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.
Just asked Jess Phillips what she thinks about her colleague Simon Danczuk’s misogyny and she replied that it disgusts her. I’m no fan of hers but Craig should also know she doesn’t have a Porsche Cayenne as claimed in a previous article.
J R Tomlin, women either did have those rights before feminism or they aren’t rights (eg abortion, a crime against humanity).
The word “misogyny” is a dead giveaway you’re dealing with “them”.
Chris
08/01/2016 8:27pm
At one time married women did not have the right to keep their own property, it became the property of their husband. That does not mean that it is not a right that they should be able to keep it as a matter of law.
Kind regards,
JOhn
Feminism is and always has been a political tool.
http://www.israelshamir.net/English/Pussy_Riot.htm
Welcome Home Craig – well it is your blog. I was going to write something about this feminist stuff or merely point you to people like Gilad Atzmon..who will explain how the very fight by women from 100 years ago..just to get the vote in the UK…has been hijacked by the Neocons and Their Exceedingly Experienced Brainwashers to make life far worse for most Women and Men – and make the entire process of voting a farce.
Instead I will write about a journalist who wrote in the Guardian an article about conspiracy theorists…that got published…
Clever bloke – he is crossing the divide.
Most journalists are afraid do this – writing the Truth – cos they think they will get fired.
Tony
Is getting the vote such a big deal.
Common consensus seems to think so.
Remember, the mass of men didn’t get the vote much earlier than women.
Interesting that that isn’t so well known.
But anyway, the era of mass suffrage is also the era when mass propaganda really begins to take hold.
It’s also an era in which elites delegate their representation in parliament.
It’s also an era in which the Intel agencies really come into their own.
It’s also an era in which the economic policies of both main parties are broadly similar. And so it remains today.
So, what’s the vote worth in such a heavily managed system.
Herbie
08/01/2016 9:05pm
Perhaps it’s cause and effect, Herbie. The era of mass suffrage was the era that it became more necessary than ever to control the public mind.
Kind regards,
John
Old Mark; “Macky- DILLIGAF ?”
Your type never does.
Here’s a very good piece by Robert Parry, with lots about Neocons;
http://consortiumnews.com/2016/01/04/how-obama-enables-atrocities/
“Perhaps it’s cause and effect, Herbie. The era of mass suffrage was the era that it became more necessary than ever to control the public mind.”
Absolutely!
Didn’t want to put it so explicitly myself.
Simply, elites delegated their interests to a managed system.
Old Mark
The situation here and now in Germany bears no resemblance to Rotherham what so ever. The Koln police chief has been sent into early retirement so one wonders what he knows that we don’t about the strange and infectious goings on. Perhaps you (old Mark) are not aware of how very contentious Ms Merkels refugee policy is here and the crisis in her coalition with much debate now about deporting criminal asylum seekers. With 3,000 refugees per day crossing the boarder into Bavaria and with all this crap in the news Ms Merkel is clearly in a fix but in my opinion she deserves a noble prize for Humanitarianism if such a thing exists!
RE what went on in Cologne on New Year’s Eve: I don’t have any first hand reports of it, and what’s being reported in the news fits the official narrative, so of course I am suspicious of it.
Here’s something that is fact…
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/the-womens-blog-with-jane-martinson/2012/oct/29/rape-military-shocking-truth
After 2013 most mainstream media reports about widespread rape in the military suddenly stopped.
If they’re raping that many of their own than how many are they raping in places like Iraq and Afghanistan?
Aw, Tommy Sheridan, encourager of grassing against poll tax rioters, has no money. If he hadn’t shoved so much cocaine up his nose, he might have some. Maybe his friend, big-time gangster Paul Ferris can give him some?
“The attack on Jeremy Corbyn over the makeup of his shadow cabinet was a classic example.”
Yes.
They omitted to mention that several women had just resigned from the shadow cabinet because Corbyn wasn’t right wing enough for them. Maybe someone has got the time and energy to name and count them?
The proportion of top Labour Party women at that time who were right wing (pro-Trident, pro-war, pro-cuts, pro-Zionist, pro-the City of London, pro-US and Tory in all but name, like Tony Blair) was higher than the proportion of top Labour Party men. Why should the party leader appoint a lot of right-wing arseholes just because they’ve got tits?
It became necessary to control the public mind not only to get votes, but also — and more importantly — to motivate the public to fight the wars the elites wanted.
Universal suffrage, mass propaganda, and increasing moderation of the cruelty of laissez-faire all happened in the age of mass armies.
Now that the age of mass armies has passed, they are all, except for the propaganda, withering away.
There was talk on a recent thread on how nonscientific considerations affect government declarations on science. The new U.S. government dietary guidelines were influenced by heavy lobbying, as this article in Government Executive illustrates: http://www.govexec.com/management/2016/01/fight-over-federal-dietary-guidelines-settled/124970/?oref=river
I’ve been trying to find a link to a complete version of a documentary called ‘The Invisible War’, which is about the epidemic of rapes in the US military. I can’t find any link to it, so here’s a Democracy Now piece about this documentary…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAKiCdD0hkE
The Democracy Now piece dates back to 2012. All reporting on this issue has been completely shut down for the last two years.
