Our next anti-MGM protest will start outside the Home Office at 1pm next Wednesday – details here. After a time – we’ll decide when, on the day – we’ll walk the short distance to Parliament Square, the venue of our memorable protest last November, on International Men’s Day, to protest once again. A video (6:30) of that memorable protest is here.
Month: May 2016
Lucian Valsan interviews Janice Fiamengo: ‘Feminism’s effect on men’
Women are misogynists!
A tip of the hat to The Amazing Atheist for this.
Men get their own bullshit body types
Stop asking us things, say men
Woman outrages neighbours by barbecuing for herself
Columnist running out of feminist perspectives
Blog pieces checked out by visitors to this blog today include one from The Daily Mash in 2013. Enjoy.
Everyday sexism, and the new dodgy dossiers
After you’ve swallowed the Red Pill, it’s impossible not to notice that anti-male sexism is rife.
It has become my custom to repair to one of Bedford’s hostelries for a couple of hours on a Friday or Saturday evening, in order to read the latest edition of The Spectator at leisure, with a half pint of real ale (sometimes two, if it’s a particularly warm evening).
This evening I went into a pub towards the end of the High St. I can’t recall the name, but it’s the one opposite a bakery where they sell my adopted county’s impressive contribution to world cusine, the Bedfordshire Clanger. Two barmaids in their 20s were clearly unable to see me behind the bar, seeking a drink, even though I was wearing my conference polo shirt. Their visual problems didn’t extend to younger people in general, or women in particular, I noticed, so let me add the charge of ageism to that of sexism.
On my way home I dropped into Lidl for a couple of essential items, one of them being roasted almonds. Only one check-out was open, and I reached the end of the conveyor belt shortly after a young woman (30ish?) with a shopping trolley full to the brim with goods. Whenever I’m in situations such as this, with a full trolley, if there’s someone behind me with only an item or two, I always invite them to go before me, whether a man or a woman. I’ve seen many men do the same, but I cannot recall a woman ever doing so. I’m sure it happens, but I’d guess rarely. It’s just one of countless examples of everyday sexism.
As she was nearing the end of the checkout operation, Entitlement Princess sauntered off to continue her shopping, leaving me – and two or three people behind me, by this stage – fuming. I’ve seen many women do this, and no men. Some minutes later she returned with a lettuce, and couldn’t be bothered to apologise for having inconvenienced anyone.
It’s time for a display of a fine masculine quality, stoicism, as I reflect on the immortal words of Battery Sergeant Major Tudor Bryn Williams (Windsor Davies) in the classic BBC sitcom It Ain’t Half Hot Mum (1974-81):
Oh dear. How sad. What a pity. Never mind.
I appear to have digressed again. In the current edition of The Spectator there’s an excellent piece by Peter Oborne, The new dodgy dossiers. The subtitle is:
The Chancellor and PM are using every dirty trick in the Blairite book to win a Remain vote.
Amen to that. By the time taxpayer-funded government narratives supporting ‘Remain’ have been dissected in detail, and proven to have been a tissue of lies, the British people will have voted to remain in the EU, if current polls (and bookmakers’ odds) are anything to go by.
Sgt Kirsten Treasure: Met officer dismissed for ‘ignoring’ stabbing of Andrew Else, 52, which led to his death
Our thanks to Stuart for this. From the article:
A Metropolitan Police sergeant has been dismissed for failing to respond to a fatal attack in which a man was stabbed more than 200 times.
Sgt Kirsten Treasure, who worked in Croydon, ignored an initial call for assistance to the stabbing on 24 April 2014, a misconduct hearing was told…
The misconduct hearing on Friday was told Sgt Treasure used racist and homophobic language on three occasions between 30 December 2013 and 13 April 2014, as well as on 12 other occasions on unspecified dates.
It was further alleged in May 2014 she had refused permission for an officer to investigate a shoplifting incident.
The following month she was accused of asking an officer to provide her with the names of colleagues who had complained about her behaviour. She was also accused of pressurising an officer not to give evidence against her.
Ch Supt Matt Gardner, from the Directorate of Professional Standards, said: “The catalogue of misconduct by this officer is truly shocking.”
Most millennial men in the United States don’t identify as masculine, one in five identify as feminine
Our thanks to Kevin for this depressing piece. Inevitably, it was written by a woman, who comes up with gems like this:
The financial chapter is not the whole story. It’s certainly not the only way to care for and protect someone — a relationship is, after all, mostly about emotional needs. Be there, be supportive, open the jars, and kill the spiders.