The former beauty queen who married into a £5 Billion Pharmaceutical fortune and became Britain's richest woman
A perfect example of how, even though women are given all sorts of encouragements and advantages in their education and work lives, they are still often making more money from their looks, and out of men, than they are from hard work and inventiveness. In other words they are simply attracting pre-existing wealth, rather than generating any new wealth.
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To anyone reading this post; do you think it'd be a good idea to make an exact record of how many of our posts are being published?
I can't help wondering how other people are getting on, particularly with the Daily Mail.
Lib -- they've NEVER posted anything I've put forward, and over a period of years.
I suggest you join Cif, the Guardian's Comment Is Free. They are much better than the D.M.
Moreover, there are now a good few men supporting men's rights, amongst which you'll find myself (under the same username), SaveTheMales, TheTrashHeap, JayReilly, as well as one CharlesHenry (whose style is unmistakeable).
Since about 2000-2001 I've been a lone voice on talkboards on men's rights. I'm delighted to see that more men are now joining in. I believe this is a good way to raise awareness of our case to politicians and journalists, and to try and win more support -- from both men and women.
I regularly post on the guardian's CIF under the name WizardKing. I have to hand it to the guardian; their moderators don't censor many/any of the posts. The Daily Mail, however, only publishes about 5% of my comments. In fact, they probably only published a recent comment because I called men who pay for sex 'idiots'.
Surely the Mail must be overwhelmed with anti-fem comments but choose to ignore them. I'm outraged by this, particularly as Daily Mail readers are more likely to be sympathetic to our cause.
I think something must be done about this. Perhaps we should write a joint complaint? Threaten to set up a website or something?
I wanted to write a complaint before, but they're a crafty bunch of monkeys. I could find no email address to write to. (Maybe if I searched another half-hour I might have stumbled on some page showing an address in very small print. But I did search a while and found nothing.)
An easy answer would be provide a link to the article here (as we do normally) and then post the posting.
But how many people would see it is hard to say.
(And my apologies to Darren, for using his bit of space here!)
I think the Guardian's CIF section is so big that they are unable to moderate it, or only very slightly moderate it. Whereas there are a far more limited number of Daily Mail comment opportunities, and therefore they are able to filter more carefully. Why should they be filtering 'anti-feminist' comments given that these might be seen as congruent with their editorial philosophy? Maybe their main moderators are women? Maybe they pick up on people who comment repeatedly, in order to filter out those they consider to be focused activists. If the later is the case then one may be able to get around it by having multiple email addresses.
I think the Guardian's CIF section is so big that they are unable to moderate it, or only very slightly moderate it.
Or maybe they've got an eye on one or two "troublemakers". (Such as myself, who has different views to the writers that I comment on.)
Just today one of my postings did not appear. Was it because I used the word "grillox" (as a substitute for "bollocks", in reference to something one of our feminist friends was saying)?
I changed "grillox" to "hogwash" to see. The posting still didn't appear.
Or maybe it was the French sentence I used at the bottom, for effect? (I said "Vive la difference mes amis", in reference to the fact we should be rejoicing that men and women are different.)
I removed this, and my posting finally appeared.
But here's the rub. I've known other posters to use longer sentences in French, with words less well-known than in mine. Their postings were not banned.
"Maybe they pick up on people who comment repeatedly, in order to filter out those they consider to be focused activists. If the later is the case then one may be able to get around it by having multiple email addresses."
It doesn't matter if you use a different email address because your IP number will be the same every time. Unless, of course, you use a proxy server but that's not full-proof.
It REALLY fucks me off because I put a considerable amount of time and effort into article comments, only for them to be blocked by some (no doubt) young female moderator.
I say that we complain - if we can find the necessary contact email - and threaten to widely publicise our dissatisfaction.
"It doesn't matter if you use a different email address because your IP number will be the same every time. Unless, of course, you use a proxy server but that's not full-proof."
I did wonder whether they go by IP address or email, and I spoke to someone who had the same problem (not getting his posts published), who got around it by using multiple email addresses. So I suspect they just look at the email addresses, not IPs.
I've tried using different names/emails on many occasions and they still don't publish any of my comments. I can only assume that they must have the ability to read your IP.
I say that we complain - if we can find the necessary contact email - and threaten to widely publicise our dissatisfaction.
I agree with this.
I propose this plan. Next time there's an anti-male report, or a report on an anti-male policy put forward by the government, we write in our views to the blog concerned.
If any are not posted, we write a complaint to the paper (or other media organisation) concerned, expressing our anger. We also post the unpublished view here under the article from the paper concerned, and we provide a link to our posting here in our complaining email.
Where there's no email address to write a complaint to, we simply post here below the article. (You can't squeeze blood out of a stone.)
I agree with your plan Brussels. And I'm sure we'll find an email address through which we can complain. You never know, the moderator might be reprimanded.
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