And you’re still under the delusion that you don’t live in a police state..?
@RobG
Be aware that the Cologne story was launched in the US by none other than Pamela Geller.
Here she is, boasting about her role.
Her effort is named “Atlas” after the novel Atlas Shrugged by the Malthusian nutcase Ayn Rand.
If anyone reading this doesn’t know who Geller is, please click the link. I could describe how disgusting and also how important she is, but best you find out for yourselves.
@RobG – Regarding the film Invisible War you are looking for, I don’t know whether you can download torrents…
…e.g. searching for what you want on a site such as http://www.kickass.to,
having browsed there using Tor if your ISP tries to stop you getting there when you use a normal browser,
and downloading the file using a program such as Vuze or MuTorrent.
But if so, you’ll find it – there are torrents available, for free.
O/T
Stage-managed for maximum damage.
https://alittleecon.wordpress.com/2016/01/07/the-bbc-admits-it-co-ordinated-in-advance-the-on-air-resignation-of-stephen-doughty/
Kind regards,
John
Excellent Robert Parry article, thanks, Macky.
Also, “Faux-Feminists are like the “Humanitarian Bombing Left”, pretending to be something they are not, to advance another agenda, and normally are very easy to spot.” Macky.
Spot on.
I feel Craig’s headline is inaccurate. I do not think one can say that “feminism is a neo-con tool”. The neo-cons and those who service and promote their agenda will use everything and anything as tools – it is a postmodern ideology – and so one might as well say, “nationalism is a neocon tool” (true, in some circumstances), “religion is a neocon tool” (alos true, in some situations), “identity politics is a necon tool” (same, again), “socialism is a neocon tool” (ditto)… This is what capitalism has done more generally, is it not? Successfully incorporated everything ranged against it into its overarching narrative. Neoconia is simply the most pointed aspect of the architecure.
Summerhead,
I have no doubt any prominent feminist will be prepared to denounce Danczuk in private when directly challenged to do so. It in no way lessens the contrast with their sustained public campaigns against Assange, Sheridan and Corbyn.
It is Stella Creasy with the Porsche.
Suhayl Saadi; “This is what capitalism has done more generally, is it not? Successfully incorporated everything ranged against it into its overarching narrative. Neoconia is simply the most pointed aspect of the architecure.”
Very true about Capitalism, but the Zionist component of “Neconia” is what really sets it in its own Venn Diagram, overlapping mostly, but not in whole with that of Capitalism. Capitalism has had a lot longer to wreck havoc than Neocon-Zionism, but the latter is making up for lost time very fast.
Craig, maybe it’s the post-Christmas thing, but I must confess I’m still trying to get my head around your original post here.
To be exact, I’m not sure what you mean by ‘feminism’ (which is is seen by some as a highly charged political term). We all know that both male and female hacks are paid to write propaganda for the MSM; and we all know the quite unprecedented attacks there’s been on Corbyn (I’ve never seen anything like it in my lifetime).
I’ve started something that I don’t have the energy to finish at the moment; so on to Laura Kuenssberg, one of your favourite journos (ha!), and stuff that went on shortly before last Wednesday’s PMQs…
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/jan/08/bbc-stephen-doughty-daily-politics-laura-kuenssberg
N… thanks for the links. Did you and I know each other way back in the early days of the internet? and did we share a glass of Burgundy?
ExExpat 4.45pm
“Is Laura Kuenssberg another feminist too?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-35258182”
Are you referring to Laura ‘let’s arrange a live on air resignation’ Kuenssberg ?
That’ll have earned her a nice wee bonus from The Firm, caught out or not.
Nice call on this Craig, even the sleepiest amongst us must have wondered about the silence of the harpies re. the directed new years abominations, & Simple ‘I like them young’ Simon.
Almost irrelevant obvs, but weren’t any geezers given the festive bums rush by our new enemy ?
I live in Bavaria, I have a 12 year old girl, have a bloody igloo being built against my wishes 500m from me, and am bricking myself. It is right on my mountain biking route to an Alpine foothill where I can see the wonderful skiing areas right before my doorstep. These people will be located in an inhumane plastic tent and I guarantee there will be trouble.
I’m practicing martial arts every single day. I am ready if they come.
“These people will be located in an inhumane plastic tent and I guarantee there will be trouble.”
I’m practicing martial arts every single day. I am ready if they come.
Yes Jeremy you must stop them.
Word of warning these local people/right wingers might do a bit of that too and they are mad as a box of frogs, best is to get together with the refugees and stop them from freezing to the hillside.
Don’t let the Bavarians simulate British air attacks in Syria on that igloo, that would be really sick.
Jeremy, the government are more likely to come for you than the immigrants.
Yes Jeremy it’s the eskimos that pose the greatest threat – coming over here taking our snow….