Enjoy.

Our thanks to Emma for this. A nonsensical extract from a section highlighted in blue, “Male domestic abuse on the sise”, a little before halfway down:

“The Office for National Statistics figures show every year that one in the three victims of domestic abuse are male, equating to 699,000 men in 21/22 (1.671m women). [J4MB: The direct result of men being disinclined to report domestic abuse. This case is a case in point.]

One in six-seven men and one in four women will be a victim of domestic abuse in their lifetime. [J4MB: The direct result of men being disinclined to report domestic abuse.]

Of domestic abuse crimes recorded by the police, 25 per cent were committed against men. [J4MB: You can safely replace “committed against” with “reported by”.]

Only 4.7 per cent of victims of domestic abuse being supporting by local domestic services are men according to SafeLives data. [J4MB: All the photos and images of victims on SafeLives’s home page are of women. It rather makes a mockery of their claim to be gender-neutral, featuring only the sex which is more likely to report abuse.]”

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An interesting new piece.

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Our thanks to Gerry for this. The start of the piece:

A senior executive has won almost £100,000 after she complained that the female CEO of a women-friendly dating app had reduced staff to tears with her bullying behaviour.

Rhonda Alexander was the boss of Fluttr, a British app that when it launched boasted it would beat ‘Tinder Swindler’-style romance fraud and create a ‘safe space’ for single women.

The Cambridge University educated New Yorker declares herself a ‘fierce champion for female leaders and entrepreneurs’ who believes that ‘female acknowledgement is a fundamental building block to enabling all women to be seen, heard, and respected’.

However, an employment tribunal heard that behind the scenes at the company her ‘downright rude’ and ‘damaging’ behaviour to staff had led to a series of complaints.

One victim was Laura Cameron Peck, the CEO of a sister start-up to Fluttr who reported Ms Alexander to bosses, accusing her of being ‘passive aggressive’, ‘manipulative’ and of eroding the confidence of colleagues by ‘throwing eggs’ at their suggestions.

But the tribunal heard that rather than address her concerns, senior executives turned on Ms Cameron Peck, forcing her out of her £120,000 a year job just three months after she started.

Now she has been awarded £97,361 in compensation for the way she was treated after blowing the whistle.

One victim was Laura Cameron Peck, the CEO of a sister start-up to Fluttr who reported Ms Alexander to bosses, accusing her of being ‘passive aggressive’, ‘manipulative’ and of eroding the confidence of colleagues by ‘throwing eggs’ at their suggestions.

But the tribunal heard that rather than address her concerns, senior executives turned on Ms Cameron Peck, forcing her out of her £120,000 a year job just three months after she started.

Now she has been awarded £97,361 in compensation for the way she was treated after blowing the whistle.

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An inspiring story. Well, her adorable sister Kate can’t get all the attention, can she?

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Our thanks to Jim for this.

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Three more convicted women given suspended sentences because vagina. An extract:

Giving his verdict, Deputy Senior District Judge Tan Ikram said: ‘Seven days before the protest, Hamas went into Israel with what was described by the media as paragliders. A reasonable person would have seen and read that.

‘I do not find a reasonable person would interpret the image merely as a symbol of freedom. I want to be clear, there’s no evidence that any of these defendants are supporters of Hamas, or were seeking to show support for them.’

Handing the trio a 12-month conditional discharge, Mr Ikram said he had ‘decided not to punish’ the defendants.

‘Each of you stands convicted of a terrorist offence,’ he continued. ‘There is nothing to suggest the police of their own volition were going to take any action.

‘You’ve not hidden the fact you were carrying these images. You crossed the line, but it would have been fair to say that emotions ran very high on this issue.

‘Your lesson has been well learnt. I do not find you were seeking to show any support for Hamas.’

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[Note added 29.11.16: We haven’t been regularly presenting ‘Feminist of the Month’ awards since April 2016, because people now fully understand that feminists are whiny, gormless, toxic liars. We shall in future present awards on an ad-hoc basis.]

Being gormless is a defining characteristic of feminists, along with being liars, and being whiners. Each characteristic has its own monthly award.

We’ve been presenting Gormless Feminist of the Month awards since April 2014. The first was presented not to a single feminist, but to a whole coven of them – those working at the Fawcett Society. More recent awards, in reverse chronological order:

April 2016: Emma Thompson Actress

March 2016: Caroline Criado-Perez The personification of gormlessness

February 2016: Dr Rainbow Murray Reader in Politics, Queen Mary University of London

January 2016: Caitlin Moran Columnist, author. 40 years of age, her Twitter descriptor starts, ‘Writing the fuck out of shit since 1992’.

December 2015: Louise Detain Feminist reinforces the point that an average of two women a week in the UK are NOT killed by partners or ex-partners

November 2015: 191 academics, students, and alumni at You University who co-signed an open letter seeking to bully the university authorities into not recognising International Men’s Day, and succeeded

October 2015: Francesca Lagerberg Global Leader – Tax Services, Grant Thornton International

September 2015: Kiran Gandhi Harvard MBA graduate

August 2015: Ghislaine Boddington Creative Director, body>data>space

July 2015: Jessica Valenti Guardian ‘journalist’. She also won this award in August 2014.

May 2015: Professor Kirstein Rummery Co-director of the Centre for Gender & Feminist Studies, Stirling University

April 2015: Joanne Ratcliffe Partnership Development Manager, Nottingham Women’s Centre

March 2015: Kate Stevenson Contributor to the ‘Shout Out’ website

February 2015: Natalie Collins Silly feminist

January 2015: Stephanie Laughlin Public Relations student, McGill University, Montreal

December 2014: Scarlet Harris Women’s Equality Policy Officer, TUC

November 2014: Jo Swinson MP Junior Equalities Minister

October 2014: Laura Bates’s apologists

September 2014: The ‘Mancheeze’ blogger

August 2014: Jessica Valenti Guardian ‘journalist’

July 2014: Yvette Cooper MP Shadow Home Secretary

June 2014: Eva Wiseman Observer columnist

May 2014: ‘Clean Break’ theatre company