Angry Harry

Another Murder Suicide

2008-04-26T02:38:00.000-07:00

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Another Murder Suicide

Tributes were paid yesterday to a six-year-old boy whose father is believed to have set the family home on fire, killing him, before hanging himself.

Christopher Townsend, 51, a set designer on the BBC television series Casualty, was said to have been tormented by a custody battle after the break-up of his marriage.
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Draconian DV Laws Reduce Reporting

2008-04-13T18:19:00.000-07:00

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Draconian DV Laws Reduce Reporting

Thousands of women are at risk of assault because new laws to curb domestic violence have backfired, deterring victims from seeking help.

Yes indeed. But the whole point behind the draconian domestic violence laws is to increase the reporting of domestic violence (mostly false reporting as it happens) not to reduce domestic violence, and also to make men more likely to resort to domestic violence - because the more that the law is set against men, the more will men resort to violence.

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Cannabis Not Linked To Schizophrenia

2008-04-04T00:49:00.000-07:00

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Cannabis Not Linked To Schizophrenia

There is little reason to believe that cannabis or skunk is contributing to an epidemic of schiozophrenia. There is no such epidemic.

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New Women’s Court Hopes To End Inequality

2008-03-18T07:24:00.000-07:00

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New Women’s Court Hopes To End Inequality

A group of female lawyers have formed the Women’s Court of Canada to rewrite key Supreme Court of Canada decisions from a feminist perspective in hopes of ending what they call a recent neglect of equality rights.

Initiatives similar to the WCC are sprouting up in other parts of the world.

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Aussie Men Win Child Suppport Victories

2008-03-13T14:43:00.001-07:00

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Aussie Men Win Child Suppport Victories Thousands of separated parents - generally fathers - are making use of new appeal rights against the Child Support Agency, with many overturning decisions on payments and income assessments.
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Teachers Replacing Parents

2008-03-09T21:14:00.000-07:00

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Teachers Replacing Parents - i.e. government replacing parents

The demise of the traditional family is breeding a generation of children who are increasingly relying on teachers to become surrogate parents, a prominent education leader warned yesterday.

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The Woman Racket

2008-02-05T01:34:00.000-08:00

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The Woman Racket, published today, Monday, February 4, by Imprint Academic.

In stock in Waterstones (some outlets), and orderable through Amazon (.co.uk & .com)
Auhor: Steve Moxon
stevemoxon3@talktalk.net
0114 2631714 / 07981 227540
Details & extracts at http://www.imprint-academic.com/moxon

The full title is: 'The Woman Racket: The new science explaining how the sexes relate at work, at play and in society' by Steve Moxon

The book is about the major new insights about what (males generally and) men are FOR, how they are much more dissimilar to women than had been thought, and why necessarily (the majority of) men always constitute the principle disadvantaged sub-group in any society.
It's the very first to draw on the recent scientific findings of the actual root of sex difference -- males acting as the 'genetic filter' for the whole lineage -- and of all of the other research showing hitherto unexpected inherent 'chalk & cheese' human sex differences re motivation, competition, affiliation, etc; with major implications for our view of men-women.

The book‘s had glowing praise from Bruce Charlton, the evolutionary psychologist at the University of Newcastle (UK), and was previewed as part of a two-page profile of me in The Evening Standard, and by The Independent. There is much print and broadcast media interest, with a TV documentary series a possibility.

To give you a handle on the content, below is a rough draft of a commissioned newspaper article I titled 'The Woman Racket': Its time to admit we got men-women spectacularly wrong'.

The Woman Racket: It’s time to admit we got men-women spectacularly wrong

It was the now late, great and controversial American novelist, Norman Mailer, who likened feminism to McCarthyism, christening it ‘the woman racket’. He thought it more like a fad, but really it’s the latest twist to a perennial privilege.

That women are downtrodden and men rule the roost is the line we’ve all swallowed for decades now. It’s the crucial underpinning of ‘political correctness’, because with the abandonment of ‘the working man‘ as a worthy victim, PC needed a new majority to get all worked up about. Without women there would be only ethnic minorities and homosexuals. What if it turned out that actually women were not hard done by after all?

