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An interesting piece on i, which is as consistently left-wing as The Guardian. It starts with this:
“Layla Wright was scrolling through social media in her hometown of Liverpool when she first noticed the tradwife trend. They were mostly American girls in their mid-to-late twenties (the same age as Wright), [J4MB: Note mid-to-late twenties women are described as ‘girls’] dressed in Fifties clothes and promoting their “stay-at-home to cook and clean for the family” lifestyle. “It was almost like cosplay,” she says. But the more she watched, the more conservative the influencers became, pushing an outwardly anti-feminist agenda – some were against women’s right to vote. [J4MB: I must lie down on my fainting couch.]
“If they were reaching my phone on the other side of the Atlantic, I wondered what impact they were having over there,” says Wright. “I wanted to understand why they were opposed to something that I’ve always seen as a blueprint for progression.”
The result of her investigation is an hour-long BBC Three documentary, America’s New Female Right, produced by her mentor Louis Theroux’s company, Mindhouse. At just 27, she is the company’s creator in residence, having previously worked on a Panorama film about the disastrous, dangerous 2022 Champion’s League final and a BBC Three doc about “alternative” cancer cures. Last winter, Wright spent two months embedded in the worlds of women who use social media to spread their doctrines of anti-feminist, anti-LGBTQ+, anti-immigration to the wider public. It’s a bold, shocking and often worrying film.
Among the women is 16-year-old Hannah, [J4MB: Note a 16-year-old girl described as being ‘among the women’] who lives with her family in Nashville. They’re conservative Christians who believe a so-called global elite is working to split up the family (in their eyes, that means a married man and woman with children) and put an end to gender roles [J4MB: They’re right.]. Hannah has her own podcast, speaks at rallies and, in 2022, organised a protest against trans people.”
Later in the piece:
“… the influencer who says women shouldn’t be allowed to vote is living in the UK now, so it’s happening.”
I assume she’d referring to Pearl Davis, the American anti-feminist who returned to the US months ago. Well, we wouldn’t want facts to get in the way of a BBC mocumentary, would we?
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A piece by James Esses for Matt Goodwin’s Substack.
It was many years ago that I realised the FT had been “captured”. Nobody at the paper – including Lionel Barber, the editor over 2005-20 – had the slightest interest in the causal link between increasing gender diversity on boards and corporate financial decline. In 2018 we had the ridiculous spectacle of the President’s Club closing after the FT’s confected outrage at the alleged behaviour of some businessmen at an all-male evening, with respect to the “hostesses”.
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Outstanding. The start of the piece:
“One can sense the beginning of a joke: a radical feminist (barrister Charlotte Proudman), a men’s advocate (Ally Fogg of the Men and Boys Coalition), and a professor who studies the manosphere (cyber threat specialist Joe Whittaker) walk into a BBC studio to discuss the UK government’s announced plan to tackle misogyny. The joke is that no real debate occurs, despite Fogg’s contention that boys and men are as much victims as victimizers. Overall, the three agree that extreme misogyny is a “serious” “pervasive” problem, that it is prevalent throughout online men’s discussions (in the so-called “manosphere”), and that boys and men must be educated out of any tendency to direct anger at women or feminism.
Inch by feminist inch, what was once a convenient exaggeration (that criticism of feminism and non-feminist men’s discussion are misogynistic) has become the only allowable view.”
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I’ve just received this from Bettina Arndt:
“Hi Mike, You probably realise our conference was yesterday…. It was a great success. The speakers were sensational, no protesters, all went very smoothly.
Just thought you might like to watch some of the speeches, in case you missed it. Here’s the link – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzmEygTvrwE&t=131s. There are a couple of gaps, because some speakers didn’t want to be recorded because they are protecting their families! What a world we live in…
It was incredible. There were so many people there with loved ones in prison, or awaiting trials.. just ghastly. Lots of tears over the moving personal stories. But also heaps of lawyers, police officers, mediators, social workers, all sorts of professionals who know what is going on and are concerned about it.
We are really thrilled, given that it is getting big numbers online with international audiences. Love you to publicise it for us.
Cheers, Tina”
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Justice for Men & Boys 