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DON’T DARE SAY MEN ARE SUPERIOR TO WOMEN BUT . . .
Once upon a time, one would be inclined to take seriously an article like this (below). An impressive media banner, loads of statistics supporting the allegations, and impressive credentialed people making the allegations. Not anymore. We know legions of man-hating feminists, remorseless in their political activism, would spin any story if they thought it would be swallowed. Metro is a woke media player.
Second, the blissful hypocrisy of the sisterhood shows its spiteful face. There are professions, occupations, and activities that men are demonstrably better at than woman – often security and safety depending on them. But to mention them will earn condemnation, spite, and sometimes reputational destruction.
Third, it is true that females in the medical field can provide comfort, sympathy, and care that most males are incapable of. But often they don’t. An older person who regularly attends all manner of medical examinations will come across female medical professionals who are impatient, bossy, rude and insulting in their in the manner – often for no apparent reason. I have experience.
I suggest one should not take this Metro report seriously unless one can verify allegations elsewhere.
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It’s official – female doctors are better than men
Stephen Beech, Metro, Apr 23, 2024, 4:55pm
If you’re going into hospital, you want to know you’re getting the best care possible.
That now officially includes having a female doctor.
That’s because a new study has found patients are less likely to die when their doctor is a woman – with female patients enjoying an even lower risk.
Patients are also less likely to be readmitted after leaving hospital when they were treated by a female doctor.
The team behind the study said several factors may be behind the differences, and suggest that male doctors may underestimate the severity of their female patients’ illness.
Previous research has also noted that male doctors underestimate female patients’ pain levels, gastrointestinal and cardiovascular symptoms, and stroke risk, which could lead to delayed or incomplete care.
What is the Gender Pain Gap?
The Gender Pain Gap refers to how pain in women is poorly understood, and is therefore mistreated compared to men, which is due to systemic gaps and biases.
Research reveals that there are 28 million people suffering from chronic pain in the UK, and 70% of them are women. However, they are more likely to be misdiagnosed and their pain not taken as seriously as male patients.
One such condition, according to the WHO, is polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), which affects 8–13% of reproductive-aged women but 70% of affected women remain undiagnosed worldwide.
Study senior author Professor Yusuke Tsugawa said patient outcomes should not differ between male and female physicians if they practise medicine the same way.
‘What our findings indicate is that female and male physicians practice medicine differently, and these differences have a meaningful impact on patients’ health outcomes,’ he said.
The University of Tokyo and University of California, LA (UCLA) team examined US medical insurance claims for more than 458,000 female and 319,000 male patients between 2016 and 2019. f those, 142,500 and 97,500 – around 31% for both – were treated by female doctors.
The feminist attack on boys’ schools continues
The woke class has another prestigious boys’ school in their sights. The Newington School Council, who decides such matters, has been infested with the woke devil and have announced in their demonic delirium the co-education of Newington Boys’ College.
The man-hating woke devil is hell-bent on feminizing all remaining boys’ schools in Australia. The degradation of boys who need a completely different education from girls continues. The elite feminist class must be licking their catty lips in anticipation.
As an exercise for people mildly surprised by this issue one should research how many boys’ schools have been feminized (made co-ed) since the 1960s and then inquire how many girls’ school have admitted boys. Make no mistake: feminists are behind the campaign. Girls, according to feminists, will civilize the boys, thus reducing the toxicity of the male in society.
If one completes the exercise they will find that what were some of the finest boys’ schools are now in an emasculated state. I have occasion to walk by Barkers College at Waitara, once a brilliant boys’ school. I have to sake my head in sorrow when I see the constitution of the student body.
On the other hand, I cannot think of one prestigious girls’ school that has suffered the same fate. Go and count the girls’ schools on the Northshore line – all in their original female state. The councils of those girls’ school don’t want their girls subject to male contagion.
I hope the parents of Newington boys don’t give up. Indeed, they should agitate to sack the disgusting perfidious people who presently make up the council.
