Spot on.

We salute the London MRAs who protested outside the recent London premiere of Suffragette, dressed as injured WW1 soldiers. CNN broadcast a few impactful seconds of them – here – the section starts at 2:23. Note how they’re presented as being “against the Suffragettes’ cause”.

Our thank to Martin for pointing us to this. The start of the article in the Brisbane Times:

Men may have to move aside from high-profile roles in business and government to make way for women to move in, according to the chairman of Transfield, Diane Smith-Gander.

A bill proposed by a group of Senate crossbenchers would make it compulsory for federal government boards to be at least 40 per cent female.

Ms Smith-Gander, who is also president of the Chief Executive Women group, said to reach that target, and an eventual bigger target of 50-50 representation of women on business boards and in senior roles, capable men would have to make way for capable women.

“When it comes to senior jobs and political appointments I think 50-50 representation is where we’re heading,” she said at an Australian Institute of Company Directors lunch in Melbourne on Tuesday.

Marvellous. Laura is clearly thinking of women such as Special Snowflake (Laura Bates BEM), inaugural member of The Whine Club.

Ms Bates, and those of a similar mind, should carry one of these in their handbags:

Last night we posted a link to a Daily Mail article by Jenni Murray, on women who sexually abuse male minors –  here.

We thank William Gruff for posting an interesting response, which takes up the remainder of this blog post:

“Mrs Murray’s article suggests a number of questions and shows, I think, that some of the less irrational feminists, those who present themselves as ‘thinkers’, however shallow, and whose public credibility is essential to their continued employment in a ratings dependent public sphere, are having to face the fact that little girls are not actually made of sugar and spice and all things nice and can no longer continue to assert the contrary.

All literary work is subject to the perception of the reader. My perception is that Mrs Murray has suddenly woken up to find one of her sacred bubbles has been well and truly burst by her own kind. She faces at least two personal intellectual crises. The first is that she has been forced to accept the delusion shattering reality of females as rather more than very rare perpetrators with males as rather more than very rare victims.

That she is intellectually and emotionally incapable of accepting the truth is demonstrated by her traditionally female responses: “I / she didn’t do it” (unavailable to Mrs Murray because guilt has been proven); (when guilt has been proven) “it was not my / her fault” (unavailable to Mrs Murray because guilt has been proven); “I / she couldn’t help it”, which the sad old feminist uses to excuse the women’s crimes.

Read on to learn that the immediacy of social media and men are the problem:

‘There are a number of theories for this apparent rise in female sexual abuse. Many believe social media and the proliferation of text messaging and sexy selfies have begun to erode traditional moral boundaries.

A passing fancy that might once have simply flitted through the mind, but never been pursued, for example, can now be only too easily written down and ‘sent’ at the click of a button.

Or could this corruption of women (let’s not forget that as little as two decades ago, the idea of a grown woman having sex with a child would have caused a huge moral outcry) be borne out of the fact that a growing number of females are deeply disappointed with their relationships with adult males?

All too often we hear that the internet is enabling men, to pursue affairs for which they might otherwise have had no opportunity. The rise of internet porn has made some men assume extreme and brutal sexual practices are normal and theirs to enjoy by right.

Could it be that sex with a boy makes women who have fallen foul of such men feel they have regained the upper hand?’

All pure, unadulterated gynocentric tripe. Particularly objectionable is the line:

‘A passing fancy that might once have simply flitted through the mind, but never been pursued, for example, can now be only too easily written down and ‘sent’ at the click of a button.’

Can any man imagine a similar ‘passing fancy’ – a ‘passing fancy’ that should not be ‘flitting’ through his mind under any circumstances – being excused because it can ‘now be only too easily written down and ‘sent’ at the click of a button.‘?

Note also that the ‘corruption of women’ may be due to ‘the fact (sic) that a growing number of females are deeply disappointed with their relationships with adult males‘. Can any man imagine a similar offence being mitigated because he is ‘deeply disappointed with [his] relationships with adult [fe]males’?

