Terrence Popp is a remarkable man. As an American marine, he won two Purple Hearts. He came close to being killed by an IED in Iraq, the effects of which impact him to this day. He came close to committing suicide when he returned from Iraq to discover he could no longer see his children. It was a huge honour to shake his hand and spend time with him at the 2014 Detroit International Conference on Men’s Issues. He blogs as ‘Redonkulas’ and his latest video is here. Enjoy.
Month: April 2015
Women’s Aid – our public challenge of Polly Neate, CEO, to retract seven lies and misleading statements. She refused to do so.
[Note added 23.9.14: Women’s Aid have been working for some time with the Home Office on proposals to extend the law to cover areas of domestic ‘abuse’ not previously covered by the law – not covered for very good reasons. J4MB has publicly challenged Theresa May MP, Home Secretary, over the associated highly flawed consultation exercise, which is an ideologically-driven farce. Submissions have been invited from numerous groups, but not researchers, the very people who have proven the idea underpinning the extension of the law – the feminist ‘male control theory’ of domestic abuse – has no basis in reality. The challenge is here.]
Yesterday we issued a public challenge to Polly Neate, CEO of Women’s Aid, to retract seven lies / misleading statements made by Franki Hackett, a Women’s Aid spokeswoman, in a recent online discussion. She treated the challenge with utter contempt. Our email exchange has been added to the end of our challenge document.
Ms Hackett was a worthy winner of this month’s ‘Lying Feminist of the Month’ award. Her certificate is downloadable here.
We’ll be closely monitoring the public utterances of Polly Neate and other Women’s Aid spokeswomen, challenging Ms Neate when we detect lies and misleading statements, and we’ll present more ‘Lying Feminist of the Month’ awards as appropriate. Three months ago we publicly challenged Dickie James, a Board member of Women’s Aid. These women can’t help revealing their visceral hatred of men.
Why are women above the law?
There are currently over 80,000 men in British prisons, and fewer than 4,000 women. William Collins has shown that if male criminals were treated as leniently as female criminals in sentencing terms, five in six of the men serving sentences in British jails today wouldn’t be there. His article is here. The government plans to close women’s prisons, and fill them with male prisoners. On this website we’ve published links to a huge number of cases showing that women are often above the law, very often because they’re given suspended sentences.
One form of paternity fraud is persuading a man (or trying to) that he’s the biological father of a child, when he’s not. It’s estimated millions of British men have been victims of this crime, and the scandal continues. For many years the CSA has learned of 500+ cases of paternity fraud every year, where men have demanded paternity tests, and thereby proven they’re not the biological fathers of individual children. So the state knows the identity and home address of many thousands of women who’ve committed this crime.
We can be very sure far more men naively believe the women in question, and then pay to support the child for up to 20 years, even if they’re denied access. This is financial and emotional abuse of men, and emotional abuse of children who deserve to know who their true fathers are. It’s one of the reasons we’re calling for compulsory paternity testing at birth.
How many women in the UK have been convicted of paternity fraud under the terms of the Fraud Act 2006?
None.
Men are far more likely than women to be incarcerated for serious crimes, and serve markedly longer sentences when convicted of the same crimes. The last edition of the Mail on Sunday carried a report which brought down the red mist. When you read it, bear in mind:
– British men pay 72% of the income tax paid in the UK, £68 BILLION more every year than British women;
– 90% of the street homeless are men
– homelessness is a major driver of suicide
– the male/female suicide differential rose from 1.7:1 in 1983 to 3.5:1 in 2013
– suicide is the #1 cause of death of men under 50
So, what could reasonable people object to in the report?
1. The provision of a council flat for an 18-year-old woman on the grounds that she’d managed to become pregnant. This made her ‘vulnerable’ so the taxpayer has to fund her flat – near London’s Hyde Park!
2. She miscarried, yet was still in the flat 11 years later, and presumably would be there today but for the fraud she carried out.
3. She was on a good salary, and had alternative accommodation options, so how would she be more ‘vulnerable’ than a homeless person in London?
4. She sub-let the flat, whilst living with her boyfriend or mother, and netted £24,000 by doing so.
5. She lied about being penniless, but fraud investigators found an account with £11,000 in it.
6. She was found guilty of fraud but received only a suspended sentence.
Last week she avoided jail by agreeing to pay back £10,000. So the woman netted a profit of £14,000 from her crimes, took up the resources of the taxpayer-funded criminal justice system, and her punishment is…. nothing. Can we doubt that a man in the same position would have gone straight to jail? Surely not.
