Our thanks to Andy for this (video, 4:33). 6.6 million views. The first film in the Dirty Harry series was released in 1971. More than half a century on, we still live in a world of women’s quotas (overt and covert), and that reality isn’t going to end any time soon. What does that tell you about the inability of women to compete with men on the grounds of merit?

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An interesting piece in the Daily Record, a Scottish newspaper, although it contains some content along the following lines, which would be unthinkable with respect to male teachers having sex with schoolgirls:

“Andrea Darling, a researcher at the criminology department at Durham University, studies women in positions of trust who sexually abuse children… [J4MB: she wrote the following]

“Generally women involved in this type of teacher-pupil case do not fit the mould of what many consider a ‘predatory paedophile’, in that unlike other sex offenders they do not specifically enter their professions to access children. Instead my research has found that many (though not all) of these women appear to abuse because of their own unmet intimacy needs resulting from relationship problems and feelings of loneliness for example. [J4MB: Got it. The women are victims.]

“These women are also different from other female sex offenders in that they are generally older, more affluent, have better social skills and less issues with substance abuse. Their behaviour is also to some extent influenced by the very situations they are working in.” [J4MB: Their behaviour is influenced by being in proximity with children? Also a defence for male teachers?]

Many will feel that women teachers should be judged in exactly the same way a male offender would be – as motivated by twisted sexual gratification.”

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I’m now in the third week of my four-week holiday in Mauritius, and enjoying being here on many counts.

I thought I’d do a short blog post on the pyramids of Maurities, which can be found near the national airport in the south-east of the island. A Google search led me to this, and an extract consisting of femsplaining, which is by definition highly fallible:

“In 2009, a writer and researcher, A.G., made an explosive revelation on Mauritius. She narrated that the monuments of Plaine Magnien share similar structures to those monuments on the island of Tenerife. Furthermore, she added that the monuments were a platform for astronomical purposes and were built by the alignment of the two solstices (June 20 or 21 and December 21 or 22). And she went further, that the monuments dated back to the Egyptian era. Her hypothesis went viral on social media. And most people believed in them.”

This nonsense is followed by some mansplaining, which is by definition infallible:

“In 2011, Phillippe D’Unienville from Société de l’Histoire de l’Île Maurice made a speech on them. His research was collaborated by Guy Rouillard. His research led to amazing discoveries. A few of the crucial details are as follows:

These pyramids do not exceed 12 meters in height. Their construction began in the late 1930s by the laborers of different sugar estates, particularly Mon Trésor and Union Vale. Even though those sugar mills were already closed, in the 1880s and 1910s, laborers were still working for the estates.

The reason may surprise you! The reality of their construction was just to discard those rocks from the sugarcane fields. In many corners of Mauritius, there were stockpiles of rocks in sugarcane fields. In the North, there were plenty of them. Gradually, they disappeared, and stone crusher factories used them to produce pebbles or macadam.

There were no advanced construction machines like today at the start of the 1930s. Thus, small tractors transported them to their corresponding locations. Laborers used baskets to carry those rocks. It was a heavy task for them to discard those quantities of rocks from the fields elsewhere. In addition to that, they used coconut lines to align the stones while constructing the monuments. Even today, some masons use lines (nowadays with nylon) to align in construction. Then, they filled a base roughly with huge rocks and soils and created the facades with squared stones, considering the alignment to make the monument attractive like a pyramid. Some laborers were specialists in cutting and carving stones.

The construction took place from the 1930s to the 1960s. The total number of those monuments was more than twenty. At the end of the 1980s, both the administration of Union Vale and Mon Trésor Mon Désert decided to keep only seven of them. The rest were abandoned in a deplorable state, demolished, and disappeared. They decided to protect only these seven monuments. This is why there is that plate warning they are protected, on one of them.”

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Excellent.

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Our thanks to Tom for this (short video).

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Our thanks to Gerry for this.

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Interesting.

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Interesting. David Solway has the good fortune to be married to Janice Fiamengo, his Wiki page is here.

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