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
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
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
On Saturday, the International Olympic Committee said it would back a biological man, transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard’s entry into the Tokyo Games. But what about the biological woman who lost her place to him? Tracey Lambrechs is the woman who lost her place to a man. Before lifting for
Donna M. mercatornet.com Donna M. is a writer who was censored by Medium when her insights on transgender issues were labelled “hate speech.” Like many children of the 70s, I came of age watching Olympians like Mary Lou Retton, Greg Louganis, Scott Hamilton, and Carl Lewis. They were like
Dark Jester A political scholar with an interest in foreign interference. Traditional conservative. Came out of a family that fled communism and improved themselves thanks to capitalism but would consider myself a distributionist. On the night of July 15th, Speak Up for Women NZ stopped off in Wellington as part