It so happens that’s just what recent science has uncovered. It is anyway fairly obvious if you take off the feminist tinted glasses we all now wear, and look at how most men are faring, rather than just focussing on the ‘top dogs’. There are always overwhelmingly men at the top, but that’s because men battle each other so fiercely, not that women are somehow done down. If that were the case, then how come at the bottom you find only men? And why do we view men in the middle as relative failures when we don’t see women in this way? If we were looking objectively, we’d see that most men make a good fist of it. So why the prejudice?

The answer stems from why there are sexes. They evolved because it made biological sense to divide individuals into either those involved in the time and energy consuming business of developing/ having/ rearing baby, or those involved in acting as what you could call the ‘genetic filter’. We can’t survive without either. Obviously, we’re nowhere without babies to replace the old and the dead, but because of relentless accumulation of gene copying errors, it is just as important that men function as a ‘duff’ gene disposal device cum ‘design and test lab’ for new genes. (And that’s as far, technically, as I’ll go on a Sunday!)

The upshot is that men rush about testing themselves against each other -- not infrequently to destruction -- but ultimately against Mother Nature herself. Many fall by the wayside in some way, leaving those without the ‘duff’ genes and/or with some fabulous new ones, to be the higher status guys that women are correspondingly ‘designed’ to choose to have babies with. The whole system of the renewal of life works much better if you have this division of labour that leaves women just to get on with it whilst men are put through the mill. This is why men on average die several years earlier than do women.

It’s why the sexes are profoundly separate. Biologists had anthropomorphically assumed that the males of animals are ‘dominant’ -- higher in the ‘pecking order’ -- over females. Both sexes were thought to co-exist in a unisex dominance hierarchy, yet it’s easily seen that ‘pecking orders’ are always same-sex. There isn’t the ‘power’ relation between the sexes that feminists insist there is. Quite the opposite. Our prejudices and morality are based on the ‘policing’ of men through psychological ‘cheater detection’ mechanisms, so that they don’t try to get away with anything more than to what their rank entitles them: most especially regarding women. We ‘do down’ men, but because females are biologically more valuable, women we ’big up’.

So how do we see this separation as we live our lives today? Now that men and women more usually work together, and it’s insisted that men and women are the same, we pretend that la difference is waning. In fact, the sexes always polarise. From toddler age, boys play with other boys, and girls play with other girls; boys wanting team games, whereas girls go around in twos and threes. Boys have quite rigid pecking orders even before school age, and this is completely different from the friendship network that girls have. Males have to climb the greasy pole, but females have only to pick the males off it, and simply look good. What does not happen is competition across the sexual divide. It would be pointless -- and actually counter-productive, for both sexes.

Surely though, men and women readily compete with each other at work for promotion. Ah, but it doesn‘t feel the same as competing against your own kind. It’s not ‘psychologically salient‘. That‘s when the real competition begins. Experiments show that when the sexes get together they just want to display to each other.

We can see why it is that women so hate women bosses. The workplace is modelled on ‘man world’: a hierarchy. Putting the female personal network into a hierarchy is incongruous. (That’s why when you look into the ‘prestige’ ratings of jobs, if you ask men or women to rate ‘housewife’, it comes in half way up the scores -- way above the equivalent job of laundry worker, and ‘househusband’ comes at the very bottom.) Men climb the greasy pole because that gives them status, which is what women look for in a man. But what do men look for in a woman? Fertility: beauty/ youth. The woman on reception is no less attractive than a woman on the board for all her lack of effort, but the few who move up the workplace hierarchy can better put themselves in the path of high status men. Women intuit all this, and look very suspiciously at these unusual women, as though they are cheating in some way. Women find far more natural the relationship of male boss and female underling, because it’s the natural essentially sexual (in the widest sense) way the sexes get on.

The separate hierarchies of the sexes serve to rank each sex according to their value as sexual partners -- their ‘mate value’. For the reason that what makes someone attractive is totally different for men and women, though status is the measure of man, it is not of woman. Women don’t aspire to status per se. This doesn’t mean that a small minority of women are not careerist. Other than to better put themselves in the path of high status men, work can become an end in itself, especially when it draws on sex-typical predilections. The truth though -- and this is a remarkable fact -- is that the proportion of women in full-time continuous work today (that is, with the same orientation to work as the great majority of men have) is the same as it was 150 years ago.

