This post was originally published in 2015.
We’re sometimes asked if we’ve ever had any substantive responses to the many public challenges we’ve issued to feminists and Toadies, men in senior positions who accede to feminist demands, however ridiculous, and whatever the consequences. No, we haven’t. These people are utterly shameless in their pursuit of feminist agendas and/or specifically anti-male agendas e.g. non-therapeutic circumcision of male minors (Male Genital Mutilation, MGM). We’ve presented many of them with ‘Lying Feminist of the Month’ or ‘Toady’ awards. A link to all the winners of the former awards is here.
Here’s a selection from our challenges, in reverse chronological order:
Sophie Walker Leader, Women’s Equality Party
Samantha Beckett Director General, Economics & Markets, Department for Business, Innovation, and Skills
Anne Longfield OBE Children’s Commissioner for England
Ian Symes General Manager, Right Management (UK & Ireland)
Alison Saunders Director of Public Prosecutions
Anne Longfield OBE Children’s Commissioner for England
Dr Omar El-Hamdoon President, Muslim Association of Britain
Alison Saunders Director of Public Prosecutions
Theresa May MP Home Secretary
Jeremy Wright QC MP Attorney General for England and Wales
Richard Fuller MP Conservative MP, Bedford & Kempston
Sajid Javid MP Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, and Skills
Alison Saunders Director of Public Prosecutions
Michael Gove MP Lord Chancellor, Secretary of State for Justice
Nicky Morgan MP Secretary of State for Education, Minister for Women and Equalities
John Timpson Chairman, Timpson Group plc
Chris Blackhurst Journalist, former editor of The Independent
Sandi Toksvig Lesbian comedienne, spokeswoman for the Women’s Equality Party
Emma Ritch Executive Director, Engender (Scottish feminist campaigning organization)
Alun Michael Police and Crime Commissioner, South Wales
Leighton Andrews AM Minister for Public Services, National Assembly for Wales
Kate Smurthwaite Feminist ‘comedienne’
Vera Baird QC Police and Crime Commissioner for Northumbria (second challenge)
Gloria de Piero MP Shadow Minister for Women & Equalities
Laura Bates Whine merchant (second challenge)
Mark Carney Governor, Bank of England
Theresa May MP Home Secretary
Laura Bates Whine merchant
[Note added 27.9.14: the evidence base behind our assertion that Laura Bates was lying – a lie she brazenly repeated in September 2014 in a BBC debate – is here.]
Eleri Butler Chief Executive, Welsh Women’s Aid
Sandra Horley Chief Executive, Refuge
Roz Hardie CEO of OBJECT, a feminist campaigning organisation
David Futrelle American feminist, critic of men’s human rights advocates
Polly Neate CEO, Women’s Aid
Clean Break Theatre company
Laurie Penny Gender feminist ‘journalist’
Dickie James Board member, Women’s Aid
Laura Carstensen Commissioner, Equality & Human Rights Commission
Vince Cable MP Business Secretary
Julie Bindel Gender feminist campaigner and journalist
Professor Sarah Niblock Head of Journalism, Brunel University
Vera Baird QC Police and Crime Commissioner for Northumbria
Professor Susan Vinnicombe Head of the Cranfield International Centre for Women Leaders
Ellie Slee Contributor to The Huffington Post, ‘Whiny Woman of the Month’ award winner
Toby Granville Group Editor of The Dorset Echo
Dr Henrietta O’Connor and Dr John Goodwin Leicester University
Dr Jude Browne Director of Gender Studies, Cambridge University
Janet Street-Porter Feminist ‘journalist’, ‘Harpy’ award winner
Debbie White CEO of Sodexo (UK & Ireland)
The background to the challenge of Debbie White is here.
The CEO of Sodexo, a multinational with its headquarters in France, is Michel Landel. He’s a director of Catalyst Inc., a New York-based feminist organisation campaigning internationally for more women on boards. Our article on the matter is here.
Charlotte Sweeney Reviewer of the voluntary code of conduct of executive search firms
Nick Baveystock Director general of the Institution of Civil Engineers
Caroline Criado-Perez Whine merchant, ‘Lying Woman of the Month’ (May 2014)
Dr Petra Wilton Director of Policy, Chartered Management Institute
Amina Women’s Project Birmingham-based feminist group
Kat Banyard Gender feminist campaigner, inaugural ‘Lying Woman of the Month’
Sir Roger Carr Chairman of Centrica, former president of the CBI, founder member of The 30% Club, ‘Toady’ award winner
Helena Morrissey CEO of Newton Investment Management, founder of The 30% Club
Professor Rita Marcella Aberdeen Business School
Ilene Lang President and CEO of Catalyst
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