Another report, this one about a 21-year-old woman who stole £3,000 from her employer. Her ‘punishment’ was to repay £500 of the sum over two years.
Another report. What prison sentence would a woman who (with a female accomplice) buried her husband in her garden, and fraudulently received £77,000 of benefits in his name over several years, receive? The answer is here. The man’s body was obviously so decomposed by the time it was discovered, that it was impossible to ascertain a cause of death.
Women can sexually assault children with impunity – rarely being given prison sentences as a result – as we’ve frequently reported. A recent example is here. Yet it’s been known for 30 years that a majority of incarcerated (male) rapists were sexually abused when they were children by one or more women – here.
What might we conclude from these and countless other cases? It’s simple:
There’s one justice system for men, another for women.
Recommended books
The following books might be of interest to anyone with an interest in exploring gender-related issues, and feminism in particular. Please let us know of any books which you think might usefully be added to the list.
Adams, Steven (2010), Women First, Men Last (Kindle).
Baby, Zero (2022), The Whitechapel Murders 1888: and the Myth of the Disappearing Man (Orchid Eater).
Baron-Cohen, Simon (2003), The Essential Difference (London: Allen Lane).
Barrett, Louise, and Dunbar, Robin, and Lycett, John (2002), Human Evolutionary Psychology (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave).
Baumeister, Roy (2010), Is There Anything Good About Men? How Cultures Flourish by Exploiting Men (Kindle).
Bax, Ernest Belfort (1913), The Fraud of Feminism – downloadable at no cost through this link.
Benatar, David (2012), The Second Sexism: Discrimination Against Men and Boys (John Wiley & Sons).
Brizendine, Louann (2007), The Female Brain (London: Bantam Press).
Brooks-Gordon, Belinda (2006), The Price of Sex: Prostitution, Policy and Society (Willan).
Browne, Anthony (2006), The Retreat of Reason: Political Correctness and the Corruption of Public Debate in Modern Britain (London: Civitas).
Buchanan, Mike (2009), The Marriage Delusion: The Fraud of the Rings? (London: LPS publishing).
Buchanan, Mike (2010), David and Goliatha: David Cameron – heir to Harman? (London: LPS publishing).
Buchanan, Mike (2011), The Glass Ceiling Delusion: the real reasons more women don’t reach senior positions (London: LPS publishing).
Buchanan, Mike (2012), Feminism: The Ugly Truth (London: LPS publishing).
Buchanan, Mike (2015), 2015 General Election Manifesto (London: LPS publishing).
Cleary, Mary T (2015), That Bitch: protect yourself against women with malicious intent (Centre Publishing).
Cook, Philip W (2009), Abused Men: The Hidden Side of Domestic Violence (USA: Praeger).
Cook, Philip W, and Hodo, Tammy L (2013) When Women Sexually Assault Men: The Hidden Side of Rape, Harassment, and Sexual Assault (USA: Praeger).
Cooper, Joel (2007), Cognitive Dissonance: Fifty Years of a Classic Theory (London: Sage Publications).
Crawford, Edith (2006), Truth and Prejudice: Men’s Experiences of Domestic Violence (AuthorHouse).
Dench, Geoff (1998), Transforming Men: Changing Patterns of Dependency and Dominance in Gender Relations (Transaction Publishers).
Elliott, Michele (1994), Female Sexual Abuse of Children (Guilford Press).
Farrell, Warren (1993), The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are The Disposable Sex (Simon & Schuster).
Farrell, Warren (2005), Why Men Earn More: The Startling Truth Behind The Pay Gap And What Women Can Do About It (Amacom).
Fiamengo, Professor Janice (2018), Daughters of Feminism: Women Supporting Men’s Equality (Take2Now, Ottawa).
Fiamengo, Professor Janice (2018), Sons of Feminism: Men Have Their Say (Little Nightingale Press, Ottawa).
Freedman, Estelle (2013), Redefining Rape: Sexual Violence in the Era of Suffrage and Segregation (Harvard University Press).
Golden, Tom (2014), Swallowed by a Snake: The Gift of the Masculine Side of Healing
Golden, Tom (2000), The Way Men Heal (2014) (GH Publishing, LLC).
Goodwin, Matthew (2023), Values, Voice and Virtue: The New British Politics (Penguin).
Graglia, F Carolyn (1998), Domestic Tranquility: A Brief Against Feminism (Spence Publishing).
Gress, Carrie (2023), The End of Woman: How Smashing the Patriarchy Has Destroyed Us (Regnery Publishing).
