I am so tired of the media exaggerating the contributions of women in major successful projects – women’s contributions to major unsuccessful projects are never mentioned – and of women claiming more credit than they should. Published 10 hours ago. Extracts:

A 29-year-old computer scientist has earned plaudits worldwide for helping develop the algorithm that created the first-ever image of a black hole.

Katie Bouman led development of a computer program that made the breakthrough image possible…

Excitedly bracing herself for the groundbreaking moment, Dr Bouman was pictured loading the image on her laptop.

“Watching in disbelief as the first image I ever made [J4MB emphasis] of a black hole was in the process of being reconstructed,” she wrote in the caption to the Facebook post.

She started making the algorithm three years ago while she was a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

There, she led the project, assisted by a team from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the MIT Haystack Observatory [J4MB emphasis]…

In the hours after the photo’s momentous release, Dr Bouman became an international sensation, with her name trending on Twitter…

But Dr Bouman, now an assistant professor of computing and mathematical sciences at the California Institute of Technology, insisted the team that helped her deserves equal credit.

The effort to capture the image, using telescopes in locations ranging from Antarctica to Chile, involved a team of more than 200 scientists. [J4MB emphasis]

“No one of us could’ve done it alone,” she told CNN. “It came together because of lots of different people from many different backgrounds.”…

The results of the algorithms were then analysed by four separate teams to build confidence in the veracity of their findings.

“We’re a melting pot of astronomers, physicists, mathematicians and engineers, and that’s what it took to achieve something once thought impossible,” Dr Bouman says.

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Our thanks to Douglas for this.

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Copyright: Astrid Alexander

There are so many things deeply amiss with women in the modern world, and they’re all of their own making. One is their bid to hide their often passive, anxious, narcissistic natures through celebrating and identifying with women such as Madonna and Beyonce, in a bid to appear “strong”, and they’re suckers for ridiculous “empowering” things such as this. Because self-objectifying and strutting around in public looking like drunken hookers is empowering, right?

Part of an acount by Florence Derrick on the Eventbrite page about the STRUT masterclass:

I’m staring at my own face in the mirror, and wondering if I’ve ever truly done it before. Taking in the curve of my eyebrows, the shape of my jaw; noticing my dimples and the pinprick scar on my nose. I’m struggling to remember the last time I contemplated my reflection without seeing it through a prism of self-judgement. [J4MB: That would be within the past hour or two, probably.]

“I am beautiful,” Madam Storm cries, and I repeat it after her. “I am enough. I am a woman. I am here.” [J4MB: Think how laughable it would sound if any man stated, “I am handsome. I am enough. I am a man. I am here.”]

I’d signed up to the STRUT masterclass expecting to learn how to walk in heels like a boss, [J4MB: An important skill for any boss, we can all agree] but things just got real. Female confidence coach Madam Storm uses six-inch stilettos as a tool to get women not just strutting their stuff, but owning their space – physically and psychologically… [J4MB: What does “owning their space” MEAN?]

Not many people would be able to get me to publicly perform a sexy catwalk. But within the first five minutes of STRUT, it’s clear that Madam Storm has a special gift for creating a safe, empowering environment that glows with sisterhood. We stand in a circle and introduce ourselves, clapping reassuringly at each other’s backstories. One woman has just begun chemotherapy. Another is going through a bad break up. Others are there to celebrate a birthday. All are just as keen to support each other as Madam Storm is.

“In this class, we don’t say ‘yes’,” our teacher begins, dressed in a black leotard, over-the-knee velvet boots and a jaunty trilby. “We say ‘YAAASSSS, HONEY’…

It takes courage to walk tall, especially in the face of life’s most earth-shattering curveballs. My afternoon at STRUT has left me in awe of the strength shown by these women. [J4MB: Since when was exhibitionism “strength”?] In their honour, I keep my heels on, and power strut to the Tube to begin my Saturday night. Shoulders back, core engaged, tits up. What other people think of me is none of my business. [J4MB: A sure sign of narcissism.]

Pathetic. Attempting to appear more confident in such ways only emphasises these women’s deep-seated emotional neediness. Cynical women are making money from gullible weak women who want to appear strong. The latter have to become full-time actresses, in effect, in a bid to sustain their own fantasy, and that must inevitably take a toll on their mental health.

