The J4MB Files #637: Professor Eric Anderson, “Transgender Athletes in Sport” (ICMI21)

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Janice Fiamengo: The Tweet that Launched a Thousand Quips (Nick Fuentes trolls women with “Your body, my choice,” and predictable hysteria ensues)

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A hilarious new article by Professor Susan Vinnicombe, professor of women and leadership at Cranfield University

Professor Susan Vinnicombe has probably been the most influential “academic” in the world driving the “women on boards” scam over the past 20+ years. A new piece by her – Women in executive roles on FTSE 250 boards has fallen since 2022, despite 70% of companies meeting targets – is typical of her risible output. An extract:

“With the percentage of women in director roles meeting the Women Leaders Review targets, the headlines look great – but the persistent reality remains, that the glass ceiling for women in executive level positions is still stubbornly in place. An ‘executive gender paradox’ across FTSE 250 boards has emerged, as the gap between the number of women in NED roles and executive roles grows.”

But this extract really takes the biscuit:

“There is a major issue at play here, and we risk having too much optimism when we just look at the numbers,” commented Dr Michelle Tessaro, Visiting Professor at Cranfield School of Management who led on the special CFO research project. “The most vulnerable part of the talent pipeline is the mid-career point, where women drop off their planned career trajectories as policies are stacked against them [J4MB emphasis: Er, what policies might those be?] and assumptions made about their attitudes to work [J4MB emphasis: Assumptions based on experience of women in senior positions, no doubt.]. This leaky pipeline needs fixing, and women need supporting, [J4MB emphasis : Why do women always need “supporting” when men don’t?] otherwise the Executive gender paradox will not change.”

Of course there is only a “gender paradox” in feminist ideological terms. The “paradox” was comprehensively explained in Susan Pinker’s The Sexual Paradox: Men, Women and the Real Gender Gap (2009). Long story short, the “paradox” was (and remains) wholly attributable to the freely-made choices of women who prefer “work/life balance” – almost always enabled by male partners – to the grinding responsibilities and pressures of senior executive positions.

Professors Vinnicombe, Tessaro, and their like would be better employed at something useful e.g. garbage collection, street cleaning, burger flipping, mine clearance…

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Teenage girl who lied about beheaded French teacher’s class says ‘sorry’

Our thanks to a French donor for this. He writes:

"C'est très triste le pouvoir qu'exercent les femmes et les filles pour que des hommes soient physiquement agressés par d'autres hommes, parfois tués."

In English:
"It's very sad, the power that women and girls wield to have men physically assaulted by other men, sometimes killed."

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The J4MB Files #636: Elizabeth Hobson and Paola Diana discuss “dick pics” on Russia Today TV

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Mother of child hidden in drawer from birth jailed

Our thanks to Jeff for this. An extract:

“The court was told the girl was severely malnourished, to the point she looked like a seven-month-old baby and not a three-year-old child, and had been fed with milky Weetabix through a syringe.

She also had a cleft palate and several other medical issues which her mother had not sought treatment for.

The offences covered a period from early 2020 to early 2023, when the girl was discovered after a visitor to the home heard a noise upstairs and found her on the bed.

A social worker was called to the house after the discovery, and described her “overwhelming horror” at what she saw on entering the bedroom.

The child was found with matted hair, deformities and rashes.”

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Barbra Banda (a man?) voted BBC Women’s Footballer of the Year

This piece on the BBC makes no mention of the fact that Banda was withdrawn from a 2022 tournament after failing to meet gender eligibility rules. Her (his?) testosterone level was high enough to be ruled out of the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations.

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