Audio / video #202 from our archives – Anti-MGM protest outside the Thornhill Clinic, Luton (2017)

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Fury as Costa uses cartoon image of ‘trans man’ with mastectomy scars: Angry customers now warn they will boycott chain over ‘horrific imagery being used to sell coffee’

Our thanks to Larry for this.
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Lori Vallow is sentenced to life without parole for murders of her kids JJ and Tylee and her husband’s ex-wife Tammy Daybell

Our thanks to Mike for this. An extract:
Earlier this year, the judge in her case agreed to her request to have the death penalty taken off the table as punishment for prosecutors violating a court rule during the discovery phase of the trial. [J4MB translation: The judge found an excuse to not impose the death penalty. Female muderers are far less likely to be executed than male murderers.]

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The Great Misinformation Panic

An interesting new piece from Quilette, prompted by a proposed new law in Australia, but the issues raised will affect many countries before long.
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Trendy Notting Hill restaurant boss Thomas Straker sparks diversity row by sharing Instagram photo of his all-white all-male team of chefs – as he’s blasted on social media for ‘totally unrepresentative’ line-up

Our thanks to Nigel for this. He writes:
Well, here’s an example of a grueling job done in hot and dangerous enviroment with very “unsocial” hours. Leaving aside the obvious point that here in my multi-cultural multi-ethnic city, Manchester, Chinese restaurants are staffed by Chinese, Bangladeshi by Bangladeshis and on and on to a Mongolian eatery. Having dealt with the race issue there is the man thing. Because whatever the race the kitchens are literally “manned”. Yet another area where it appears “white men” just fine  if they keep themselves hidden “below stairs” doing the hard work, but heaven forfend they should step into the light to take a bow, without the odd token  woman on show who does the lunch shift. Yet another story where probably none of the critics would get their hands dirty doing the job themselves. What a crime being proud of the workers in your business.

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Audio / video #201 from our archives: Paul Elam and Mike Buchanan – Male Genital Mutilation, London conference… (2016)

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DOMINIC LAWSON: I appreciate concerns about the treatment of women in public life but the idea that misogyny cost NatWest boss Alison Rose her job doesn’t bear scrutiny

Our thanks to Nigel for this. He writes:
I highlight this because it’s a good example of how subtle gynocentrism can be. On the face of it Dominic Lawson is making good points about the sort of female “in-group preferencing” shown all the time. Women supporting women, no matter what, and of course the chivalry that draws men to support this. But he weakens his argument by falling for a classic desire to be a knight in shining armour, by repeating the lie that women in public life get more abuse than men. In fact this is simply not true as has been reported in the DM in the past. During Theresa May’s tenure as PM a Parliamentary inquiry was undertaken into this “online abuse”. Top of the list at the time was Boris Johnson, way out ahead, Theresa May, the most abused woman in the list, was at number 7. This pattern has been repeated a number of times. Lawson clearly doesn’t read the DM and does want to believe somehow powerful women need saving from nasty abuse but the facts don’t fit this urge to protect. The point is of course that it’s this deep urge to believe women that makes feminist parroting of lies and dodgy stats so effective.

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Brendan O’Neill on Caitlin Moran: Leave men alone

It would only be fair to say that Brendan O’Neill and a number of his colleagues on Spiked have a poor opinion of MRAs. Nonetheless, they publish some good articles, and Brendan’s latest piece Leave men alone, to which Nigel alerted me, is a gem – to the extent I’ve just taken out a subscription (£5.00 pcm) to Spiked so I can support their work and leave comments. The end of Brendan’s article:
Men aren’t talking about their penises, Caitlin, because they’re busy fighting fires, digging for oil, mending roads, fixing the plumbing and safeguarding society so that people like you can sit back and write fact-life fluff about their lives. The irony is too much: it is their masculinity that sustains the social conditions in which you can moan about their masculinity. You’re welcome.

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We’re the Gen Z women doing ‘lazy girl jobs’: The TikTok influencers sharing their tips on earning ‘decent pay’ from doing the bare minimum while WFH

Our thanks to Nigel for this. Women’s work ethic, eh?
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Complex Systems Won’t Survive Competence Crisis

Our thanks to Rod for this (video, 51:22).
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