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 March 2018:

Our thanks to Sean for this in The Irish Independent. It starts with a headline which is a lie:

Parade MC sorry for telling Girl Guides to ‘go home and make lunch’

He said no such thing. He asked if they could. The full piece, emphases ours:

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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 March 2018:

BBC feminazis can’t leave anything alone, even Top Gear. And there’s nothing they like more than rigging situations so that women humiliate men. In last night’s episode Sabine Schmitz, a German professional motor racing driver for BMW and Porsche, smugly instructed Rory Reid on how to get better lap times in a Chevrolet “muscle car”, then promptly beat his time without him in the car, which in itself would have improved her lap time.

What exactly did this licence fee funded nonsense demonstrate? That a female racing driver can manage lap times faster than… er… a journalist. Big deal. What next? Maybe the BBC is working on a programme where a top female chess player beats a male traffic warden at the game. But in chess as in motor racing and in all competitions where achievement can be objectively measured women are nowhere to be seen at the top level. Women require performance to be subjectively measured to sustain any pretence of equal performance, and even that generally requires rigging of assessment processes by women, and men determined to curry women’s favour by preferencing women over men.

If you have a BBC licence you can watch the episode of Top Gear here. The section with Rory Reid and Sabine Schmitz is 11:50 – 25:15.

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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 March 2018:

Sarah Levy’s portrait of Donald Trump, using her period blood.

Our thanks to Vicki, a donor, for this. Gross, or what?

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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 March 2018:

Our thanks to Nick for this (video, 12:25).

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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 March 2018:

I recently had a video-recorded discussion with Karren Brady. The start of her Wikipedia profile:

Karren Rita Brady, Baroness Brady, CBE (born 4 April 1969) is an English sporting executive, politician, television personality, newspaper columnist, author and novelist. She is the former managing director of Birmingham City F.C. and current vice-chairman of West Ham United F.C.. She is featured in the BBC One series The Apprentice as an aide to Lord Sugar. She was the Small Business Ambassador to the UK Government under Prime Minister David Cameron.

She is known as “The First Lady of Football”. Her appointment with Birmingham City began in March 1993, when she was 23. In 2002 she became the first woman to hold such a post in the top flight of English football when the team was promoted. She oversaw the company’s flotation in 1997, thus becoming the youngest managing director of a UK plc.

Brady was interviewing me for a Channel 5 programme on the gender pay gap, Why Do Women Earn More Than Men? It will be broadcast from 22:00 on Wednesday, 4 April. We were filmed over two hours, plenty of time for me to give her the gist of William Collins’s article on the gender pay gap, which showed that for part-time workers, median hourly income for women has exceeded that for men for the past 20 years. For full-time workers, POST-TAX, median hourly income for women has exceeded that for men for a number of years. So the basic premise of the programme, along with its title, is a lie. I also found time to explain Dr Catherine Hakim’s Preference Theory (2000), which showed that while four in seven British men are work-centred, just one in seven British women is.

I explained the causal link between increasing gender diversity on corporate boards, and corporate financial decline. To say the discussion was a strained one would be an understatement. The programme’s (female) producer later filmed a number of people including myself promoting the conference outside Bond St tube station, holding placards and handing out leaflets. I understand that just 3-4 minutes of all that video footage survived the editing process.

William Collins’s important blog piece on the gender pay gap is here. Spoiler alert:

The median gender pay gap is in favour of women for part-time employees, and has been for 20+ years.

Post-tax, the gap for full-time employees has been in favour of women for a number of years.

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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 March 2018:

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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 February 2018:

Our thanks to James for this piece in The Guardian. Unusually, we’ve archived it, because it contains a revelation from Dany Cotton that the paper may come to regret.

The piece focuses on the fuss following her suggestion about renaming Fireman Sam as Firefighter Sam, and notes she still heads up a women’s network within the fire brigade. So we know where her priorities lie. But these paragraphs caught my eye, emphasis mine:

Speaking at a event entitled “Gender Equality: will it take another 100 years” organised by the Young Women’s Trust, Cotton revealed the sexism she has faced throughout her 30-year career at the LFB.

