[Update 6.11.18: Have you ever wondered if there are any smart ideas for DIY shoe racks? We certainly have! So you can imagine our excitement when Belinda shared an article on the matter, on the “Top Reveal” website, 23 Smart DIY Shoe Rack Ideas.]

Our thanks to Chloe for this. Embarrassing, given that men suffer domestic violence at similar rates as women.

A lengthy but insightful piece in Taki’s Magazine.

Nicole Silverberg (below) is a feminist. You’d probably have guessed.

We very seldom link to pieces on the Return of Kings website – it must be years since we last did – but this is a ‘must read’. It was prompted by Ms Silverberg’s woeful article in The Guardian last Monday.

Our thanks to Steve for this. An extract:

In a witness statement, the boy hinted that the discovery of the relationship had left him feeling suicidal: “I walked into roads about five or six times,” he said. “I had just had enough of it all.”

The boy had been receiving counselling, the court heard.

Defending, Cathy Thornton said that at the time of the relationship Ayres was at a low point personally and professionally. She painted a picture for magistrates of a “lady separated from her husband, struggling to cope emotionally”. She was also stressed after struggling to “essentially write” a school retail course. “I don’t think she was in the right frame of mind to assess things logically,” Ms Thornton said.

The defence is essentially that a woman shouldn’t be held accountable for her actions while she’s going through a stressful time, as she is not ‘in the right mind to assess things logically’. Is the (female) lawyer saying women become feeble-minded when under stress? That’s an intriguing mitigating circumstance, to put it mildly, and would surely never be applied to men. If this case had been one of a male teacher who admitted to kissing and flirting with a 17-year-old female pupil in a special needs school, he’d certainly be in prison today.

Because we always have a spike of ‘hits’ on this blog after media appearances, I thought it timely (before my appearance on tomorrow’s Sunday Morning Live) to point to some materials on female sex offenders.

The longest section on the 20 topics covered by our last election manifesto related to sexual abuse (pp.31-7). It starts with a link to an important site, Female Sex Offenders. We’ve just archived it here. From the first of the seven pages in our manifesto:

This culture leads to inequalities. Few women are held accountable for sex offences, including those women who sexually abuse children. It’s known from a major American survey (details below) that slightly over 25% of sex offences are committed by women against men (with no male accomplices). We would therefore expect the male/female ratio of people charged with sex offences to be a little under 3:1. In the UK, in 2013, the ratio was 146:1.

Women as well as men suffer from this failure to hold female sex offenders to account. Michele Elliott is the founder and director of Kidscape, a British charity. Her book Female Sexual Abuse of Children – The Ultimate Taboo was published in 1993. In 1984 two American researchers, Petrovich & Templer, reported that of a sample of 89 incarcerated (male) rapists, 49 (59%) had been sexually abused as children by one or more women. There is, therefore, a de facto correlation between female sex offences and male sex offending.

Excellent (video, 14:47).

Tomorrow morning I’ll be one of four people in a discussion on the BBC programme Sunday Morning Live. The working title is:

Have we turned a blind eye to sexual harassment?

The piece was prompted by recent allegations about Harvey Weinstein, the Hollywood mogul, who is denying accusations of non-consensual sex.

The show’s presenter is Sean Fletcher, but the feminist broadcaster Emma Barnett also plays a significant role. Followers of this blog may recall her scandalous radio interview of Cassie Jaye, former Hollywood actress and subsequently a film producer, most recently of the remarkable film The Red Pill. I had the pleasure of spending time with Cassie in Norwich earlier this year. Barry Wright, a local man, generously funded a couple of screenings of The Red Pill, and also paid for the travel and accommodation of numerous people including Cassie Jaye, Paul Elam, and Erin Pizzey. Cassie and Barry:

Cassie and myself:

The three other people in the studio discussion tomorrow will be, as you’d expect, of the female persuasion:

Dawn Foster of The Guardian. Last year we published a piece, Peter Lloyd educates Dawn Foster, a whiny hatchet-faced militant feminist Guardian journalist, on Sky News.

Shyama Perera, who writes for The Guardian and other papers. Her Guardian profile (1999) is here. A sneering article on Mail Online is here. An extract:

It took me 40 years to realise a simple truth, and it is this: men are essentially uncomplicated beings whose lack of guile makes them appear deeply complex to the labyrinthine female mind.

We cannot accept there is so little to unravel in men. Therefore, we tie ourselves up in knots searching for hidden strata of thought and understanding. It doesn’t exist.

Zoe Strimpel, who writes for the Telegraph, once a fine newspaper.

It is anticipated that Jack Beresford of Loaded will be joining us on Skype.

Our thanks to Steve for this. An extract:

Following the verdict, Joanne Jakymec, chief Crown prosecutor for Wessex said: “Rebecca Palmer indulged in consensual sexual activity with the victim, but on being rejected by him embarked on a malicious campaign which led to him being arrested on more than one occasion and held in custody for periods of time.

A piece on the BBC. Tomorrow, some time soon after 08:00, I’ll be asked for my thoughts on the matter on the Andrew Castle radio show on LBC.

Our thanks to Andy for this. The piece includes this tweet from Jess Phillips MP, the Yardley Gob:

I didn’t know who Sam Kriss was before today but his admission of sexual assault means he belongs in prison, [J4MB emphasis] a casual backhanded apology is not a thing.