Month: October 2024

Good news. A stark report showed the number of female executives at Britain’s biggest companies has fallen for the first time in eight years.

/ Mike Buchanan / 5 Comments

Our thanks to Jeff for this wonderful news. I’ve posted these comments:

Fewer women in top corporate jobs? Wonderful news. The bid to increase the proportion of women on corporate boards is a feminist scam, through the lie that appointing more women to boards will increase profitability. They are cynically conflating correlation with causation.

In 2012 I presented evidence to House of Commons and House of Lords inquiries, the already well-established causal link between increasing gender diversity on boards and corporate financial DECLINE. A link to that evidence on the ‘Campaign for Merit in Business’ website.

Mike Buchanan

CAMPAIGN FOR MERIT IN BUSINESS

JUSTICE FOR MEN & BOYS

LAUGHING AT FEMINISTS

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Clive Davis, theatre critic at The Times, writes a one-star review of Zinnie Harris’s “The Duchess of Malfi”, and pans the leading actress, Jodie Whittaker

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I much enjoyed the one-star review (The Times, £) of The Duchess of Malfi by Clive Davis, the paper’s theatre critic. The original was written by John Webster in 1612-13. The seemingly excruciating adaptation is the work of feminist writer-director Zinnie Harris. From her Wiki profile, all you need to know about her:

“Alongside her original plays, Zinnie Harris has adapted and reworked a number of plays from the western dramatic canon revising female characters from those plays for a more contemporary and sympathetic eye.

Among these adaptations, This Restless House (2017), Harris’ version of Aeschylus’ Oresteia, imagines Clytemnestra not as someone capable of murder, but as a woman more like herself with no intention to kill. Her play Macbeth (an undoing) (February 2022) revisits Lady Macbeth as a ‘complex woman intoxicated by love, power and maternal longing; a woman out of time, fighting against the constraints of medieval patriarchy.’

Similarly, in The Duchess (of Malfi), her adaptation of John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi, the duchess is given the final word as Webster’s text is rewoven to examine the control and violence of men towards women. In her version of Strindberg’s Miss Julie, Julie is a character with actions of those of a child who is scared of and has been coerced by her father.”

I posted the following comments:

“What a refreshing change to see a male critic panning a leading lady and a tediously ideological feminist writer-director. Bravo!!!”

Mike Buchanan

JUSTICE FOR MEN & BOYS

LAUGHING AT FEMINISTS”

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Man jailed for 20 months for shouting at police dog and using racist slurs. Beauty student, 19, who joined rioters outside migrant hotel dressed in yellow cocktail dress is branded ‘extremely stupid’ by judge as she’s spared jail.

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Our thanks to Nigel for pointing us to yet another example of gender-related “two-tier justice”. The BBC piece on the man is here, the Manchester Evening News piece on the woman here.

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