The surprise is that the ‘pay gap’ is only 20%. In fact, a ‘pay gap’ this small can only be explained by sex discrimination against men. Wherever you look, it is the majority of (lower status) men who are disadvantaged. Most domestic violence is actually female-on-male. The virulent resistance to this truth (that research has long starkly revealed) is testament to the depth of anti-male prejudice. It hardly needs pointing out that not females but males are let down in education; that not female but male cancer patients are neglected; that fathers but not mothers are denied proper contact with their own children … etc.

It’s the same story of wrongly supposed social injustice to women in recent history, though we can‘t see it because we inappropriately place on the past the values that have grown from modern contingencies, and miss that by the standards of the day life was clearly organised to preference women. When you properly look at child custody and marriage in centuries past, the law here is all about men never being allowed to divest their responsibilities. Even the standard social history of the vote is hopelessly false. Women from time immemorial could vote in their local communities, which was the locus of their affairs until early last century when for the first time national politics moved beyond ’imperial’ concerns -- war and the taxes to pay for war, that clearly directly concerned only men. The scandal was always the tiny proportion of men who were eligible to vote, which never topped 50% in practice, even in 1918 when women were first enfranchised.

Never before in this or in any culture has understanding of the sexes (by the chattering classes at least) been more spectacularly wrong. The view here is a counterblast, but it is set to become mainstream, and sooner than you think.

Steve Moxon

The Art Of Spin

2008-01-08T07:23:00.000-08:00

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The Art Of Spin

Mourners shivering in a chapel are to be kept warm using "body heat" generated from cremating their loved ones.

And here comes a true master of spin ...

The Rev Vernon Marshall, of Old Chapel, said: "As a final act of generosity, it's a lovely way for the dead to provide comfort for the living at a difficult time."

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Rape Tax

2007-12-30T03:46:00.000-08:00

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Rape Tax Customers at strip clubs in Texas are facing a controversial $5-a-head "pole tax" which is intended to pay for sex crime prevention programmes and rape crisis centres.
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Three Boys, 8 and 9, Charged With Rape

2007-12-01T20:05:00.000-08:00

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Three Boys, 8 and 9, Charged With Rape

ACWORTH, Ga. - Three boys, ages eight and nine, were being held Monday in a detention centre on charges of kidnapping and raping an 11-year-old girl near a suburban apartment complex, officials said.

The alleged attack happened Thursday and the girl's mother reported it to authorities Sunday, Acworth police Capt. Wayne Dennard said. "The victim said they were playing outdoors and the girl was forced into a wooded area where she was sexually assaulted, where one of the boys raped her," Dennard told The Associated Press.

The three boys - an eight-year-old and two nine-year-olds - were charged with rape, kidnapping, false imprisonment and sexual assault, Dennard said.

They were due in juvenile court Monday afternoon. Their names were being withheld because of their age.

Dennard would not comment further.

Acworth Police Chief Mike Wilkie said one of the boys was accused of threatening to hit the girl with a rock before the alleged assault.

Wilkie also said the investigation is "far from over," and investigators were looking into claims that after the alleged attack, the girl talked about it with her friends at a slumber party.

The father of the eight-year-old boy said his son had been falsely accused and had not had sex with the girl.

The sexual activity was consensual, and the girl accused her playmates only after her parents had learned she had sex, said the father, Brandon LeBlanc.

"There was no violence involved," LeBlanc said. "This is a clear case of a girl who didn't want to get in trouble with her parents."

"In order to save her hide, she tried to blame it on rape," he alleged

The girl's mother, however, told WGCL-TV in Atlanta: "They do need to be taught a lesson because if they do it to her, they could do it to somebody else. And who knows when they become teenagers what they can do to other girls."

The case involves children from a working class apartment complex on the northern outskirts of metro Atlanta.

LeBlanc said the kids all played together, biking or throwing a ball around in the apartment complex's parking lot.

He said his son is a third grader at a Baptist school who loves the Atlanta Falcons and is a batboy for his church's softball league.

Prosecutors had not received the case report from police Monday, nor had they decided whether to try the suspects as adults.

"That decision hasn't been made," said Kathy Watkins, a spokeswoman for the Cobb County District Attorney's office. She had no further comment.

