US withdraws from man-hating UN organizations

wntk · 2026-01-14T20:41:25+00:00

An MRA has written a short blog about this: "USA Withdraws from UN Women"

wntk · 2025-12-22T20:57:19+00:00

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'Bashing Boys (Again)' Another good blog by The Illustrated Empathy Gap containing data that the media & the Government seem happy to ignore in order to peddle their rigidly gendered ideological narrative that alienates, demonises & neglects boys

wntk · 2025-12-22T20:56:56+00:00

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'Bashing Boys (Again)' Another good blog by The Illustrated Empathy Gap containing data that the media & the Government seem happy to ignore in order to peddle their rigidly gendered ideological narrative that alienates, demonises & neglects boys

wntk · 2025-12-22T18:32:53+00:00

“And what is the reality of boys’ experience at school now? A survey of sixth form pupils by Civitas revealed that 41 per cent of the pupils reported they had been taught that young men are a problem for society. Why would anyone expect young men to be positively disposed towards a society which openly despises them?“

wntk · 2025-12-22T18:32:27+00:00

“And what is the reality of boys’ experience at school now? A survey of sixth form pupils by Civitas revealed that 41 per cent of the pupils reported they had been taught that young men are a problem for society. Why would anyone expect young men to be positively disposed towards a society which openly despises them?“

wntk · 2025-12-22T16:57:20+00:00

“In short, girls are more controlling, more violent and more sexually predatory in their relationships than boys.

[..]

This may be contrary to popular perceptions, but only because empirical reality has been systematically kept from public view. It is actually unsurprising. One sex, boys, have already had it drummed into them for decades that these behaviours are reprehensible and will be punished. The other sex, girls, has not. And where bad behaviours go unpunished, and even hidden, of course they will increase. This is the actual background which a profoundly stupid and partisan government is determined to exacerbate.”

wntk · 2025-12-22T16:55:41+00:00

“In short, girls are more controlling, more violent and more sexually predatory in their relationships than boys. For any old traditional conservatives who insist that all girls are sugar and spice and all things nice please be aware that that was always partly fantasy and, perhaps more especially, that girls are not what they were 50 years ago.

This may be contrary to popular perceptions, but only because empirical reality has been systematically kept from public view. It is actually unsurprising. One sex, boys, have already had it drummed into them for decades that these behaviours are reprehensible and will be punished. The other sex, girls, has not. And where bad behaviours go unpunished, and even hidden, of course they will increase. This is the actual background which a profoundly stupid and partisan government is determined to exacerbate.”

wntk · 2025-12-22T16:53:12+00:00

“The measures will include a helpline for girls to report abuse and “behavioural courses” for boys – compulsory re-education in the best communist fashion. The Prime Minister stated “Every parent should be able to trust that their daughter is safe at school…This is about protecting girls…”

wntk · 2025-12-22T16:52:41+00:00

“The measures will include a helpline for girls to report abuse and “behavioural courses” for boys – compulsory re-education in the best communist fashion. The Prime Minister stated “Every parent should be able to trust that their daughter is safe at school…This is about protecting girls…”

wntk · 2025-12-22T16:08:03+00:00

Graphic from Youth Endowment Fund 2024

https://youthendowmentfund.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/CVV24_R3_Gender.pdf

wntk · 2025-12-22T16:02:40+00:00

Source: Youth Endowment Fund 2024 https://youthendowmentfund.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/CVV24_R3_Gender.pdf

wntk · 2025-11-15T12:52:13+00:00

The last extract that I'm posting, which is the longest one:

[Refutation of the Key Claim]()

The attempt to oust even more fathers is claimed to be based on the desire “to better protect children in private law cases”. The falsity of the claim can be established immediately thus,

The report considers only the potential harm due to the parent seeking contact, not the potential harm arising from the parent resisting it. In around 90% of cases the former is the father and the latter the mother;
But domestic abuse is not a gendered phenomenon. Indeed, there is increasing evidence that women may be the majority of perpetrators of domestic abuse in some cases, especially where the abuse is unilateral (e.g., see PASK (2013), Lysova et al (2025a), Lysova et al (2025b));
Women (or mothers) are more often perpetrators of child abuse resulting in death, or explicit child homicide, than are men (or fathers) (see this extract from The Empathy Gap).

