An interesting piece (11:06) from Sandman.

Our thanks to MIke P for this. An extract:

The Right Rev Mullally’s predecessors have all declined to ordain women to the priesthood. She succeeds Bishop Richard Chartres, who retired in February after 12 years in the post.

But her promotion – after just two-and-a-half years as a junior bishop – signals a victory for the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, who has repeatedly criticised poverty and inequality.

He has also has fought for more senior women clergy, and has been frustrated in his attempts to liberalise the Church of England’s rules on gay clergy. The Bishop of Maidstone, the Right Rev Rod Thomas – whose supervises clergy who will not accept women priests or bishops – said: ‘Despite my own concerns over women bishops I think she will be a very positive force for the Church in London.’

However Reverend Jules Gomes, pastor of Church of England St Augustine’s in Douglas, Isle of Man, said: ‘Conservative evangelical and Anglo-Catholic churches will struggle to accept a woman bishop, but will find it even more difficult given that Bishop Mullally is completely unremarkable as a theologian, biblical scholar, preacher, evangelist or pastor.’ [J4MB: It is a truth universally acknowledged, that an incompetent woman can be promoted in preference to a competent man.]

The speaker list for ICMI18 is here. The Reverend Jules Gomes’s talk title will be, ‘Singing in the ruins: How feminists have destroyed the Church of England beyond repair’. You can book your ticket to the event here.

Our thanks to Mike P for this. The start of the piece:

Stage and screen star Sir Ian McKellen has spoken out about the sex scandal in film and theatre,claiming women are partly responsible because some tell directors they’ll sleep with them to win roles.

‘People must be called out and it’s sometimes very difficult for victims to do that,’ the Lord Of The Rings star said in a talk at the Oxford Union recently.

‘I hope we’re going through a period that will help to eradicate it altogether. But from my own experience, when I was starting acting in the early Sixties, [J4MB emphasis – 50+ years ago] the director of the theatre I was working at showed me some photographs he got from women who were wanting jobs. . . some of them had at the bottom of their photograph ‘DRR’ — directors’ rights respected. In other words, if you give me a job, you can have sex with me. [J4MB emphasis]

Our thanks to Richard for this. An extract:

A celebrity lawyer is calling for people who make false rape and sex assault allegations to be stripped of their statutory anonymity and named on a public register.

The comments by Nick Freeman, nicknamed ‘Mr Loopole’ for his record helping clients fight motoring offences, come after the trial of 22-year-old student Liam Allan, who was charged with rape, dramatically collapsed.

Mr Freeman, who runs Manchester-based Freeman and Co Solicitors, argues the case is just the ‘tip of the iceberg’ and false allegations are being made on a ‘daily basis’. [J4MB emphasis]

A later extract:

But (Labour) MP Liz McInnes, who had previously objected to a complainant’s sexual history being used in evidence, told the MEN (Manchester Evening News) a register would only make it more difficult for victims of sexual assault. [J4MB: She clearly has no interest in the register protecting men from the company of women determined to ruin their lives.]

She said: “I would be quite wary about changing the law on the basis of one case. In that particular case justice was done in the end and I don’t see any reason to change the law around anonymity.

“I think the statistics show that the numbers of false allegations are very, very small compared to the total number of cases. If there were statistics showing that a large number of rape allegations were false then it would be different, but that’s not the case.

The claim that false rape allegations are rare is patently untrue. After all, what incentives do women who’ve made false rape allegations have for admitting they lied? The truth is that false rape allegations are common, and the only reason most of those allegations aren’t tested in courts is that even the CPS know they have no chance of a conviction (though even that often doesn’t stop them). Also, we have shown that the CPS only make charging decisions in relation to false allegations in a minority of the cases brought to them by police – and you can be sure those cases are watertight, or close to it. And ask yourself, if you were a serving police officer today, would you be asking the CPS to make charging decisions for prosecuting women for making false rape allegations? It would be career suicide.

The ‘Messages for Men’ mini-conference which followed the ‘March for Men’ on International Men’s Day was a triumph, the event was sold out, and the atmosphere very positive. I was struck by the large number of young men and women in the audience. Tips of the hat to Frank, Natoya, Elizabeth and others for their work on preparations and on the day. Further tips of the hat to Anthony Corniche III (Tom) for filming and editing the presentations, and to Ewan Jones for some editing and posting on his YouTube channel. The 11 presentation videos are here, mine is #8 (12:56). I was introduced by Dr RandomerCam, the ‘Mike’ I refer to at the start.

Most of the names may be familiar to you, #11 is Will Franken, an American comedian.

Our thanks to Mike P for this. An extract:

As a proud feminist, Sadiq Khan has pledged to tackle gender inequality in all its shapes and forms. [J4MB: Genital mutilation? Suicide? Homelessness? Domestic violence? Employment in dangerous and dirty environments? Cancer screening? Education?] The Mayor will use the centenary of the Representation of the People Act in 2018 to work with London’s many leading industries – from culture, education and business, to politics and public life – to support the continuing success of women [J4MB: And the corresponding continuing failure of men] and to push for greater gender equality for women [J4MB: But not for men] from all backgrounds across the city.

The latest video (4:49) from PragerU. Published today, it’s already been watched by 180,000+ people.

Our thanks to Jeff for this. An extract:

I recently spent a week in court, watching the trial of a young man accused of rape. The experience shocked me.

First, the alleged victim and the accused were treated very differently. The young woman — rape victims are, of course, always anonymous — was called by her first name and treated deferentially by the barristers and judge.

The young man was treated almost as a criminal from the start. He was addressed by his surname and, to me, it seemed a subliminal sub-text was ever-present — that there was no doubt he had committed the crime. In the end, however, the jury found him not guilty by a unanimous verdict.

Our thank to Mike P for this. An extract:

The survey found that it takes the average female worker just under 15 minutes every day to select an outfit – that’s 65 hours over a working year of 260 days – compared to just nine minutes for men. [J4MB: Six minutes extra per day. The clothes selection gender gap is an outrage, and women should be paid more to compensate them for it.]

More than half of the women polled said they often felt ‘stressed’ about what to wear to work, compared to just over 10 per cent of men.

The survey also found that one-third of women got anxious over what to wear to an office party [J4MB: Hmm, ‘office party’? Do women not work in construction, in sewers, on North Sea oil platforms, road digging? Why, those damned patriarchs, keeping women out of the best lines of work!] competed (sic) to just 16 per cent of men.

Let’s summarise the whole ‘women in the workplace’ thing, shall we?

Women are strong.
Women are powerful.
Women are stressed out about what clothes to wear in work, and at office parties.
We need more women in boardrooms.

Our thanks to James for this. An extract:

Helena said: ‘My husband’s view is happy wife, happy life – he knows where he comes in the pecking order – it goes Lola, Harry, him!

‘He’s agreed to Lola’s separate bank account and her allowance of £100 a month for any bits she needs. I’d say we can think about increasing her allowance.’