Feminist dingbat: “More men should be prepared to work part-time so more women can advance in the workplace.” Mike Buchanan interviewed on BBC Radio 5 Live by Nicky Campbell (2014). Video #36 of 800+ videos on the J4MB YouTube channel.

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7 thoughts on “Feminist dingbat: “More men should be prepared to work part-time so more women can advance in the workplace.” Mike Buchanan interviewed on BBC Radio 5 Live by Nicky Campbell (2014). Video #36 of 800+ videos on the J4MB YouTube channel.

  1. Pretty sure that Steve Moxon, in his book ‘Sex Differences Explained’ said (in exasperation at male feminists): “Many men have accepted that it is their civic duty to be replaced by women.”

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    • Hi Mike! Back in 2020, I was a 64 year old bloke who’d never even heard of the Red Pill. All I knew was that life had patterns, turning out in certain ways, which always seemed to be of female benefit. I stumbled onto Steve Moxon’s books, then Roy Bauermeister, yourself with ‘Feminism – the Ugly Truth’, William Collins, and many, many more.

      Regarding the underpinning neuroscience, I was a bit sceptical of Simon Baron-Cohen and ‘The Essential Difference’. The default female brain, I can handle, and even some of the ‘rewiring’ necessary to convert this to male-patterned. But, he goes along a path of ‘pathology’ and ‘wrongness’ of the male brain, offering feminism the excuse it needs for inbuilt ‘toxic masculinity’. His ‘explanation’ of autism as an extreme form of maleness is just wrong.

      Found that there was a much more convincing explanation in ‘The Master & His Emissary’ by Professor Iain McGilchrist. The properties and real world behaviours of the isolated left brain are mildly terrifying, and all too familiar to anyone who has been married for 45 years, or has a feminist in the family…high self regard, refusal to accept responsibility for one’s actions, point blank denial when caught out, a belief that others are there to merely serve, preference for inaction (victimhood) over agency, preference for theory over objective fact, risk-aversion, a reduction of life to utilitarian self-interest….these are just a few. Remind us of anybody we know..?

      McGilchrist, an academic who published this book in 2010, presumably wished to retain an academic career. Therefore, he is too canny to be anything other than obtuse. Only once (page 33) does he state that the left brain is oestrogen sensitive, whereas the right brain is testosterone sensitive. He mentions it in passing (and in parenthesis), almost as though this doesn’t matter. As a result, the message has gone over the head of feminists, as in this glowing review from Sally Vickers of the Guardian, recommending it as a ‘Best Book of the Year’ for a feminist newspaper: “Pervasively argues that our society is suffering from the consequences of an over-dominant left hemisphere, losing touch with its natural regulatory ‘master’ – the right.”

      Personally, I believe that there is a very good reason why oestrogen closes down growth of the long bones on adolescence, promoting fat rather than muscle. Those left brain ways of doing things would have very adverse consequences when held within a strong, powerful, tall frame. Meanwhile, the high self regard raises the bar on reproduction, and risk aversion protects fertility.

      All well and good for the natural, regulatory ‘master’. Until the pen becomes mightier than the sword, and we regulate for female advantage. Exacerbated by female politicians, and their drive towards female utilitarian advantage, particularly in reproductive rights (no fault divorce, abortion, sexual harassment legislation, employment quotas giving independence from men and/or access to higher value men, etc, etc).

      As a flavour of the book, here’s an article regarding how the left, and the right brain processes reality for ‘value’…in the case of the left brain, this being for utilitarian advantage.

      https://thejollysociety.com/mcgilchrist-on-scheller-the-importance-of-value-in-constituting-reality/

      As for the corollary of the oestrogen inhibition of long bones, and the amplification of left-brain tendencies….small women may tend to be a bit of a bossy-boots.

      Now they tell me.

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  2. To be fair this became a part of official policy in feminist Sweden. Following research about why, in Sweden, women still tended not to reach senior management level even in the public sector where they are by far the majority. The research concluded that women chose public services precisely because these offered better opportunities to have periods off work and to have “flexible” (always less) hours. They also could earn very good salaries in public sector professions and generally this meant women were far less likely to feel the need to seek promotions to higher and specially senior management positions. In short a vindication of Dr. Hakim’s “Preference Theory” of why women flock to a narrow range of occupations and avoid those that are demanding and have anti-social hours in favour of those which offer a better “work/life balance”. The Swedish Government’s response was to try to get men to work less (compulsory paternity leave), be less work focussed (education) Be less competitive (ban competition in school sports) and ask for more time off. With very limited success, specially in Sweden’s productive private sector. And indeed with some “push back” from women, whose choices to to less work and be less work centered are often facilitated by their male partner’s dedication and promotions in their chosen occupation! At least the Swedes were honest that “equality” in their terms meant the male workforce becoming less productive and consequently the society becoming poorer. It wasn’t considered that the other option is of course that women forgo their “family friendly” hours and “work/life” balance and cushy jobs in the public sector and emulate the much greater productivity of the males.

    Needless to say a decade on and Sweden continues to have one of the “most gender segregated workforces” in the world and outside the quotas for politicians and “boards” remains very low in terms of women in senior management. And lambasts its men for continuing to work “from home” when on one of their compulsory bouts of leave.

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