NEWS UPDATE

Here are a few recent articles:

 Irish Independent: Charity dismayed at banned ad (Fergus Black) A good example of how to use equality laws to fight the case for male equality. Further debate in Irish Examiner, Irish Herald and ASAI.

 BBC News Scotland: Rise in male victims of domestic abuse  - Excellent work from Abused Men in Scotland

 Daily Mail - Cameron demands more women to be in top jobs (Kirsty Walker)

 Daily Telegraph - Ed's pro women reshuffle gives Cameron a problem (John McTiernan). As with boardroom appointments, the positive discrimination for women in politics continues apace as it dominates the news agenda with Miliband's reshuffle and it dominates the Conservative Party's thinking. Talent is secondary to gender.

 BBC: Nearly half of allegations against teachers are malicious - Still waiting for the government legislation on this stopping teachers from being named unless guilty.

 Guardian -Women need quotas not canapes (Jane Martinson) - More dangerous antimale nonsense from Ms Martinson

 Guardian - Boardroom quotas for women? Good or Bad (Jill Treanor)

Posted by Skimmington

 

Comments

[John Kimble]

"Still waiting for the government legislation on this stopping teachers from being named unless guilty."

Why stop at teachers?

[Groan]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2050389/Eight-women-drivers-refuse-responsibility-crash.html

Though this report is designed to raise a wry smile I think it highlights a deep seated difference in the socialisation of men and women. The stories about DV and Politics are both in areas where women are encouraged to complain but not to take responsibility. I think this is part of a very broad problem. I suspect this is the reason that the women who challenge feminists sacred cows are often successful people themselves(people who have taken responsibility for their own rise rather than waited for a qota). It has always struck me that in surveys of crime men tend to have a fairly realistic view of their risks, while women vastly over estimate the risks in general and to themselves. In America they coined the phrase "entitlement princess" to describe this miss match between expectations and the belief that others are responsible for delivering on these.