Richard Vogt’s presentation – to an annual meeting of herpetologists and fish scientists – contained photographs of men and women working in the field. Some of the women included were not wearing very many clothes. In response, The Herpetologists’ League has decided against honouring Vogt’s life’s work and catalogue of ground breaking discoveries.
Read more at The New York Times.
According to John Cooper (from Empowering the Knight Within, with Darren Deojee):
“Jonathan Dover used to be a leftist / feminist until he had an awakening and was able to recognise that it was coming from the shadow side of green consciousness, and that there was a new integrated level of awareness which is referred to as yellow consciousness in spiral dynamics.
He is putting on this event to show people how to make the transition from polarisation to integration. Which involves a swing back into healthy masculine principles which I regularly talk about, so that there can be a transcend and include.”
The talk will take place on 11th September at London’s Conway Hall, tickets: here.
We’ve protested against MGM outside the past three Conservative party conferences. The first one was in 2015 (video, 3:13). The next two, video recorded and edited by Ewan Jones, were in 2016 (16:04) and 2017 (11:38), while my own video (from a bodycam) of brief encounters with Evan Davies (Newsnight presenter) and Baron Finkelstein (Jewish Conservative peer, Times columnist) in 2017 is here (2:34).
This year’s conference will be held at the International Convention Centre (ICC) in Birmingham. With ever-increasing public awareness of the case against MGM, It would be good to have a record number of protesters this time. I urge you to email us (info@j4mb.org.uk) if you believe you’ll be able to join us. We’ll be protesting over Monday, 1 October, and Tuesday, 2 October, holding banners and placards, handing out leaflets, and engaging with passers-by, as before. Please join us, and help bring about an end to MGM in the UK. Thank you.
Our YouTube playlist of 56 MGM-related pieces (video and audio) is here.
Eric Clopper is a young Jewish academic. He was recently fired by Harvard University for publishing a video on YouTube – Sex & Circumcision – An American Love Story.
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Our thanks to Mike P for this piece by Camilla Turner, Education Editor of the Telegraph, in today’s edition. At one time the hackneyed phrase “male, pale, stale” – unashamedly sexist, racist and ageist – was always placed in speech marks. No longer. The start of the piece:
Male, pale and stale university professors are to be given “reverse mentors” to teach them about unconscious bias, under a new Government funded scheme.
Under the project, white males in senior academic posts will be assigned a junior female colleague from an ethnic minority as a mentor.
Prof John Rowe, who is overseeing the project at Birmingham University, said he hopes the scheme will allow eminent professors to confront their own biases and leave them “feeling quite uncomfortable”.
“What is understood about unconscious bias is that we have all got it, but the more you learn about it and become conscious of it, the more you can act,” he told The Daily Telegraph.
“While it is well known and obvious that women and minority groups suffer setbacks to their career progression no one really understands why. [Dr Catherine Hakim provided the answer (in the case of women as a class, at least) in her Preference Theory (2000) – a lack of work-centredness, compared with men as a class.]
“It’s not as if there is any overt prejudice – it is something to do with the way the system is or the way it has evolved and we needed to find out why.”
William Collins’s excellent piece debunking the leading test for “diagnosing” unconscious bias is here. Later in the Telegraph article:
The EPSRC, a government agency, is funding eleven “Equality, Diversity and Inclusion” projects as part of an £5.5 million anti-discrimination drive in engineering and physical sciences.
Enjoy (41:03).
I’m pleased to report the first eight ICMI18 talks are now available on the J4MB conference playlist. Paul Elam’s talk (with additional material to the version published on An Ear for Men) should be posted later today, and the remaining 11 talks after that will be posted in due course. Our thanks as always to Anthony J Corniche III (Tom) for his (and Vince’s) work on filming, and for Tom’s work on editing – both huge tasks.
Outrageous. Extracts:
Conservatives have set out an ambition for women to make up half of its list of approved candidates for Westminster elections.
The 50% figure was announced by party chairman Brandon Lewis, who said that the party needed to “do more” to make sure its gender balance better reflects the society it seeks to represent…
Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour, Mr Lewis made clear Tories were not following Labour’s lead in operating all-women shortlists for candidates.
“In terms of quotas and shortlists, I think that just masks the underlying problems within organisations,” he said. “We need to change the culture across our political landscape, get that systemic change, not just a short-term fix.” [J4MB: WHY do they need to do that?]
Mr Lewis said that two out of the three Conservative candidates selected so far for the general election expected in 2022 have been women. [J4MB: A huge degree of anti-male discrimination.]
“This is a promising start,” he said. “But in order to reach our ambition, we need to have a wider strategy.”
He promised further action to “level the playing field” between male and female candidates…
Mr Lewis’s announcement was welcomed by women’s rights pressure group the Fawcett Society. [J4MB emphasis]
But the society’s chief executive, Sam Smethers, added: “The challenge now is how they roll this out at constituency level, address attitudinal and procedural barriers and get those women into winnable seats.
What times we live in. The Conservative party’s chairman being applauded by the chief executive of the Fawcett Society.
Two or three years ago Caroline Spelman MP – party chairman in 2008 – admitted on Radio 4 that when she was chairman, men had outnumbered women 10:1 in applying to be prospective parliamentary candidates. I doubt the ratio has changed much in the intervening years.
The calibre of incoming new MPs is set to decline further, and decline dramatically. Those who benefit from anti-meritocratic initiatives are invariably keen to sustain them for others – especially if they’re women.
I’m back in the office after a week’s restful break in Holland – where it was even warmer than in the UK – and firstly I’d like to warmly thank Elizabeth Hobson for her sterling efforts over the past week posting a stream of interesting pieces. And thanks to those of you who provided her with some of them.
We’ll be adding more ICMI18 talks to our YouTube ICMI18 video playlist in due course, but for now the best way to see the first eight talks are on Paul Elam’s An Ear for Men playlist – here. Ignore the first two – other than for comments, maybe – they’re just the two parts of Paul’s full talk, which is video #3. But you might want to wait a little longer before watching Paul’s talk, because Tom is working on a version of it which is followed by a short video of a trip Elizabeth and I took to London, then an audio clip of Paul responding to the elements of his Churchill award. The other videos that are currently available on Paul’s playlist are:
Thanks to Accuracy in Academia for bringing this to our attention.
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