Boys ‘twice as likely to fall behind girls’ in early years

Our thanks to a number of people for this. The start of the short (BBC) piece:

Boys are nearly twice as likely as girls to have fallen behind by the time they start school, a report says.

Save the Children says a quarter of boys in England – 90,000 – started reception class struggling to speak a full sentence or follow instructions.

The report, based on a University of Bristol study, says children who start school behind often never catch up.

The end of the piece:

Responding to the report, a spokesperson for the Department for Education said “the number of qualified staff is rising with more trained graduates in the workforce and a record number of providers rated Good or Outstanding.

“This investment is paying off, latest figures show more than 80 per cent of children are reaching the expected communication and language skills by age five, but we will continue working with the sector until every child gets the high-quality education they deserve.”

Note the trademark lack of recognition by DfE that educational under-performance is a highly gendered issue.

 

 

Belinda Brown: ‘Wolf-whistling a hate crime? What an insult to real victims of abuse.’

Following the recent ridiculous news that the female Chief Constable of Nottinghamshire has been working with the Nottingham Women’s Centre – a publicly-funded organization run by Melanie Jeffs, an odious lesbian radical feminist, winner of our April 2015 Lying Feminist of the Month award – to make misogyny a reportable hate crime, we were pleased to see an article by the lovely Belinda Brown in last Thursday’s Daily Mail. The article ends:

In this new era of draconian rules and regulations, it is considered perfectly politically correct for a woman to ogle a man’s muscular physique, while he has no right to compliment her on her figure. And who would have a scintilla of respect for a man who rushed to log a complaint against a woman merely because she’d said he looked good? Equality works both ways.

Actually, I think life is infinitely poorer and drearier for these po-faced new directives. Today, in mid-life, I would feel hugely gratified if a stranger – man or woman – told me I looked lovely. Now that I’m older, a wolf whistle would actually make my day.

It is not an insult to be found attractive, actually there is something reassuring and confidence-boosting to be appreciated for our looks.

And while we rightly strive to be women of substance, an appreciation of our appearance need not detract from that.

So I would say to all young women, as I do to my own ten-year-old daughter: accept compliments graciously, but if you are offended have to courage, not to rush off and tell tales, but to confront the person who has caused offence.

This, after all, is what empowerment means and how respect is earned. 

Theresa May’s first cabinet

Our thanks to Guido Fawkes for detailing Ms May’s first cabinet, with 26 ministerial appointments – here. 20% of Tory MPs are female, and they tend to be younger and less experienced than their male colleagues, so the fact that 7 of the new ministers (27%) are female is a demonstration of female privileging, but less than the figure (33%) appointed by David Cameron in his cabinet appointments following last year’s general election.

On the plus side, Nicky Morgan, the odious former Education Secretary and Minister for Women & Equalities, has gone. On the down side, the latter ridiculous ministerial role still exists. Justine Greening is taking over both of Ms Morgan’s roles, and will presumably be equally as disinterested in the under-performance of males in the education system.

Some were predicting a gender-balanced cabinet from Ms May – to follow Canada and Scotland – so we can take at least some heart that with her appointments, Ms May barely reached half that level. We can expect feminists to start whining very shortly. I look forward to hysterical pieces from the Women’s Equality Party and the Fawcett Society in particular. I wonder if Harriet Harman has a view on the matter?

Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics: ‘Circumcision is Unethical and Unlawful’

Tim Hammond gave a well-received presentation at the recent conference, on the Global Survey of Circumcision Harm. We thank him for pointing us to a 20-page-long paper, Circumcision is Unethical and Unlawful, published recently by the Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics. The Conclusion (p.276):

Part I of this article showed that non-therapeutic circumcision of male minors is not medically justified. Part II showed that circumcision violates the cardinal rules of medical ethics, including a patient’s right to autonomy and the Hippocratic Oath, and many specific ethical rules, including the fiduciary duty to one’s patient, the prohibition against unnecessary surgery, discrimination against boys, and the obligation to
defer all pediatric procedures that can be deferred.

Part III showed that, as a German court recently held, circumcision is already illegal under numerous provisions
of American and international law. Even in the far from proven case that circumcision benefits a small percentage of men, as the Royal Dutch Medical Association notes, “it is reasonable to put off circumcision until the age at which such a risk is relevant and the boy himself can decide about the intervention, or can
opt for any available alternatives.”