Acworth, some 50 kilometres northwest of Atlanta along the shores of Lake Allatoona, is a town of about 17,000.

Acworth police said their department has never before investigated allegations of rape where all the parties were this young.

"This wouldn't be normal anywhere, but especially not Acworth," Dennard said.

Overprotecting Children

2007-10-28T09:58:00.000-07:00

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Overprotecting Children Youngsters are missing out on their childhood because we over-protect them, a child play expert claims.

In No Fear: Growing Up in a Risk Averse Society, Mr Gill argues that childhood is being undermined by the growth of risk aversion and its intrusion into every aspect of children's lives.

Activities that previous generations of children enjoyed without a second thought - like walking to school on their own - have been re-labelled as troubling or dangerous and the adults who permit them branded as irresponsible, he argues.

While it is surely the case that allowing children further opportunities to roam around within their communities would bring them many benefits, the persistent hysteria over child abuse means that, in practice, children who are roaming around are likely to cause trouble both for themselves and for everyone else; because nowadays - unlike in the past - the adults in the community would be too fearful to contain them.

Was Weapons Expert Dr David Kelly Assassinated?

2007-10-20T11:01:00.000-07:00

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Was Weapons Expert Dr David Kelly Assassinated? Campaigning politician Norman Baker believes Dr Kelly, who exposed the Government's "sexed-up" Iraq dossier, was killed to stop him making further revelations about the lies that took Britain to war.

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Was Dr Crippen Innocent?

2007-10-17T19:00:00.000-07:00

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Was Dr Crippen Innocent? One of the most notorious murderers of the 20th century may have been innocent, according to new DNA evidence.

Dr Hawley Crippen was hanged for the poisoning and dismembering of his wife, Cora Turner, in 1910, following a trial that transfixed the nation.
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Women's Group Closes After Losing Funding

2007-09-27T16:42:00.000-07:00

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Women's Group Closes After Losing Funding OTTAWA–Women's rights advocates accused the Harper government of ignoring their struggle for equality after a leading women's group closed its doors because of a lack of federal funding.

One down.

Six million to go.

Not long now, Boys!

Not long now.

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False Accuser Jailed

2007-09-23T18:34:00.000-07:00

Judge Hoffman

Such a handsome fellow!

LOL!

False Accuser Jailed A woman who falsely claimed she had been raped by two men, causing them to spend time behind bars, has been jailed for eight months.

Eight months is not enough. She should have gone down for at least three years.

And she should also be put on the sex offenders register.

Men Are Smarter

2007-09-23T18:25:00.000-07:00

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Men Are Smarter For centuries men believed themselves to be smarter than the fairer sex, who they felt were only equipped for wifely duties.

Now a study has revealed that the male of the species is actually more intelligent - but he's more stupid as well.

When scientists measured the intelligence of more than 2,500 brothers and sisters, they found a disproportionate number of men in both the top 2 per cent and the bottom 2 per cent.

This, by the way, is not 'news'. It has been known for decades that there are more men both at the top of the IQ scale, and at the bottom of it. Furthermore, at the highest points there will be many more men than women. And this, of course, is just one of the many reasons why in the higher echelons of business, government, finance, academia - wherever! - you will likely find many more men; and, indeed, why men will earn more than women.

And this, needless to say, is not the result of discriminaion against women by men in the workplace.

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Sex Pay Discrimination System Close To Breaking

2007-09-21T07:38:00.001-07:00

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Sex Pay Discrimination System Close To Breaking The tribunal system which deals with sex discrimination cases is close to breaking point, the Equal Opportunities Commission has warned.

The Commission's chairwoman, Jenny Watson, said: "We would like to see employers earn some legal protection.

"So in return for accepting a legal obligation to check their pay systems for discrimination and if they find a problem, putting in place a robust action plan to tackle it, we think they should get some breathing space.

In practice, employers are facing the threat of long and costly investigations and a great deal of official harassment unless they can jiggle the evidence and so justify large pay increases for women - simply because they are women - not because they are deserving of any increases.

The real message from Harriet Harmen and her feminist friends is this.

