Our thanks to Bill for this from Community of the Wrongly Accused.

Our thanks to B for pointing us to an interesting piece by Charlie Bloom (an aptly named garden designer of the female persuasion) on The Conservative Woman website. Our media team plans to post the BBC programme (on MGTOWs) – broadcast last week – onto our Vimeo channel in the next day or two.

In the next few days I hope to publish an 18-minute-long interview with Kay Burley of Sky News, recorded on International Women’s Day, 8 March. In the course of the discussion I raised the issue of Preference Theory – a theory published by Dr Catherine Hakim, a world-renowned sociologist, in 2000 – and her response was one I’ve encountered on other occasions, scoffing at the original study having been published 16 years ago, implying that things had changed over the intervening years. The idea that British women’s preferences with respect to paid employment might have changed substantially in the course of the past 16 years struck me as ridiculous, and I said as much, in my trademark diplomatic style.

In an effort to obtain an informed up-to-date view on the matter, I contacted Dr Hakim, and she kindly responded with this, for which I thank her.

Our thanks to Francis for this. The end of the article:

Magistrate Stephen Bridges told Willock: ‘This is an assault of the highest category – you ruined his car. All for the sake of we know not what. This assault is so serious that custody is the only option in the circumstances. [My emphasis.] Your behaviour beggars belief, frankly.’

Willock, from East Ham, was given a 12-week suspended sentence [My emphasis] and 180 hours of unpaid work, and ordered to pay £650 in compensation.

Our thanks to Francis for alerting us to this:

Francis wrote this in his email:

Dear Mike,

I came across the attached poster at Waterloo Station yesterday. I’m sure you’ll be delighted to hear that the kind staff at South West Trains will give a free first class upgrade to a pregnant woman. It doesn’t actually mention on the poster that it’s only if there are no other seats left in Standard Class:

http://www.southwesttrains.co.uk/mums-to-be.aspx

Having looked carefully all over their website, I can find no corresponding offer for men who are:

– Overweight
– Infirm
– Elderly

… or indeed any other reason they might also need a seat if there are no others available in Standard Class. What a surprise!

Our thanks to Paul for this. Worth reading, if only for the perspective of the article’s author, Paul Bois. A tip of the hat to him.

My thanks to Paul for this:

Sir,

Just wanted to point out that for your text on Julie Bentley,

“let’s have unisex running events, where competitors’ starting positions on the track are related to their gender, level of fitness, weight, age etc.”

This is already happening in Canada and has been for a few years (see link below).

It’s called the “Women Set the Pace” series, apparently, as stated on their website a few years back, because they were tired of seeing men win the events and felt they should have a “women only” race series to boost the self-esteem of women:

http://runningmagazine.ca/women-set-the-pace-at-the-toronto-womens-half-marathon-and-5k/

From the article:

The mission of this Toronto event is to invite women to race in a supportive environment where they get a chance to be the first to break the tape. The tagline of the race is “women set the pace.”

Maybe the tagline should be, “Women set the pace… when they don’t compete with men.”

Our thanks to Gary Costanza for this.

Dr Niall McCrae is a lecturer at the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing & Midwifery at King’s College, London. It’s unusual to see academics other than working in the field of domestic violence publish articles on the issue, so we were pleased to read this piece on The Conservative Woman website.

Enjoy (video, 10:26).