Our thanks to Martin for this. An extract:

Priest Helena Edlund, who blasted the church as having shown “a total unwillingness to listen to criticism”, expressed concern over the new language guidelines.

“The risk is that we fail to notice the small changes and then gradually over time we find ourselves looking at drastic changes we never would have accepted if they were put to us immediately,” she told Världen Idag last year.

At ICMI18 the Rev Jules Gomes – ‘The Rebel Priest’ – will give a talk, ‘Singing in the ruins: How feminists have destroyed the Church of England beyond repair’. The speaker list is here.

The membership of the Women & Equalities committee is here. Seven of the ten members are women, including the odious Jess Phillips. As for the committee staff, all eight are female:

Judith Boyce, Clerk
Luanne Middleton, Second Clerk
Tansy Hutchinson, Committee Specialist
Holly Dustin, Committee Specialist
Shai Jacobs, Committee Specialist
Alexandra Hunter-Wainwright, Senior Committee Assistant
Mandy Sullivan, Committee Assistant

Press and Publicity
Liz Parratt – Media Officer

Gender balance is a fine thing.

The Jewish Chronicle has just published this. An extract, showing the anti-male bias we’ve come to expect from female clerics:

Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner, Senior Rabbi of the Reform movement in the UK, said: “The language of the ketubah, the Jewish wedding contract, outlines responsibilities, but also rights. Every woman [J4MB emphasis] has the right to peace at home.”

Fascinating.

Interesting.

Our thanks to Danuta for this, a MailOnline article which is remarkable for its depth of reporting, as well as for being written by a male journalist – Richard Spillett – a rare thing in the field of reporting on Domestic Abuse. The first photograph is of a woman assaulting a man, again a rare thing.

It’s a lengthy piece, but well worth the effort of reading in full. For me, one if the most interesting Figures was Fig.15, shortly into the article. It’s titled, ‘The sex of victims and defendants in domestic abuse-related cases in England and Wales, year ending March 2017’. The text beneath the bar chart:

Despite the high number of male victims, CPS stats show men are the defendants in a high proportion of cases and women are the complainants

Polly Neate, for many years the Chief Executive of Women’s Aid, left the organization earlier this year. Her successor is clearly made of the same cloth:

Katie Ghose, chief executive of domestic abuse charity Women’s Aid, said ONS data cannot currently offer the ‘full picture’.

She said: ‘Domestic abuse by its very nature, hidden behind closed doors, is hard to capture in statistics alone.

‘Survivors often do not involve official bodies as it takes great courage to report abuse to the police; some women [J4MB emphasis] will never speak out because they don’t know if they will be believed, are not given the space to make the call or fear the repercussions if they do report the perpetrator to the police.’

Our thanks to Bryn for this. He writes:

I know. I was amazed as well. Don’t generally expect this sort of stuff from the Huff Po.

Classic BBC propaganda. The above headline is above a piece which starts with a photo of a distressed young woman. You have to look very closely to find any mention of male victims of DA. The definition of DA is, of course, ludicrously inclusive. From the piece:

Domestic abuse includes non-physical abuse, threats, force, sexual assault or stalking by a partner or family member – the most common of which is abuse by a partner.

So if a woman has been shouted at once by a partner or family member in the past 12 months, she’s a victim of DA.

Our thanks to Martin for this. An extract:

Take the rule that the masculine trumps the feminine when referring to a group that contains at least one man. In French, 10 sisters and one brother are collectively “heureux” – happy in a masculine way. Under proposed inclusive rules they would be “heureux.euse.s”. [J4MB – surely feminists would demand in this case “heureuse.eux.s”? Are the French really going to think at length about how to speak or write their language? One hopes not.]

Martin writes:

Mike, I don’t know, but the more I read the papers, the more crazy feminist propaganda there is. Some is beyond any sanity… I am beginning to be totally convinced that women cannot be taken seriously in the professional world.

Our thanks to Martin for this.