Month: October 2018

Battle of Ideas

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Elizabeth and I have just enjoyed a very interesting weekend at the Battle of Ideas at the Barbican. She’d been at several of the events before, while this was my first time – but certainly not the last. We made our presence felt at a number of the sessions, notably with respect to MGM at the session on religion and human rights, handing out many leaflets. Next year we’ll make more of an impact, possibly having a stand in the area where huge numbers of people pass through on their way between sessions.

By all accounts Kathy Gyngell of TCW made a strong impact in the session on which she was a panelist, What is a woman anyway.

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Dr Victoria “Jodhpurs” Bateman, feminist Cambridge don, writes an intelligent article about prostitution. Quick, fetch the smelling salts.

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Exhibitonist university lecturer Dr Victoria Bateman posing nude with pound notes covering her modesty
Dr Victoria Bateman, age unknown

Three months ago we posted a piece titled, Dr Victoria “Jodhpurs” Bateman, Cambridge don, strips off again – for equality. She covers her modesty with £5 and £20 notes as she calls on economists to ‘take feminism seriously’.

UnHerd have just publisher her intelligent article on prostitution, Feminists should support a woman’s right to sell sex. I can’t recall when we last recommended an article by a feminist.

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Paloma Faith: ‘Men couldn’t cope with motherhood – they’d drop dead’

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To paraphrase: “I want to restructure gender roles and no that doesn’t mean that men will get to be involved in caring roles because only women are capable”.

Amazing how this is female empowerment but “maybe some of the gender gap in STEM is because a lot of women prefer other things” is sexism…

If you must read the original article, it’s in Sky News.

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Exit King Lear as women claim the centre stage

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The feminist assault on the artistic creations of men – invariably white men – continues apace, mostly at taxpayers’ expense. A piece in today’s Times, emphases ours:

The time has come when having an actress play a male Shakespeare character is no longer enough, the deputy artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company has said. Now, you should consider changing the character’s gender altogether — for every one, from Lear to Falstaff.

Erica Whyman said she had considered switching the genders of the protagonists in the RSC’s production of Romeo and Juliet, which has the company’s first female Mercutio. “I did think about it,” she told The Times and The Sunday Times Cheltenham Literature Festival. “The responsibility is now to think about it with every part.” [J4MB: Hmm, where does “the responsibility” come from?]

She said that her approach to Mercutio had been changed for ever by having Charlotte Josephine play the pivotal character as a woman. “There’s something very natural, very easy about shifting the gender of Mercutio,” she said. “It has not felt complicated. Hardly changed any words, a few he’s to she’s, a few sir’s to miss.”

She added, however, that some “grown-ups” cannot adjust. [J4MB: Feminists, not being “grown-ups”, have no problem with adjusting.]

Whyman, 48, said that it had been fascinating to see how different age groups responded to a female Mercutio. The production will run at the Barbican from next month, having finished in Stratford.

“One of the most moving things has been seeing men and women my age and older talking about gender and talking about their reaction to the shifts on the stage and sometimes having quite difficult conversations about it,” she said. “And who can get their head around it and who can’t. But if it is provoking a conversation then that seems a good thing.” [J4MB: Even if the conversations are about how stupid an initiative this is, presumably.]

In recent years there has been Phyllida Lloyd’s all-female trilogy at the Donmar Warehouse, Glenda Jackson’s King Lear and Maxine Peake, among others, has played Hamlet. Few productions, however, have shifted the gender of a character.

Whyman said that she had ruled out changing Juliet’s gender because it would be “hard to find a world” where a male character would have been denied freedom in the way she was. She added that Juliet was the “bravest, most articulate person . . . I was interested in that version of a feminist reading of Juliet”. [J4MB: The fact that non-feminists – the vast majority of people – would have no interest is, of course, of no import. Taxpayer support for the RSC will continue, regardless.]

Josephine said she hoped Mercutio would be female in future productions. She also criticised the casting of previous Juliets. “I have never felt quite like I am a Juliet,” she said. “We have had very narrow casting of a blonde, skinny, pretty, passive girl. Thank god the casting is now changing.” [J4MB: The envy here is palpable. Clearly Juliet should be played by a blue-haired 30-stone bad-tempered foul=mouthed 45-year-old lesbian wearing Doc Martens boots.]

In the comments section, Antonia writes:

When is this push for female domination going to stop? I’m ashamed of my sex the way things are going. These women seem determined to emasculate men at every turn.

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Citizens’ Prosecution of Alison Saunders – protest in London, Wednesday, 31 October (the last day of the evil witch’s tenure at the CPS)

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[Note added 30.10.18 – the meeting at 2pm will now be at a different place than originally advertised, details here.]

We’ve been protesting about Alison Saunders, one of the most evil British feminists of her generation, since soon after her appointment in 2013. Saunders has been responsible for much of the corruption of due process in relation to alleged sexual assaults on women by men, which has led to many falsely accused men serving prison sentences. Whilst engaged on this ideologically-driven mission, she drew a salary over 50% higher than that of the prime minister.

Her Wiki page is here. An extract:

After it was announced that Saunders would not be reappointed for a second term, The Daily Telegraph also reported in April, 2018 that crime statistics tracking burglary, violent crime and shoplifting all rose significantly under Saunders’ tenure ever since she first became Director of Public Prosecutions.

She’s married, the couple has two sons. Our deepest sympathy goes out to all three of the men.

In April 2016 she received our Toxic Feminist of the Month award.

Our catalogue of video and audio pieces about Saunders on our YouTube channel includes Ewan Jones’s video of our protest outside the former CPS HQ at Southwark Bridge, in July 2016 – here (13:58).

Her tenure at the CPS ends 31 October, a tip of the hat to David Pattinson for arranging the Citizens Prosecution of Alison Saunders protest outside the CPS’s Head Office at 102 Petty France, Westminster, London SW1H 9AJ, on that day – 3:00 pm. At 2:00 pm we plan to gather at a nearby public House, <redacted – see link at top of blog piece>. We are, as always, hoping for some journalists to cover the event.

I hope many of you will be able to join me (and, hopefully, Elizabeth Hobson) at the protest. Thanks.

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A “sport” where women triumph over men – Dressage (Horse Ballet)

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My thanks to James for informing me he believes that women compete at the top level with men in some equestrian events, notably Dressage, sometimes described as “Horse Ballet”. If you haven’t seen it before, check out this (video, 2:24). If you manage to get to the end, you have more patience than me. I started to lose the will to live at around the one minute mark.

At the 2016 Rio Olympics, women won the top four places in the Individual Dressage category.

“Hold on, Mike”, I hear you cry. “What about the horses? Surely they do pretty well all the work? What were the sexes of the four horses?”

I’m glad you asked. The gold medal, for Great Britain, went to Charlotte Dujardin (fine British name) riding Valegro, a gelding (castrated male horse). The silver medal, for Germany, went to Isabell Werth, riding Weihegold Auld, a mare (female horse). The bronze medal, again for Germany, went to Kristina Broring-Sprehe, riding Desperados FRH, a stallion (an ‘intact’ male horse). Finally, the fourth position, for the United States, went to Laura Graves, riding Verdades, another gelding.

The bottom line? When women compete successfully with men in sport, at the top level, they’ve probably been carried by males, most of them castrated. An obvious parallel in British politics would be the female MPs appointed from all-women shortlists, e.g. Jess Bloody-Phillips.