Our thanks to Andrew for alerting us to this story.
On yesterday’s BBC flagship breakfast radio news programme Today, Yvette Cooper said she wants a ‘feminist approach to the economy’. Did she mean by this that she wants women to work harder – maybe in more challenging, more highly-paid lines of work, or in more senior positions – in order to collectively pay 50% of the income tax collected in the UK, rather than just 28%, £69 BILLION p.a. less than men? Er, no.
The final five minutes of today’s programme featured James Naughtie interviewing two dreary feminists on what a ‘feminist approach to the economy’ is. The discussion is on iPlayer, from 2:54:50 – 2:59:50 – here. We will load the (edited) piece onto our YouTube channel in the coming few days.
One of the dreary feminists was Jane Humphries, a Professor of Economic History at the University of Oxford with predictably feminist obsessions about women, and predictable disinterest in men. She nominated herself for a ‘Lying Feminist of the Month’ award by referring to ‘the persistence of glass ceilings’. I could email her to suggest she orders a copy of The Glass Ceiling Delusion and she would certainly learn a lot from it, which is precisely why she wouldn’t order it. Professors today aren’t what they once were.
What on Earth would “a feminist approach to the economy” be for heaven’s sake?
You may think that paying only young women £22,750 to attend Brunel University is already a fairly feminist economic approach.
I know… does it mean that each individual male applicant would have to pay that amount as well as his own costs?
I wonder if that would be a sufficiently “feminist approach” for her?
In fact in itself of course it means nothing. It is an empty meaning free slogan that anyone can chant on the grounds it could mean anything you want.
And then claim to have achieved it.
I don’t think you need to have gone to (any) university to to spot the duplicious lying deceit going on here.
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