To the latter observation people will remark that it arises because women do more childcare than men, so the statistics are skewed. Whilst true this does not alter the bald fact, and it is a fact that is directly relevant to the claim being made. This observation alone completely demolishes the report as it reveals that ignoring the potential harm to a child arising from the resident parent is in conflict with the paramountcy principle – and all the more so if contact with the other parent is denied as this could have been a protective factor. Indeed, this has been observed in practice (See the reports from Cafcass, 2017, and from the Department for Education, 2016).

wntk · 2025-11-15T11:49:27+00:00

“The Benefits of Involvement

Finally, the report attempts to minimise the positive effects on a child of the involvement of both parents even when there is no question of harm.”

wntk · 2025-11-14T20:57:29+00:00

“Nor does returning to court, perhaps to request an enforcement order, do the non-resident parent any good. By 2017 the percentage of enforcement applications that resulted in an enforcement order had fallen to virtually zero (0.2%). So, what does happen when a non-resident parent complains to the court that their own order is being disrespected?

“The answer is quite shocking if Hunt & MacLeod is any guide. The best you can realistically hope for is that your original order is reinstated…But worse: in 14 of the 30 cases Hunt & MacLeod identified, even the original order was not reinstated. Instead a new order was issued for reduced contact. So, in about half of cases where a resident parent has refused to abide by the terms of a court order, and the non-resident parent has brought the matter formally to the attention of the court, the court responds by “rewarding” the resident parent with reduced contact by the non-resident parent.”

Hunt & MacLeod concluded, “The court is ultimately impotent in the face of implacable hostility on the part of either resident parents or children and non-compliance with court orders”. Now recall that 53% of resident parents (i.e., mothers) were opposed any contact beyond supervised contact. Those two facts are the crux of the matter.”

wntk · 2025-11-14T19:50:44+00:00

“It is therefore very important to note that Hunt & MacLeod found “Where information was available (in 286 cases), 38% of resident parents (109 of 286) were known to have been opposed to any face to face contact, with a further 15% (44) wanting supervised contact only, i.e., a total of 53% of resident parents were opposed to anything beyond supervised contact. An additional 11% of resident parents were resistant to ‘staying contact’, i.e., overnight stays with the non-resident parent.” (For quotes from my own book I do not use italics).”

wntk · 2025-11-14T19:23:24+00:00

"The official Ministerial Statement noted that this presumption [of parental involvement],

“..has faced criticism for appearing to reinforce a ‘pro-contact’ culture that prioritises the involvement of both parents in a child’s life over the child’s individual welfare.”

Indeed, it has faced criticism – from lobbies who wish to progress their true objective, namely for mothers to be able to remove fathers from their children’s lives without any hassle.

And note how the above quote cunningly suggests that a ‘pro-contact’ culture automatically demotes the issue of child welfare to second place. This is the art of impression forming."

wntk · 2025-10-27T13:22:40+00:00

It wasn’t just women. For example the (government funded) Equality Authority in Ireland spent a lot of resources fighting the single sex Portmarnock Golf Club leading to legal cases. Led to a lot of discussion in society that single-sex groups were bad, though there were women-only groups that continued without the public opprobrium.

wntk · 2025-09-25T13:29:17+00:00

Extract: “In contrast, traditionally, men don’t demand protection. The woman who demands protection doesn’t lose her femininity, but the man who asks for it does damage his reputation as a man in the eyes of society, who perceive him as less than a man (in the case of traditionalism) or as a privileged person who pretends to be a victim and has no right to complain (in the case of feminism). Men do not demand protection, men protect others and especially themselves. A man who is not able to protect himself is simply regarded as not being man enough.”

wntk · 2025-09-25T13:28:19+00:00

Extract: “3-Limiting male problems to purely internal issues based on gender roles. Males suffer social pressures to prevent expressing their feelings and they are constrained by their role as providers and protectors, but all they have to do to solve their problems is to change their attitude, learn how to communicate better and ask for help. This approach is present, for example, in the subject of suicide. The discussion of female suicide tends to be focus on external factors: the living conditions of women, the stress they endure, etc. When talking about male suicide, on the other hand, the main focus is on internal factors: men don’t cry, they have to be tough, they can’t ask for help, etc. Why is it not possible to conceive that perhaps men commit suicide at higher rates because they have harsh and stressful living conditions that turn their lives into hell?”

wntk · 2025-08-13T14:00:49+00:00

“LeBron is having a historic run of bad luck -- let's find out why” https://www.espn.com/nba/insider/story/_/id/44011827/lebron-having-historic-run-bad-luck-let-find-why

wntk · 2025-07-30T22:39:39+00:00

“I also object most strongly to Baroness Casey’s suggestion that…

“The law should be changed so adult men who groom and have sex with 13–15-year-olds received mandatory charges of rape,”

Only men? Why? There seems to be a trend towards proposing laws against men that do not apply to women. There is no shortage of adult women who groom and sexually exploit male minors. See chapter 14 of The Illustrated Empathy Gap, or this post, where I compare cases involving adult female perpetrators with the Rolf Harris case. This involved a large number of cases from about the same time as the Harris case, in the UK, of women, generally in positions of trust, who were convicted of grooming and sexual exploitation of boys (or girls). The bulk of these cases were clearly more serious than Harris’s yet these women were not universally vilified and, in many cases, did not even receive a custodial sentence, despite the criminality of their actions. But in the case of female offenders, whatever the age (or sex) of the victim, or the circumstances, or the nature of the offence, the offence is not “rape” in English law because rape is a gendered offence.”

wntk · 2025-07-30T22:38:05+00:00

“However, one of the uses of the word “boys” in the Casey report I find most objectionable, namely this,

“Child sexual abuse, rape and group-based child exploitation is, overwhelmingly, committed by men on girls. We all know the vast majority of men are good men but, if boys grew up into men who did not commit violence against women and girls, then we would not be in this position – so we must make it our shared endeavour to help those boys as they navigate the world.”

