by Les May
I AM not a feminist. I dislike feminism as a philosophical
stance, because I see no reason to privilege one section of society over another
and as a political stance it seems to me self serving, inherently reactionary,
intent upon perpetuating unfairness and hierarchies, and destructive of
personal relationships.
Now simply writing this is probably (certainly?) enough to
get me lumped with the men that Julie Bindel was writing about in her 2006
opinion piece for the Guardian, 'Why I hate men'. Seemingly writing that you 'hate' men is OK
but writing 'I hate EMOs or Goths or..' well fill in you own list here, could
get your remarks logged as 'hate crime'.
Perhaps the height of absurdity has now been reached when a
recent piece in the 'i' newspaper turned out to be an interview with a
'professional' feminist, a job which I assume is more lucrative and less tiring
than say working for Sports Direct or Amazon.
But whilst 'professional' feminists are still mercifully
rare, building a career around feminism is not.
I've already mentioned Julie Bindel who certainly falls into this
category, but she is almost unknown outside feminist circles. Much better known is Labour's Harriet Harman, she of the 'pink bus' and
cousin to David Cameron. The 'pink bus'
campaign did not go down well with some women as you will see from Ella
Whelan's comments at Spiked Online.
Harriet's silence on Simon Danczuk's past and recent
activities in Spain is telling and suggests she is a bit of a humbug. In 2002 the BBC reported:
'Crown prosecutors are to be urged to press on with
prosecutions in cases of domestic violence, even if the victim wants the case
dropped.
Solicitor General Harriet Harman is backing the move as part
of a range of measures to crack down on domestic abuse.
'It is about where the public interest lies when the
victim is insisting the case be dropped," she will tell a police
conference on domestic violence on Tuesday.
'She might want to forgive him, but the next time he
assaults her she could be killed.'
So why did she not speak up when the Mail on Sunday reported
at length in July 2015 on what Karen Danczuk's family claimed happened in Spain
in 2008. And why, after Mr Danczuk was
arrested in Spain recently following an incident which has striking
similarities with the 2008 incident, is she still silent?
And before anyone tells me that Mr Danczuk is suspended from
the Labour party at present and does not hold the Labour whip, you should know
that he is once again trying to sail his ship with a Labour flag, as you will
see if you check out his job advert.
Labour MPs have other things to think about at present, like
their holidays, but even if they are wise to keep their mouths shut about
Simon's recent constituency office tryst, the story Karen Danczuk told in the
Sun on Sunday only a few days ago merits a response. At least from a woman who was once a Labour
Solicitor General. Ironically it is a
group of men who were expelled from the Labour party who have made the link
between the events in Spain in 2016 and 2008, and want the fallout from the
latter re-opened.
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