UPDATE
Minutes after I posted this article, the ludicrous Jess Phillips published an article in the Guardian which could not have been better designed to prove my thesis. A number of people have posted comments on the Guardian article pointing this out, and they have all been immediately deleted by the Guardian. I just tried it myself and was also deleted. I should be grateful if readers could now also try posting comments there, in order to make a point about censorship on the Guardian.
Catching up on a fortnight’s news, I have spent five hours searching in vain for criticism of Simon Danczuk from prominent or even just declared feminists. The Guardian was the obvious place to start, but while they had two articles by feminist writers condemning Chris Gayle’s clumsy attempt to chat up a presenter, their legion of feminist columnists were entirely silent on Danczuk. The only opinion piece was strongly defending him.
This is very peculiar. The allegation against Danczuk which is under police investigation – of initiating sex with a sleeping woman – is identical to the worst interpretation of the worst accusation against Julian Assange. The Assange allegation brought literally hundreds, probably thousands of condemnatory articles from feminist writers across the entire range of the mainstream media. I have dug up 57 in the Guardian alone with a simple and far from exhaustive search. In the case of Danczuk I can find nothing, zilch, nada. Not a single feminist peep.
The Assange case is not isolated. Tommy Sheridan has been pursuing a lone legal battle against the Murdoch empire for a decade, some of it in prison when the judicial system decided his “perjury” was imprisonable but Andy Coulson’s admitted perjury on the Murdoch side in the same case was not. I personally witnessed in court in Edinburgh last month Tommy Sheridan, with no lawyer (he has no money) arguing against a seven man Murdoch legal team including three QCs, that a letter from the husband of Jackie Bird of BBC Scotland should be admitted in evidence. Bird was working for Murdoch and suggested in his letter that a witness should be “got out of the country” to avoid giving evidence. The bias exhibited by the leading judge I found astonishing beyond belief. I was the only media in the court.
Yet even though the Murdoch allegations against Sheridan were of consensual sexual conduct, Sheridan’s fight against Murdoch has been undermined from the start by the massive and concerted attack he has faced from the forces of feminism. Just as the vital messages WikiLeaks and Assange have put out about war crimes, corruption and the relentless state attack on civil liberties have been undermined by the concerted feminist campaign promoting the self-evidently ludicrous claims of sexual offence against Assange.
As soon as the radical left pose the slightest threat to the neo-con establishment, an army of feminists can be relied upon to run a concerted campaign to undermine any progress the left wing might make. The attack on Jeremy Corbyn over the makeup of his shadow cabinet was a classic example. It is the first ever gender equal shadow cabinet, but the entire media for a 96 hour period last September ran headline news that the lack of women in the “top” posts was anti-feminist. Every feminist commentator in the UK piled in.
Among the obvious dishonesties of this campaign was the fact that Defence, Chancellor, Foreign Affairs and Home Secretary have always been considered the “great offices of State” and the argument only could be made by simply ignoring Defence. The other great irony was the “feminist” attack was led by Blairites like Harman and Cooper, and failed to address the fact that Blair had NO women in any of these posts for a full ten years as Prime Minister.
But facts did not matter in deploying the organised feminist lobby against Corbyn.
Which is why it is an important test to see what the feminists, both inside and outside the Labour Party, would do when the leading anti-Corbyn rent-a-gob, Simon Danczuk, was alleged to have some attitudes to women that seem very dubious indeed, including forcing an ex-wife into non-consensual s&m and that rape allegation.
And the answer is …nothing. Feminists who criticised Assange, Sheridan and Corbyn in droves were utterly silent on the subject of Danczuk. Because the purpose of established and paid feminism is to undermine the left in the service of the neo-cons, not to attack neo-cons like Danczuk.
Identity politics has been used to shatter any attempt to campaign for broader social justice for everybody. Instead it becomes about the rights of particular groups, and that is soon morphed into the neo-con language of opportunity. What is needed, modern feminism argues, is not a reduction of the vast gap between rich and poor, but a chance for some women to become Michelle Mone or Ann Gloag. It is not about good conditions for all, but the removal of glass ceilings for high paid feminist journalists or political hacks.