We will not take you to court provided that you end up paying women the same - regardless of their relative merit. We are doing this because, at the moment, we cannot cope with all the claims. But, in the future, we will cause you a great deal of official trouble unless we see equal pay. And, if you do not provide equal pay then - even though this might, in fact, be 'fair' - it is going to cost you hell of a lot to prove your case. As such, it is in your interest to jiggle the evidence.

For any newcomers, there is no general gender pay gap in the UK that unfairly disadvantages women. If there was, you would see the feminists and the government giving us fine details of how and where this is happening.

They never do this - because, quite simply, it is not happening.

Furthermore, if it was really the case that, for lesser pay, companies could get the same work done by women as done by men, then they would quickly boot out all the men and get the women to do the jobs instead. And if they did not do this, they would very quickly be out-competed by those that did.

The gender pay gap is just another feminist-inspired self-serving myth that is designed to justify the existence and funding of various feminist-dominated empires.

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PC TV

2007-09-11T09:46:00.000-07:00

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Sir Trevor McDonald has escaped accusations of racism, despite calling the late comedian Bernard Manning a "fat, white b*stard."

However, on the same channel, ...

Hell's Kitchen was at the centre of fresh controversy today after comic Jim Davidson was axed for making homophobic slurs. Bosses of the ITV reality show were forced to throw him off after he called gay men "shirt-lifters"

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Fathers Not Necessary

2007-09-09T03:58:00.000-07:00

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Fathers Not Necessary The Government's draft Bill on Human Tissues and Embryos says that clinics should no longer take into account "the child's need for a father" before agreeing to attempts to conceive via artificial means.

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Another Police Officer Talks Sense!

2007-09-07T17:24:00.000-07:00

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Another Police Officer Talks Sense! Ian Johnston, the president of the Police Superintendents Association, is planning an attack on the "cancer" of violent crime. At his organisation's annual conference next week, he will also denounce Whitehall crime-fighting targets as a "shambles" and call for them to be scrapped.

"A failed education system, family breakdown, alcohol and drug abuse, inadequate prison and probation services, an unresponsive criminal justice system, an entertainment industry that promotes violence and a media that glorifies in failure rather than success are all symptoms of a society in desperate need of treatment."

He sounds like an MRA!

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UK Gender Pay Gap Growing - Yawn

2007-09-05T06:10:00.000-07:00

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UK Gender Pay Gap Growing Jenny Watson, who heads the Equal Opportunities Commission, said it was "alarming" that the gender gap was worsening almost 40 years after the Equal Pay Act came in. She accused employers of failing to address "systemic pay inequality".

More lies.

Still; the reader comments are good.

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Woman Free On Bail After Cutting Man's Throat

2007-09-02T08:44:00.000-07:00

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Woman Free On Bail After Cutting Man's Throat Bill Saunders stares out the window of his hospital room and wonders if the woman accused of shoving a knife into his throat Friday is waiting out there for another shot at him.

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Why Is Growing Poppies Illegal?

2007-09-01T04:58:00.001-07:00

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Why Is Growing Poppies Illegal? Why is growing poppies illegal? Or coca for that matter? Daniel Hannan

Hospitals worldwide are short of morphine for want of the necessary supply of opiates. Yet our soldiers are methodically razing the stuff, turning swathes of Afghan countryside against them in the process.

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Forget The War On Drugs

2007-08-30T08:22:00.000-07:00

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Forget The War On Drugs As in Helmand, in Afghanistan, many inner-city estates have created an alternative social order where the economics of the hugely profitable drug trade are far more attractive than any other choice. Anatole Kaletsky

In my view, at least soft drugs such as cannabis should quickly be decriminalised - though I think that, perhaps, the heavy-duty versions such as skunk ought to remain illegal - given the current research into it possibly being an instigator of various psychoses.

This does not mean that there should not be a 'war on drugs' - but, in my view, it should be a war waged by education, information and caring - not punishment, prosecution and prison.

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Moustached Men Of America Fight Back

2007-08-29T21:20:00.000-07:00

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Moustached Men Of America Fight Back America's biggest cultural battles normally rage around the notorious trinity of guns, gays and God. But where pressure groups debating abortion and the right to bear arms have gone before, a new campaign is following - fighting for every American's right to bear hair on their upper lip.

Go to it, Boys!
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