Hitchens, Peter (2009), How British Politics Lost Its Way (London, New York: Continuum Publishing).
Hitchens, Peter (2010), The Cameron Delusion (London, New York: Continuum Publishing).
(The Cameron Delusion is an updated edition of The Broken Compass).
James, Oliver (1998), Britain on the Couch: why we are unhappier than we were in the 1950s – despite being richer. A treatment for the low-serotonin society (London: Arrow).
Jones, January (2008), Thou Shalt Not Whine: The Eleventh Commandment (Beaufort Books).
Langford, Nick (2014), An Exercise in Utter Futility: whatever happened to family justice? (Nick Langford).
Lyndon, Neil (1992), No More Sex War: The Failures of Feminism (Sinclair-Stevenson).
(We particularly recommend the following title by Neil Lyndon, which contains the full and uncensored text of No More Sex War.)
Lyndon, Neil (2014), Sexual Impolitics: Heresies on sex, gender and feminism (Kindle).
McCain, Robert Stacy (2015), Sex Trouble: Essays on Radical Feminism and the War Against Human Nature (CreateSpace).
McGovern, Vincent (2021), The War on Dads and Children: how to fight it, and win (London: Grosvenor House).
Moir, Anne, and Moir, Bill (1998), Why Men Don’t Iron: The Real Science of Gender Studies (London: HarperCollins).
Moore, Charles (2013), Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography. Volume One – Not for Turning (London: Allen Lane).
Moore, E.M. (2008), A Call for InJustice: Domestic Violence Against Men (AuthorHouse).
Moxon, Steve (2008), The Woman Racket (Exeter: Imprint Academic).
Nathanson, Paul, and Katherine K Young (2002), Spreading Misandry: The Teaching of Contempt for Men in Popular Culture (Montreal / Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press).
Nathanson, Paul, and Katherine K Young (2006), Legalizing Misandry: From Public Shame to Systemic Discrimination Against Men (Montreal / Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press).
Nathanson, Paul, and Katherine K Young (2009), Sanctifying Misandry: Goddess Ideology and the Fall of Man (Montreal / Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press).
O’Beirne, Kate (2005), Women Who Make The World Worse (New York: Sentinel HC).
O’Pie, Swayne (2011), Why Britain Hates Men: Exposing Feminism (Bath: The Men’s Press). The book is available in ebook editions, and outside the UK in a paperback edition, with the title Exposing Feminism: The Thirty Years’ War Against Men (2012).
Ofshe, Richard, and Watters, Ethan (1995), Making Monsters: False Memories, Psychotherapy and Sexual Hysteria (Andre Deutsch).
Parker, Kathleen (2010), Save the Males: Why Men Matter, Why Women Should Care (Random House).
Patai, Daphne (1998), Heterophobia: Sexual Harassment and the Future of Feminism (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield).
Patai, Daphne, and Koertge, Noretta (2003), Professing Feminism (Plymouth: Lexington Books).
Pinker, Steven (2003), The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (London: Penguin).
Pinker, Susan (2008), The Sexual Paradox: Men, Women, and the Real Gender Gap (New York: Scribner).
Pizzey, Erin, and Shapiro, Jeff (1982), Prone to Violence (London: Hamlyn Publishers).
Pizzey, Erin (1983), Scream Quietly or the Neighbours Will Hear (London: Penguin).
Pizzey, Erin (2011), This Way to the Revolution: A Memoir (London: Peter Owen Publishers).
Saunders, Peter (2011), The Rise of the Equalities Industry (London: Civitas).
Sax, Leonard (2006), Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need To Know About The Emerging Science Of Sex Differences (New York: Three Rivers Press).
Schlafly, Phyllis (2003), Feminist Fantasies (Spence Publishing).
Smith, Helen (2013), Men on Strike: Why Men are Boycotting Marriage, Fatherhood, and the American Dream, and Why it Matters (USA: Encounter Books).
Snowdon, Christopher (2010), The Spirit Level Delusion: Fact-checking the Left’s new theory of everything (London: Democracy Institute).
Sommers, Christina Hoff (1994), Who Stole Feminism? How Women Have Betrayed Women (New York: Simon & Schuster).
Sommers, Christina Hoff (2001), The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men (New York: Simon & Schuster).
Stolba, Christine (2002), Lying in a Room of One’s Own: How Women’s Studies Textbooks Miseducate Students (Independent Women’s Forum). Free to download here.
Swaab, Dick (2014), We Are Our Brains: From the Womb to Alzheimer’s (Allen Lane).
