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Month: October 2023
Government admits spending hundreds of millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money trying to get girls to do more exercise was “like pissing into the wind”, but “at least it provides jobs for otherwise unemployable women”
Our thanks to Nigel for this piece on the BBC, which inevitably invites the retort, “No shit, Sherlock!!!” It was written by two female ‘journalists’ because, as we know, it takes two women to do a job that (a) doesn’t need to be done in the first place, and (b) could be done by one man in his sleep. Nigel writes:
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Eric Anderson made me reflect on this. It appears that after all the hundreds of millions of pounds poured into girls’ sports and getting more girls to be sporty, there has in fact been a drop in girls; enthusiasm for PE. Of course no one countenances the idea that maybe forcing girls to be sporty has backfired and they like it even less as a result. And in amongst all the guff about “systemic” and “gender” and “funding” one girl is quoted with some predictable and understandable reasons why she’s not a fan of PE. “I really didn’t like it. It was all of it – getting on the bus, [J4MB: Exhausting for an unfit girl, presumably], getting changed, [ditto], getting really sweaty, the competitive people shouting at you for not doing the right thing.” The same reasons given decades ago when I was at school and there was concern about girls not engaging in PE. The report ends with a moderately sensible suggestion, which flies in the face of the current obsession with women’s football. “The choice of activities in high school is also important. There has been too much emphasis on organised sport. It might be more appropriate to look at what activities girls are likely to engage with when they leave school.” Which of course are things such as Zumba, Pilates, Dancercise, Badminton. Things not requiring a team Coach, not competitive team sports, generally indoors and though you’ll get sweaty, not dirty or rough. Perhaps ignoring the feminists and encouraging activities most girls would choose over football, rugby, cricket might stop the declining interest in PE. Well they could try seeing the current campaigns have had the reverse effect.
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Around 10,000 equality and diversity jobs are expected to go under new civil service plans. Well, it would be a good start.
Interesting. Where will the 10,000 parasites go?
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Women Invited to Speak Out in Support of Male Victims of Violence
Our thanks to the Washington DC-based Domestic Abuse and Violence International Alliance (DAVIA) for this press release. We’re an active member of DAVIA which is sponsoring the International Conference on Men’s Issues in Budapest, Hungary, in August 2024.
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Audio / video #268 from our archives: Anil Kumar – “Focusing on Innovation for Growth of Organizations for the MRM” (ICMI18)
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Audio / video #267 from our archives: Professor Eric Anderson – “A non-feminist approach to Masculinities” (ICMI18)
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Warren Farrell comments on Pearl Davis’s discussion with Paul Elam and Karen Straughan
We recently posted a link on our YouTube channel to Pearl Davis’s discussion with Paul Elam and Karen Straughan (on Pearl’s own channel the video had 50,000+ views in the first week). Warren Farrel has posted the following comments
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I agree with Paul and Karen in their comments (6:00–9:00) about needing not just the Warren Farrells but also the Paul Elams and Karen Straughans of the men’s movement. Martin Luther King was considered a radical until the Eldridge Cleavers and Stokely Carmichaels arrived. Then, suddenly, the White House and others began to listen to MLK. So, thank you Paul and Karen. I need you, the men’s movement needs you, and because we are all in the same family boat (when only one sex wins, both sexes lose) girls and women need you. Thank you.
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Audio / video #266 from our archives: The only ICMI speaker ever preceded by a bagpipes player. Darren Deojee: “Positive Masculinity: Standing on the shoulders of giants” (ICMI18)
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How a Labour government will enable co-habiting women to steal their partners’ property
Our thanks to Nigel for this, mainly about sexual harassment at work. An extract:
Ms Thornberry will also set out plans to strengthen the property rights of unmarried women who live with their partners, in England and Wales. “For too long, women in co-habiting couples have been left with no rights when those relationships come to an end. “If there is no joint property or parental responsibilities, a man can kick his partner out of their home, and leave her with nothing, especially if he has the means to go to court, and she does not.” She will add: “No woman should be forced to get married or stay in an unhappy relationship just to avoid being put out on the street.”The other side of the coin need hardly be stated. The man will be “put out on the street” on the basis of a co-habiting partner’s unsubstantiated claims of abuse, as has happened with wives for many years. In due course a Labour government will introduce juryless rape trials, but there will be no mention of that before the general election. —————————- If you’d like email notifications of our new blog pieces, please enter your email address in the box near the top of the right-hand column and click ‘Subscribe’. Our YouTube channel is here, our Facebook channel here, our Twitter channel here. If everyone who reads this gives us £5.00 – or even better, £5.00 or more, monthly – we could change the world. You can support our work by making a donation here.
Doctors up for longer hours for more overtime pay, says Keir Starmer. Let’s ban doctors from working part-time, instead.
A piece on the BBC. Rather than paying more overtime pay, why not ban doctors from working part-time? The proportion of doctors who are men would inevitably rise over time, solving many of the problems of the NHS.
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Justice for Men & Boys 