Feminism has become the main attack tool in the neo-con ideological arsenal. I am sceptical the concept can be redeemed from this.
Oh, they cannot produce sperm, they are not as physically strong as men, they have different kinds of brains from men, women think in different ways from men, women are much better in nurturing all kinds of creatures then men, especially humans because of their production of milk, etc.
One could write a book, or perhaps several, on the differences.
Trowbridge H. Ford
12/01/2016 4:01pm
And why does that mean feminism is a utopian scheme? For example, why does it mean that women should not receive equal pay for performing the same work as men? That is a feminist principle, is it utopian? Is it wrong?
Incidentally, that’s all rubbish, as currently stated. The most you can say is that the majority of men are physically stronger than the majority of women, for example. Do you think there are no women in the world who are physically stronger than you?
Kind regards,
John
And what is Ms. Mensch if not a publicity seeking little girl who grew up too fast. Not an iota of understanding as to what Mr. Danzcuk has done and not a word of criticism, what a pathetic inconsequential squirt she leaves here.
PS. when you finished with WW2, yawn, how about a little navel gazing into the Boor war, or now there’s something, the Boxer war/uprising. Just because you have been spoon fed Nazi Germany doers not mean it has relevance to every subject here.
or does it, do tell.
Yup. It really is her:
https://twitter.com/louisemensch
More Louise Mensch please.
With enemies like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih_oXgnOPKE
Not exactly the greatest of minds.
here is something the war mongering Ms.Unmensch should take note off.
Why only the mad and deluded would replace Trident. Thanks to Rowan Bosworth Davies, great read, could not put it better myself.
http://rowans-blog.blogspot.co.uk/
Herbie
12/01/2016 4:10pm
The real Louise Mensch wrote that? Are you kidding? I thought it was a joke. This person was actually a Member of Parliament?
This is definitely worth joining Twitter for.
Kind regards,
John
Trowbridge H. Ford, I think you’ve misunderstood feminism; it argues for equality of treatment of men and women, not that there are no differences between the sexes.
They all expose themselves on Twitter, John.
That’s it greatest contribution to humanity.
Media and contemporary political folk are invariably dim.
You just don’t understand what ideologies are, J S-D.
Even misogyny is an ideology. And all ideologies like capitalism, socialism, nationalism, communism, etc. have all kinds of facts which don’t fit into their schemes.
Women cannot produce sperm, men cannot produce milk, etc.
But it doesn’t mean not treating them most similarly when it is convenient, and seems fair.
And I thought you had stopped communicating with me after your outburst over how Jacky Sutton’s family and friends had reacted to her forgotten murder!
Louise Mensch, 3:51 pm
Evidence please.
And Assange hasn’t even been charged, let alone being on trial as you so wrongly state.
And please note that hating you personally and hating women generally are two different things.
Herbie
12/01/2016 4:17pm
Well, blimey. I’ve learned something new today.
Thanks, John
You are certainly right about Assange, Clark, a man a lot like Bowie when it comes to sex, and a bit too careless about how he treated government secrets when he had them published in the media.
Trowbridge H. Ford
12/01/2016 4:19pm
I think I do, actually. Better than you do, possibly. However, if you would like to explain how feminism differs from “treating them most similarly when it is convenient, and seems fair”, that might be fruitful.
Can’t remember, sorry.
Kind regards,
John
The quitter Mensch stopped by to drool out the establishment line? How brave – really sticking her neck out there! Next thing we know, she’ll be talking in complete sentences!
Why would Ms.Mensch come here and disgrace herself on this blog with such squirt?
Is it because its one of the most popular political blogs around?
Is it because she wants to defend the non existence of feminist amongst her income bracket?
or is it because she was bored and looked for something to crow about?
Or is she fed up not getting her comments posted on the Guardian?
Sorry, Clark, didn’t see your post about feminism.
It has a utopian character too, as my sister demonstrates when she argues for a world without war-makers aka men.
