Hilarious (video, 10:41).

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Our thanks to PutinCooksSocks for this.

Our thanks to R for this.

The Wikipedia entry on Athena SWAN is here. The start of the piece, which is feminist-friendly throughout, as we’d expect of Wikipedia:

Athena SWAN (Scientific Women’s Academic Network) is a charter established and managed by the British Equality Challenge Unit in 2005 that recognises and celebrates good practice towards the advancement of gender equality: representation, progression and success for all. [J4MB: For ALL?]

The Athena SWAN charter was established to encourage and recognise commitment to advancing the careers of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) employment in higher education and research.

In May 2015 the charter was expanded to include non-STEM schools, professional and support staff, technical staff, and trans staff and students. The first awards to non-STEM university departments were announced in April 2016.

The entry ends with this:

This feminism-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

The real objective of Athena SWAN couldn’t be clearer. It is to advantage women over men in securing academic positions, regardless of merit. William Collins’s outstanding 2015 article on the initiative is here.

Our thanks to Paul for pointing us to a Times Higher Education online survey. Question 12 should give you a flavour of it:

Do you think it is fair on men that an academic sisterhood may exist?

May exist? What the hell is Athena SWAN if not concrete proof the ‘academic sisterhood’ has existed in British academia since 2005, and in truth probably for decades before that?

Our thanks to Mike P for this. An extract:

Julie Bindel, a feminist writer who has also been swimming at the pond for more than three decades, added: ‘It is totally unacceptable to allow men who identify as women, but who are otherwise male bodied and socialised as men, to be in a women-only space. I have seen mothers bring their young daughters who are self-conscious about their bodies but want to feel good about swimming and exposing their skin to the sun. The last thing they want is to look behind them and see a male-bodied person pretending to be a woman in order to gawp at them.’ [J4MB: We expect they wouldn’t want to be gawped at by lesbians such as Julie Bindel, either.]

Our thanks to James for this piece in today’s Mail on Sunday. The journalist is Jonathan Bucks, we welcome the increasing frequency with which male journalists are covering such stories.

We’ve already reported the case of Danny Kay, but this article includes some interesting new details. It’s possible there must have been miscarriages of justice in thousands of cases in recent years, where men pleaded not guilty to sexual offences. Every case going back to at least the appointment of Alison Saunders as DPP should be reviewed. Extracts from the article:

A man who spent more than two years in jail for a rape he did not commit had his conviction quashed after a relative took only a minute to uncover a series of bombshell Facebook messages – missed by police – that proved his innocence.

In the latest rape case to highlight failings in the criminal justice system, The Mail on Sunday can reveal that the jury at Danny Kay’s 2013 trial was only shown doctored transcripts of crucial Facebook chats between Mr Kay and his accuser.

In an exclusive interview with the MoS, Mr Kay said archived versions of the original messages – proving he had consensual sex with his accuser – were found by his sister-in-law, Sarah Maddison. When she showed the Facebook exchange to the officer in charge of the investigation, he said: ‘How did you know how to find the messages and we didn’t?’…

By then, Mr Kay had spent three months in jail. It would be another three years before his conviction was overturned. The Appeal Court heard earlier this month that police relied on an ‘edited and misleading’ account of the Facebook conversation that was given to them by the complainant [J4MB emphasis] in the weeks after she claimed she was raped by Mr Kay.

It could not be more clear that Kay’s accuser sought to pervert the course of justice. She should be charged accordingly.

Once again, we refer you to Janet Bloomfield’s piece, 13 reasons women lie about rape.

You must watch this (video, 8:18). Good to see the amazing Professor Fiamengo calling Camille Paglia and Christina Hoff Sommers to account over their responses to #MeToo.

An excellent piece in The Spectator.

Our thanks to Martin for this.

At the conference next July, the Rev Jules Gomes (‘The Rebel Priest’) will give a talk titled, “Singing in the ruins: How feminists have destroyed the Church of England beyond repair”. You have less than 36 hours left – until 24:00 GMT tomorrow – to save £40.00 on your ticket price, Early Bird tickets are priced at just £225.00. You can order your ticket(s) here.

Our thanks to Nick for this.