JULIE BINDEL: Maria loved her job at Oxfam, but then stuck up for JK Rowling on a staff chatroom… cue a hate campaign and internal inquiry which destroyed her health and career

Our thanks to Groan for this article in yesterday’s Mail. He writes:
And just to confirm the point about the ideology being from the feminists. Within Julie Bindel’s latest attempt to paint trans ideology as against feminism and for “misogyny” her heroine, sacked from Oxfam, declares. ‘This will hang over me for the rest of my life. I want to work in women and children’s rights, but if I had to fight this again I would be going through the same trouble because the women’s sector is where this ideology is most prevalent.’ So decades of demonising men and boys and undermining traditional family life ends up standing up for men who want to be converted to women. Leaving all that toxic masculinity, patriarchal terrorism, manspreading etc. etc. behind. It’s the men hating nutters  themselves that spawned this as this quote points out. I also note considering she says she’s silenced we get to see Bindel in “print” a lot.

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4 thoughts on “JULIE BINDEL: Maria loved her job at Oxfam, but then stuck up for JK Rowling on a staff chatroom… cue a hate campaign and internal inquiry which destroyed her health and career

  1. I was struck by this https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-65792384, a story about men fleeing military service in Ukraine, in this case from the Ukrainian side. A reminder that when the chips are down which sex has no choice but is compelled. At the same time as women left that country, men were prevented. A stark example of the very different “sex based rights” men may have. Of course women must have “choice” in everything , but men? Well they need to man up and ensure women have those choice.s As I write three men ar busy repairing potholes in my road, dirty dangerous and smelly work. As usual all three wear the same yellow suit and white helmet. Much as our binmen do, and the men working on the gas mains in the next road. In my local supermarket lunch time includes men from the big adjacent industrial park popping in for sandwiches etc. Almost all in ore or less thee same worwear, frequently with company logos on. Visually a reminder of the role men have as “replaceable parts” . Meanwhile women demand they are free to “express themselves” in whatever garb they want. Whether legal or social men’s choices and “rights” are considerably less, and sort of disappear when things get really serious.

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  2. I agree with every word that Groan has written His reference to men being forced into military service says it all. Whenever people drone on about the evils of slavery I remember that some countries still have national service and yet as far as I am aware there is no major outcry against it. But if that isn’t slavery what is?

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  3. Thank you Mr. Barnett. In fact the lawyers working on what became the UN declaration of universal human rights had a real problem with conscription because it is obviously in conflict with the prohibition on forced labour. In the event, no doubt because of the cold war and the need to maintain huge forces. In fact it wasn’t until 1987 that conscience objection was recognised (under the article on freedom of belief). Essentially the argument was that big was an obligation of citizens. Allowable so long as citizens could emigrate ( obviously not so in the case of Ukraine! ) and therefore avoid it. Of course the obligation is usually on Male citizens only! In those countries that have compulsory service.

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  4. Thank you Mr. Barnett. In fact the lawyers working on what became the UN declaration of universal human rights had a real problem with conscription because it is obviously in conflict with the prohibition on forced labour. In the event, no doubt because of the cold war and the need to maintain huge forces. In fact it wasn’t until 1987 that conscience objection was recognised (under the article on freedom of belief). Essentially the argument was that this was an obligation of citizens. Allowable so long as citizens could emigrate ( obviously not so in the case of Ukraine! ) and therefore avoid it. Of course the obligation is usually on Male citizens only! In those countries that have compulsory service.

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