Feminism

Yes, yes, we know, always believe the woman. But really? Always?

It can now be disclosed that the decision to suspend Tooley from his £229,000-a-year post and begin an investigation was made after allegations were received about an intimate relationship he had with a woman in her twenties in India.

The allegations came from Tooley’s wife Cynthia, 42, from whom he is now estranged. She is believed to have handed over copies of diaries that were written by the woman and given to Tooley.

These allegations stem from before this marriage and even relationship. From before this job even. Anbd yes, the bird was over age, no she’s not complaining about it, no he wasn’t bonking her while he was paying her uni fees.

Cynthia Tooley made multiple allegations against her husband including reporting “a suspicious object” at the vice-chancellor’s official residence in Buckingham.

Always believe the woman, eh?

What if – and this is a pure hypothetical, of course – she’s erm, not being wholly truthful and relevant?

Its nominees include transgender biologist Brigitte Baptiste, described in the citation as a “trans woman” who “explores the common patterns between biodiversity and gender identity”.

In biology that would likely be that a gender identity which does not match the sex plumbing is goiing to be an evolutionary dead end perhaps?

Sykes, who appeared in the 2021 series of Celebrity MasterChef, said Wallace had greeted her on set by asking whether models eat, which she said she found “unprofessional” and driven by “ignorance and disrespect with an extra helping of arrogance”. She also claimed he spent time “barking orders” in a way that made her want to leave.

Enough to have anyone disappearing up the Congo, isn’t it?

Gregg Wallace has claimed allegations made against him of sexually inappropriate conduct have been made by a “handful of middle-class women of a certain age”.

Wallace, 60, has been accused by multiple women of inappropriate conduct, including mimicking a sexual act on a member of staff.

It might even be a valid defence. Not that it’s going to be in this modern world….

Ulrika Jonsson says Gregg Wallace was forced to apologise after making a “rape joke” during the filming of an episode of Celebrity Masterchef.

Jonsson, a contestant on the hit programme, said another female contestant became “really distressed” after the presenter allegedly made the inappropriate remark.

The Swedish-born television personality, best known for working as a weather presenter and appearing on Shooting Stars, said she saw another contestant walking off the set.

She said that when she followed her to find out what had happened, she was told Wallace had made an offensive joke.

“She then told us that Gregg Wallace had made a rape joke,” Jonsson alleged. “She was really distressed about it.”

The contestant then “retold” the joke to Jonsson before speaking to a producer about what had allegedly occurred.

“They then went off to speak to Gregg,” she said. “After a while he came up…and he apologised.”

“He could hardly get his words out,” she said. “He was apologising, and he had tears in his eyes.” She said the other contestant “accepted his apology”.

No, not the joke, whatever it was.

You make a mistake, you apologise for it and at least attempt not to do it again. End of matter.

What the hell happened to society where that’s not how things work?

We back in – mythical, obviously – Victorian times whre the mention of the word ankle leads to permanent ostracisation from polite society?

Home is the most dangerous place for women, says global femicide report

Where do most women spend most of their time? That’s going to be the dangerous place then.

As with that stat that most traffic accidents happen with a mile (or three, or four, whatever the number is) of home. That’s because most car journeys are of that three or four miles of home.

The evangelical movement has spent a very long time practicing institutional capture, where it inserts its people into positions where they can enact its policies. And the same appears to be happening with the anti-trans movement here in the UK, with “gender-critical” people who reject the scientific and medical evidence increasingly inhaibiting positions where they can influence healthcare and health policy.

Possibly a slight case of projection here?

During the campaign, it was revealed that Levine, a secretary for health, had interfered with clinical policy by pressing doctors to remove age limits on surgery for trans youth. At least 14,000 children have had their ovaries or penises removed, breasts removed, or been surgically or chemically castrated in America in the past five years. Some are now unable to have orgasms.

Starting to do the rounds as a statistic. And, wayul, I dunno.

On puberty blockers? Yes, believe the number, easily. Surgery? On children? 14k? Really not sure. Not sure to hte ppint of no, I think that’s not a correct number.

This is nothing to do with how vile even one would be. Children – here at least – would be those under 18.

Anyone know where this number has come from? I’d believe it of puberty blockers and just about of corss sex hormones. But of surgery? Hmm…..

Stopping or refusing basic trans healthcare isn’t just dangerous and unethical. It is in defiance of the General Medical Council, which tells doctors that “you must not refuse to provide a patient with medical services because the patient is proposing to undergo, is undergoing, or has undergone gender reassignment.” And it’s the result of endless scaremongering and demonisation in the press and by politicians.

From the quote, not treating ‘flu because the person is or is proposing etc is unethical. Not referring for trans treatment itself isn’t – in that wording quoted – covered at all.

Kamala Harris has a problem with men. Will misogyny cost her the election?
Simon Tisdall

Hmm:

“Women – and women candidates – are subject to toxic and misogynistic standards that are often perpetuated in public and by the media,” the Emily’s List pressure group warned this summer. “Stereotypes and tropes centred around diminishing the qualifications, leadership, looks, relationships and experience of women candidates for office are always part and parcel with her campaign. This is exacerbated for women of color.”

Despising the one woman is not misogyny.

This is how we do it: ‘Having sex as two trans guys is so expansive … there are endless possibilities’

Really, whatever floats the boat, obviously.

