An excellent piece in the current edition of The Spectator. An extract:
The BBC has been in one of its fairly frequent states of oestrus over the event [J4MB: Centenary of women getting the vote, and working class men too, for the first time)… I took part in a debate on the World at One about the #MeToo business, but I was up against four women, so was restricted in attempting to promulgate my considered thesis that #MeToo is basically affluent, entitled women whining about next to nothing.
The next day the Today programme was an exclusive women-only zone — presented and produced by women and with only female guests, an interesting idea presumably taken from the BBC’s Brexit coverage where only Remainers are allowed to ask questions or answer them. I wondered if this innovation might be developed and extended so that we might have a BBC programme entirely produced by, presented by and the interviews consisting solely of cretins. But then I remembered — hey, there’s PM!
The Today show included a rather fractious interview with a female comedian in which the question was posed: can women really be funny? I thought this might prove time for some laughs. Hell, of course they can be funny — they’re frequently hilarious. Just give them a map, or watch them parking. But the comedian, the least humorous person on Planet Earth including Philip Hammond, just screeched back: ‘That’s not funny! You shouldn’t even ask the question!’ Perhaps the woman comedian was approaching her menses and thus possessed of an irrational fury. If so, I think the presenter, the excellent Sarah Montague, should have let us all know. ‘And joining us on the line from Hades is Roz Harridan, who is about to come on.’
Justice for Men & Boys 
In amongst a funny article Rod makes a serious point about men working the “unsocial” shifts and all the excuses women have for not doing so. In TV.
Now think of the NHS. Think of the 90% female workforce. And consider that if, god forbid, you are taken seriously ill in evening or night you will enter a strange version of the NHS with a lot more men staffing it. Similarly at my local 24hr Tesco.
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Good point. I hope to be taken seriously ill in the evening or at night, in that case.
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Be careful what you wish for Mike. I’m sure the feminists will be happy to oblige and are hatching a plot around their cauldron as we speak.
On a more serious note, a lot of women do lack the same work ethic as men. Girls are typically raised on a diet of fairy tales in which a beautiful but misunderstood young woman is rescued by a prince charming and lives happily ever after in a beautiful castle. Just watch any Barbie movie if you doubt me, although increasingly they’re doing away with the princes and Barbie just lives a luxurious lifestyle without any visible means of support – see for example ‘Barbie’s life in the dream house’ (my wife and I are hoping they’ll make a ‘Barbie’s life in the crack house’ prequel to reveal the real source of her hitherto unexplained wealth. Either that or ‘Barbie’s divorce settlement’).
It surprises me the number of young women who dream of being supported by a man. They’d prefer not to work at all. Conversely, young men have no option but to work, especially if they’re married and with a young family, or just want a girlfriend. The women who do work hard are those who have given up on the dream of being a princess. In common parlance it’s called “growing up”.
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This is very true. The on-duty proportion of the NHS workforce that is male increases dramatically for anti-social hours, i.e. nights & weekends.
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Likewise on public holidays including Xmas. And female doctors are disinclined to work in the most stressful areas with unsocial hours e.g. A&E.
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At the end of the piece where he says “Do the same job as a man and get paid the same salary” I actually burst out laughing. Will someone please hang that outside the BBC women’s toilets?
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Just a query .Why not call them” comediennes” instead of “female comedians” ?
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Nonsense story kicking off today about female NHS consultants apparently earning less than male NHS consultants. Everyone knows that, in aggregate, male consultants do more work, so it is only fair that they ought to earn more. Female consultants do the clinical work and then go home. Male consultants do BOTH the clinical work AND the departmental work required by their speciality. The general public is none the wiser because the public only sees the clinical work. The general public does not see the non-clinical work that the male consultants do behind the scenes.
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