If, as activists insist, “gender is just a construct”, and hulking “transgender women” enjoy no unfair physical advantage over actual women in sports, then why are so many people outraged about an inter-gender Mixed Martial Arts competition? After all, shouldn’t it just prove the transgenderists’ point that men can
Have you ever noticed just how utterly bourgie the left are? Despite their claiming to champion the proles, it’s glaringly obvious that the ranks of the left are solidly middle-class. From the posh private-school-blazers at School Climate Strikes to the XR protesters shouting in decidedly posh accents at working-class
In a way, it’s not surprising that the left, especially the feminist left, think that all men are “toxic” predators. They’re just judging all men by the men they know. “Reset the Clock” became a meme because of the seemingly endless stream of revelations of “male feminists” indulging
Michael Cook mercatornet.com Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet. The word “bizarre” is becoming shop-worn in articles about the transgender movement, but it’s difficult to find a more accurate and less offensive synonym. The latest incident concerns the hitherto innocuous word “woman”. Last week the American Civil
Michael McCaffrey rt.com Michael McCaffrey is a writer and cultural critic who lives in Los Angeles. His work can be read at RT, Counterpunch and at his website mpmacting.com/blog. He is also the host of the popular cinema podcast Looking California and Feeling Minnesota. In wokelandia, girlboss
Kimberly Ells Carolyn Moynihan mercatornet.com Kimberly Ells is the author of The Invincible Family: Why the Global Campaign to Crush Motherhood and Fatherhood Can’t Win and is a policy advisor for Family Watch International. Carolyn Moynihan is the former deputy editor of MercatorNet Anyone who has thought about
As BFD readers will be aware, PM Jacinda Ardern recently implored the Taliban to respect women. Her government also forked out a cool few million in taxpayers’ money to Afghanistan. But it seems that the Taliban are likely to give up their misogynistic cruelty some time after another beneficiary of
Abigail Favale mercatornet.com Abigail Favale is Dean of Humanities at George Fox University, where she also teaches seminars in the great books. Her 2018 memoir ‘Into the Deep: An Unlikely Catholic Conversion’ traces her conversion from postmodern feminism to Catholicism. She has also written a book entitled ‘The Genesis
Groups from opposite sides of the political spectrum are united in their opposition to the proposed new Hate Speech law. Having people from polar opposite political views so united is a warning in flashing neon lights that this law is a BAD law and that it should be consigned to
In his classic The Prince, Macchiavelli has some advice for leaders: get someone else to do your dirty work and then ostentatiously hang them out to dry. That way, you’ll not only avoid being blamed for the repression, but celebrated as a saviour. This is the plot of the
We are told that we must “believe women” when it comes to claims of abuse. But why should we believe any accusation without question? This goes against all precepts of our legal system, not to say basic logic. In fact, as many high-profile cases have shown, wouldn’t we be
Tasmanian women discovered, this week, that there is nowhere they can go to get away from men. The Tasmanian Gay and Bisexual Alliance had sought to exclude biological men and their penises from lesbian events, where penises are presumably about as sought after as a turd in a punchbowl. Nothing