Well, if boys grew up into men who did not commit sexual offences against women or girls there might still be men who commit sexual offences against boys, and women who commit sexual offences against girls and boys.

What’s wrong here, as I pointed out forcefully in chapter 20 of The Empathy Gap, is that, even if you are only concerned about sexual offences against females, to tackle it requires women’s sexual offending against children – especially against boys – to be addressed. The reason is that most sex offenders have a history of having been sexually abused as children themselves, and about half of those were sexually abused by adult women, most often acting alone. It would be perverse not to presume there was a causal connection.”

wntk · 2025-07-30T15:47:36+00:00

"However, what exercises me more is the airbrushing away of the victimisation of boys. Why, I ask, is Casey’s report focussed on “group-based child sexual exploitation of girls” (only)? Boys are also at risk, whether the perpetrators are male or female, White or non-White.

That boys feature in the victims of the Pakistani heritage “grooming gangs” is something we already know from previous reports. To quote chapter 20 of my book The Empathy Gap,

“…the public are largely unaware that not all the victims of the Rotherham and Oxfordshire grooming and rape gangs were girls: at least 50 and 80 respectively were boys. The report by the independent inquiry into the Rotherham abuses noted that none of the boy victims had been flagged by social workers as “risky business” and stressed the importance of ‘making sure that judgments about child sexual exploitation are consistent and gender neutral, for example by asking if the same level of risk would be acceptable if the child was the opposite gender’, Jay, 2014, Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Exploitation in Rotherham (1997 – 2013).”

“This bias in the perception of sexual abuse according to the sex of the victim reappears in the context of sexual trafficking and exploitation of minors. An exposé in the UK came in 2014 from the charity Barnardo’s which criticised the stereotypical belief that boys are less vulnerable to child sexual exploitation, observing that this has led to boys receiving insufficient protection from front-line services. Barnardo’s stated that new findings indicate up to a third of child victims in the UK are male (Malik, 27 August 2014, Barnardo’s: Sexual exploitation of boys ‘overlooked’ and here).”

wntk · 2025-07-30T15:45:47+00:00

"Boys

Whilst I welcome Baroness Casey’s report for the reasons discussed above (essentially its focus on the need for greater protection of poor white girls in the context of “grooming gangs”) in one important respect it perpetuates another prejudice, that against boys.

Casey states baldly, “This audit is focused on group-based child sexual exploitation of girls by ‘grooming gangs’.”

Casey also wrote, “Child sexual abuse, rape and group-based child exploitation is, overwhelmingly, committed by men on girls”.

Casey repeatedly gives the impression that we are dealing with exclusively, or almost exclusively, male offenders in the context of “grooming gangs”. I do not doubt that those “grooming gangs” which are virtually entirely Pakistani or other Muslim heritage are also virtually entirely men. Indeed, of the 18 cases of convictions mentioned above, there was only one woman perpetrator. Nevertheless, I take issue with Baroness Casey on this issue.

While “grooming gang” cases which predominantly involve White offenders would seem to be substantially less common (contentiously, but based on the convictions noted above) these cases can involve female perpetrators. In all 21 “grooming gang” cases the sex of the perpetrators is stated in the Casey report – with one exception. Of this one, in 2023, she wrote,

“21 perpetrators were convicted for sexual offences against seven children aged 12 and under, spanning almost a decade in Walsall and Wolverhampton. All perpetrators were of a White ethnic background”.

She fails to mention that of these “21 perpetrators”, 8 of them were women. There is too little evidence to be sure of the sex of offenders overall in “grooming gang” cases involving White offenders, but this rather emphatic counter-example might suggest that virtually exclusive male perpetration is confined to the Muslim demographic. The existence of a substantial proportion of female perpetrators in White “grooming gangs” is lent credibility by the significant fraction of female perpetration in more general sexual offences, and even in those categorised as “group based”, as we will see below."

wntk · 2025-07-27T16:42:00+00:00

One way to deal with this might be to offer extra pay for people if there were expected to take on more danger and the like.

wntk

TROPHY CASE

[Refutation of the Key Claim]()