Lynne Franks, PR ‘guru’ who inspired BBC’s Absolutely Fabulous, receives an OBE for services to ‘women’s empowerment’

Our thanks to Mike P for this. OBEs are the gongs of choice for loopy feminists, ones that come to mind are Jenni Murray, Caroline Criado-Perez. Sometimes they get CBEs, including Professor Susan Vinnicombe, for many years the world’s most prominent academic advocate of ‘more women on boards’. The silly woman has been aware since 2012 of the evidence of a causal link between increased female representation on boards and corporate financial decline. In that year she admitted to a House of Lords inquiry she knew of no evidence of a causal link with corporate financial improvementhere.

9 thoughts on “Lynne Franks, PR ‘guru’ who inspired BBC’s Absolutely Fabulous, receives an OBE for services to ‘women’s empowerment’

  1. I was in a car parts shop yesterday buying spark plugs. An advert on the counter showed a slight girl with a pony tail in blue overalls changing the wheels, or discs, on a car in a workshop.
    Yeah right.
    I was at home later, online. An advert came up on the screen of slight blonde girl, with tousled hair and stylish scruffy clothes, changing the air filter on her street-rod motorcycle… wait for it.. in her lounge!

    This is all pure fantasy.

    Absolutely Fabulous my arse.

    🙂 sdk

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    • For the past year or two my local Lidl has had prominent posters in relation to some initiative they run. The posters feature a number of children, usually three or four of them, girls playing football with boys. There have been a series of these posters, two themes are consistent:

      girls outnumber boys
      the boys are never white

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      • Marxists and Communists have never gone as far as Feminists. They never tried to uplift women and suppress men. They never even tried to have more women on boards, or in combat. They definitely did not try to suppress white men and boys in place of females or minorities. I’d like to clarify that today’s Feminists have gone way beyond the Marxists even ! The last thing men should do is to treat the feminists like gentlemen.

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      • I would say that the pathological gynocentricism and the vicious misandry gender politics was always there in Marxism. In particular, Engels – the principal evangelist for the doctrine of misandry – lays everything out at least as early as 1877 in ‘The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State’. However, Engels published in German and most of the anglophone world did not encounter a readable text until after Alick West’s translation was published in 1942.
        I accept that ordinary socialists of the late 19th and early 20th may have been ignorant of the core misandry at the foundation of the ideology in which they invested all their dreams, but the erudite and intellectual figures of socialism knew very well.
        It was the unexpected success of the 2nd wave of feminism that emboldened the Marxists to ramp up the activity of their ‘useful (feminist) idiots’ to the current intensity.
        Feminism as a political movement does not exist without socialism/ communism/ Marxism. Without the ideology of Marxism, women are happy simply to lever gynocnetricism in order to secure their traditional privileges, as women have done since the dawn of time. It is Marxism that weaponised gynocentricism to create feminism.
        The curious will find the well-spring that is the source of political misandry in Engels.

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      • Yes Engels was indeed a right twit. Being old enough to recall the USSR and Iron Curtain I can recall that one of the frequent western accusations was that they made women work on roads etc. In one way the Marxist feminists got what they wished for. In eastern Europe children were in kindergartens and men and women worked full time, there may have been a “power gap” but there wasn’t a pay gap. With a similar approach even the decidedly non communist communists in China do much “better” on pay gaps. I think we should constantly point out that the current western incarnation of feminism, despite its Marxist roots, is all about literally “having it all” and “choice” for well off women. And “family friendly” is really just clever marketing for not working much.

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  2. highest awards fall prey to feminist agenda. Everything the feminists touch is ruined, discredited, made inefficient of going bankrupt. Nothing is spared anymore. When will men realize they can’t treat feminists and their followers like gentlemen ? By doing so, men allow this madness to go on and cause more and more damage.

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