I had the pleasure of participating in the Oxford Free Speech Group’s second event: ‘Can free speech end the Sex War?’, a discussion between myself and (feminist) Elizabeth Halden last Tuesday.

Thank you to Oxford Free Speech Group and Elizabeth Halden – as well as Ewan Jones for capturing the event on film. The video (1:33) can now be found here.

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Elizabeth was in a discussion (8:02) this morning on BBC Radio Kent. The interviewers were Ian Collins and Anna Cookson, the other interviewee Celine Thomas of the Wimmin’s Equality Party.

The discussion was an example of what invariably happens when a feminist interviewer (Anna Cookson) poses questions to a feminist interviewee (Celine Thomas). It takes just seconds for either of them to trot out a series of feminist “accepted wisdoms/narratives” (accepted to many listeners, at least) such as “the gender pay gap” – as Celine Thomas did here – but much longer to debunk them, so if equal time is given to the feminist and non-feminist, the non-feminist is at a huge disadvantage. Elizabeth wasn’t given the time to debunk Thomas’s feminist narratives, but did a great job in the limited time made available to her, including mentioning MGM.

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Video (0:10) from Alexandra Meusburger.

Thank you, Alexandra – and a Happy International Women’s Day to you, too!

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Thanks to Christopher for this.

A YouGov survey (of 100 MPs) has revealed that feminists account for 53% of all MPs. With only 7% of the U.K. population identifying as feminist (Fawcett), it’s clear more work needs to be done to achieve a representative Parliament.

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Cometh the hour, cometh the woman. On IWD 2019 what better than to celebrate a woman who has done so much to push back against the oncoming anti-male feminist tsunami. I wish I were half so brave. Frequently Belinda has been a lone voice battling the sea of progressive-clones, such as on the BBC’s The Big Questions, or debating feminists at the Hay Festival, or at Bath University, or pushing back against the unfair privileging of women, for example in STEM academia, or exposing those who were against setting up a male section in the British Psychological Society. Belinda has published frequently in the mainstream media, generally with a harsh critique of feminism. Her most hard-hitting deconstructions of feminism, though, can be found on The Conservative Woman site, such as A young person’s guide to the failure of feminism and many pieces correcting feminist myths and on the internal contradictions of feminism. In particular, she has written numerous articles on the suffragette mythology, attempting to realign popular perception with historical reality, including a rather brave talk in the House of Commons last year. Belinda has written on the pay gap nonsense, and on facing up to, and celebrating, the difference between the sexes.

But being a critic of feminism does not automatically mean any particular compassion towards men. In Belinda’s case, however, it does, in both writings and talks. In a more academic mode she has exploded the misandric take on hegemonic masculinity in favour of an ethnographic description. But it is the issue of families and the feminist state’s destruction of the family which is her major focus, and the associated decline in fertility in the West. Perhaps one of her best, and most recent, papers describes how feminism set out to destroy the family and has largely succeeded.

Also, I have known her described as smoking hot. Obviously, I’m far too cerebral to have noticed, honest.

William Collins, IWD 2019

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Several tips of the hat to Elizabeth Hobson, Natoya Raymond, and others for this (video, 51:13).

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Here we go again, yet more evidence that women are less work-centred than men, yet expect the same rewards for less work (the Wimbledon scam). In today’s Times:

Radical proposals put forward to stop women lawyers leaving the legal profession include chopping a day of the traditional five-day working week to introduce a “four-day full-time working week”.

The suggestion came from vox pops carried out by the First 100 Years project to mark International Women’s Day. It featured those shortlisted for the organisation’s “inspirational women in law awards”.

Other ideas included flexible working arrangements, the “normalisation” of part-time working and improvements to parental leave.

To counter the “imposter syndrome” that some felt can hold women back, [J4MB: You can’t argue with how some women “felt”] there were suggestions of formal systems of mentoring or one-to-one sponsorship programmes to encourage women to apply for promotion or silk. [J4MB: “The imposter syndrome” – a feminist invention to describe women realising they don’t have the qualities required for the senior positions feminists demand they must attain and retain.]

Others advocated non-discriminatory work allocation for barristers, public speaking lessons for schoolgirls, compulsory gender equality training, mandatory gender pay gap reporting for all law firms and the introduction of the equal merit provision for recruitment and promotion to ensure that firms appoint a woman where male and female candidates have the same level of experience and skill. [J4MB: As perceived by feminist lawyers, presumably.]

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A tip of the hat to Kathy Gyngell and her colleagues for this.

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Dear DeAnna,

I like you. You are polite. You are intelligent. You are sexy. That’s right, I said sexy. And I show my respect to you on Woman’s Day because you let me do that. Not just me, but men in general. You are encouraging men to be men and to show their affection for women. You are working hard on making the relationship between men and women great again. That’s why I love you. You are great. Recently, you have organized a tribute to men. All men. To the good men have always been doing and are still doing. I salute you for being a great woman. Not just on Women’s Day. But every day of the year.

Oliver P Hoffmann

DeAnna will be speaking at the International Conference on Men’s Issues 2019.

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