{"id":9166,"date":"2019-02-28T09:49:20","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T08:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9166"},"modified":"2019-02-28T09:54:42","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T08:54:42","slug":"crying-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/9166\/","title":{"rendered":"The Crying Game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I had occasion to read the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report<\/em><\/a>. As you would expect it’s largely focused around climate change hysteria, but also warns of “large scale involuntary migration”. What is not mentioned is what I think is a far greater risk to the stability of whole nations: large scale voluntary<\/em> migration. But what really made me laugh was this passage on page 14:<\/p>\n

There has been a period of renewed politicization around gender, sexism and sexual assault in the United States. The #MeToo movement, which began in October 2017, continued in 2018 and has also drawn attention to\u2014and in some cases amplified\u2014 similar campaigns against sexual violence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That a middle class political protest movement, which was as much about who gets to set the Democrat party agenda as it was sexual assault, should appear in a report on global risks tells you much about the worldview of those who compiled it. Then again, they might have observed half a million screaming harpies in pussy hats and concluded humanity is doomed.<\/p>\n

Beyond being directly targeted with violence and discrimination, women around the world are also disproportionately affected by many of the risks discussed in the Global Risks Report, often as a result of experiencing higher levels of poverty and being the primary providers of childcare, food and fuel. For example, climate change means women in many communities must walk farther to fetch water.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While the men are slaughtered on the front lines of bloody wars.<\/p>\n

Women often do not have the same freedom or resources as men to reach safety after natural disasters\u2014in parts of Sri Lanka, Indonesia and India, men who survived the 2004 tsunami outnumbered women by almost three to one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Okay, but:<\/p>\n

According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), women are also more likely than men to have their jobs displaced by automation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We’re probably not talking about the same women here, are we? The paragraph lurches between the fate of wealthy western women pushing a political agenda and the genuine hardship of those living in badly-governed countries in the developing world. The two should be dealt with separately, but they’ve been lumped together in order to paint a picture of women being under serious threat globally. They’re using the image of desperate African women having to walk miles for water to drum up sympathy for American women who will soon be replaced by the Samsung Powerskirt 3000. And I seem to recall Laurie Penny cackling with glee<\/a> at the prospect of automation taking all the men’s jobs.<\/p>\n

On top of reports like this, we also have gender diversity being rammed down our throats using unsubstantiated claims<\/a> it produces better outcomes. In addition, despite being thoroughly debunked<\/a>, the gender pay gap is still routinely cited as real and a result of discrimination. This is why I’m really not too bothered about stories like this<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Across the U.S. and in many places abroad, transgender athletes are breaking barriers in high school, college and pro sports and being embraced by teammates and fans. But resentments can still flare when transgender women start winning and dominating their sport.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And this<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Two male runners are continuing to dominate high school girls track in Connecticut.<\/p>\n

High school juniors Terry Miller and Andraya Yearwood took first and second place in the\u00a0state open indoor track championships\u00a0Feb. 16, The Associated Press\u00a0noted in a report\u00a0Sunday.\u00a0Both Miller and Yearwood are biological males who identify as transgender girls.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

Miller argued that female runners should work harder, rather than complaining about unfairness, when forced to compete against male athletes who identify as transgender.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On the face of it this is insane, and in a serious society this wouldn’t be happening. But this is just a continuation of what the hardcore feminists started when they launched a war on men. If a handful of politically-motivated extremist women can invent all sorts of garbage to justify upending society for their personal benefit, others will follow suit. Feminists now upset that strapping lads are cleaning up in girls’ high-school athletics can hardly complain about inconsistency, intellectual dishonesty, and hidden agendas, can they? That’s been their stock and trade for decades and it continues to this day backed by corporations, governments, and supranational organisations as part of an industry worth billions of dollars.<\/p>\n

I feel a bit sorry for the non-lunatic women who carried no water for hardcore feminism and are looking on with horror at what the trans activists are doing, but it’s not really my fight. If and when I can go through a week without gender politics being rammed down my throat with men told they need to make sacrifices so that privileged women they don’t know can be relieved of imaginary problems while benefiting materially, I may pick up the cudgels on their behalf. Until then, I don’t see why I should care. Women created this mess; they can solve it. Maybe the World Economic Forum can help?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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