Paxman

The Guardian now at last have an article on the Paxman issue.

And who better to write it than a feminist?

(Rather low key, though, isn't it?)

White, middle-class men are discriminated against in the BBC claims Jeremy Paxman.

Tell us something we didn't know!

This is a fairly biased article by the Times but it's refreshing to see men beginning to complain.

£25m divorce cost for Phil Collins.

Don't...

Get...

Married!

Dozens more rape victims have had their compensation payments cut because they had been drinking when they were attacked, it emerged yesterday.

"As far as we in the Government are concerned, a victim of rape is not in any way at all culpable due to alcohol consumption."

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A reader's comment ... "So. No matter how drunk, irresponsible or provocative her behavior and deportment she is never culpable? Unique law."

India Knight: Working mothers are society's scapegoats

The usual claptrap about how women are demonised for either neglecting their kids or being lazy stay-at-home mums.

Another whining feminist article about how women still haven't achieved equality in the workplace, decades after equal pay act.

Barry George: Innocent

Barry George has been acquitted of the murder of Jill Dando after serving 8 years in prison. The mountains of flimsy circumstantial evidence that the prosecution put forward didn't, in the end, amount to a pile of beans.

But why was he convicted in the first place, if the evidence was so dodgy?

1. Reels of undeveloped film. Only 2 pictures were of Dando, and these were taken from the telly. Did this mean he killed her?

2. A speck of ammunition on his clothes. But this could not be matched to the gun that killed Dando. Moreover, it could have been picked up in a number of innocent ways -- such as walking past someone painting. The gun that killed Dando could not be found.

3. The killer reportedly had long hair. But BG wore his short. He hadn't worn his hair long for a very long time. No wig was found. No wig merchant came forward to say he'd hired one out to BG, despite this being put out on Crimewatch.

My own feeling is that the original guilty verdict was the result of the chronic demonisation of men by the press. This gave the jury -- who are a sample from the impressionable public at large -- the lust for a conviction. (Or, of course, they were simply STUPID.)

This report by Frank Fisher explores the possibility of a Serbian connection behind the killing, involving some people in very high positions.

I would like to add that Frank Fisher is NOT a typical Guardian journalist. For a start, he is not politically correct. He frequently posts on CiF under the name MrPikeBishop and is well-respected by many posters, including myself. He is not afraid to get up feminists' backs or to tell it how it is.

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Top American columnist Kathleen Parker is causing a furore with her new book Save the Males, in which she argues that feminism has neutered men and deprived them of their noble, protective role in society

also see Jennifer Howze mock the article

Child Support Agency figures show that nearly one in five of the contested paternity claims it handled last year cleared the man originally named as the father.

"But, according to the CSA, there has not been a single prosecution of a mother for making a false claim."