Our thanks to Ian for this:
She moves seamlessly from ‘people’ who shoplift to ‘women’ who shoplift. Unlike men, women mustn’t be held accountable for their actions and inactions.
Month: January 2014
Why The Huffington Post rejected my blog piece, ‘Gender feminism: the approaching crisis’
I’ve had a lot of emails from people who’ve read my blog piece, ‘Gender feminism: the approaching crisis’, asking why The Huffington Post rejected the piece. While I’m not privy to their internal workings, I have the email exchange with the lady who decided – alone, or with others – that the piece was unsuitable for publication by them. Here it is:
140111 email exchange with the polite lady from The Huffington Post
DEMCAD & Robert O’Hara on Anti-Male Bias in Education, False Rape Accusations & Sex Double Standards
An interesting interview of Bob O’Hara (AVfM) by Reginald Kaigler (DEMCAD):
Topics covered:
Marketing and media portrayal of men (0:00 > 4:59)
False feminist ideology as a weapon (5:00 > 13:19)
The impact of no-fault divorce (13:20 > 34:59)
Gender double standards in the legal system (35:00 > 50:29)
False accusations (50:30 >)
Vera Baird’s response to our recent public challenge concerning domestic violence
We’ve issued public challenges to many gender feminists (and their male collaborators) and we always email the people in question to make them aware of our challenges. They seldom even acknowledge receipt of the emails, and we’ve never had a substantive response from any of them – until yesterday.
We recently issued a public challenge to Vera Baird QC, a gender feminist former Labour MP in the mould of Harriet Harman, and currently the Police and Crime Commissioner of Northumbria. Our blog piece on the challenge:
The challenge:
Almost 300 studies and reports from around the world show that women are as physically aggressive or more aggressive than men towards their intimate partners:
Given the large numbers of male victims of domestic violence in Northumbria, what commitment will you be making – if any – to increase the number of convictions of female perpetrators of domestic violence, thereby driving down the incidences of violence against men and children?
Late on Friday we were surprised but delighted to receive an email from a lady working for Ms Baird, with her response. We’ve made a number of comments in response to the points she made, and asked a number of questions. The exchange can be found on the link below, and we’ll update you with the exchange as it develops.
140110 An exchange between Vera Baird QC and J4MB on the topic of domestic abuse
Ms Baird has, you will note, not yet responded to our challenge.
Uncaring carers
The treatment of elderly people – including those with dementia – at the hands of their ‘carers’ often falls woefully short of what we should expect. An example in today’s Daily Mail about the mistreatment of eight elderly Alzheimer’s sufferers:
Let’s pick out the individual details:
Carol Ann Moore (54) – team leader – convicted of slapping a male patient in revenge after his wife complained about a lack of activities at the home. She denied ill-treatment and neglect but was found guilty, jailed for four months.
Katie Cairns (27) – nurse – stamped on a resident’s foot, threw bean bags at residents and taunted an elderly man by pulling loose skin on his neck. She denied ill-treatment and neglect but was found guilty, jailed for five months.
Gemma Pearson (28) – nurse – tried to tip a patient out of his wheelchair when he refused to stand up. She denied ill-treatment and neglect but was found guilty, given a 12-month community order and ordered to carry out 40 hours of unpaid work.
Darren Smith (35) – carer – threw bean bags at residents, admitted ill-treatment ahead of the trial and was jailed for eight months.
The gender-related aspects to this case:
The ill-treated Alzheimer’s sufferers whose genders are identified in the article were all male.
Only the man (the most junior of the four members of staff) had the personal integrity to admit ill-treatment ahead of the trial, yet he still received the stiffest sentence of the four.
Woman sues solicitors because they ‘did not explain that finalising her divorce would terminate her marriage’
Yet another story one for the ‘You couldn’t make this s*** up!’ file:
More stories of whackadoodle wives, from the same article:
The curious case follows another bizarre divorce proceeding – a woman who is splitting from her husband over peas. Just one week after getting married, a woman in Kuwait has filed for divorce after discovering her husband prefers to use bread, rather than a fork, to eat peas. Traumatised by the ‘shocking sight’, she said she could no longer live with him, owing to his lack of etiquette.