Not necessarily in that order of course:

In the latest case to raise major questions about the Football Association’s ongoing failure to ban those born male from the women’s game, the 17-year-old has been left distraught at being charged by her county FA over a remark made during a match against a trans-inclusive club.

She was charged last month with saying, “Are you a man?”, “That’s a man”, “Don’t come here again”, or similar comments during what was a pre-season friendly back in July.

In documents seen by Telegraph Sport, the girl admits asking a player she describes as having “a beard”, “Are you a man?” She also admits asking the referee for guidance about the player’s eligibility to participate in women’s football “given my concern for my safety after already suffering a number of overly physical challenges”.

But she has denied doing so constituted transphobia or that she made any comments that could be construed as such, while Telegraph Sport understands the referee also heard nothing he deemed to be discriminatory.

From what we’ve got here it’s not what was said at all. Rather, it’s what meaning to put on what was said.

#And, you know, people say some pretty strong things on playing fields. Asking someone with a beard whether they’re a man is not one of those strong things. This is the weebles having a fit of the vapours over nothing – sex and travel mateys.

You can’t get much for £5.50 nowadays. A takeaway coffee and a muffin, maybe; a pint and a packet of crisps, outside London. But in parts of Canada, roughly that amount can buy you a day’s childcare. Or it can, at least, if you can find a nursery place.

The country is now three years into a post-pandemic social experiment, offering parents heavily (and expensively) subsidised childcare for what is by envious British standards a staggeringly cheap C$10 a day. The idea is that ultimately this multibillion-dollar state programme will pretty much pay for itself, thanks to the boost in GDP expected to be provided by more parents going out to work. But arguably, its biggest insight has been treating childcare less as some kind of perk the state sadly can’t afford right now and more as what Chrystia Freeland, Canada’s deputy prime minister, calls “social infrastructure”: an essential part of the national plumbing, like commuter trains or fast broadband or any other thrusting great multibillion-pound building project we are wearily prepared to believe will ultimately be worth it.

This has been the demand this past century and a half – that government must solve the servants problem.

As a country gets richer then real wages rise – they’re the same statement. Therefore servants, in rich countries, are expensive. Therefore wimmins want someone, somewhere, to solve the problem of servants. The answer is to tax everyone so that poorer, working class, women still take care of the children of the middle class women.

And that’s all. Everything else about it is an excuse.

After all, stated fertility intentions in Europe and America – the number of children women say they want to have – are still well above replacement level, with women in the US listing factors such as expensive childcare, financial instability or struggles with work-life balance as major reasons why they haven’t been able to have the families they wanted.

Ever since the question was asked desired fertility has been one child above real fertility. Who wouldn’t love to have another babbie around the house? But when it comes to actually…..

Last year, the largest increase in the gender pay gap was among employees aged 30 to 39 years, where it increased from 2.3% to 4.7%, official figures show.

Average age of first birth is now 31. So, and?

It could well be that these statements from Melania Trump are sincere. But that does not mean that her choice to make them now, at a moment when they are maximally politically beneficial to her husband, is not cynical. The Trump campaign, after all, has been frantically trying to project an image of moderation and reasonableness on abortion rights over the past few weeks, responding both to the overwhelming voter support for the issue in elections held since the Dobbs decision, and to a changed race in which their new Democratic opponent, Kamala Harris, is dramatically more comfortable and effective at campaigning on abortion rights than her incumbent predecessor, Joe Biden.

Bird writing about an election is shocked, shocked, to find people doing politics during the course of an election.

Perhaps Kinky had the right idea:

Get Your Biscuits In The Oven & Your Buns In The Bed

You know, rather than this idea of a career putting words in order?

Anyone but Badenoch should be next Tory leader, says Nadine Dorries

Nothing quite so bitchy as a woman seeing another outshine her.

The Census reported there were 262,000 trans people, equivalent to 0.5 per cent of the population, or one in 200 people. It was the first time the survey had asked whether people identified as a gender that was different from their registered birth sex.

People whose first language was not English were four times more likely to say they were trans than those with English as their main language.

It led to anomalies such as a greater proportion of people in the London boroughs of Newham and Brent declaring themselves trans than that in places such as Brighton.

No, that doesn’t pass that simple test, does it?

When Claire Watson moved to Sydney in 2022, the keen runner was excited to try out the famed track around the city’s vast, picturesque Centennial Park.

But when the 29-year-old turned up for her first run shortly after 6am before work one morning, she was stunned.

“I’d heard so much about Centennial Park, but when I got there it was dark and there were no lights, so I just turned around and went home,” Watson says.

“As a woman, I know it’s not safe to run in the dark.”

The problem isn’t confined to Centennial Park. Watson was unable to find accessible running tracks lit up before sunrise or after she finished work.

But, but, we’re all being told to reduce the amount of light because it obscures the stars, aren’t we?

Every time an upmarket home is bought in the UK, the new residents seem obliged to rip out the kitchen and install two bathrooms where there was only one.

It is almost a cast-iron rule that walking across the threshold means paying builders to rearrange what was there before, almost for the sake of it.

It is the same in government when Whitehall departments are merged or broken up. The difference is that the refreshed home will probably have extensive new plumbing to accompany the latest appliances and the state will not.

It’s that female nest-building thing. New kitchen, new bathrooms, this is my nest not that bitch before me. The answer to the government problem is not to elect women, obviously.