Yesterday morning I was interviewed about the most important vote being held in Scotland that day – the vote on Scottish independence being less important, obviously – the vote by members of the Royal & Ancient golf club on the possible admission of women members. My thanks to R for capturing the piece and loading it onto our YouTube channel – here. I invite you to leave any comments you may have there, rather than on this blog post. Thank you.

I should like to take this opportunity of thanking the fine people in the core team who’ve been working long hours – during weekends, too – as a result of which, our 2015 election manifesto is progressing well. We also thank the supporters and donors who are helping with research and manifesto suggestions. If you’d like to show your appreciation for all this effort, I invite you to make a donation here.

I’m ending my working day earlier than usual today, publishing this.

AVfM has just published a link to this interesting video.

The silly woman behind the ‘Mancheeze’ blog – Joyless Joy – called the reaction to yesterday’s post on the scantily-clad young lady ‘hilarious’, but I’m told by Karl that the image is no longer visible on the site. What is currently visible there is a link to a Twitter thread started by one of the feminist geniusess who follow the site, @NamuStarcraft. In response to a piece titled, ‘Is it bad to wear a bra to sleep?’ her Twitter thread is titled (seriously, I’m not making this up):

It is bad to wear one at any time, stop oppressing ur chests ladies.

Yesterday we published a short blog piece concerning an image of a scantily-clad young lady on ‘Mancheeze’, a woeful blog run by a Canadian feminist, ‘Joy’. Her name may be ironic, given she’s a feminist and therefore by definition joyless. It was used for a particularly glum character in the British sitcom Drop the Dead Donkey. The piece got plenty of hits, notably through Twitter, and it inspired someone on the website ‘The Other McCain’ to write a piece about ‘Mancheeze’ which is well worth reading. Enjoy.

While you watch this short video, remember something. Women never fake injuries, and they never self-injure for revenge. This kind of thing never happens in real life. No.

A silly feminist who’s based in Vancouver recently wrote a silly blog post on her website – ‘Mancheeze’ – in which she charged me with being a misogynist. 0/10 for originality, 0/10 for accuracy, 0/10 for wit. Par for the feminist course, then. The silly woman is very fond of ‘editing’ text and links in MRA’s comments – normal people would call that ‘censoring’, of course – and I’ve stopped commenting. It was like trying to engage with a particularly dim-witted and bad-tempered young child.

Incredibly, the feminists who post comments on her website are even more stupid than she is. One was unable to distinguish between correlation and causation – the topic was the impact of increasing female representation on corporate boards – and too lazy to take up my suggestion of spending a few minutes on Wikipedia to understand the difference.

My thanks to Tessa for pointing me towards an image of a silly young lady on the website (below). The poor woman will catch a cold if she’s not careful. You don’t need to be a psychiatrist to suspect Narcissistic Personality Disorder, do you? It’s very common among young feminists, of course – almost compulsory, if truth be told.

An excellent new piece from Jim Muldoon, all the more so because it concerns events in a British town, and he’s the Editor of AVfM Australia. The extent of the resource base on which AVfM draws is becoming ever more impressive over time. It’s little wonder feminists loathe the site with such a vengeance.

Another piece about Rotherham which impressed us deeply was Herbert Purdy’s – here.

Starting at 8pm next Tuesday, 23 September, there’ll be a debate at Cardiff City Hall. It will be broadcast live by BBC3, in their Free Speech programme – BBC3’s take on Question Time. Among the questions being posed will be:

Do we live in a Sexist Country?

We certainly do, of course, but the people who suffer from serious manifestations of sexism – MGM comes to mind – are almost always men and boys, as people who visit the website of the Alternative Sexism Project will be aware.

The programme makers are looking for people between 16 – 34 who have an opinion and want to have their voices heard. Please forward this to anyone who might be interested in being in the audience. Here’s the link to apply to be an audience member http://tinyurl.com/o87kjsw

The topics that will be discussed by the panel will come from the audience, with there being a range of ways in which audience members can submit a question. There’s an option to submit a question on the night as well as through the programme’s Facebook page or the application form. The programme makers say, ‘Our audience drives our agenda, so whatever issues our audience wants to discuss, we try to make sure there is a forum for them to be tackled.’

The programme will be broadcasting live from the Cardiff City Hall, Gorsedd Gardens Rd, Cardiff CF10 3ND at 8pm on 23th September.

On the panel will be three women and one man (isn’t that a bit sexist?):

Angela Epstein Journalist, all-round fine woman, J4MB ‘Maggie’ award winner in 2012.

Omar Hamdi Comedian

Leanne Wood Leader of Plaid Cymru

Last – and least – the most prominent whine merchant in the world:

Laura Bates Founder of the Everyday Whining Project, inaugural member of The Whine Club, inaugural winner of a ‘Whiny Feminist of the Month’ award, leading contender for our next ‘Lying Feminist of the Month’ award, for reasons we explain here

Well, they left it rather late in the day, but the BBC finally recognised that they couldn’t exclude the leader of J4MB from commenting on the historic vote in Scotland tomorrow. An hour ago I had a call from them, and I’ll be interviewed on a morning programme tomorrow. The researcher wanted to know if I had any strong views on the matter, and it didn’t take her long to realise I had. I’ll be debating the issues with a lady whose identity I cannot reveal – but we hope to have the discussion on our YouTube channel within a day or two.

The vote will certainly be a historic one. I need hardly mentioned the passions this matter has aroused, over many years. The 2,500 members of the Royal & Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews (the ‘R & A’) have voted on whether or not to admit members of the female persuasion, and we understand that the result will be made known around 18:30 tomorrow. The club secretary, Peter Dawson, is on record as making this traitorous statement:

I think it’s the right thing, and I hope that R&A members do what’s right for golf.

Appalling. Simply appalling. Why is it that women must always leech off the august institutions founded, developed, and run by men, rather than founding, developing, and running their own? They clearly couldn’t organise a drinks party (ahem) in a brewery. Why is this traffic always one-way? Why do the Scouts admit girls, while the Guides don’t admit boys? Why do the women who win Wimbledon finals get the same prize money as the men, when they play on average half the time? We don’t hear women whining on about those matters, do we? As always, equality means special treatment for women.

Onto a lighter note. Researching for this piece, I googled a few terms, and stumbled across the website ‘Crown Golf’, and their gem of a piece, 8 Reasons for Women to Play Golf. We shouldn’t be surprised that competition ranked a lowly #7, but here’s the full list, with a few selected lines that explain why we hope the members of the R&A voted unanimously against allowing women to become members:

1. Exercise – ‘The average golfer will burn around 1,500 calories per round of golf!’ (Excellent. Golf as an element in a weight loss regime.)

2. Socialising – ‘You have time to talk about pretty much anything with your friends and partners during a round of golf!’ (No, that won’t hold up the players behind you.)

3. Relationships

4. Fresh air – ‘Each time you breathe out, you let out toxins.’ (Seriously, I’m not making this stuff up.)

5. Sunshine

6. Clothing – ‘Lady golfers are not required to wear short skirts or tight clothing, like many other sports require.’ (What would be the IQ of a woman who had imagined short skirts or tight clothing WERE required? Give me strength.)

7. Learning and competing.

8. Travel.

Wish me luck. This could prove to be a particularly tough interview.