Janice Fiamego is a Professor of English at the University of Ottawa. Countless academics need to find in themselves the courage which Professor Fiamengo has found to criticize feminism. AVfM has just posted this interview of her, recorded by Steve Brule just before her recent talk at KSUM. What she has to say is interesting, as always, and it’s good to see Steve employing high-definition video. It would be good to see recordings of this technical quality coming out of ICMI15.

Following our earlier post about the New York City Fire Department, a donor has reminded me of a piece we first posted in March 2013, about female firefighters in the UK.

Terence Popp is an American, and a highly decorated former soldier. We touch on his personal story on pages 38,39 of our manifesto. AVfM have just published this video of his reflections about women fighting in wars on the front line. Much the same observations could be made, we’re sure, about increasing the proportion of firefighters who are women.

Excellent. William Collins never fails to hit the mark.

Many years ago the physical tests for prospective fire fighters in the UK were reduced in intensity so that more women could be hired. New York City has gone one step further – here. The original New York Post piece is here.

Elizabeth Crowley nominated herself for our ‘Gormless Woman of the Month’ award with this comment:

There are still concerns that excessive testing methods within the Fire Academy are being used to keep women probationary firefighters from graduating.

Maybe one day Ms Crowley will find herself in a burning building when an all-female fire crew turns up, none of whom were subjected to ‘excessive testing methods’, none of whom are physically strong enough to carry her to safety, and thereby save her life.

My one regret about ICMI14 was that I didn’t spend more time with the Honey Badgers. I’ll try to rectify that at ICMI15. In the meantime, another strong piece from one of their number, Hannah Wallen.

Another thought-provoking piece from Karen.

Men and women who are prepared to stare reality in the face, and thereby come to realize that many assaults are inflicted on the human rights of men and boys, are said to have taken the ‘red pill’. The term refers to a critical scene in the film Matrix. I rarely watch films these days, and haven’t watched this one, but the subject of the red pill came up in a discussion I had yesterday with James Williams. He’s just kindly sent a short video clip with the scene – here – for which we thank him.

The election manifesto is going through final checks, we’re planning to publish it on this site at 5pm tomorrow.

Another solidly researched piece from William Collins (mra-uk).

In a similar vein to Jonathan Taylor’s 10 reasons false rape allegations are common – is this new piece from Janet Bloomfield.