Tim Worstall

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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Oliver James and Julie Bindel on sex and gender. The Guardian’s really pushed to boat out there to get difereing views, hasn’t it?

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Maybe then, we could move into a future where we look at each other as human beings, instead of gender caricatures. Given Ms. Marcotte’s output over the years that’s either the best bit of irony ever or the greatest display of an entire lack of sefl knowledge I’ve ever seen. For that output is entirely [...]

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So she’s got a piece in The Guardian about the ECGD: Umm, it’s not a government department. It’s a government agency. There is a difference and I’d hope that an MP knew that. “Caucuses” Caucasus The former is a method of selecting a candidate to run for office. The latter is an area of the [...]

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Murray is not a supporter. “Women in the boardroom? Terrific,” he says. “Why not? Always welcome. But why make a special case out of it? Why tell everybody you’ve got to have X number of women in the boardroom? Women are quite as intelligent as men. They have a tendency not to be so involved [...]

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This democracy thing, it’s just fine until it hits the things that I believe in: So far, it would seem, people are most interested in talking about equalities – by a very wide margin. Can we find a way to enable people to discuss how the still very young Equality Act can be helped to [...]

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“It’s what Willetts calls “assortative mating”. “That well-educated women marry well-educated men… You suddenly had two-earner couples, both of whom were well educated, compared with often workless households, where no one was educated. So I do personally think that the feminist revolution, in its first-round effects, was probably the key factor.”” But the key factor [...]

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A group of women are holding a protest tomorrow morning in London against what they call an abuse of women by police spies. Really, I don’t. Women in the UK should not have to worry about being sexually abused by policemen. It is as simple as that. In response, we call for women to come [...]

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Edwards denied murder but accepted that he had committed manslaughter on the grounds of provocation. The jury returned a not guilty verdict to murder but guilty on the manslaughter charge. Mr Justice Andrew Nicol, sentencing, said the events of June 11 were “the proverbial straw which broke the camel’s back”. Jailing Edwards for five years, [...]

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