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Parents at $40k-a-year Newington College erupt at gates: ‘Woke mumbo jumbo’
Furious parents and former students have rallied outside one of Sydney’s most prestigious schools to condemn its decision to start accepting girls.
Heath Parkes-Hupton, news.com.au, January 31, 2024
A barrister whose son attends a prestigious Sydney boys’ school set to go co-ed has labelled the reasoning offered to parents as “woke mumbo jumbo” at a protest held on the first day of class for 2024.
Newington College, a 160-year-old institution at Stanmore in the city’s inner west, announced in November it would start accepting girls into kindergarten and Year 5 from 2026.
The call has sparked anger within the community of old boys and parents, with a few dozen people marching to the Stanmore Rd entrance holding placards on Wednesday morning.
Students walk past signs protesting against Newington College’s decision to start accepting girls from 2026. Picture: Richard Dobson
Read the rest here . . .
Antoinette Lattouf: A portrait
The news.com.au report below reveals that if anyone is impressed with Antoinette’s beauty, cleverness, and ability it’s her. These insufferable young women whose sense of entitlement knows no bounds…
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‘Nobody can fire me’: ABC host Antoinette Lattouf before exit
A sacked ABC journo made an extraordinary claim just weeks before she was let go for her controversial posts about Israel and Gaza.
Chloe Whelan, news.com.au, 22 January 2024
Axed journalist Antoinette Lattouf bragged she “could not be fired” over her views on Israel and Gaza just days before signing an ill-fated agreement with the ABC.
Ms Lattouf was dismissed in late December, three days into a five-day hosting gig on the ABC’s Radio Sydney morning show.
She says she was axed due to her political views on the Israel and Gaza war, as well as her Lebanese heritage, while the ABC claims it was because Ms Lattouf was warned not to share controversial social media posts while working for the national broadcaster but continued to do so.
Ms Lattouf said, as an independent journo, “nobody can fire me”. Picture: Instagram.
She claims to have been fired by the ABC in December. Picture: Instagram.
Now, it’s been revealed Ms Lattouf believed she couldn’t be fired in her capacity as a freelance journalist and didn’t look kindly upon publications that didn’t want to work with her due to her pro-Palestine beliefs.
On November 24, just three days before signing on to work for the ABC, Ms Lattouf shared a three-minute video to social media, praising journalists who had signed an open letter calling for newsrooms to treat unverified information from Israel’s government or terror group Hamas with the same “professional scepticism”.
She threw her weight behind the letter and declared: “As an independent and freelance journalist, nobody can fire me”.
Ms Lattouf then laughed and said: “I will certainly be using my voice and sharing my concerns.
“I have thought about future job prospects, so if somebody doesn’t want to work with me because I care about dozens of journalists who have been slaughtered by doing their work, because I care about the thousands and thousands of children who have been killed and civilians harmed … then honestly f**k them.”
Ms Lattouf hosted ABC radio in the week before Christmas. Picture: Instagram.
The ABC says Ms Lattouf was let go due to her social media activity, which included — before she was employed by the national broadcaster — repeatedly questioning whether videos of pro-Palestinian protesters chanting “gas the Jews” at Sydney’s Opera House were verified.
On December 20, she shared a post from Human Rights Watch that read: “The Israeli government is using starvation of civilians as a weapon of war in Gaza.”
It was the latter post, shared on Ms Lattouf’s third day working for the ABC, that saw her employment terminated.
Read the rest here . . .
Support Susanne Horman – Robinsons Bookshop owner
Susanne Horman, owner of the Robinsons Bookshop chain, gave her first interview to Andrew Bolt, following the vicious, wokist, left-wing attack on her sparked by a series of tweets. To be fully in the picture, one must see the tweets in full:
‘What’s missing from our bookshelves in store? Positive male lead characters of any age, any traditional nuclear family stories, kids picture books with just white kids on the cover, and in which no wheelchair, rainbow, or indigenous art, non-indig aus history.’
