Maria Grazia Chiuri, 52, first female Creative Director at Dior in its 70 year history, makes a strong bid for our ‘Gormless Feminist of the Month’ award

Our thanks to Mike P for this, a piece in the Telegraph by Kate Finnigan, Fashion Features Director, titled, “Why I won’t be praising the girls in my life for looking pretty next year – and neither should you”. Yes, that title makes sense. It’s not as if fashion – Ms Finnigan’s sole purpose at the paper, presumably  – appeals to women’s narcissism, or their wish to be more attractive. Mike writes:

The full item is hiding behind a paywall, but I’ve seen enough.

‘Enough’ includes a photo of a miserable-looking emaciated model, wearing a T-shirt printed with what must be the most gormless title ever given to a book:

WE SHOULD ALL BE FEMINISTS

The genius behind the ‘concept’ is Maria Grazia Chiuri, 52, the first female Creative Director in Dior’s 70-year history. We thanks Ms Chiuri for her strong bid to become a Gormless Feminist of the Month.

Hold the front page, I’ve just had a concept. T-shirts with the logo:

WE SHOULD ALL BE ANTI-FEMINISTS

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Men have their uses – as flight attendants, dealing with violent passengers

Our thanks to Francis for this. An extract:

Men account for about one-tenth of Korean Air flight attendants, and the carrier said it will try to have at least one male on duty in the cabin for each flight.

An extract from the end of the piece, showing the South Korean criminal justice system, unlike the British one, knows how to deal with uppity women:

Korean Air was involved in a high-profile case of bad passenger behavior in late 2014 when the daughter of its chairman, who was an executive with the carrier, forced a flight crew chief off the plane at New York’s JFK Airport because she was unhappy about the way she was served macadamia nuts.

The “nut rage” incident provoked widespread ridicule and resulted in the executive, Heather Cho, serving nearly five months in jail.

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My grandson is eight days old. He’s one of the fortunate ones – his genitals won’t be mutilated today.

Eight days ago I became a grandfather for the first time, and my wonderful grandson is progressing well. What a country we live in, where – if his parents were Jewish – his genitals would have been illegally mutilated today, a lifelong reminder for him of a religion he may never choose to follow. A country which does not enforce the Offences Against the Person Act 1861, and fails to prosecute the money-grabbing butchers who continue to perform this obscene 3,000+ year old procedure, which it has long been known causes much physical and psychological harm.

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Mike Buchanan’s Christmas speech, and a review of 2016

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2016 has been a remarkable year for those with an interest in men’s and boys’ human rights. Who could have predicted at the start of the year, that a sympathetic MP – the heroic Philip Davies – would be elected to the Women’s and Equalities Committee? That really was the icing on the cake.

It gives me pleasure to present my first Christmas speech, the audio file (12:18) is on our YouTube channel, here.

The transcript of my speech takes up the first four pages of this document. The remaining 10 pages consist of a review of 2016, through a selection of the year’s blog posts, which you can access by clicking on the hyperlinks.

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Barry Wright presents a screening of ‘The Red Pill’ in Norwich, 18 January. Special guests Cassie Jaye, Erin Pizzey, Paul Elam, DrRandomerCam (hopefully) and myself. Let’s do what we can to help defray his costs.

Barry Wright is a remarkable man, who lives in Norwich. He’s arranged for a screening of The Red Pill in Norwich on the evening of 18 January, tickets are free to those who order from EventBrite through the associated crowdfunder site, here. Click on the link in the section, ‘Where, when, and how much to see it?’

Barry is facing a very considerable bill for hosting the event, because he’s underwriting the travel (including air travel) costs and hotel accommodation costs for the ‘special guests’ – Cassie Jaye, Erin Pizzey, Paul Elam, DrRandomerCam (hopefully) and myself. We’ll be attending the screening, and appearing in the Q&A session. Barry is also underwriting other costs associated with the event.

Barry is not a rich man, however, so he’s just launched the crowdfunder. It has a target of £7,500, which I happen to know would not cover all his costs, even if it’s reached. So I would ask the good supporters of J4MB, and others interested in promoting The Red Pill, to donate what they can afford to Barry’s crowdfunder, to help mitigate his outlay. Thank you.

Father Christmas isn’t sexist – so stop playing gender politics with your kid’s toys

A grounded piece by Martin Daubney for the Telegraph. An extract:

The reasons for these preferential play choices might dismay toy campaigners, feminists and Mumsnet busybodies, but, mercifully, their feelings are trumped by humanity’s need for survival.

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