The case of the ‘shocking’ peas, reported in the daily Al Qabas today, is not the only bizarre reason for wanting a divorce in Kuwait. One woman wanted a divorce because her husband insisted on squeezing the toothpaste tube in the middle and not the end. ‘We are always arguing… He is so obstinate,’ she said.
Another woman divorced her husband on their wedding day because the groom had not made the costly arrangements that she had asked for.
Joanna Williams: ‘Teaching students not to think’
We always enjoy pieces by Joanna Williams, education editor at spiked. This was published earlier this week:
http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/teaching_students_not_to_think/14479#.UtA4Pl5FCM8
A couple of excerpts:
When calls to censor academics come not from heavy-handed managers but from feminist colleagues seeking to curtail debate, academic freedom is not as clear-cut an issue as it may have been in the past…
More problematic, particularly in the social sciences, is a growing sense that there are some views that just cannot be expressed. On the one hand, the pseudo-radical, broadly left-wing consensus that pervades universities means that castigating neoliberalism, the influence of the popular media, and the desire to consume, will automatically garner the support of the peers who will review your work for publication and you for promotion. On the other hand, not paying lip-service to the importance of feminism, the welfare state, and protecting the environment, is more likely to see your work rejected. New academics are often recruited because their research fits into the existing departmental culture. Students are taught the values of their lecturers…
A survey of British social sciences professors some years ago found that 90% of them described their politics as left-wing, and only 3% were Conservative voters.
Father of 22 children by 11 women is spared jail to look after baby
Women have long used children as a ‘Get out of jail free’ card, but it’s unusual for a man to be allowed to do so. Raymond Hull (58) was convicted for drug dealing, after being convicted for 31 offences (not drug-related) in 40 years. He’s lived off benefits for the past 10 years:
Hull admitted using cannabis to help with his own medical problems at Carlisle Crown Court, but claimed he only sold to friends to cover costs. However, Judge Paul Batty QC dismissed Hull’s claims as a ‘cock and bull story’. Hull then abandoned his story, choosing not to give evidence in support of it.
In mitigation, Anthony Wilson said Hull had ‘a number of medicinal conditions’ including breathing problems, back pains and frequent chest infections which would make any time in prison difficult.
Well, we mustn’t imprison people who’d find prison ‘difficult’, must we? The judge’s surname is, appropriately:
Batty
Blog post offered to The Huffington Post: ‘Gender Feminism – The Approaching Crisis’
A young gender feminist blogger, Ellie Slee, recently wrote a blog piece containing a false allegation about J4MB. It was published by The Huffington Post. I politely pointed out to her that the allegation was demonstrably false, but as I’d anticipated – because she’s a gender feminist – she was willing to neither retract the statement, nor apologise for it. I contacted the legal team at AOL – HuffPo‘s parent company – and the offending allegation was swiftly retracted.
Impressed by the professionalism with which the matter had been handled – given HuffPo‘s business model, I feel confident they weren’t aware of the misleading statement in advance of publication – I was intrigued to get a call from a supporter suggesting I offer blog pieces to HuffPo. It’s well-known for being left-leaning so I doubted they’d publish any pieces from me, but I got in touch anyway. The lady there was very polite, and asked me to submit a piece for consideration. I duly submitted an 800-word piece, as requested. Like all short articles, it took a surprisingly long time to write. It takes so much less time to write a long article.
I then had an exchange of emails with the polite lady, and it soon became evident that the changes she required to make it acceptable for publication by HuffPo were such that I wouldn’t be prepared to put my name to the piece. But having spent time writing it, I thought the least I should do was publish it elsewhere. So here it is, modified only with an expanded ‘author biography’:
140109 blog piece submitted to The Huffington Post on the approaching crisis in gender feminism
Canterbury College principal Alison Clarke’s pay soars to more than Prime Minister David Cameron’s but Ofsted says management standards have got worse
Our thanks to S for this story.
http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kentish_gazette/news/principal-pay-11080
Two comments:
Of Alison Clarke’s £157,000 p.a. salary, male taxpayers are paying £113,000 p.a. (72%), female taxpayers £44,000 p.a. (28%).
It’s an example of how perverse incentives in the public sector lead to lower standards for customers (in this case, students) at a higher cost to taxpayers.
Justice for Men & Boys 