‘Books we don’t need: hate against white Australians, socialist agenda, equity over equality, diversity and inclusion (READ as anti-white exclusion) left wing govt propaganda. Basically the whole woke agenda that divides people. Not stocking any of these in 2024.’
‘So I am advocating for a substantial shift in the focus of Australian publishers to be in line with public opinion and requests for what is GOOD! We aren’t going to stock books that intend to cause harm and make Australians hate each other.’
From a sales and marketing point of view, this is a true analysis of the sorts of books publishers are releasing and of what’s lacking in the market. I spent most of my working life in the book industry – mainly with publishers. Susanne’s tweets are the sort of analysis sales and marketing people engage in daily. What’s selling? What’s not selling? What type of book is flooding the market? What gaps are there in the market?
I’ve been at sales meetings where the critical language is far more frank and colloquial than Susanne’s.
What really is the issue here, is the political control the wokist gatekeepers have on the book market. There have been instances in recent years where a publisher’s editorial staff has refused to work on a manuscript the publisher has contracted. One of Jordan Peterson’s book suffered that fate. The bookshops can be just as bad. Many US booksellers refused to stock Candace Owen’s book “Blackout: How Black America Can Make Its Second Escape from the Democrat Plantation.” Read the case HERE.
The problem here – an astonishing irony – is that the instruments of information dissemination (publishers and booksellers) are censoring themselves on the basis of ideology. I suppose when a nation’s educational establishments become unbending purveyors of rigid ideology, the publishers and booksellers will go the same way.
Andrew Bolt’s interview sadly shows a bookshop owner battered and bruised. She needs our support and we need to support a bookshop that remains true to its social function in a liberal democratic society.
Robinsons Bookshop – Bravo for saying what many unwoke people are thinking!
Sussane Horman, owner of Independent bookshop group Robinsons Bookshop, is reported as saying:
“What’s missing from our bookshelves in store? Positive male lead characters of any age, any traditional nuclear white family stories, kids picture books with just white kids on the cover, and no wheelchair, rainbow or indigenous [sic] art, non indig [sic] aus history.”
“So I am advocating for a substantial shift in the focus of Australian publishers to be in line with public opinion and request for books and for what is GOOD! We aren’t going to stock books that intend to cause harm and make Australians hate each other.”
I have to smile at her innocence. Did she not know what would happen? Did she not know that the usual hysterical crowd of sanctimonious, virtue-signaling, wokist guardians would be onto her in a flash, led by the usual suspects: The Age, The Guardian, and SBS. SBS, anti-white and Anglophobic central, will feed on this for months. No doubt The Sydney Morning Herald and others of the same stamp will follow.
According to the SBS report, Emily Rainsford of something called ‘coffeebooksandmagic’ got the ball rolling. Frank Chung of news.com.au reported that Rainsford, puffed up with an overload of sanctimony, wrote that she was “not one for willy nilly ‘cancelling’ but the comments … are so wildly out of pocket that I have no problem suggesting a widespread boycott would be appropriate”.
That’s the wokist way, Emily: destroy those who don’t meet your ideological requirements. Frank Chung, right on the case, appealed to his readers: Do you know more? Email the authorat frank.chung@news.com.au. Frank will stay on the case as long as necessary.
The only regrettable aspect of this melodrama is that Susanne Hormann apologised for saying what thousands are thinking. Ordinary people are sick to death of the unending wokist sermons that are preached to them everywhere in the media – especially in bookshops. Walk into a bookshop, including the Robinsons group, and you have it staring at you in the face.
I know. I’m a book buyer. I have an account with one of the Robinsons stores. I won’t be changing anything. Indeed, I will make it my business next time I’m in their store to tell them they have my unwavering support if they carry through Susanne’s plans for 2024 stock.