Ultimately, it’s all the men’s fault, and the technology, never the women’s.

The second intellectual crisis stems from the inconvenient fact that almost all of the women she cites have grown up during her twenty eight year tenure of the Woman’s Hour presenter’s chair, during which she has constantly wittered on about a woman’s right to have everything she wants, women’s nicer side than men, their inability to do wrong and women’s special circumstances deserving complete absolution from responsibility when, very rarely and through no fault of their own, women do actually do wrong.

It may just have dawned on the idiotic Mrs Murray that she may, in part, bear some responsibility for the ‘disturbing rise of the women child sex predators’. All that aside, if the ‘staggering leniency’ shown to the disgusting perverts she cites really has ‘depressed and disappointed [her] more than anything that [she’s] read for a very long time’ she should have a chat with that other great taxpayer-funded feminist guardian of women’s privileges, Alison Saunders.”

Our thanks to S for alerting me to a tweet by @Ricardo_Bald:

Me and the wife have just been to the cinema to see that new film Suffragette.

Two hours of a woman’s struggles… full of tears, aggression, sadness, anger and frustration.

Anyway, after she finally managed to park the car in the cinema car park, we rushed in and caught the credits.

[Note added 17.10.15 – our award-winning media team has just posted the edited piece onto our YouTube channel – here.]

I’ve just been in a discussion hosted by Nicky Campbell for BBC 5 live Breakfast, on the topic of sexual consent, prompted by yesterday’s story about George Lawlor, a student at Warwick University. Lawlor rightly objected to being invited onto a course about sexual consent.

I debated with Leah Phillips, a PhD student at the University. From her university profile page:

My research focuses on our cultural concern with the adolescent female body, and that body’s presentation and construction in popular media and culture.

We’ll post the discussion on our YouTube library later today.

The following are three of our most-read pieces about rape:

6 dangerous rape myths (Hannah Wallen)

10 reasons false rape allegations are common (Jonathan Taylor)

13 reasons women lie about being raped (Janet Bloomfield)

More than a quarter of sexual offences against people of the opposite sex are committed by women, yet in 2013 only one in every 146 people charged with sexual offences was a woman. Details are in the section on sexual abuse in our election manifesto, pp.31-37.

Interesting. Jenni Murray is the radical feminist broadcaster whose Wikipedia page mentions the existence of neither of her two sons, nor her husband. One of Julie Bindel’s gal pals. The woman who (before she married) described marriage as legalised prostitution. The doyenne of misandrous ball-busting Woman Sour presenters.  Extracts from her article:

We’ve struggled for years to help [translation: indoctrinate] boys understand that becoming a man doesn’t necessarily mean accepting the old stereotype of the cold, distant, insensitive pater familias who expects a woman to pander to his every need.

Yet if we ignore the harm done by the exploitation or sexualisation of boys and set aside their emotional feelings, we doom ourselves to yet another generation of males with little respect for women. [translation: we don’t give a flying f*** about the boys who are being sexually abused by women, but there’s a risk that as a consequence of that abuse, they might not develop into the slaves we want.]

What is the significance of the piece, the publication of which would have been unimaginable just a year or two ago? We appear to be in uncharted waters, but we can be sure of one thing. The publication of this article is a testament to feminists being conscious they’re losing control of the cultural narrative, and desperately trying to recover it. Do they see the tsunami heading their way? Probably not.

I’m fairly sure Jenni Murray will never speak out about gender inequality with respect to prison sentencing – or many other areas, of course, where women are advantaged over men. As William Collins explained – here – if men were sentenced as leniently as women with respect to prison sentencing, five out of six men in British prisons wouldn’t be there. Why wouldn’t Jenni Murray be in favour of a gender equality initiative which would solve the prison overcrowding crisis? Yes, another rhetorical question…

An excellent review of recent news.

George Lawlor is the estimable Warwick University student of politics and sociology, who objected to being summoned to a ‘Consent Training Session’. His original article is here, I’ve just posted a couple of comments, and invite you to add one or two – or more – of your own. Let’s show George some well-deserved support.