The Mansplainers, Episode #22: “The Family Court Nightmare to Exceed All Nightmares,” with Jeff Younger

Interesting (video, 1:30:48). A family court judge ordered the castration of orthodox Christian Jeff Younger’s young son at the behest of his ex-wife who was intent on transitioning the boy to a girl (“Mommy says I’m a girl.”)

—————————-

If you’d like email notifications of our new blog pieces, please enter your email address in the box near the top of the right-hand column and click ‘Subscribe’.

We shall shortly be posting this piece on our X channel.

Our YouTube channel is here.

How should women be treated by employers during the luteal phase of their menstrual cycles?

The luteal phase of the menstrual cycle lasts for 14 days of the 28-day menstrual cycle.

Our thanks to cp for pointing us to a lengthy BBC piece, What are the ‘luteal uglies’? And how they’re affecting women, inevitably written by a woman, hopefully not in her luteal phase. An extract:

“Elena, who works in hospitality and as an actress in London, says she feels lethargic and “completely unmotivated” during her luteal phase.

“I feel like my brain is working in slow motion, I tend to become clumsy and way more forgetful,” she says.”

Presumably Elena is unable to work as an “actress” during her luteal phase, because she’d forget many of her lines and stage instructions, being “way more forgetful”?”

I’m surprised the article makes no mention of the “brain fog” problem which is apparently confined to women.

So women would be unable to work as actresses during their luteal phases, but what about other professions? Would you want a female brain surgeon operating with a scalpel on your child’s brain, to be “clumsy and way more forgetful”? Clearly not.

The measure(s) to deal with the luteal phase issue would clearly have to vary by profession. Brain surgeons, pilots, politicians etc. would be forbidden from working during the phase, and their salaries cut accordingly. Women working in hospitality could have their salaries cut by 20% in recognition of their reduced productivity and annoyance caused to customers e.g. by bringing them the wrong food or drinks. Other professions would be treated on a case-by-case basis, a perfectly rational solution to this pressing problem.

—————————-

If you’d like email notifications of our new blog pieces, please enter your email address in the box near the top of the right-hand column and click ‘Subscribe’.

We shall shortly be posting this piece on our X channel.

Our YouTube channel is here.

 

Playbooks, plagiarism and a pig’s head: new claims surrounding Cambridge professor Jason Arday

A piece in the Guardian. Of course the paper is presenting challenges of Professor Jason Arday as racist. An extract:

“Claudine Gay, the first black woman to become president of Harvard, was only in the post for seven months before she was forced out over plagiarism allegations.” 

No, this wasn’t about “allegations”, she was forced out because she was demonstrably a plagiarist. The Guardian is saying black people should be above criticism, what could be more racist?

A piece in yesterday’s Telegraph (£), Cambridge professor made impossible claim he was on Seven Up. An extract:

“Prof Jason Arday said he had appeared in the television series, which follows the lives of a group of people for decades from the age of seven. The inaugural episode was broadcast in 1964. He was not born until 1985.

Prof Arday is at the centre of a row about academic plagiarism after The Telegraph revealed that he has been accused of copying parts of his PhD thesis from an earlier work by another student.

He has admitted a series of errors in his work but said the “positioning of me as this kind of liar and fantasist is totally unacceptable”.”

—————————-

If you’d like email notifications of our new blog pieces, please enter your email address in the box near the top of the right-hand column and click ‘Subscribe’.

We shall shortly be posting this piece on our X channel.

Our YouTube channel is here.

Messages 4 Men conference (2019) – John Cooper. Video #371 of 800+ videos on the J4MB YouTube channel.

Today’s video is here (15:17).

Over a period of more than two years we’re posting links to one video daily from the J4MB YouTube channel. The channel includes our media appearances since 2012, 300+ videos of talks and other materials from the International Conferences on Men’s Issues (2014 – ) and other men’s issues conferences we’ve been involved with, and so much more. The individual conference playlists are here.

Our website Campaign for Merit in Business was created in the light of the considerable evidence of a causal link between increasing gender diversity on boards and corporate financial decline. Mike Buchanan, Steve Moxon and Dr Catherine Hakim (the originator of Preference Theory) presented evidence to House of Commons and House of Lords inquiries in 2012, the video of their House of Commons evidence session is here (56:50).

Finally, we run the award-winning website Laughing at Feminists. The related comedy channel (170+ videos) is here. Remember, it’s more than important to laugh at feminists, it’s a civic duty.  

—————————-

If you’d like email notifications of our new blog pieces, please enter your email address in the box near the top of the right-hand column and click ‘Subscribe’.

We shall shortly be posting this piece on our X channel.

Scientists Finally Identified What’s Killing Jaguars in the Amazon — It Wasn’t a Puma.

Our thanks to Gerry for this (video, 12:57). I saw the animal in question at Dublin Zoo a couple of weeks ago.

—————————-

If you’d like email notifications of our new blog pieces, please enter your email address in the box near the top of the right-hand column and click ‘Subscribe’.

We shall shortly be posting this piece on our X channel.

Our YouTube channel is here.

Harriet Harman: Ban men from running for next Labia leader

Our thanks to Neil for this. An extract:

“She said Labour needed to “start the discussion about male ambition and male allyship”, and that “male ambition should not be to lead themselves, male ambition ought to be to support a woman to lead”.”

If she gets her way, we would hope more men (and some women) would finally wake up to the feminist assaults on their rights over the past 50+ years, and vote for parties other than than the Labia party.

—————————-

If you’d like email notifications of our new blog pieces, please enter your email address in the box near the top of the right-hand column and click ‘Subscribe’.

We shall shortly be posting this piece on our X channel.

Our YouTube channel is here.

Messages 4 Men conference (2019) – Dr Randomercam. Video #370 of 800+ videos on the J4MB YouTube channel.

Today’s video is here (17:10).

Over a period of more than two years we’re posting links to one video daily from the J4MB YouTube channel. The channel includes our media appearances since 2012, 300+ videos of talks and other materials from the International Conferences on Men’s Issues (2014 – ) and other men’s issues conferences we’ve been involved with, and so much more. The individual conference playlists are here.

Our website Campaign for Merit in Business was created in the light of the considerable evidence of a causal link between increasing gender diversity on boards and corporate financial decline. Mike Buchanan, Steve Moxon and Dr Catherine Hakim (the originator of Preference Theory) presented evidence to House of Commons and House of Lords inquiries in 2012, the video of their House of Commons evidence session is here (56:50).

Finally, we run the award-winning website Laughing at Feminists. The related comedy channel (170+ videos) is here. Remember, it’s more than important to laugh at feminists, it’s a civic duty.  

—————————-

If you’d like email notifications of our new blog pieces, please enter your email address in the box near the top of the right-hand column and click ‘Subscribe’.

We shall shortly be posting this piece on our X channel.