Of course, you can understand why Susanne Horman apologised. She has a business to keep afloat, she has staff to keep, and customers to serve. She runs a real business – not some rinky dink indulgence to demonstrate the ideological purity of its owner.
I appeal to Robinsons customers not to desert Susanne and her dedicated staff – certainly not when she has the bravery to say what thousands are thinking.
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The SBS report:
More ‘white kids on the cover’: Bookshop apologises after owner’s comments spark outcry
Victorian independent bookstore Robinsons Bookshop has publicly apologised after its owner made comments online calling for an end to diverse books promoting “the woke agenda that divides people”.
A Victorian independent bookstore has apologised after comments made by its owner online. Source: Getty / Luis Alvarez
KEY POINTS
- Robinsons Bookshop has apologised over comments made online by its owner in December.
- In posts on X, Susanne Horman called for more books with “white kids on the cover”.
- The bookshop said the comments have been taken out of context, and that it supports stories from diverse voices.
An independent bookshop in Victoria has apologised after its owner made comments online calling for more picture books “with just white kids on the cover”.
In recent comments posted to social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, the owner of Robinsons Bookshop Susanne Horman also claimed the store would not be stocking books that “intend to cause harm and make Australians hate each other”.
“Basically the woke agenda that divides people,” she said.
The comments from early December were shared in an Instagram post on Saturday by an account named coffeebooksandmagic. The bookshop has since apologised, saying the comments are being “taken out of context”.
An Instagram post from an account named coffeebooksandmagic has shared information about comments made by Robinsons Bookshop owner Susanne Horman. Source: Instagram / coffeebooksandmagic
“What’s missing from our bookshelves in store? Positive male lead characters of any age, any traditional nuclear white family stories, kids picture books with just white kids on the cover, and no wheelchair, rainbow or indigenous [sic] art, non indig [sic] aus history,” read one post shared on Instagram from an X account ostensibly owned by Horman.
“So I am advocating for a substantial shift in the focus of Australian publishers to be in line with public opinion and request for books and for what is GOOD! We aren’t going to stock books that intend to cause harm and make Australians hate each other.”
Another post read: “Books we don’t need: hate against white Australians, socialist agenda, equity over equality, diversity and inclusion (READ AS anti-white exclusion), left wing govt propaganda. Basically the woke agenda that divides people.
“Not stocking any of these in 2024.”
A screenshot from an Instagram post shared by coffeebooksandmagic showing the now-deleted X account of Robinsons Bookshop owner Susanne Horman. Source: Instagram / coffeebooksandmagic
The X account has since been deleted.
Read the rest here . . .
Our critical immigration problem
Australians with ancestry going back to the 1800s to mid-1900s will ignore this video at their peril. Ethnic voting blocks are already happening. There are suburbs in Sydney established in the 1800s and early 1900s by Australian and British settlers that are now 90% Asian. The Chinese community voted against the Morrison government because of its vigorous resistance to the bullying of communist China. The loss of the Morrison government has been attributed to the critical shifting of the Chinese vote to the Labor Party. Australia must review its immigration policy before its too late.
Who cares about violence against men?
In the article below Janice Fiamengo once again tackles feminist claims about male violence and female victimhood by tearing the arguments apart and providing hard evidence against their basic tenets about gender-based violence.
She despairs not only that her arguments and evidence are ignored but sympathy for men is entirely absent in feminists who claim the empathy and sensitivity naturally (they claim) inherent in the female.
My view, however, is that it is pointless to appeal to reason in feminists. The feminist head is empty of reason. Burning unconquerable man-hatred consumes feminists . Men’s task is to reach out to all men to organize to confront the hatred. Feminists with their emasculated male supporters have gained entrenched power in society’s switchpoints. Men have to take it back in the same way it was taken from them.
It is not abuse to claim feminists are empty of reason. The evidence supports the proposition. But it’s not only the hard evidence. Feminists themselves make the claim. ‘Reason’ is part of the patriarchy, they say, a device or move to keep women down. Feminist theory and praxis are formed on a completely different basis – more like a Gnostic process in which female emotion leads the way to ‘enlightenment’.
