Our thanks to Jenny for sending us a link to a document Fawcett just sent to its long-suffering supporters. It concerns women in politics:
Jenny writes:
Everything that Fawcett publishes makes me embarrassed to be a woman. Do these women have mental health issues, or are they just plain STUPID? Maybe both? If the former, I wish they’d seek some professional support for their problems, and stop making women look so ridiculous.
The document contains numerous gems along these lines:
In the run up to the next election in 2015, Fawcett will be mounting a major campaign to ensure more women get into parliament, and that party policies deliver for women everywhere. Dragging Westiminister (sic) out of the middle ages and into the 21st century means making the parties feel voter pressure to stop cutting women out of politics.
Have women been ‘cut out of politics’? As we’d expect from anything issued from Fawcett, the truth is the exact opposite. For decades Parliament has bent over backwards – at taxpayers’ expense, generally – to make itself more female-friendly and family-friendly, with less onerous working hours, the provision of crèches etc. The majority of parliamentarians are men for one simple reason, far more men than women want a career in politics. Evidence of that is emerging from the growing number of female MPs who say they’ll be quitting politics in 2015 after just one term as MPs.
Feminists’ convictions that male politicians further the interests of men over women is nothing more than projection. Parliament always pursues the advantaging of women over men. Many female politicians unashamedly advance the interests of women over men, thereby ignoring the interests of half the electors who gave them their jobs. If there were more female MPs like Harriet Harman and Jo Swinson, the assaults on male voters would surely only intensify.
You sometimes have to remind yourself that Fawcett continues to trot out its idiotic narratives about women in politics 35 years after Margaret Thatcher came to power. So, the $64,000 question:
What’s the POINT of The Fawcett Society?
There’s surely only one point, the same one which applies to all the taxpayer-funded ‘academics’ running Gender Studies courses, the hordes of civil servants working on ‘gender equality’ and ‘diversity’ initiatives, and the like – to fund the livelihoods of whiny professional feminists. And that’s why The Fawcett Society is a contender for our next ‘Whiny Women of the Month’ award.
In March 2013 AVfM published my piece about Fawcett:
http://www.avoiceformen.com/feminism/time-to-turn-the-fawcett-off/
It’s about time we challenged Fawcett’s charitable status, given it’s clearly a political campaigning organisation.
Justice for Men & Boys 
Sadly I think the FC would win all the time. And there are so many other candidates! Perhaps J4MB could have a similar ‘think tank’, but one that thought.
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The Fawcett Society is just an organ of the feminist propaganda machine that has lost all touch with reality, so obsessed is it with its narrow ideology. It just goes round and round, repeating the same dogma, year after year in the same way as stir-crazy prisoners walk round and round their cells beating their heads against the bars. Fawcett’s messages never change and that just shows its lack of original thinking, and the poverty of its feminist rhetoric. These people are just clean out of ideas. They are like Einstein said about insanity, “… doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results”. This why they engage in this endless drivel. They obviously must know what you are saying is right (about few women actually wanting a career in politics) but their ideology is so rigid, so much a code that cannot be varied, that they are unable to embrace reality and engage in constructive development of the argument. To admit the truth would be to induce massive cognitive dissonance which they simply cannot face. Frankly, it would be comical if it weren’t so sad. All the “ms”s in Fawcett are in an inwardly turned feminist enclave and are clearly suffering from serious Groupthink: the condition that causes tight-knit groups to believe they are right simply because they agree with each other, and which is characterised by an inability, indeed a reluctance, to seek outside input and challenges to their ideas so as to reality test them. I agree with the proposition that they be referred to the charities commission. As a former CEO of an international charity, I know they are way beyond their charitable remit. It’s about time this organisation was taken to the knacker’s yard. That would be a humane thing to do.
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