Absolutist Feminism Exposed

I've long had a bugbear with feminism, I have blogged about it in the past. I don't have a problem with the promotion of female equality, but I do have a problem with the feminist agenda: promoting certain restricted ideals of what it is to be a female.

The best way to get into a heated debate with a feminist is to discuss female rape fantasies and whether a female should act out those fantasies with a male. Very entertaining.These are the feminists that promote limited ideals of feminism. They can't compute the freedom of a woman to chose to act out a rape fantasy. They'll say "Well rape is rape...." Well, how can it be rape if the woman choses to be "raped" as part of a fantasy scenario, it's not rape if she requests to be willing part of a scenario that looks and feels like rape.  But that's me digressing....

The latest implosion of feminism is the issue over Labour party all-female selection lists and the fact that Labour are to allow Trans females onto the shortlists.

Of course this open up a whole can of worms now, because feminists are obcessing about the fact that the females were once men. In their eyes they still are men and shouldn't be allowed on all-female lists.

But.... If that male has transition either fully or partly, and they express female identity, female ideals and to all intents and purposes are female, why should feminists stand in judgement? Because they do, on anything that does not conform to "their" idea of feminism.

It's an interesting moral dillemma around positive discrimination and gender identity.

Not that discrimination in any form positive or negative should be tollerated.

If you fully subscribe to equality of any flavour, then discrimination of any type is intollerable. The best person for the job should be doing it, whatever their background, sexuality, gender or ethnicity.

Child Grooming and Exploitation: Just a Cultural Thing?

Yet another child grooming scandal has erupted in Telford, to add to  Rotherham, Rochdale, Newcastle, Peterborough....

I've already talked about these before, but people have to understand that this is a cultural norm in the countries that the members of the grooming gangs come from. This is not an abberrant part of Muslim society that is carrying out these atrocities.

It is rooted in Muslim culture or Sharia that Muslim women in general are second class citizens, lower in status to male Muslims. The qualification on those terms are correct: Muslim men come before Muslim women, then other people in the eyes of Muslim culture, all are lower in status. Non-believers, infidels are lower status, easy targets and do held up to be the same standard as believers.

Non-Muslim females are at the bottom of the heap, which is why the rest of the Muslim cummunity ignores the issue and lets the males get on with it. It's cultural racism.

There needs to a be a conspiracy law draughted to make it an offence to knowingly withhold action. Wives, girlfriends, family and friends need to be held culpable and prosecutions need to start happening, so the wider Muslim community is sent the message that gang rape and grooming of non-Muslim girls is unnaceptable and cannot simply have a blind eye turned to it. Just the same has been done for terrorist offences, so why not something serious like gang rape of under age females?

After decades of laws and policy nudging UK attitudes into acceptance of immigrants, it's about time some nudging was done to modify Muslim attitudes to non-believers.

Echoes of the Cold War

Something about the Russian poisoning crisis feels familiar.

It's like being back in my late teens when I used to listen to the BBC World Service and also Russian Short Wave radio and their proaganda. The truth was always somewhere in the middle.

Interspersed with the usual tractor stats, harvest stats and praising the glorious motherland that was Russia, useful idiots from the West would be quoted with a pro-Russian spin.

In my youth it was the Labour Party headed by Michael Foot, albeit with a more moderate Socialist stance with Tony Benn adding a more pro-Soviet counterpoint for extra bonus points for the Russian News Service.

These days it's the leader of the Party, Jeremy Corbyn giving full support to the Russians and obfuscating the issue, with the majority of his party facepalming in the background.

The Giorgi Markov poisoning back in 1978 had repercussions through the late 70's and into the 80's as details if the case were declassified. Back then it was easy targets, dissidents and journalists meeting untimley ends. Back then we protected our spies a lot better.

But back then the spy business was a lot dirtier, a lot "wetter" and a lot more personal. Finding weaknesses to exploit, or if one couldn't be found creating one.

These days espionage is a nerdy youth in a grey office finding back doors into computer systems. A lot more impersonal and  more dangerous for all that.

Not that the personal stuff wasn't dangerous, but more of an art.

Things change, things stay the same...