David Solway’s excellent article on the innate feminist lack of humour.

And while we’re on the subject, why not take another look at Peter Lloyd’s classic triggering of Kate Smurthwaite?

Our thanks to Stu for this. He writes:

More female on female violence.

Unusually they both managed to come out of it as victims, so all is well.

The start of the piece:

A woman broke her arm during an arm-wrestling competition at a Young Farmer’s event.

The 20-year-old was taking part in the activity, one of a number at the festival in Cumbria.

Her opponent was “very upset” and fainted when she realised the other girl’s arm was broken, according to paramedic Andrew Dickinson.

Both were attending the Young Farmers’ Clubs Northern District Field Day in Irthington, on Saturday.

The event involved 800 young farmers competing in challenges from sheep shearing to flower arranging.

It took a man to bring a sense of proportion, amidst the hysteria:

Mr Dickinson added: “Other than that, the day was fantastic. [J4MB emphasis] It ended with a dance which 600 people attended and we were on site until 1.30am.”

Women are strong!

Women are amazing!!

Women’s arms break during female-on-female arm-wrestling competitions!!!

A piece in today’s Times by Kat Lay, Health Correspondent. NHS remuneration should be set along Wimbledon lines – equal pay for lesser effort and achievement. Emphases ours.

A health minister has dubbed the NHS the “National He Service” as the government begins a review into the gender pay gap in medicine.

Caroline Dinenage, the care minister, said that the health service “needs to do much more to level the playing field for its senior staff”. [J4MB: In what ways is the playing field not already level?]

Today the government will announce a review by Professor Jane Dacre, president of the Royal College of Physicians, into what drives the gap and potential solutions.

“It is hard to avoid a lingering suspicion that the NHS, in some cases, still stands for the National He Service,” Ms Dinenage said in an online article for The Times.

“This is a profoundly important issue, not just in terms of fairness and equality but also in terms of how we create the strongest and safest healthcare system we can.

“And to do that, we need to make sure NHS organisations are inclusive and able to extract the talent of their workforce. My view is that gender pay equality is a litmus test for that — and on that measure all the evidence suggests that the NHS needs to do much better.”

Male doctors receive basic pay of £67,788 compared with £57,569 for female doctors, and male consultants are four times more likely to be paid a bonus than their female counterparts.

A century on from women first getting the vote, Ms Dinenage said that the most appropriate tribute to the work of suffragists would be parity between the sexes “in our pay cheques”. The NHS has a gap of 23 per cent, despite women outnumbering men in its workforce.

The gap is driven because highly paid male doctors make up a bigger proportion of the male cohort than well-paid female doctors do of the female cohort.

Launching the review, Jeremy Hunt, health and social care secretary, is expected to say: “The NHS holds a unique position in both British and global society as a shining beacon of equality among all, and so it is unacceptable that 70 years from its creation its own staff still face gender inequality.”

He will also say that he is determined to eliminate the gap for doctors.

More women enter the medical workforce than men. At present there are 3,418 female doctors in their first year of training after medical school, compared with 2,745 men. However, at the top of the career ladder there are more men than women, with 31,290 male consultants compared with 17,317 female consultants.

The review will consider what might stop a female doctor progressing in the same way as her male colleagues, including working patterns, the impact of motherhood or caring responsibilities, and geographical factors.

It will also look at clinical excellence awards, given to consultants for improving safety and quality of care or learning practices. The awards are given to four times as many men as women.

Professor Dacre said: “Previous reports and initiatives have identified many of the root causes, so there is no shortage of evidence about this unacceptable situation.

“I am grateful for the government’s commitment to act on the recommendations of the review, not just for women doctors now but for our future workforce. Over 50 per cent of medical school entrants are women and we owe it to them and their future commitment to the NHS to ensure they are treated fairly.”

The review is expected to conclude by the end of this year.

None of these absurd “reviews” ever conclude that a gender pay gap is the predictable outcome of more men than women having a strong work ethic, working longer hours, actively seeking out the tougher, better-paid jobs with responsibility for managing staff…

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A tip of the hat to Andy, the man behind the “Misandry Abounds” / “Men Hating Abounds” website, for this.

