Tim Worstall

Is we all supposed to be equal or not? Like most gender differences in outcomes, there only ever seems to be concern when women are under-represented in fields like politics, and never any concern when men are under-represented for outcomes like bachelor’s degrees, master’s degrees, doctor’s degrees, graduate school enrollment, biology degrees, veterinary degrees, optometry [...]

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The grand question about discrimination is whether the discrimination being practiced is taste discrimination (“don’t like them, never have”) or rational discrimination (“no, sorry, but we really don’t employ vampires in the holy water  bottling plant”). Louise Mensch, an author and MP for Corby, said “did not have any ambition” to be a Cabinet minister [...]

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Sexism is the stock in trade of the tabloid press. Challenging it strikes at the very core of the business model, and that is what feminists and our allies must remain brave and clear-headed enough to do. No, it isn’t. It just isn’t. For a basic fact about the media world that Ms. Penny needs [...]

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She added: “This ‘sexualisation’ process objectifies women and girls, and grooms boys and men into thinking it is acceptable to view and treat women and girls as sex objects. This portrayal of women is incompatible with a socially responsible press.” We do not want a socially responsible press. We want a free press. As free [...]

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Just a thought, a near random one. When it’s men puffing out their chests, doing the peacock strut, this is macho and bad. When it’s women thinking about their titties this is a terribly important matter of body image. Why is it that exactly the same thing, standard gender behaviour, is good when done by [...]

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“Anyone who has ever seen a sonogram or has spent even an hour with a textbook on embryology knows” that pro-life women are on to something when they recoil at the idea of the “disposable fetus.” Hmmmm… that must be why most OB-GYNs are pro-choice….. Ob/Gyn, in the modern world, involves performing abortions. It would [...]

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Gaby Hinsliff on the gender pay gap. Amongst the young it is in favour of women now. Overall it is in favour of men but that’s down to two things. 1) Overall is comparing women in their 50s etc, people who did not receive the same education or career opportunities as the men of their [...]

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There’s been that “my god aren’t comment sections awful” thing over the last few days. You know the stuff, women writers on the net get shouted at, insulted, threatened, in a manner that men don’t? I’m afraid that I have to admit to be a dreadful sexist on this matter. It’s true, I do hurl [...]

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Because childcare responsibilities still fall on women, women with children take low-paid, opportunity-free part-time work, and suffer economically and, presumably, spiritually. It’s spiritual suffering to take care of your own children now, is it?

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Women’s strike Can you imagine if all the women in the country went on strike at the same time? Well, IT might carry on relatively unperturbed. But the health system would grind to a halt, schools would be emptied, newspapers would go unwritten, and the lack of hairdressers would lead to the worst hair day [...]

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She has presented a wealth of studies that show men want to get laid more within their relationship, that celibacy is far more common among women, that masturbation and use of erotic material are far more common among men, that men are more unfaithful and more frustrated, report more sexual desire, across a whole range [...]

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EHRC: Women must wait 70 years for fair share of top jobs Nope, not an ounce of truth in the assertion. More than 5,400 women are “missing” from the country’s 26,000 most powerful jobs in business, the law, politics and the arts, according to a report from the Equality and Human Rights Commission. The study [...]

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Well, it had to be Julie Bindel whining about it, didn’t it? The British women’s beach volleyball team‘s new design of, ahem, kit, reveals more than the fact that women’s sport is still not taken seriously. Looking like extras on the set of Baywatch, the team, spotted this week on London’s Horse Guards Parade “warm-up” [...]

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I’m afraid that you’ve really rather confused me here over anorexia: The real problem is that we live in a neurotic, miserable society with a deeply disturbed attitude to food, nurture and consumption, a society which teaches children, and particularly girls, that their growing bodies and normal desires are unacceptable and must be starved away. [...]

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It has been a slow crawl for the doll. In the 50s and even the 70s – the 60s were a tentative audition for today – a size 12, with hips and breasts, could make it on to a billboard or into a movie. Marilyn Monroe, Jane Russell, Ava Gardner – all had flesh and interesting [...]

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Kristen Hawkes of the University of Utah, after studying the Hadza hunter-gatherers of Tanzania, has proposed that grandmothers must have played an important role in the ascent of Homo sapiens. “Good foraging grannies mean healthy Hadza kids – and that was also true for our ancestors,” she said. Hawkes argues that when our apeman ancestors [...]

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It ought to be obvious, beyond remarking, that a woman should be able to sleep with whom she wants, when she wants, as often as she wants, without danger and without shame. Yes, I’d like a pony too. The bit that seems to have been left out is “with those who would like to sleep [...]

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A second supposedly leading lesbian blogger was exposed as a man masquerading as a gay woman, a day after the Gay Girl in Damascus blog was revealed to be the fictional creation of a married male student from Edinburgh. Paula Brooks, who claimed to be the executive editor of a US-based lesbian site LezGetReal.com, told [...]

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You would have to have a heart of stone not to laugh over this one. So Our Amanda comes out in The Guardian telling us all that Anthony Weiner just didn’t send pics of his (covered but excited) genitals to various women, oh no, this is just the righties manufacturing a scandal about good little [...]

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The Playboy/Mad Men vibe was on full show this week, weirdly enough, during Obama’s visit. What was going on in the backyard of No 10? A barbecue, well obviously. David and Barack were serving meat. Burger and lambchops. A little bit country. A little bit rock’n’roll? …….. Still, there were the guys doing the meat [...]

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