Month: February 2017

Feminists want women to stop having sex, doing chores, because Trump

/ Mike Buchanan / 16 Comments

Enjoy. The start of the piece:

Feminists and women’s rights activists have announced the follow up to the Women’s March on Washington: a “Women’s Strike” planned for March 8th, [link to a Guardian piece] where women who oppose Donald Trump’s “misogynistic, homophobic, transphobic and racist policies” will stop doing chores, attending work, and even having sex with their partners in a show of how much women matter.

The idea, which took eight feminists to come up with, [second link to the same Guardian piece] is that men and other assorted non-gendered partners should be made to feel what will happen when women become so oppressed that they disappear.

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Bianco Footwear advert glorifies violence against men

/ Mike Buchanan / 6 Comments

Our thanks to Tony Stott for bringing our attention to a video (1:36) on the Facebook page of Bianco Footwear. Scroll down to the piece posted 23 January, ‘Equal Pay is Not Enough (#WomenNeedMore)’. It’s had over 2.6 million views in the space of two weeks, presumably overwhelmingly among women, who will have learned that if they’re not happy about something (however fictitious – the feminist gender pay gap narrative, in this case) it’s the fault of men, so it’s perfectly OK to smash a mug into a man’s face. The full idiotic narrative is here:

Listen up! There’s still not equal pay for equal work anywhere in the world.

And it seems most women are not even angry about it. But we should be. So let’s set a new goal.

From now on, equal pay is no longer enough.

Because women need more.

Our haircuts are more expensive.

Our underwear is ridiculously more expensive.

It’s simply more expensive to be a woman than to be a man!

Should we seriously get paid less than someone who applies body lotion to his face? [Eh?]

He doesn’t need a new outfit for every new occasion. [Ah, needs and wants. So easy to confuse the two…]

He doesn’t even know that the shoes make the outfit. [Hopefully he doesn’t.]

Oh, the joy of choosing the right shoes.

Fashion is expressing yourself.

And what every stylish woman is expressing is that equal pay is not enough.

Equal pay is not enough!

#WomenNeedMore

BIANCO.

Acting in concert with Belinda Brown, Tony has sent a letter to the parent company of Bianco Footwear. We wish him well with his demands.

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Kathy Gyngell on ‘The Big Questions’

/ Mike Buchanan / 4 Comments

Kathy Gyngell was on The Big Questions again this morning, as always making a strong contribution. The link to the programme on iPlayer is here. You’ll need to be in the UK to watch it, and it will be available for 29 more days. Two sections of particular interest:

20:30 Should we have the right to decide our own gender?
41:30 Will more children be raised in poverty?

In stark contrast to Kathy Gyngell’s strong contributions were some inane witterings from Sarah Ditum, a hatchet-faced columnist with the New Statesman. Ditum does, however, raise the interesting point that gender self-determination could lead to the end of women’s sports, as men identifying as women would naturally win all the tournaments. These people would also win the same prize money at Wimbledon – and in other major tournaments – as the male players, whilst playing half the number of games.

Three years ago we posted a blog piece, We need to talk about Sarah Ditum. It related to the evidence for gendered brain differences in very young babies, a matter about which feminists are predictably in denial.

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French horse racing – weight change for female jockeys will give them a two-length advantage over male jockeys

/ Mike Buchanan / 3 Comments

Our thanks to Jeff for this. Extracts from the piece:

Governing body France Galop will allow 2kg (4.4lbs) less in the saddle to encourage use of female riders.

Group One-winning jockey Hayley Turner wants “more subtle” help, adding: “It seems a bit unfair on the lads.”

The British Horseracing Authority noted the move “with great interest” but has “currently no plans” to do the same.

Jean-Pierre Colombu, vice president of France Galop, said the rule change provided a “real opportunity” for female riders…

Jump jockey Lucy Alexander, the first female to become champion conditional in 2012-13, said she would “welcome” the change, adding: “The BHA should look at it.”

Rather than messing around with the weights, why don’t the French simply have the female jockeys start races two lengths ahead of the male jockeys? Possibly because the advantage would then become obvious and therefore unjustifiable?

We need more female jockeys winning races like we need more white sprinters winning Olympic sprint events. Maybe the black sprinters should wear belts with 5 kilos of weights in them, in the interest of equality?

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