Another dire piece from Ally Fogg of The Guardian. Grayson Perry is the artist who gave a keynote speech at a ‘Being A Man’ conference while wearing one of his trademark pink party frocks.

Fogg denies he’s a feminist, yet writes feminist nonsense like this:

Masculinity is a political construction.

No, it’s not, it’s a biological construction. And this:

As a society we find it really easy to understand that women are products of the culture that moulds them – consider all the concerns about Disney princesses, pinkification, gendered toys etc. We find it really easy to agree that women need help and support to be liberated and fulfilled, to have full opportunities in their life, education and careers. We find this easy because we are steeped in patriarchal values. [my emphasis]

He ends:

I welcome Grayson Perry’s careful consideration of modern masculinity. It is helpful that what he says can be heard. However we must recognise that what he is doing is identifying problems. Developing solutions is not a matter of art or psychotherapy, but of politics. [my emphasis]

The final sentence makes sense, but any ‘solutions’ which are driven by feminists are inevitably doomed to fail.

Most of the problems facing men and boys today in the UK result from state-driven assaults on their human rights, usually to advantage women and girls. We outlined 20 such areas in our 2015 general election manifesto. There are no areas in which the human rights of women and girls (specifically) are assaulted by the state’s actions and inactions in the UK. None.

Both Sophie Walker, leader of the odious Women’s Equality party, and Sandi Toxic, the party’s spokeswoman, have won two Lying Feminist of the Month awards – details here. We thank Ann, a party supporter, for forwarding to us an email she received from the party earlier this evening – details here – in which Catherine Mayer and Sandi Toxic nominate themselves for our coveted award (the blatant lie is highlighted in yellow). A video of Mayer being interviewed by Andrew Marr at his Toady worst is here.

Our thanks to John for this piece in The Spectator.

Our thanks to Chloe for this. She writes:

The mind boggles! If a man has a “feminine” side then I give him a wide berth.

Our thanks to Chloe for this. She writes:

Oh dear. How sad. What a pity. Never mind.

We’re a little behind in presenting some of our monthly awards, not due to a shortage of contenders – that will never happen – but due to pressure of work, with the London conference now only nine or ten weeks away (8-10 July). Ticket sales will end 12:00 GMT on Sunday 5 June, I may have mentioned that once or twice before.

This morning I was sent a link to a letter written by Emma Thompson and published by The Guardian, in connection with her support for the Women’s Equality party. Her letter was clearly a self-nomination for a Gormless Feminist of the Month award, and her certificate is here:

Our thanks to Chloe for pointing us to an appalling article written by two female sociologists at the University of Essex. Ominously, it starts:

Despite over 30 years of feminist research…

It could more accurately have started:

Despite over 30 years of advocacy research carried out by taxpayer-funded gender ideologues…

The following extract should give you a flavour of the piece:

Hannah personified a “bad” woman – unmotherly and promiscuous. Rather than acknowledging her vulnerability and considering the very difficult situation Hannah faced being pregnant, the court condemned her. Hannah was sentenced to 26 weeks in jail, suspended for two years.

Hannah was ‘condemned’ by the court to… er… no punishment. Why, those heartless patriarchs!

It need hardly be said that the sociologists aren’t putting forward the argument that courts must stop judging people who kill their babies as morally ‘good’ or ‘bad’. That would be totally the wrong sort of gender equality.

A truly pathetic article from a recent Mail on Sunday. An extract:

A report from the Federation of Small Businesses last week argued that while women-led firms face many of the same challenges that all small businesses encounter, ‘there appear to be issues which are more acute for women business owners’.

Its survey of more than 1,900 women business owners found key challenges included balancing work and family life, achieving credibility for the business, and a lack of confidence.

One of the comments hits the nail on the head:

Why must we do more for women entrepreneurs? Who is the ‘we’? If people can’t do it for themselves, men or women, they are not entrepreneurs.

Our thanks to B for this. A disabled man died as a result of being let down by two policewomen, and it seems their punishment was limited to being sacked, after being suspended for three years. From the article:

Mitigating on behalf of Leanne Winter, David Hughes added that his client was operating in extremely difficult circumstances and had to make tough decisions.

He added: “She has been gravely affected in the three years she has been suspended and having to deal with the consequences of what happened that night.

“There were systematic failings of the force. It would be a tragedy of justice if Leanne Winter were to lose her job and she does not deserve that.”

Speaking on behalf of Helen Harris, Raymond Tully said the 40-year-old had been suspended for the past three years after joining the force in 2002.

He said: “She found herself in an extremely trying and difficult situation. She was flawed but she was trying her very best.

“It occurred in circumstances where she was drawing towards the end of her shift.

“The final two hours were extremely difficult and testing. She had become extremely frustrated. She was feeling tired and let down. In these circumstances she lost it.”

Would any of these ‘mitigating circumstances’ have been employed by lawyers on behalf of male police officers? It’s very doubtful.

Excellent (video, 10:38). Janet will be speaking at the London conference on the topic, ‘How Feminism Infantilizes Women’.