Tate, JP (2014), Feminism is Sexism (Kindle).
Venker, Suzanne, and Schlafly, Phyllis (2011), The Flipside of Feminism – What Conservative Women Know, And Men Can’t Say (Washington: WND Books).
Venker, Suzanne (2013), How to Choose a Husband: And Make Peace with Marriage (Washington: WND Books)
Venker, Suzanne (2013), The War on Men (Kindle)
Vilar, Esther (2008), The Manipulated Man (Germany: C Bertelsman Verlag) – this is the third edition of a remarkable book first published in 1971.
Wadham, Lucy (2009), The Secret Life of France (London: Faber & Faber).
Weldon, Fay (2006), What Makes Women Happy (London: HarperCollins).
Weissman, Myrna, and Paykel, E.S. (1974), Depressed Woman: Study of Social Relationships (Chicago: University of Chicago Press).
Wright, Peter, and Elam, Paul (2014), Go Your Own Way: Understanding MGTOW (AVFM Press).
Zubaty, Rich (1994), Surviving the Feminization of America: How to Keep Women From Ruining Your Life (Zubaty Publishing).
Zubaty, Rich (2001), What Men Know That Women Don’t: How to Love Women Without Losing Your Soul (virtualbookworm.com Publishing).
Recommended websites
There’s a large and fast-expanding number of websites of interest to people who are interested in men’s and boys’ issues, their human rights, and have non-feminist or anti-feminist perspectives. If you have time to follow only one site, we strongly recommend A Voice for Men, the world’s most-visited and most influential men’s human rights advocacy website. Please let me know mike@j4mb.org.uk of any websites which you think might usefully be added to the following list, or removed for any reason. Thank you.
BRITISH / IRISH SITES
Campaign for Merit in Business
Evidence-Based Domestic Abuse Research Network (EDBARN)
False Allegations Support Organisation
Families Need Fathers (YouTube)
Men’s Human Rights Movement (Facebook)
Men’s Rights Movement (Facebook)
People Against Parental Alienation (PAPA)
Society for the Protection of Unborn Children
The real story of my twin boys, Oliver and Oscar Ferreira
NON-BRITISH / IRISH SITES
Anti-Misandry (Curing Feminist Indoctrination)
Attorneys for the Rights of the Child
Breaking Away from Modern Feminism (why this woman is leaving the collective)
Campaign to End Domestic Violence
Community of the Wrongly Accused
DAVIA: Domestic Abuse and Violence International Alliance
Feminists – sometimes, for the sake of your sanity, you HAVE to laugh at them (video)
Freedom for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
Genderratic (Honey Badger Brigade)
Karen Straughan (GirlWritesWhat) – blog
Karen Straughan (GirlWritesWhat) – YouTube
Men are Good (Tom Golden) – YouTube
Men Going Their Own Way (MGTOW)
Men’s Psychology (Eldritch Edain)
Parental Alienation Study Group
Pro-Male / Anti-Feminist Technology
Sage Gerard (Victor Zen) – blog
Sage Gerard (Victor Zen) – YouTube
Refuge – our challenge of Sandra Horley, Chief Executive. No reponse.
The letter we sent Ms Horley on 4.9.14.
Our public challenges of feminists (and their male collaborators)
We’re sometimes asked if we’ve ever had any substantive responses to the many public challenges we’ve issued to feminists, and their male collaborators. No, we haven’t, with the sole exception of one from Vera Baird, although we still haven’t received a response to the note we sent her in January 2014.
These people are utterly shameless in their contempt for truth while they pursue feminist agendas. Here’s a small selection from our challenges, in reverse chronological order:
Emma Ritch Executive Director, Engender (Scottish feminist campaigning organization)
Alun Michael Police and Crime Commissioner, South Wales
Leighton Andrews AM Minister for Public Services, National Assembly for Wales
Kate Smurthwaite Feminist ‘comedienne’
Vera Baird QC Police and Crime Commissioner for Northumbria (second challenge)
Gloria de Piero MP Shadow Minister for Women & Equalities
Laura Bates Whine merchant (second challenge)
Mark Carney Governor, Bank of England
Theresa May MP Home Secretary
Laura Bates Whine merchant
[Note added 27.9.14: the evidence base behind our assertion that Laura Bates was lying – a lie she brazenly repeated in September 2014 in a BBC debate – is here.]