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An insightful piece by Bruce Newsome, a lecturer in international relations at the University of California Berkeley, just published on TCW.

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Our thanks to Mike P for this. Feminists are, needless to say, dampaigning to stop evidence of the type used to free this innocent man, from being presented in courts. They are also campaigning for an end to jury trials in rape cases.

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Just received from Bettina Arndt, who’ll be giving a talk at the Chicago conference:

Hi Everyone,

Pretty cheeky title for my new YouTube video today: Men Work, Women Complain. Of course, I am not suggesting women are a bunch of slackers. I’m just letting off steam about a topic that has driven me crazy for decades – the constant whining about the unfair burden of women’s second shift. How often do you see media stories talking about exhausted women carrying an unfair load of housework and childcare whilst lazy men benefit from their labours?

This is one of the favoured themes of modern feminism but like most of their complaints, it’s a load of hogwash. The true picture is very different. In Australia, the US and many European countries, research clearly shows that overall men and women contribute equally to households, if you add together paid plus unpaid work.

My little video gives you all the data to prove it. This is the first of what I plan as an occasional shorter video – a quickie for those of you who prefer things short and sweet.

Here’s the video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjd4opwZ-qI

Please help me promote it. I’d love more subscribers if you haven’t yet signed up. It really helps me get better promotion from YouTube where I am really up against it with constant bans on advertising and hiding of my videos. Telling the truth about feminist lies makes me very unpopular with the PC folk who run the site.

The battle to stop rape being adjudicated on campuses

I was delighted to have 2GB radio star Alan Jones backing my campaign to alert people to the move by Sydney University to introduce regulations to adjudicate rape on campus. Here’s the interview I did with him last week.

I’ve sent out my letters to members of the Sydney University Senate, providing them with all the evidence about the damage caused to American colleges from getting involved with such cases. I’ve heard that Vice Chancellor Michael Spence has been busy reassuring his board that he has legal advice saying there’s no risk with this move. Sure, I imagine President Obama also had plenty of feminist lawyers advising him that it was a brilliant idea to push universities in this direction and look how that turned out.

I’m busily reaching out to serious players in the Sydney University scene, pulling together a coalition of people to plan further action on this issue. Please let me know if you can add to the list.

Sixty Minutes and false rape accuser Sarah Jane Parkinson

The other big excitement was the Sixty Minutes programme on Sarah Jane Parkinson. It’s been pretty irritating this week to have endless people alerting me to the promotion of the programme, which featured a Canberra prison guard, Dan Jones, who was falsely imprisoned after Parkinson’s fake rape allegations. They obviously missed the fact that I broke this story. My YouTube interview with Dan came out in January just after Parkinson was sent to jail and I’d been in contact with the family for years waiting for the right time to public. All year I’ve had a crowd-funder running to raise money for Dan’s parents– annoying that 60 Minutes refused to mention that on the programme. But the word is leaking out about the crowd-funder and we raised an additional $10,000 the night the programme went to air.

The programme actually did a good job. It was most moving seeing Dan and his family talk about their terrible ordeal. But it was very telling that police bigwigs made the decision to allow the good cop Leesa Alexander to be interviewed. Obviously, they decided her excellent work in getting Dan out of prison would detract from the appalling behaviour of the crooked cops who helped Parkinson spin her web of lies about rape and domestic violence. It was amazing to listen to the actual interviews between Alexander and Parkinson, as this evil woman tried to implicate Dan’s family through further false allegations.

But let’s hope this spin doesn’t detract from the very real issues that need addressing regarding this case. Action needs to be taken against the corrupt police and a proper investigation into the glaring deficiencies in our current legal system allowing women to make false allegations which resulted in wrongful imprisonment. I have had dozens of people write to me reporting similar cases. I will be following up with videos on some of these.

The Jones parents need proper compensation for spending their life savings trying to protect their son. On my crowd-funding page you will see details of how to write to the ACT Attorney General seeking an ex gratia payment for them. But it looks like the Jones family may be able to take legal action as well. I’ll keep you posted.

Until next time, Tina

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Our thanks to Alan for this piece published on the BBC website six days ago. He writes:

The piece leads with accusations of sexism:

“GPs Dr Zoe Norris and Dr Katie Bramall-Stainer described how women doctors had been belittled and sexually harassed at British Medical Association events.”