With near uniformity, the rules of medical ethics and the law indicate that circumcision already violates many rights of the
child, that parental permission given for it is invalid, and that physicians do not have the legal right to operate on healthy children.

Court decisions are naturally influenced by the culture
in which they are made. Circumcision has gradually
but steadily been losing support in the United
States; courts in Europe have held physicians liable
for “properly performed” circumcisions; and many
European medical organizations are calling for legislation
to end it. No national medical association anywhere
recommends the procedure.

As the balance of expert and popular opinion moves toward firmly opposing this procedure, courts will inevitably find
themselves unable to overlook the inconsistency of circumcision with medical professionals’ ethical and legal duties to the child.

Soon the ancient Hippocratic Oath, “First, do no harm” will be applied to male circumcision. In the meantime, we would urge physicians to consider that they are licensed and ethically
required to respect the autonomy and privacy of their patients and to leave their healthy genitals alone until the patients themselves reach an age of consent.

Herbert Purdy: ‘Their Angry Creed: The shocking history of feminism, and how it is destroying our way of life’

Herbert Purdy is an anti-feminist blogger and author, and gave a powerful presentation at the recent conference. A video of that presentation, along with the 19 others, will be posted onto our YouTube channel in the coming weeks.

Herbert has been working for some time on a major book, Their Angry Creed: The shocking history of feminism, and how it is destroying our way of life. Shortly before the conference it was published by LPS publishing, the publishing concern I launched in 2008. It’s available from online retailers around the world, a link to the book on amazon.co.uk is here, on amazon.com here. Herbert signed many copies of his book at the conference, following his presentation.

An e-book edition is also available, for all major e-readers.

Their Angry Creed is a very substantial book, well worth the retail price. The remainder of this blog piece consists of a piece I wrote, which is being carried by online retailers:

Over the past 30+ years the developed world has progressively surrendered to an evil ideology, feminism, a gender supremacy ideology driven by misandry (the hatred of men). In the United Kingdom, as in many other developed countries, feminists have long been highly influential in governments of all political hues, in state institutions, and in the mainstream media.

Following the 2015 general election David Cameron became prime minister at the head of a majority Conservative government. Among his first actions on returning to office was to re-appoint the Minister of Women and Equalities to the cabinet, and he gave a third of ministerial positions to women, although only one in five Conservative MPs are women.

Feminists’ manipulations of the government and state institutions demonstrably lead to ever poorer life outcomes for men and boys, yet the mainstream media fail to report their activities, or expose them as egregious liars with respect to issues such as sexual offences, domestic violence, the gender pay gap, and many more. As the state broadcaster, the BBC is predictably uncritical of feminists, and regularly gives them major platforms, while denying them to anti-feminists.

Anyone wishing to understand the history of feminism, and how feminists have managed to exert such influence, faces a Herculean task. Commercial publishers have been unwilling to publish titles which are critical of feminism, with few exceptions. A person can turn to the internet for enlightenment, but the challenge will prove a lengthy and frustrating one. A person may track down numerous pieces of the ‘jigsaw’, but will struggle to see the big picture.

Public awareness that feminism is an evil ideology, one that leads to so many poor outcomes for society, is inexorably on the rise. Awareness that men’s issues exist, and are important, is also on the rise. In 2014, for example, the people behind the influential (American) website A Voice for Men organized the world’s first international conference on men’s issues.

Feminism is Marxism in action, and no books have been published which comprehensively explore its history from the emergence of Marxism to the present day. No book has been published with biographies of the key figures in feminism, or with an in-depth analysis of the absurd feminist ‘patriarchy theory’. No book has dealt with the psychological and social origins of feminism, how feminism has become deeply embedded in state institutions, and debunking feminist myths about rape, domestic violence, the gender pay gap, and so many others. And finally, no book has outlined in detail how feminism’s attack on the nuclear family has led to appalling social outcomes.

With Their Angry Creed, all that has changed. Herbert Purdy is a renowned British anti-feminist blogger, and anyone familiar with his output won’t be surprised at the depth and breadth of his book. The book is lengthy, but it has to be, to cover so much ground comprehensively. One day a book on feminism will become an international bestseller. I believe Their Angry Creed could be that book. It certainly deserves to be.