Eleri Butler Chief Executive, Welsh Women’s Aid
Sandra Horley Chief Executive, Refuge
Roz Hardie CEO of OBJECT, a feminist campaigning organisation
David Futrelle American feminist, critic of men’s human rights advocates
Polly Neate CEO, Women’s Aid
Clean Break Theatre company
Laurie Penny Gender feminist ‘journalist’
Dickie James Board member, Women’s Aid
Laura Carstensen Commissioner, Equality & Human Rights Commission
Vince Cable MP Business Secretary
Julie Bindel Gender feminist campaigner and journalist
Professor Sarah Niblock Head of Journalism, Brunel University
Vera Baird QC Police and Crime Commissioner for Northumbria
Ms Baird responded to our challenge, and we replied 11.1.14 with a number of comments and questions. The exchange of emails is here.
If and when we ever hear back from Ms Baird, we’ll post her response.
Professor Susan Vinnicombe Head of the Cranfield International Centre for Women Leaders
Ellie Slee Contributor to The Huffington Post, ‘Whiny Woman of the Month’ award winner
Toby Granville Group Editor of The Dorset Echo
Dr Henrietta O’Connor and Dr John Goodwin Leicester University
Dr Jude Browne Director of Gender Studies, Cambridge University
Janet Street-Porter Feminist ‘journalist’, ‘Harpy’ award winner
Debbie White CEO of Sodexo (UK & Ireland)
The background to the challenge of Debbie White is here.
The CEO of Sodexo, a multinational with its headquarters in France, is Michel Landel. He’s a director of Catalyst Inc., a New York-based feminist organisation campaigning internationally for more women on boards. Our article on the matter is here.
Charlotte Sweeney Reviewer of the voluntary code of conduct of executive search firms
Nick Baveystock Director general of the Institution of Civil Engineers
Caroline Criado-Perez Whine merchant, ‘Lying Woman of the Month’ (May 2014)
Dr Petra Wilton Director of Policy, Chartered Management Institute
Amina Women’s Project Birmingham-based feminist group
Kat Banyard Gender feminist campaigner, inaugural ‘Lying Woman of the Month’
Sir Roger Carr Chairman of Centrica, former president of the CBI, founder member of The 30% Club, ‘Toady’ award winner
Helena Morrissey CEO of Newton Investment Management, founder of The 30% Club
Professor Rita Marcella Aberdeen Business School
Ilene Lang President and CEO of Catalyst
Lying Feminists of the Month – Sandi Toksvig (twice), Laura Bates (twice), Caroline Criado-Perez (thrice), Gloria De Piero MP (twice), Kate Smurthwaite, Kat Banyard, a Women’s Aid spokeswoman…
These awards were originally titled, ‘Lying Women of the Month’. Following the realisation that the award winners were invariably feminists, from July 2014 onwards we’ve presented ‘Lying Feminist of the Month’ awards. The awards in reverse chronological order:
July 2015: Sandi Toksvig Lesbian comedienne, Women’s Equality Party spokeswoman. She also won this award in May 2015.
June 2015: Emma Ritch Executive Director, Engender (a Scottish radical feminist campaigning organisation, 88.6% funded by Scottish taxpayers – mostly men).
May 2015: Sandi Toksvig Lesbian comedienne, Women’s Equality Party spokeswoman.
April 2015: Melanie Jeffs Manager, Nottingham Women’s Centre.
March 2015: Gloria De Piero MP Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities. She also won this award in July 2014.
February 2015: Kate Smurthwaite Feminist ‘comedienne’.
January 2015: Caroline Criado-Perez Whine merchant who’s won this award three times in the past eight months.
December 2014: Roweena Russell North East Feminist Gathering.
November 2014: Laura Bates Whine merchant. She also won this award in September 2014.
October 2014: Caroline Criado-Perez Whine merchant, the genius behind the ‘women on banknotes’ campaign. She also won this award in May 2014.
September 2014: Laura Bates Whine merchant.
A week after we presented Ms Bates – ‘Special Snowflake’ – with this award, and emailed her to notify her of the matter, she was on a televised debate being broadcast live by the BBC. She repeated the lie (that over two women a week in the UK are killed by partners or ex-partners) and when reminded of our challenge by an audience member, Owen Davies, a student, she repeated it again – here. The proof that her claim is a lie is here.
August 2014: Roz Hardie CEO of OBJECT, a feminist campaign organisation.
July 2014: Gloria De Piero MP Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities.
