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Month: June 2018
Welcome to the World, Miles!
Congratulations to Natty Kadifa and, husband, James on the birth, last Tuesday morning, of their beautiful new boy, Miles. We look forward to seeing their young family at ICMI next month!
TFF episode 84: “Why can’t we hate men?”
This (video, 7:43) might just be our favourite of 84 episodes in The Fiamengo File to date. The cool hat helps. The email notification from AVfM consisted only of this truism:
If you don’t love Janice Fiamengo, you must be evil.
We look forward to seeing Janice at the conference – now just 30 days away – at which she’s a speaker again, as she was at the 2016 conference. It’s not an ICMI without Janice…
Philip Davies MP: Remainers still aiming to delay, frustrate and stop Brexit
A top of the hat to Philip Davies for this (video, 0:32).
BBC podcast on Philip Cross, Wikipedia editor
Philip Cross is a prolific Wikipedia editor. We consider him to have maliciously edited the Wiki pages on J4MB and Mike Buchanan. We’ve posted seven blog pieces that refer to him, links here. Wikipedia is rife with malicious editing by people hostile to the Men’s Rights Movement, feminists in particular.
We were interested to learn of a recent BBC podcast on editing of Wikipedia in general, and editing by Philip Cross in particular. George Galloway contributes to the discussion. Our thanks to Nick for taking the time to prepare this transcript.
Dr. Walid A. Farhat, “Known Genital Mutilator,” of SickKids, Toronto, where UnSickKids get barbaric “treatment”
Our thanks to the amazing Gary Costanza of AVfM for this.
‘Oxbridge white blokes’ like Monty Python have had their day, says BBC comedy boss
Our thanks to Tim for this. The start of the piece:
A young Monty Python would not get their big break on the BBC today because they are “six Oxbridge white blokes”, the corporation’s head of comedy has said as he launched a new drive for diversity.
Shane Allen said comedy on the BBC must represent the nation, with audiences discovering “the stories that haven’t been told and the voices we haven’t yet heard”.
In decades past, Cambridge Footlights was the breeding ground for BBC talent, from members of Monty Python to The Goodies, Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie.
But times are changing, said Allen. He cited Famalam, a BBC Three sketch show with an all-black cast that fits the “comedy gang” template. [J4MB: We’ll surely be celebrating their genius in 2068.]
“It’s 50 years since Python. If we’re going to assemble a team now it’s not going to be six Oxbridge white blokes, it’s going to be a diverse range of people who reflect the modern world and have got something to say that’s different and we haven’t seen before.”
I’ve just taken delivery of the 8-series box set of It Ain’t Half Hot Mum. It cost £14.25 on Amazon. The series was broadcast over 1974-81. BBC comedy has, ironically, been a joke ever since.
Four “professors” warn that “commitment to empirical science” hurts women
Carroll Serron, “Professor” at the University of California-Irvine
It’s time for another “crazy taxpayer-funded academics” story, our thanks to the good people at Campus Reform. The start of the piece:
Four professors are warning that the “hegemony of meritocratic ideology” and other manifestations of “masculine culture” in engineering courses are detrimental to women.
Led by Carroll Serron, who teaches at the University of California-Irvine, the March 1 study contends that the sense of exclusion and isolation felt by female engineering students is exacerbated by the overwhelming “meritocratic ideology” in the field.
“In its commitment to empirical science, technical thinking, merit, and individualism, engineering culture allocates what it sees as political issues…to the realm of the social and subjective.” Tweet This
Though some scholars argue that engineering culture upholds hegemonic masculinity, Serron and her team take a different approach, arguing that it is not specifically “hegemonic masculinity” that hurts women but rather “meritocratic ideology.”
In a similar vein, also from Campus Reform:
Meritocracy is a ‘tool of whiteness,’ claims math professor
Engineers baffled by ‘microaggression’ workshop at conference
TFF Episode 83: The End of Judicial Impartiality – Feminists Come for Judges
Outstanding (video, 11:26).
Speakers’ Corner – next Sunday, 24 June
Next Sunday we’ll again be campaigning with some of the estimable members of The London Group at Speakers’ Corner, Hyde Park. Rod will certainly be there – his legendary recent encounter with Laurie Penny (who was having a bad hair day) is here (video, 7:27) – along with a number of others from the group. They mainly go in for speaking on their stepladders, and do a fine job of it. I generally spend my time there campaigning on MGM, engaging primarily with the people whose religions and cultures condone MGM. As always, I’ll be bringing placards and leaflets, as well as bodycams to record anything of interest.
We have 50+ video and audio pieces on our YouTube MGM playlist, a number of them videos recorded with our bodycams at Speakers’ Corner.
If you can come along and support us, you’ll be made very welcome.
We tend to arrive around 10:40, stopping for lunch at around 13:30, then return and press on until maybe 16:30 or 17:00. Afterwards we usually go somewhere nearby for a beer or two.
If you’re known to us, and want to join us beforehand at a nearby cafe (09:30 – 10:30), please email us (mail@j4mb.org.uk) to ask where the place is.
Justice for Men & Boys 