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International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Men Passed without Fanfare
And the sanctioned indifference is appalling
The news headline by the CBC, Canada’s state-funded broadcaster, could hardly have been more blatant: “Ottawa had 16 homicides in 2022—and nearly half of the victims were women or girls.” In other words, more than half of the victims, as is always the case, were boys and men, a state of affairs that no one at the CBC has ever found troubling enough to lament or even notice. Only when the female homicide rate approaches gender parity in one (unusual) year is it a “collective crisis,” as the subheading alleges.
It’s not called the gender empathy gap for nothing.
[Author’s note: Perhaps I should have stopped here. What more is there to say about the extraordinary indifference of most people, men and women, to violence against men and the craven desire to deny female culpability? There’s nothing new in this essay, no new angle or stats, no rousing call to action, nothing beyond the marshalling of dreary evidence and sadly sarcastic observations unlikely to change any mind or cause any gynocentric cheek to blush. I had intended to finish it in time for the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Men, on November 18, but was stymied partly by a sense of helpless anger, the weight of which pressed down on every sentence. The section at the end, about the death of Benjamin Rain, was the last straw.]
Feminists have long touted their concern for victims, yet that is never in shorter supply than in their one-sided discussions of violence, in which the only deaths allowed to matter are female deaths, presented for readers’ contemplation with poignant circumstances, names, and expressions of horrified sadness, as in the above-mentioned article. Dead men remain largely anonymous, and few readers could guess from the typical reports of feminist organizations that women are ever lethally violent.
Indifference to male suffering and death are the norm all over the world, of course, but the Anglophone feminist movement has markedly increased it, fudging numbers and manipulating language to focus empathy exclusively on women and girls. The CBC article devotes significant space to discussing the risible concept of femicide, a relatively recent coinage that makes no secret of its female supremacism, purporting to highlight how women and girls are killed “simply for being women” and “primarily by […] men,” as if every woman, even one killed by accident (as we’ll see), is evidence of gender bias.
The idea that women are killed because they are women is preposterous, impossible to support with evidence, and obviously intended to solidify the impression that women outnumber men as victims of murderous violence. An organization called the Canadian Femicide Observatory for Justice and Accountability provides an elaborate taxonomy of forms of femicide to drive the idea home, deliberately blurring the lines between intimate partner homicide, a favored focus, and other killings of women, which are collectively deplored as “brazen acts of hatred.”
Even a cursory reading of the details, however, exposes the vacuousness of the terminology as well as the sleight of hand by which men’s alleged misogyny is misleadingly linked to the totality of the women’s deaths. Only two of Ottawa’s seven murdered women were killed by current or former intimate partners. One of the dead women was attacked and killed by her two adult daughters (an act called “non-intimate femicide”), while another was the victim of a stray bullet that killed her by accident and was probably intended for a man (if you can believe it, the Canadian Femicide Observatory calls this type of death “associated/connected femicide”).
Read the rest here …
A high point in man-hatred?
The high farce and hysteria that shook one country (Spain) to its core and shockingly triggered fragile feminists throughout the Western World perhaps signified a high point in the man-hatred that feminist activists have propagated since the 1960s.
Who would have thought even twenty years ago that a woman would file a charge of criminal (sexual) assault against a man who in the ecstasy of a world cup win gave the said woman a brief kiss on the lips? Who would have thought the collapse of reason in the West would have tumbled to such depths?
Well, that’s the world we in now – a world so wracked by man-hatred that the legal system not only does not protect men from outrageous or bogus claims but helps to destroy them.
Janice Fiamengo has once again articulated the case again feminism.
