BY FRANK HAVILAND
I have a confession to make: I’m a misogynist. At least, I certainly hope I am in the eyes of those who pontificate on such things, and clearly have no idea what the word actually means. I know that women don’t have cocks; that they are distinct from men; and that they are unlikely to best men in almost any endeavour, unless the men are sufficiently hamstrung by the rules of engagement. By all means, let’s have the debate on that – but I warn you, I wrote the goto book on the subject, and I’m all out of chivalry and kid gloves just now.
I’m an inveterate misogynist when it comes to the Jess Phillips of this world – those who would criminalise misogyny, given half a chance. I have no objection to ‘hating’ women where appropriate either, criticising them when they are wrong (Zac Polanski, you’re a prick), explaining things on the rare occasions I actually know something (sorry, ‘mansplaining’), and generally treating them equally – as the feminists claim they desire.
The ‘plan’ to deal with people like me (not the rapists and murderers, obvs), is to tackle misogyny head-on in the playground. Concerned that toxic ideas are ‘going unchallenged’, our beneficent Labour ‘government’ has dragged itself away from Netflix repeats of Adolescence, and unveiled plans to send boys as young as 11 on ‘anti-misogyny’ courses if they exhibit ‘toxic’ or ‘harmful’ behaviours. What behaviours you ask? Sharing intimate images and showing violence towards siblings – so that’s basically every teenage boy you’ve ever met.
How convenient: if everyone’s guilty of misogyny, no one’s guilty of it; perhaps that’s the point?
‘Empowering’ teachers to call out misogyny sounds great, but this is schools remember – those misandry factories which pass for an education system in Britain. Only 35% of secondary school teachers are men, dropping to a paltry 15% in primary schools. Examinations are designed to favour girls’ proclivity for coursework – boys fare much better on pure exams – but that hardly matters, as boys are given inferior marks for the same piece of work anyway. There is increasingly zero risk-taking behaviour allowed in schools, and for those who insist on displaying a bit of ‘toxic masculinity’, there’s always the prescription of Ritalin to shut them up. In short, an education system designed by women for girls. Is it any wonder boys spend much of their first 18 years of life being taught to hate themselves?
The only time the education system encounters genuine misogyny – in the form of Welsh choirboys like Axel Rudakubana – the entire system shuts down those trying to ‘call it out’. Acorns headteacher, the exceptionally courageous Joanne Hodson, repeatedly raised concerns that Rudakubana had to be regularly searched for knives because he displayed neither emotion nor remorse, and was “very high risk”. She was dissuaded however from referring to him as “cold and calculating” and “sinister”, as this would be racially profiling ‘a black boy with a knife’.
This is the sickness at the heart of the western world at the moment – the ‘settled’ liberal hegemony that screams, no one is allowed to be discriminated against – even those crying out for it.
You can’t say women make the best mothers, that Asians are good at tech, or that blacks commit a healthy portion of crime. And yet, with all that lovely equality going round there’s still no end of inequality. The solution? Manoeuvre the white, working-class into the dock – preferably the men and boys; the one demographic that the establishment feels comfortable with giving a good kicking.
This latest attempt to eradicate misogyny, or VAWG (violence against women and girls) is the brainchild of none other than Jess Phillips, Minister for Safeguarding and Violence Against Women and Girls, self-appointed spokeshag for feminism, and misandrist-in-Chief. May I remind you ladies and gentlemen, this is the woman who repeatedly blocked a national inquiry into grooming gangs, insisting local ones were plenty – anything to keep the spotlight off the Pakistani-Muslim men who raped thousands of working-class girls in Labour towns. This is the woman who snubbed Oldham councillors begging for help, delayed the Home Office grooming report for political convenience, and watched four survivors quit her taskforce in fury, accusing her of gaslighting them to bury the truth. This is the woman who widened the inquiry to ‘general child abuse’, the moment survivors pointed out the glaring ethnic patterns. This is the woman, whose Birmingham Yardley majority is the wafer-thinnest of wafer-thins at just 693 votes. But don’t worry, I’m sure she’s hovering right over the target now.
So, let’s summarise: Having spent the past three decades accusing white, working-class girls of prostitution to cover up their failures on immigration, they are now laying the blame at the door of white, working-class boys – children who were not even born when Blair et al concocted this treason against the British people, and forced them to fund it themselves.
Here are the facts, like them or not: the UK now logs over 70,000 rape offences a year, with London alone clocking a reported rape every hour – though the true figure is far higher because most go unreported. Foreign nationals, just 9% of the population, account for 15% of rape convictions; Afghan men are 22 times more likely to be convicted of rape than British-born lads. Grooming gangs that raped thousands of working-class girls were overwhelmingly Pakistani-Muslim operations, yet inquiries still dance around the ethnic patterns like they’re vote-losers. We’ve imported honour killings (around a dozen a year), a surging acid-attack epidemic, and female genital mutilation affecting 137,000 women and girls – practices that were vanishingly rare here before mass immigration from certain corners of the world. Sweden went from a low-crime paradise to Europe’s rape capital in lockstep with its open-door policy, and Britain is following the same grim trajectory. I’ll give you two guesses as to why that might be, and if you think it’s the ’misogyny’ of 11-year-old schoolboys, you might just be part of the problem.
So call me a misogynist by all means, but I have to say when Jess Phillips claimed “If the only crime that I had to concern myself with halving was that committed by people who arrive in our country, my job would be considerably easier”, the response must be a gargantuan “fuck you”.
We see you. We know what you’re doing. You and your ilk conspired to create this problem. The one thing you absolutely will not be allowed to get away with is blaming the nation’s daughters for acquiescing to these despicable crimes, and the nation’s sons for somehow committing them while in utero.
Frank Haviland is the Editor of The New Conservative, and the author of The Frank Report from where this article has been republished.