RedFem

Yesterday, For Women Scotland won a momentous victory at the UK's Supreme Court, where it was clarified that 'sex' within the Equality Act refers to biological sex. We discuss why men are so psychosexually unhinged about the outcome, as seen by the dismay and disbelief at a victory secured by middle-aged women, their subsequent crashing out online, and the fermenting of conspiracy theories relating the Gender Critical movement to the American evangelical rightwing because they cannot believe middle-aged women can win political vindications. How the court victory is retrospective justice for trans widows and every woman forced to call her perpetrator 'she' in court. And how all the man-crying about this win shows how transgenderism was almost entirely about reversing the gains of second-wave feminism. Plus, middle-aged women's unparraelled organising skills, JK Rowling as a benefactor for women’s rights, and how GC women will go down in history as political dissidents who won.

We discuss the new criminal and civil accusations levelled at former comedian Russell Brand, and social media influencer and pimp, Andrew Tate. Themes include: how globalisation means rapists can avoid state accountability, Brand’s artful dodger act turned Messiah-like guru, how camp is a performance designed to disarm, why women with financial independence are hated, and whether we think Tate and Brand will get away with their crimes.

State plans for online censorship are a form of DARVO. The same liberals who promoted transgenderism, and have not given two hoots about pornography, are now telling us they care about online misogyny. The BBC as the state's mouthpiece has harboured more child abusers than the average prison wing, but we are to believe these people want what's best for children and young people on the internet? The idea the MSM, police, and government will wield censorious powers in a benign and benevolent way is incredibly unlikely. We discuss the crisis in the MSM and Labour government as they increasingly lose their once prized monopoly over mainstream narratives and their attempt to re-establish the censorship they had before Elon bought Twitter.

What sort of online censorship would we want? Why is the focus of the impact of online misogyny mainly about boys? Plus, the matronising PMCs inability to accept the vibe shift post-Trump, Sussex university’s £580k fine for not allowing free and open discussion of transgenderism, Surrey Pride founder’s sex offences against children, progressives view of history leading to euthanasia, the emptiness of Starmerism, and Hannah calls for Kim Leadbetter to be tried at The Hague. 

We review heralded new Netflix show Adolescence and give our criticisms about its depiction of the cause of male violence against women being, primarily, that boys aren’t loved and supported enough by men. Referencing Victoria Smith’s book ‘Unkind’, we reflect on the myth that violent men are misunderstood men who have not received enough kindness. 

Why was it such a sympathetic portrayal of a murderous boy? And where are the equivalents for crimes committed overwhelmingly by women, such as Munchausen syndrome by proxy? Why promote the myth that violent men are under loved and under appreciated? Also, the idea male violence against women is a problem of a lack of bonding between men is an odd one, when male bonding and their fraternity is the very basis of patriarchal rule over women that produces MVAW in the first place. 

Plus, the internet as a ‘thief in the night’, fathers general lack of involvement in child rearing, the role of families modelling behaviours to children that are carried on into romantic dynamics later on, the responsibility of mothers to discipline sons, the impact of porn consumption at a young age, our hyper-sexual culture brought about by liberals, and the obvious need to ban young children off social media platforms.

Sections of the UK radical-liberal Left are doing somewhat of a u-turn on woke identity politics. Why now? We discuss the total unwillingness of the Left to acknowledge feminist arguments, woke scolds unwavering loyalty to pretending men are women, and the continued ham-fisted burial of the UK Left by their own hand (with some GC exceptions). We ask how anyone interested in politics could have been willing to promote mind-numbing woke discourse for so long? Why did it take such a scale of defeat to realise transgenderism was not going to be a winning ticket to unite the working-class? Especially after so many gender critical leftists warned them for years? What will happen to the radlib Left when Reform win the General Election in 2029? Plus, Novara Media’s opposition to the Cass Review, Channel 4’s buried BLM footage, Bernie Sanders’ former anti-mass immigration stance, the Left's problem with presuming themselves superior, sunk cost fallacies, and The Democratic Party in disarray. 

The Tate brothers have fled Romanian for the United States, leaving their combined half a dozen daughters behind, and avoiding their pending trial for rape, assault, and sex trafficking minors.

Their case exemplifies the phrase 'justice delayed is justice denied'. Will they now reinvent themselves away from being pornographers, pimps, and professional criminals? Plus, the Tates status of persona non-grata in the American conservative movement, why the Romanian state has effectively let them go, and their combination of sadism, narcissism, and Machiavellianism.

We review Victoria Smith's new book '(Un)kind: How 'Be Kind' Entrenches Sexism'. We discuss the overarching expectation on women to “be kind” and its implications, such as making space for men in women's spaces, disagreeing with men a cardinal sin, and women as virtuous only if endlessly forgiving. Other themes of the book discussed are the concept of "himpathy”, women’s kindness as transformative for men, women's kindness when tied to sexual access, and how the "be kind" mantra helps to secures male dominance in social interactions with women. Plus, examples of famous men being absolutely unkind and never being policed for it, men as ‘sexual communists’ when it comes to wanting an equality of sexual access according to sex as a supposed need, JD Vance’s excellently unkind grandmother, men's rage when women say “no", and how adherence to ‘be kind’ explains why more women than men supports trans rights, despite transgenderism not being in women's interests and very much in men's interests.

Belle Gibson is an Australian woman who faked surviving several bouts of terminal cancer, and has become the subject of a Netflix dramatisation of those events, entitled Apple Cider Vinegar. Gibson became famous for her nutrition app The Whole Pantry, after claiming to have cured her cancer through healthy eating. We discuss what makes people fake having cancer, the understanding between illness and morality, and New Age lifestyle moralism as a kind of feminine personal policing. Plus, how caring for the sick as a cultural value is not universal, Münchausen syndrome and the accruing of medical evidence, radical feminism's promotion of naturopathy, Trump’s diet, veganism, placebos, and traditional Chinese medicine.

In this pop culture episode we discuss reality TV star and social media influencer turned multimillionaire businesswoman Mollie-Mae, as an 'everywoman' archetype. That leads to a discussion about class-based differences in beauty standards, the modern norms of breakup culture, and co-parenting arrangements. Plus, the difficulty of committed romantic relationships across cultural divides despite globalisation making it more possible than ever, insights from couples therapist Esther Perel, and the expectations on famous women to keep up with trend cycles as age.

We discuss the cycle of women being put on psychiatric drugs over the last seventy years, typically a trend of SSRIs and then switching to stimulants, and its relationship to femininity. The internet has caused many women to self-diagnose due feeling there is something wrong with them and then seek out the diagnosis. Many women, against all observable evidence, feel inadequate and that their must be something wrong with them if feel unable to keep up with the demands of motherhood or the increasingly hostile work environments of late capitalism. From the popular rise of Prozac to today's methamphetamine shortage, we discuss some of the reoccurring themes women describe when seek medication to "feel better".

Plus, why women and girls are often told they "talk too much" (especially when good communicators), the never ending treadmill to nowhere of femininity, being outside the social fabric as a gay person, how economic demands create social avenues, the denial of social construction in gender norms amidst declarations of nature, and the problem with Twin Studies.