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The Empress Jenni Hermoso Has No Clothes
But I fear it’s now a sexual crime to say so
13 SEPT 2023
Feminist consensus gathered predictably around the Spanish Kiss imbroglio, in which Spanish footballer Jenni Hermoso filed a criminal complaint of sexual assault and forced the resignation of Luis Rubiales, president of the Spanish Football Federation following his unsolicited World Cup victory kiss.
That’s right. Criminal charges for a kiss—a mere peck—and feminists are still complaining about the injustice to women!
This consensus was given vivid expression in Washington Post columnist Candace Buckner’s op/ed “Jenni Hermoso is a giant. Only an unjust system reduces her to victim,” in which Buckner argued, ludicrously, that Hermoso has been doubly harmed, first at the hands of the odious Rubiales, who “placed his greasy paws on her face and pulled her in to that kiss” and then by the wall-to-wall news coverage afterwards, in which she has been compelled to “take on a new identity. One that never should have belonged to her: ‘Victim.’”
There’s a ring of familiarity here from decades of feminist advocacy, which has held that rape victims are doubly victimized: once during the sexual assault and again when they have to tell their story in public or on the witness stand, answering degrading questions about consent and facing the skepticism of some listeners. (Many victims feel “disbelieved” by a system that grants rights to the accused, and feminists in consequence have called for special courts and judicial training that would “Start by believing.”)
But there has been such a tremendous chorus of support for Hermoso—with teammates and players across the world, including many high-profile male players, as well as Federation officials and Spanish politicians, falling all over themselves to denounce Rubiales as a cad (every man seeing his own head on the chopping block if he fails in righteous indignation)—that the “doubly victimized” motif has been difficult to deploy. Even Rubiales’s uncle has denounced his kin, stating that most of the family stands with his accuser. Therefore, a different indignity has had to be summoned—in this case that Hermoso’s success on the football field has allegedly been eclipsed by the drama engulfing her.
Read the rest here …
Political thuggery in the Church
I baulk at charging Pope Francis with vicious political thuggery over the Motu Proprio Traditiones Custodes, the papal document whose objective is ‘to disappear’ the Mass of the centuries. There remains in me a modicum of respect for the papacy despite Francis’s papal profligacy. But I am less reluctant to refrain when it comes to Professor Andrea Grillo at the Pontifical Athenaeum of St. Anselm in Rome who Dr Peter Kwasniewski calls ‘The Mind Behind the Motu Proprio’ in another outstanding article in OnePeter5.
Indeed, if Andrea Grillo is the virtual author of Traditiones Custodes, I have no hesitation in calling him not only a political thug, in the worst sense of the phrase, but a two-faced hypocritical scoundrel. He, and those like him, don’t have the honesty and backbone to state exactly what their views mean. The image he projects of concern for the same Church of the ages is pretence.
It is only necessary to read Dr Kwasniewski’s first paragraphs in summarizing Grillo views on the Catholic liturgy to know that Grillo belongs to the Church of Rupture. He is a paid-up member of the apostate mob of middle and high Church managers who despise and ridicule those refusing to become members of his brilliant new church.
There are, of course, thousands like Grillo feverishly working to destroy the Church that won’t be destroyed no matter how far they sink their claws into it. They are recognizable by the Marxist dialectic always implicit in their rhetoric. It’s the idea that history proceeds in sets of truths that constantly supersede each other in their advance towards the Omega Point, where all conflict is resolved in an earthly paradise.
The destroyers within the Church are the same as the destroyers outside the Church, seeking to realign humanity with their Marxist ideas. They are the same ferrets and weasels that occupy Toad Hall (an image I have frequently used.) We need a Badger, Rat and Mole with the courage to really take the fight up to Toad Hall occupiers. What does that mean?
It means all bets are off. It means using similar tactics to those occupying the visible Church. It means taking the Church underground with priests refusing the treasonous apostate path of working with the destroyers. It means the faithful supporting those courageous priests. It means Masses in homes, halls and other such venues. It happened in the 1970s when the dissenters suppressed the Mass of the centuries. It should happen again. It must happen again.
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