Month: November 2015
David Power’s comment on Breitbart following the announcement of ICMI16
Julia Hartley-Brewer: The campaign to end VAT on tampons is one of the silliest the sisterhood has ever mounted
Yesterday I was involved in a discussion on BBC Radio Leicester about the ‘Tampon Tax’. A feminist made a claim about women’s expecnditure on tampons, and I made the point that I’d use her figure as the basis for discussion, although feminists were notorious for lying.
The presenter, Monica Winfield, imperiosuy said I couldn’t generalise that feminists were liars, to which I retorted that I could, and would. The discussion is here.
I’m grateful to HEqual for sending me some comments, which take up the remainder of this blog piece:
“Mike you were ABSOLUTELY right about her lying and you’ve totally underestimated the scale of her lie. That 18K figure is the most insane feminist exaggeration yet. Here’s the figures:
She insanely claims women in the UK spend £18K over a lifetime on sanitary products and even that’s rounded down from the actual figure feminists use which is £18,450
18,450 / 40 years = £461.25 per year
Assuming there are 20 million UK women using said products then that tells us the total UK market is worth amazing £9.225 billion each year.
In reality, most tampons are remarkably cheap and of course what shrinks the cost is that women aren’t using them every day.
The GLOBAL market is current totals less than £10 billion:
http://www.prweb.com/releases/feminine_hygiene_products/sanitary_pads_towels/prweb9233581.htm
i.e. it seems that some feminist idiot has taken a report about the entire planet, erased billions of women from existence apart from those in the UK and pretended the only women that exist or buy tampons are those in the UK!
The lie is fully debunked by Julia Hartley-Brewer in the Telegraph here:
So rather than the actual tax spend being £1,000 in a lifetime it could be as low as £30.
just think how insane the figure of £18,000 in a lifetime is. Plenty of people don’t even earn that in a year – total madness!
I think some sort of communication to that feminist presenter proving your were even more correct than you thought is in order given her very determined belief that feminists tell the truth when defending what was clearly about the biggest lie going.
I’ll be sending out a few tweets at the very least.
Dan Bell: BBC3’s anti-male coverage shows that men’s issues are still not taken seriously
Charles Moore’s column in the new edition of ‘The Spectator’
Charles Moore is an English journalist and a former editor of The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph and The Spectator. He still writes for the first and last of these publications. The Telegraph titles were quality titles under his stewardship. Sadly, no longer, although there are signs of improvement, as we saw with recent pieces by Dan Bell and Glen Poole.
He is also the author of the official biographies of Mrs Thatcher, the second of a series of three was published recently. Both are extremely well-written, and show Mrs Thatcher to be a far more sympathetic character than she was portrayed by herself and others. ‘The Iron Lady’ was a deeply human woman.
I recently took out a subscription for The Spectator, the only magazine of its type for whch I have any time. Today I received a letter with a link to the latest online edition, and the first article I opened was Charles Moore’s column. I’ve left a comment which will hopefully not be removed, but in case it is, I’ll leave it here for posterity, it takes up the remainder of this blog piece. I invite you to leave your own comments on The Spectator page.
BBC launches multi-pronged attack on Donald Trump: mockery, fear, and hints of Nazism
Our thanks to Jim for pointing us to a piece published by Breitbart London – here.
Alison Saunders’s response to our FOI request is now THREE weeks overdue
Alison Saunders, Director of Public Prosecutions, failed to respond by the required deadline to our FOI request asking for minutes of meetings she’s had since she took on her role, with organizations advocating for victims of domestic and/or sexual abuse. Her response is now THREE weeks overdue.
Our letter to Ms Saunders is here, and in a moment I’ll alert the Crown Prosecution Service to this blog post. We’ll publish a post each week on the delay by Alison Saunders, until we get a response.
Mike Buchanan and some ridiculous feminists interviewed about the ‘Tampon Tax’
My thanks to H for loading this onto our YouTube channel. There’s some background information under the video.
Janet Bloomfield: Threaten me, or my family, and I will kill you. There is no ‘if’.
Paul Elam: On cultural change and violence
It’s always worth listening to anything Paul Elam, founder and publisher of AVfM, has to say on gender issues. Enjoy.