Our thanks to Mike P for this. Quelle surprise. The end of the piece:

She is understood to have been one of just three women who applied to join the RAF Regiment and the only one considered fit enough [J4MB emphasis. Considered fit enough by who, and on what grounds? The person is evidently utterly incompetent, given the woman threw the towel in after just two weeks into an 18-week course.] to start the course at RAF Honington alongside 44 men.

A source at the base said: ‘Even though she was way off the pace of most of the men, [J4MB emphasis] she gained a lot of people’s respect. She tried her best [J4MB: “Trying your best” will be the critical success factor in the next war Britain fights, hopefully] and was honest enough to admit the course was too tough for her. [J4MB: “Honest enough to admit”. What alternative did she have? Denying the bleedin’ obvious?]

‘She was a bit isolated outside training hours because she lived apart from everyone else. [J4MB: A bit isolated? Oh dear. How sad. Never mind. The lesson to be learned is obvious. The RAF – and the Army and Navy – must construct social clubs so that real (male) combatants and pretend (female) combatants can mix outside training hours, so the latter can get some sexual harassment cases in, and hit the jackpot at taxpayers’ expense.]

‘There was a lot of secrecy surrounding her participation. The guys were surprised to see her. There was pressure on her instructors to help her to pass the course. [J4MB emphasis – how might they have “helped”, one wonders.] I think the RAF wanted good PR out of it.’

Brendan O’Neill celebrates the result but points out the hypocrisy of part-time democrats: here.

Disturbingly inappropriate scenes of jubilation: here and here.

Pro-life groups grieve: here.

Antony and Tam of the Scottish Liberty Podcast explore the libertarian arguments for and against abortion: here.

Our thanks to Dark Knight who shared this article on the comments below, I wanted to replicate it here for maximum exposure, Breda O’Brien promises that the pro-life lobby has not given up: here.

The South Carolina Senate approved a measure to ban all abortions (except in cases of rape, incest or threats to the mother’s life) in the state, declaring unborn babies people under law, on May 2nd.

State Senate Majority Leader Shane Massey said “It’s designed to give the court an opportunity to revisit Roe v. Wade”.

Read more: here.

Stefan Molyneux explores the abortion issue in a video response to a case wherein a doctor was imprisoned for slipping an abortifacient into his pregnant girlfriends’ tea: here. And discusses the Irish referendum: here.

In a seriously distressing blog post, Moses Farrow – adoptive son of Mia Farrow and Woody Allen – defends his father against the disproven allegations of child molestation that continue to dog him and paints a picture of pathological parenting on the part of his mother.

Outrageous.

Whenever merit can be judged subjectively, women “win” awards and prizes far more often than when merit can be judged objectively (when they never win them). To ensure the former, we have feminist manipulation such as this. From the Mangina Booker website:

2018 marks the 50^th anniversary of the launch of The Man Booker Prize. To celebrate this landmark, the Booker Prize Foundation is putting 50 years of Booker-winning titles head-to-head in a competition for the Golden Man Booker prize, a one-off award crowning the best work of fiction from the last five decades of the prize.

Now, the five judges – writer and editor Robert McCrum, poet Lemn Sissay MBE, novelist Kamila Shamsie, broadcaster and novelist Simon Mayo, and poet Hollie McNish – have completed the unenviably difficult task of narrowing down five decades of prize-winning fiction to just five shortlisted titles. But the final choice is down to readers who now have the chance to participate in a month-long vote to determine the overall winner, announced at the Man Booker 50 Festival on 8 July 2018.

The question is, which will get your Golden Man Booker vote?

We are being asked to believe that the authorship of the best winning books from the past five decades run like this:

1970s – author

1980s – authoress

1990s – author

2000s – authoress

2010s – author

We can safely predict that feminists will whip up women to vote for the two books written by women. What a pathetic spectacle the announcement of a female “winner” will be.