Month: September 2016

Darts ace Phil ‘The Power’ Taylor is told to pay estranged wife half of his £3m fortune

/ Mike Buchanan / 3 Comments

The latest example of state-sponsored highway robbery of a divorced man. An extract:

The judge said Mrs Taylor did not work and had no realistic earning capacity as ‘she has throughout the marriage been a homemaker’.

Thanks to her divorce, being a ‘homemaker’ seems to have been very lucrative for Mrs Taylor. Nice work, if you can get it, but there’s a severe shortage of well-off women willing to work and support male ‘homemakers’.

In our 2015 general election manifesto we covered the issue of divorce settlements (pp. 57-60).

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Where are all the expat women?

/ Mike Buchanan / 7 Comments

Why are a minority of British executives who take up positions abroad with their companies women? Obvious reasons include:

  • A minority of British executives are women
  • Work orientation. As a class, women are less career-oriented than men (Dr Catherine Hakim’s Preference Theory (2000) – 4 in 7 British men are work-centred, only 1 in 7 British women is)
  • Hypergamy. Women seek to marry men who are substantially better-off than themselves, and this tendency increases as a woman’s personal wealth rises. The women who might be candidates for working abroad will therefore tend to have high-earning partners who would naturally be reluctant (or unable) to relocate abroad. The same would be less frequently true for male executives
  • Family responsibilities. If one person in a couple is to remain in the UK with the children, and the other work abroad, most women would prefer the first role to the second

None of this makes sense to work-centred feminists, of course, so I thank Martin for this piece of absurd feminist propaganda from the BBC. An extract:

“Women are just as likely to accept offers to work abroad, but they are simply less likely to be offered the opportunity to take on these roles” by their firms, says Cynthia Emrich, a vice president at Catalyst, a New York-based global nonprofit that promotes women in the workplace.

Only about 17% of women take international assignments compared to 28% of men, according to a 2012 report from Catalyst that studied high-potential employees from top business schools. Despite having the same willingness to take on a global role as their male counterparts, 64% of women say they were never offered a move abroad, compared with just 55% of men, the report showed.

Even if we take the data at face value, it simply doesn’t support the claim that ‘women are just as likely to accept offers to work abroad, but they are simply less likely to be offered the opportunity to take on these roles’. A majority of executives (64% of women, ‘just’ 55% of men) were never offered a move abroad, yet 17% of women took up the opportunity, compared with 28% of men. Surely this shows that women are less likely than men to accept the offers, as we’d expect to be the case?

Catalyst is a radical feminist campaign organization, whose ‘Bottom Line’ series of reports are used by those seeking to misrepresent correlation as causation with respect to the link between gender balance on corporate boards and financial performance.

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Jews Against Circumcision

/ Mike Buchanan / 1 Comment

We are sorry to learn that a remarkable website is no longer in operation, that of ‘Jews Against Circumcision’. In 2004 the organization produced a powerful leaflet with print on both sides, Brit Shalom: A Peaceful Alternative.

Brit Shalom is a naming ceremony for newborn Jewish boys, which doesn’t involve genital mutilation. We’ve distributed many copies of the leaflet during our Golders Green and Speakers’ Corner protests, and will be taking a stock of them to the Conservative party conference for our anti-MGM protests next Monday and Tuesday.

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Don’t patronise us! Freshers at York University’s first sex consent classes stage protests by walking out in disgust

/ Mike Buchanan / 5 Comments

Our thanks to Paul F for this, and several tips of the hat to Ben Froughi. An extract:

One consent class saw a quarter of freshers walk out in disgust and handfuls walked out of several of the others.

Campus activist Ben Froughi, 23, a third-year accounting student, stood outside some of the sessions handing out fliers and encouraging students to boycott the talks if they disagreed with them.

‘Consent talks are patronising,’ he said. ‘If students really need lessons in how to say yes or no then they should not be at university.

‘There is no correct way to negotiate getting someone into bed with you. In suggesting that there is, consent talks encourage women to interpret sexual experiences that have not been preceded by a lengthy, formal and sober contractual discussion as rape.

‘Consent talks propagate the backward message that all women are potential victims and all men potential rapists.’

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Thanks to Microsoft, I won’t be able to send emails for 5-7 days

/ Mike Buchanan / 4 Comments

This morning I logged onto my computer, after a welcome break of 36 hours from the machine, and was surprised to find a new version of Outlook apparently in place. A problem soon emerged, however, in that while I’m receiving emails as usual, any emails I tried to send went straight into the ‘Drafts’ folder, from where repeated attempts to send them failed.

I raised the matter with Microsoft Technical Support, and the end of a 30-minute-long exchange is here. Long story short, I may not be able to send emails from my computer until next Monday, maybe even later. In the meantime I’ll have to use my smartphone.