June 2014: Franki Hackett Women’s Aid spokeswoman. She won the award for making at least seven demonstrably false claims and/or misleading statements during an online discussion with Glen Poole. We publicly challenged Polly Neate (CEO, Women’s Aid) to retract the claims, and she contemptuously declined to do so. A link to the recording, our public challenge, and Ms Neate’s response to it, is here.
May 2014: Caroline Criado-Perez. Whine merchant.
April 2014: Teresa Hughes.
March 2014: Kat Banyard Whine merchant. Her award certificate has a link to the Channel 4 News interview for which she won the award.
Hardly a month goes by without someone launching a new award. On top of this award, J4MB and others now present:
Entitlement Princess of the Month
Whiny Woman of the Month
Gormless Woman of the Month
Harpy
Toady
Maggie
Winston
Our guide to all these awards is here.
Female sex offenders
Anyone relying on the mainstream media for an understanding of female sex offenders would surely conclude they represent a tiny proportion of women, that sexual assault is overwhelmingly a male-on-female phenomenon, and that where women are involved, it’s invariably as accomplices of male sex offenders. As usual with gender-related matters, the mainstream media are not to be relied upon.
A strong source of material on the subject of female sex offenders is this American website. It’s worth exploring in detail – the resources available are impressive, to say the least – but if you’re pressed for time and have only a few minutes to spare, we recommend you read this.
Female postgraduate engineering students entitled to taxpayer-funded sponsorships worth £22,750, on the basis of gender alone
[Note added 6.7.14: The Brunel University story is small beer in comparison with this story, the government committing £30 million to bribe more women into engineering.]
[Note added 3.7.14: A FoI request has led us to the information that these MSc courses are of one year’s duration, and the sponsorships are worth £22,750. There’s a ‘living allowance’ of £15,000 – male students don’t need to live, it would seem – and the course fees of £7,750 are paid. Today we posted a new piece on the matter.]
Yet more lunacy, part of a scheme expected to cost long-suffering taxpayers £25 million.
From the article:
“Only around a quarter of students on engineering master’s courses are women,” said Brunel engineering lecturer, Petra Gratton. “Bluntly speaking, that has to change if UK engineering is going to continue to compete as successfully as it currently does… While some may see this as positive discrimination the stark reality is that UK plc can no longer afford not to exploit fully this enormous potential talent pool.
Some may see this as positive discrimination? Who – with an IQ above that of a particularly dim fruitbat – wouldn’t? Four out of seven unemployed people in the UK are men, unemployment is a larger driver of male suicide than female suicide, the male/female suicide differential has increased from 1.8:1 to 3.5:1 in the past 30 years… and here we have one of the few remaining male-dominated professions discriminating against men.
It’s time to join up the dots. In this and many other ways, the state is leading men to kill themselves in large numbers – suicide is the leading cause of death among young men – although men collectively pay 72% of the income tax which largely finances the state.
The £22,750 p.a. additional grants will be paid to female postgraduates solely on account of their gender. So a female student from a rich family will get the grant, while a male student from a poor family won’t. From the piece:
A spokesman for Brunel added that the university was trying to dispel the myth that engineers spend most of their time on site, wearing hard hats.
“At advanced level, engineering is very much an office-based profession, where the emphasis is working with teams on a collaborative basis. These skills are areas where women have traditionally excelled.”
I’ve yet to see any evidence that women have ‘traditionally excelled’ at teamwork in a way that leads to improved economic performance. If there were any truth in this self-congratulatory fantasy, the senior reaches of our major companies would have long been dominated by women. Indeed, without positive discrimination, few women reach those positions.
Would female engineering graduates not understand by the end of their engineering courses, what being an engineer was about? Are they really that stupid? Let’s read between the lines in that extract, shall we? Women clearly prefer to be in nice cosy offices than ‘on site, wearing hard hats’, which presumably mess up their hair.
The reality is surely that by the time these women graduate, they understand perfectly well what the life of an engineer entails, and that’s why they’re quitting the profession they were suckered into entering in the first place – suckered by taxpayer-funded initiatives aimed at getting more women to study STEMM subjects. Now it seems the only way to persuade these women to undertake postgraduate engineering studies is for long-suffering taxpayers to bribe them with an additional £22,750 pa. They must be so proud of having been born with the ‘correct’ genitals to ensure additional taxpayer funding. The effort required from them? Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
It’s not just the state that’s relentlessly pursuing this direction of travel. Professional bodies in engineering and other male-dominated professions are discriminating again men, although men surely represent the majority of their existing membership. Our public challenge of Nick Baveystock, the director general of the Institution of Civil Engineers, remains unanswered to this day.
Justice for Men & Boys 
