How does the FA tackle sexism? An all-female Subbuteo team! Classic table-top football game ‘hauls itself into the 21st century’ by launching its first female teams (not available to buy).

A piece published on the website of Justice for Men & Boys (and the women who love them), the political party of which I’m the chairman, in May 2018:

Our thanks to Mike P for this. Extracts:

The FA said the new version supported its objective to tackle barriers within the women’s game. [J4MB: What barriers would those be?]

The set includes 22 outfield players and six substitutes, each hand-moulded and painted with their own characteristics – and detailing that is clearly female…

Although the set is not available to buy, fans will have the opportunity to win one via FA social media channels.

Marzena Bogdanowicz, FA head of marketing for women’s football, said: ‘This new, all-female Subbuteo set is a reflection of the rapid growth that women’s football is seeing in the UK right now. [J4MB: Nonsense – because it’s not available to buy, it’s a reflection of how little interest there is in the women’s game.]

‘We aspire to greater equality all the way from board games to boardrooms, and every day we are striving to transform the future of the women’s game on and off the pitch.’

Last May Sports Minister Tracey Crouch threatened the FA with a loss of £30m – £40m of public funding if it didn’t have at least three women on its board by some point in 2018. Our blog piece on the matter is here.

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Piers Morgan wades into fierce row over whether TfL ‘Thought for the Day’ sign encouraged sexual harassment

A piece published on the website of Justice for Men & Boys (and the women who love them), the political party of which I’m the chairman, in May 2018:

Controversy: A woman claimed a TfL 'Thought of the Day' board encouraged sexual harassment

Controversy: A woman claimed a TfL ‘Thought of the Day’ board encouraged sexual harassment (Dina Rickman)

Our thanks to James for a piece in yesterday’s Evening Standard. The start of the piece:

A fierce debate has erupted over whether a Transport for London Tube station board urging passengers to give compliments amounted to encouraging sexual harassment.

Piers Morgan waded into the row after an image of the ‘Thought of the Day’ sign was posted on social media by commuter Dina Rickman who claimed it could invite commuters to “sexually harass a stranger”.

It read: “When you see something beautiful in someone, tell them. It may take a second to say but for them it could last a lifetime.”

Ms Rickman tweeted the picture with the caption: “Thought of the day: why not take the time to sexually harass a stranger.”

Her post was retweeted by Mr Morgan, who wrote: “Everything that’s wrong about modern feminism right here.”

Four years ago Dina Rickman, the swivel-eyed Looney Tune who tweeted the silly remark above, and I were in a studio discussion (video, 15:20) on London Live TV. One of the 177 comments on the video, from “Miss Peori”:

Was Dina on cocaine or something? It was hard enough to listen to her bullshit without also having to watch her chase the mice in her brain.

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Caroline Criado Perez is a blithering idiot – episode #47

A piece published on the website of Justice for Men & Boys (and the women who love them), the political party of which I’m the chairman, in May 2018:

Caroline Criado Perez remains the leading Lying Feminist of the Month, with three awards to her name. Yesterday she was a commentator for the full hour of Daily Politics, with the feminist presenter Jo Coburn. You’ll need a BBC licence to watch the programme through the link, on iPlayer.

CCP’s evident excitement at seeing her own image on a screen in the studio may be (it’s only a hunch) attributable to Narcissistic Personality Disorder, a common trait among young feminists – Special Snowflake (aka Laura Bates) being another obvious example).

CCP says in the programme that what drives her is “blind rage”, for example the shocking realisation (whilst she was jogging) that all the statues in Parliament Square were of men. She must be in a blind rage most days. Given their narcissism, CCP and Special Snowflake will undoubtedly have their own names on “Google Search”, so will be alerted to this blog post. A happy thought.

Over 0:30 – 11:25 CCP witters on about the Millicent Fawcett statue in Parliament Square, women on banknotes, and makes some outrageous comments about gender-specific healthcare provision in relation to the breast screening IT failure, which is estimated to have resulted in the region of 135 – 270 early deaths of elderly women. A non-feminist presenter could have pointed out that in Britain today fewer women die of breast cancer than men die of prostate cancer, and there has long been a national screening programme for the former but none for the latter – and no plans to introduce one. Predictably, Jo Coburn didn’t make that point. Healthcare provision for women far exceeds that for men, as we detailed in our last manifesto (pp. 61-5).

There’s only so much CCP I can take on one day, so if anyone can email me (mike@j4mb.org.uk) with the times of her other contributions, I’d be grateful, and will add them to this blog piece.

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Tour De Yorkshire: Prize money for women’s one-day race higher than for the men’s three-day race

A piece published on the website of Justice for Men & Boys (and the women who love them), the political party of which I’m the chairman, in May 2018:

Our thanks to a supporter for this. Extracts:

Tour de Yorkshire organisers have turned this year’s race into the most lucrative on the women’s calendar, offering a first prize for the one-day event that will exceed the men’s winnings for their three-day stage race over the same weekend…

“Compared to our men’s race, if a rider won all three stages in that, and the overall, they would make €14,000, so that is 40% more,” said Sir Gary Verity, chief executive of Welcome to Yorkshire. The total prize purse will be €63,623. “The aim was always to create the most lucrative women’s race on the planet,” Verity added. “There are three things women cyclists have been asking for: the same course as the men, the same media coverage and financial parity. [J4MB emphasis. Confusing. Have the women cyclists not been asking for a race of the same duration as the men’s race? An oversight, surely?] All three are valid criteria and we hope we can address all three. What I don’t want is for my daughter to say to me: ‘I want to be a professional cyclist’ and for me to have to answer: ‘how will you earn a living?’”

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