This turn out to consist of being (allegedly) called a “naughty girl” by one member of the BMA.

… and then a list some of accusations they had heard from others. This used to be called gossip, and as is the nature of gossip, can assumed to be exaggerated, or simply invented, unless someone actually make a complaint.

Even recognising the dubious and unreliable nature of the list some of the entries are incredibly trivial in nature:

• two senior union members “braying loudly their guesstimated bra size of a key committee member
• a GP being propositioned after presenting a keynote speech [J4MB: What length of time after a keynote sketch would female doctors deem to be adequate, to be propositioned? Might different female doctors have different ideas? Would the men propositioning them have to be psychic, to guess that length of time in individual cases?]
• an “incessant nudge-nudge, wink-wink more suitably placed within a 1970s Monty Python sketch”. [J4MB: This strikes me as probably being pure invention.]

Dr Norris told the BBC she had lodged a complaint, but was not listened to and left intimidated, before eventually withdrawing it.

Can you imagine having to deal with such a complaint? That the complaint had been called a naught girly once and had heard about lots of (alleged) nasty things happening to other people who had not complained themselves. Naturally those receiving the complaint would see it as less than serious.

This part of the BBC’s story was given more prominence than real concerns about breakdowns in the working  relationship between doctors causing genuine safety concerns.

My concern is whether Dr Norris is suitable to be a doctor at all. A doctor needs to be capable of dealing with  quite shocking and devastating information and communicating this with patients who may well be upset and react with a bit more than ‘naughty girl’. As the gateway to the services of the NHS they need to stand up for the patients and be an effective advocate for them in getting the best care. Can someone who is so easily deterred and upset really play this role?

Would a man making similar complaints be given anything but deserved derision by the media?

Dr Norris and other similarly fragile professionals need to be told to get a grip and toughen up for their own and their patients’ good.

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Our thanks to Mike P for this.

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A piece in Grazia, a pathetic parade of whiny self-obsessed men-hating female MPs. Margaret Thatcher would have called them all “Moaning Minnies”, and she’d have been right. Lowlights include:

Jess Phillips (Labour, Birmingham Yardley): “I’m constantly trying to fight against my own internalised socialisation that I don’t deserve to be here.” [J4MB: As for the rest of us, it’s simply common sense that this toxic harridan, who we’ve never known comment on male victims or female perpetrators of domestic violence, doesn’t deserve to be an MP – in part because she was appointed from an all-women shortlist, in part because she hates men, who represent half the electorate.]

Danielle Rowley (Scottish Labour): ‘A lot of unexpected coverage of me talking about my period – which is great, but also highlights the need to talk about periods more openly. A woman mentioning her period shouldn’t be such huge news – let’s use this opportunity and work together to get to a place where it’s not!’

Penny Mordaunt (C, Portsmouth North): The Minister for Women and Equalities, Penny Mourdant launched the National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security which calls for more women to be at the centre of the DFID’s peace, security and humanitarian programmes. [J4MB: Women at the centre of government programmes? That would make a change…]

Melanie Onn (Labour, Great Grimsby): “She has called for a law change to have misogynistic acts such as wolf-whistling, leering and sexual comments in public to be made a criminal offence.”

Monica Lennon (Scottish Labour MSP): “Monica introduced a Member’s Bill into Scottish parliament that would see the creation of free universal access to sanitary products. Proposing also that schools, colleges and universities provide free sanitary products in their toilets, she led the campaign that stands to end period poverty in Scotland.”

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The killing of men by their female partners continues apace, as does the determination of the courts to acquit them of wrongdoing. Our thanks to Groan for this. The end of the piece:

Mr Elvidge said: “Declarations of love and remorse were abandoned in favour of a vitriolic attack on her husband who, she claimed, had subjected her to years of verbal and physical aggression and abuse, had sought to control and degrade her, and attempted to police her drinking.”

He said Mrs Atay had previously sought help for alcoholism having had two car crashes while over the limit, threatened to bite the nose off a hospital security guard, and bitten a nightclub doorman. [J4MB: All done in self-defence, no doubt. No mention of any punishments, needless to say.]

The trial continues.

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