An interesting new piece from Quilette, prompted by a proposed new law in Australia, but the issues raised will affect many countries before long.
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Month: July 2023
Trendy Notting Hill restaurant boss Thomas Straker sparks diversity row by sharing Instagram photo of his all-white all-male team of chefs – as he’s blasted on social media for ‘totally unrepresentative’ line-up
Our thanks to Nigel for this. He writes:
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Well, here’s an example of a grueling job done in hot and dangerous enviroment with very “unsocial” hours. Leaving aside the obvious point that here in my multi-cultural multi-ethnic city, Manchester, Chinese restaurants are staffed by Chinese, Bangladeshi by Bangladeshis and on and on to a Mongolian eatery. Having dealt with the race issue there is the man thing. Because whatever the race the kitchens are literally “manned”. Yet another area where it appears “white men” just fine if they keep themselves hidden “below stairs” doing the hard work, but heaven forfend they should step into the light to take a bow, without the odd token woman on show who does the lunch shift. Yet another story where probably none of the critics would get their hands dirty doing the job themselves. What a crime being proud of the workers in your business.
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Audio / video #201 from our archives: Paul Elam and Mike Buchanan – Male Genital Mutilation, London conference… (2016)
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DOMINIC LAWSON: I appreciate concerns about the treatment of women in public life but the idea that misogyny cost NatWest boss Alison Rose her job doesn’t bear scrutiny
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I highlight this because it’s a good example of how subtle gynocentrism can be. On the face of it Dominic Lawson is making good points about the sort of female “in-group preferencing” shown all the time. Women supporting women, no matter what, and of course the chivalry that draws men to support this. But he weakens his argument by falling for a classic desire to be a knight in shining armour, by repeating the lie that women in public life get more abuse than men. In fact this is simply not true as has been reported in the DM in the past. During Theresa May’s tenure as PM a Parliamentary inquiry was undertaken into this “online abuse”. Top of the list at the time was Boris Johnson, way out ahead, Theresa May, the most abused woman in the list, was at number 7. This pattern has been repeated a number of times. Lawson clearly doesn’t read the DM and does want to believe somehow powerful women need saving from nasty abuse but the facts don’t fit this urge to protect. The point is of course that it’s this deep urge to believe women that makes feminist parroting of lies and dodgy stats so effective.
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Brendan O’Neill on Caitlin Moran: Leave men alone
It would only be fair to say that Brendan O’Neill and a number of his colleagues on Spiked have a poor opinion of MRAs. Nonetheless, they publish some good articles, and Brendan’s latest piece Leave men alone, to which Nigel alerted me, is a gem – to the extent I’ve just taken out a subscription (£5.00 pcm) to Spiked so I can support their work and leave comments. The end of Brendan’s article:
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Men aren’t talking about their penises, Caitlin, because they’re busy fighting fires, digging for oil, mending roads, fixing the plumbing and safeguarding society so that people like you can sit back and write fact-life fluff about their lives. The irony is too much: it is their masculinity that sustains the social conditions in which you can moan about their masculinity. You’re welcome.
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We’re the Gen Z women doing ‘lazy girl jobs’: The TikTok influencers sharing their tips on earning ‘decent pay’ from doing the bare minimum while WFH
Our thanks to Nigel for this. Women’s work ethic, eh?
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Complex Systems Won’t Survive Competence Crisis
Our thanks to Rod for this (video, 51:22).
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Audio / video #200 from our archives – Rod Liddle is exasperated by Kaite Welsh, free speech denier (2017)
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Eppie Sprung, disgraced teacher who lost her job after being discovered half-naked with 17-year-old pupil in a layby, launches a support group for fellow sex offenders and criminals – and National Lottery is funding her
Our thanks to Chloe for this.
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Holly Snelgar, 25, influencer who laughed as her dog viciously mauled two guests at an Airbnb party, sobs in court as she apologises to her victims
Our thanks to Ken for this. Another day, another sobbing woman, another miscarriage of justice.
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Justice for Men & Boys 