike in ‘hits’. We’d like to thank them for recently linking to two of our pieces:

– the Australian government’s drive to force major companies to increase the proportion of women on their boards and in their senior executive levels, which has contributed to Qantas’s credit rating being reduced to ‘junk’ status; and

– British engineering postgraduate students enjoying an extra grant of £15,000… if they’re women

Yesterday we linked to a BBC piece showing that long-suffering British taxpayers will be paying female engineering postgraduate students an additional £15,000 p.a. – well in excess of the gross annual income of a person working full-time on the minimum wage – in return for the hard work they’d put in to having vaginas:

https://j4mbdotorgdotuk.wordpress.com/2013/12/10/taxpayer-to-give-extra-1250-per-month-to-engineering-graduates-but-only-if-they-have-vaginas/

Over our teatime cups of Earl Grey, and fortified by two or three McVities Digestives, we applied our minds to this issue, and an intriguing question emerged:

Would male postgraduate engineering students who have gender reassignment surgery either before or during their postgraduate courses, be entitled to the £15,000 p.a. grants?

Tomorrow we plan to email Brunel University a Freedom of Information request, asking that very question.

Our thanks to J for pointing us to this:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2521666/Dangers-delaying-motherhood-30.html

What kind of sick world are we living in, when this can happen to a six-year-old (American) boy?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2521502/Six-year-old-boy-accused-sexual-harassment-suspended-school-kissing-girl-cheek.html

Commentary of the case by Paul Elam of AVfM:

http://www.avoiceformen.com/misandry/six-year-old-boy-is-suspended-from-school-and-labeled-with-sexual-harassment-for-kissing-a-girl-on-the-hand/

One of the comments posted in response to Paul’s piece:

I don’t know why they don’t simply castrate all boys once they enter the public school system. It would save the feminist ideologues a lot of bother.

Doris Lessing, a talented authoress, died last month. She won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007. But that’s not why we’re saluting her. We’re saluting her for comments she made at a book festival in 2001, comments reported by Fiachra Gibbons in a short article printed in the Guardian on 14 August 2001.

The following is drawn from Swayne O’Pie’s important book Why Britain Hates Men: Exposing Feminism, available in a Kindle edition and a paperback edition outside the UK with the title Exposing Feminism: The Thirty Years’ War Against Men. Our thanks to the author for his kind permission to reproduce the Guardian piece here. It takes up the remainder of this post.

“LAY OFF MEN, LESSING TELLS FEMINISTS

Doris Lessing, who became a feminist icon with her books The Grass is Singing and The Golden Notebook, said a ‘lazy and insidious’ culture had taken hold within feminism that revelled in flailing men.

Young boys were being weighed down with guilt about the crimes of their sex, she told the Edinburgh book festival.

‘I find myself increasingly shocked at the unthinking and automatic rubbishing of men which is now so part of our culture that it’s hardly even noticed’, the 81-year-old Zimbabwean-born writer said yesterday.

‘I was in a class of nine- and ten-year-olds, girls and boys, and this young woman was telling these kids that the reason for wars was the innately violent nature of men. You could see the little girls, fat with complacency and conceit, while the little boys sat there crumpled, apologising for their existence, thinking this was going to be the pattern of their lives’.

Lessing said that the teacher ‘tried to catch my eye, thinking that I would approve of this rubbish’.

She added, ‘This kind of thing is happening in schools all over the place, and no one says a thing. It is time we began to ask, who are these women who continually rubbish men? The most stupid, ill-educated and nasty woman can rubbish the nicest, kindest, and most intelligent man, and no one protests.

Men seem to be so cowed that they cannot fight back. And it is time they did.”

http://www.avoiceformen.com/sexual-politics/this-is-what-the-truth-looks-like/

We take our hats off to the good folk at HEqual for this victory:

http://hequal.wordpress.com/2013/12/10/hequal-forces-amazon-to-withdraw-ex-boyfriend-punchbag-for-women/

The Wikipedia entry on a highly estimable lady, Grace Hopper (1906-1992):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper

Grace Hopper was an American computer scientist and a Rear Admiral in the US Navy. In her later years she bore an uncanny resemblance to Albert Steptoe of the classic British sitcom Steptoe and Son, which isn’t relevant to this piece, so I won’t charge you extra for adding that.

Now why exactly are we saluting Grace Hopper? It follows in the wake of all the stories we’ve posted of late about the advantaging of women, and disadvantaging of men, in the workplace, regardless of the negative impacts on men, organisational efficiency, corporate performance etc. The following short but very insightful – and at times amusing – article ‘Attaining Respect in a Man’s World’ has been brought to our attention. Enjoy:

http://whoism3.wordpress.com/2013/12/09/attaining-respect-in-a-mans-world/

One final thing. Be sure to click on the link at the end of the piece, ‘Related: what happens to companies…’. Another very insightful piece, well worth reading.

Our thanks to AN for pointing us to a Woman’s Hour piece first broadcast on 9 January 2013. It runs from 00:53 – 16:35:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p013jww5

In an interesting and powerful piece Jenni Murray interviews ‘Bill’, a survivor of child sex abuse, at length. Then she interviews Claire Lilley of NSPCC, and there’s also an interesting contribution from Dr Jackie Turton of Essex University. Claire Lilley reveals that of the children reporting sexual abuse to the NSPCC ‘Childline’ helpline, 17% report they’re being sexually abused by women. In 60% of those cases, the sexual abuse was being carried out by the children’s mothers, and a large majority of the children being sexually abused by their mothers are boys.

The piece will only be available through the above link until January 8, so we’ll have it captured shortly and added to our YouTube Channel:

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKhX1c3ow6BrzdzP3ydpeZQ/videos

We’ve just received an email from F, a supporter, who’s agreed to our request that we publish it on this blog. It takes up the remainder of this post:

“Mike, I’ve read with great interest the last two postings about women who abuse children and about the ‘engineers with vaginas’… well done. The reason governments, companies, the NHS, the police, the courts etc. all discriminate against men and extend more lenient treatment to women can be traced back to men’s gentlemanly behaviour towards women. All the injustices, all the preferential treatment, all the exemptions from hard, dangerous, unpleasant tasks are a direct consequence of gentlemanly attitudes toward women. Men are supposed to, and expected to, prevent women from doing hard tasks, make sure they’re looked after, make sure they‘re comfortable, happy etc.

But in a world where women directly compete against men, often unfairly with the help of taxpayers-funded initiatives, gentlemanly attitudes are 100% counter-productive for men because they propagate and strengthen these uneven policies. If we want to change the current situation, nothing less than stopping this type of behaviour will do, unfortunately.

I’m not saying we should be rude or impolite to women. What I’m saying is that we can no longer extend any kind of leniency to women. Why? Because women have learned to exploit gentlemanly attitudes towards them to the very limit, and they certainly don’t deserve such preferences any longer. Women only deserve the same type of courtesy as extended to men. Nothing more. It may be hard to accept and even harder to implement, but it will have to be done. If we don’t do this, this situation can’t be corrected.

If a woman can’t lift a box at her workplace, she needs to look for another job. Gentlemanly help from male colleagues is no longer acceptable. If a female engineer can’t produce the goods, she needs to vacate her post. If a businesswoman… you get my drift, I’m sure.

Women have been getting away with unjustifiable preferential treatment for decades. Men need to wake up and stop tolerate women’s shortcomings and inadequacies on the basis of gentlemanly manners. It has no place in the business world nor elsewhere in society anymore.

I am sorry but there is no other way to correct the current double standards, and stop the assaults on men’s legitimate interests.”