Asked whether she supported quotas in industries dominated by men, she warned that women promoted during quota periods could suffer because of positive discrimination. “For every single rank promotion I’ve got I have been told, every single time, that I’m going to get the job because I’m the only woman on the panel – even the job I’ve got now. Which is quite bizarre, really,” she said.

How can women who’ve been promoted during quota periods “suffer because of positive discrimination”? After “revealing the sexism she has faced throughout her 30-year career at the LFB”, Ms Cotton admits to having been informed in advance that anti-male sexism has been behind every promotion she’s had, right to the top of the LFB. And still she complains about sexism!!!

“Quite bizarre” doesn’t start to get at the truth. Bloody outrageous anti-meritocratic anti-male promotions, more like.

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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 February 2018:

One of the few pleasures of working as a consultant at the Conservative party’s campaign HQ, on the bank of the Thames, over 2006-8, was being only a short walking distance from Tate Britain. Once or twice a week I’d buy lunch there and stroll around some of the rooms, and I was always uplifted by the experience. Among my favourite rooms were those dedicated to masterpieces by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Many were of hauntingly beautiful women, so after ‘darts girls’ and ‘Formula 1 girls’ it was perhaps inevitable the Pre-Raphaelites would be in feminists’ sights.

The John William Waterhouse painting Hylas and the Nymphs has been removed from the walls of Manchester Art Gallery to ‘prompt conversations’. A Guardian piece on the matter is here. An extract, emphases are ours:

The painting was taken down on Friday and replaced with a notice explaining that a temporary space had been left “to prompt conversations about how we display and interpret artworks in Manchester’s public collection”. Members of the public have stuck Post-it notes around the notice giving their reaction.

Clare Gannaway, the gallery’s curator of contemporary art, said the aim of the removal was to provoke debate, not to censor. “It wasn’t about denying the existence of particular artworks.”

The work usually hangs in a room titled In Pursuit of Beauty, which contains late 19th century paintings showing lots of female flesh.

Gannaway said the title was a bad one, as it was male artists pursuing women’s bodies, and paintings that presented the female body as a passive decorative art form or a femme fatale.

“For me personally, [J4MB: Because this is all about you, toots…] there is a sense of embarrassment that we haven’t dealt with it sooner. Our attention has been elsewhere … we’ve collectively forgotten to look at this space and think about it properly. We want to do something about it now because we have forgotten about it for so long.”

Gannaway said the debates around Time’s Up and #MeToo had fed into the decision.

The removal itself is an artistic act and will feature in a solo show by the artist Sonia Boyce which opens in March. People can tweet their opinion using #MAGSoniaBoyce.

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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 February 2018:

Our thanks to Sean for this (video, 1:17).

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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 February 2018:

‘Professor’ Betsey Stevenson. I own plants with higher IQs.

The start of an article referencing this blithering idiot:

A University of Michigan professor recently argued that the lack of women in Economics textbooks could help explain why few females pursue the field.

Associate Economics professor Betsey Stevenson and Hanna Zlotnick, a Master of Public Policy candidate, recently reviewed the depictions women and men in eight leading economics textbooks, finding that 77 percent of people represented in those textbooks were male.

The gender disparity was even more pronounced for specific mentions of economics, Stevenson and Zlotnick discovered, reporting that male economists outnumber women 12-to-1 overall, and that in one particular textbook, there were no female economists to be found.

They also discovered that textbooks often depict men “making a decision,” while women are often illustrated as “[having] a decision made for them.”

Stevenson and Zlotnick argue that this gender-disparity could help explain why women aren’t attracted to the field…

Lamenting the fact that textbooks are overwhelmingly male, the professors also argue that textbooks should be “forward-looking” instead, representing the gender diversity they wish Economics would attract instead of reflecting the current situation.

“Additionally, one might argue [J4MB: … if one were a blithering idiot…] that all types of students should be able to see themselves and their lives reflected in the examples and discussions they see when they study economics,” they write. “Therefore, one could argue that textbooks not only should be representative of the actual world, but reflect the diversity of the student body we would ideally like to attract.”

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