The Anti Feminist Liberal

" I’m on the way home from a long trip that included three separate flights each way. In most of these flights, I saw this family seating pattern over and over: Parents in adjacent aisle seats, with the kids next to the woman. That left the man free to drink or sleep, while the woman handled all the child care. This seemed to me like such a powerful illustration of the patriarchy in action. I guess when you have kids, only men get vacations. " So writes one woman seeing the patriachy bogeyman everywhere. These sorts of posts always make me smile as they are invariably written by young woman who have yet to have children themselvs. They are looking at family life, through naivety, a child's position, and seeing things from an very limited view point. The thing is having children is a huge upheavel in your life. The life that you knew before, care free (taking long trips with three seperate flights each way for example) doesn't really exist anymore. It can do but it...

A new sensation has oppened in Australia, a women's only night club. That's right men are denied entry based purely on gender. The club is called The Black Out Room and takes place in The Aberdeen Hotel , in Perth. The comments on Facebook have been, well not entirely happy about things. This has galvanised the two women, running the club, into a defiance.  This is not the first time that Australia has set up openly misandrist venues. There was a vegan cafe, "Handsome Her" which opened up in Melbourne in 2017 which openly charged men more to use the cafe. Men enjoyed an 18% surchage to cover the widely debunked Gender Pay Gap. 2 Years later and Handsome Her had to close down . It feels that running a business is tough enough but is even harder if you are openly discriminating against 50% of your potential customer base. The thing is, these ventures force us to ask what sort of society we want to be. If we are going to be truly equal rights, then we need to practise w...

  The problem with lived experience is that it's often proffered as evidence as to why a certain thing is the way it is. Feminist circles often use this to push the narrative that "All men are trash". Page after page of how awful men have been are offfered and it shows a compelling picture. The thing is that this "lived experience" is not really evidence of anything. We all know the odds of winning the UK national lottery are approximately 1 in 14 million . This is the equivalent of tossing a coin and getting heads 21 times in a row. It's extremely unlikely, yet there were 383 winners in 2024 . The majority of people will accept that winning the lottery is extremely unlikely. However if you are in a large enough population then there will likely be a few lottery winners there. "It's really unlikely you will win the lottery", "Well I did!", "Yes and so did I". It starts to feel that those incredibly long odds are actually mo...