Louise Mensch
12/01/2016 3:51pm
Louise Mensch, if you are reading this, and I am sure you are, because you would hardly be human if you were not, why don’t you come back and give us further benefit of your wisdom? After all, I am sure it will be child’s play to you to defend your position, you being a ex-Member of Parliament and all.
Or are you just going to spit, and run away to your friends on Twitter?
Kind regards,
John
When was Assange put on trial? Last I heard, the case was still only being investigated.
Equal treatment of all human beings! The feminist theory draws its remit form the mundane oppression of women that evidently goes unnoticed!
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Further to my contentions of police state US;
Ray McGovern the ex CIA analyst and political activist has been beaten up and arrested for staging a silent protest in Hilary Clinton’s rally!!!
This is coming on the heels of the Muslim female staging a silent protest in Trump’s rally whom was manhandled and ejected she was simply standing up, in her hijab (not the full face cover but a modest scarf on her head) with a yellow star denoting she is a Muslim!
These are the constructs of oppression that have come to be accepted as our way of life, and are being heavily defended by the keyboard so vociferously and copiously.
Louise Mensch, you see what you want to see:
https://twitter.com/LouiseMensch/status/686949954355605504
Actually, you just failed to notice that comments just started a new page.
If Das Mensch doesn’t know enough to go to pages after the first one, she may never see Clark’s comment.
Can someone with a Twitter account please inform Ms Mensch that her comment was in fact published?
I can attest to the police state character of the US when an agent of it tried to set me up for murder in early June 2013 by just knocking on my door in the middle of the night without any cause or notice, and then the same agent apparently trying to assassinate me two days later at the same time in a set up drug raid.
These actions are what official utopianism claims never happens.
She’s just accused Craig of not hosting her comment.
https://twitter.com/LouiseMensch/status/686949954355605504
He did.
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2016/01/feminism-a-neo-con-tool/comment-page-4/#comment-573159
She lied.
But, as I’ve said, she is rather dim:
“Louise Mensch adds yet another Twitter gaffe to her list”
“Louise Mensch has once again become the subject of much ridicule online over something she has tweeted. The incident occurred last night after the former Tory MP claimed Jeremy Corbyn’s supporters — who have recently been accused of being anti-semitic — were insulting Corbyn’s Labour leadership rival Liz Kendall.”
“Alas there was a catch. As each suggestion appeared next to an ‘x’, this means that the words were her own search history rather than the work of an evil Corbynista.”
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2015/08/louise-mensch-adds-yet-another-twitter-gaffe-to-her-list/
So she could use the “just stoopid” defence.
Yup.
More Louise Mensch, please.
At least till habby gets back.
Clark :
At 3.15, Louise Mensch’s comment appeared on this blog.
At 3.36 Louise Mensch complained on Twitter : “Oh what a surprise, Mr. Anti-Censorship Murray hasn’t printed my comment against himself and @wikileaks”
Therefore she lasted 21 minutes before talking bollocks. Apparently that’s quite good by her standards.
Clark: I wouldn’t want the slightest contact. To people like Mencsh, the world is very simple. There are nasty, horrible people who ought to be punished and so on, then there are nice people who like her tell her how wonderful she is, and who deserve the good things in life.
She can tell which is which immediately, or a nice person can explain to her which is which. End of story.
If she’s too stupid to figure out there’s more than a single page of comments (which is very likely), let her make a fool of herself by saying it wasn’t published.
Clark
12/01/2016 4:48pm
Just set one up and invited her back.
Kind regards,
John
JSD, thanks. Any idea why I don’t see it yet? Is the following link the right place to check?
https://twitter.com/louisemensch
No idea, give me a chance, I’ve only been on there three minutes!
Click Herbie’s link above.
J
Thought this was rather good:
“Silly @LouiseMensch gave up her Sun column for “a major new role at work”. But that role went to #JerryHall instead.”
https://twitter.com/davidaslindsay/status/686947031299014664
All references to “Barker Bagshawe” seem to have disappeared from Google.