Sunday, July 19, 2015

Chester and the Rise of the Prickademics

There are a couple of things that have come up that I want to talk about. It has been a quiet time and all of a sudden you get hit by stupidity right in the face and you go just what the f***

So firstly I want to talk about Chester and the issues raised by the Council refusing to renew the license after 9 years of operating without any issues. Now I do find it strange that a handful of people managed to shut down a club the way it happened in Chester but you do feel that everything was being judged on moral standards rather than if the business was a problem. Certainly the police raised no issues and that to me is always a clue when an existing club is up for it's license renewal. Really you have to question what is behind this awful decision by the council. I hate to see this, where councillors morals creep into their representation of the public. I firmly believe that unless you can get 3% of the population of a borough or city council against a club you can't really feel that people are even bothered. And there in lies the problem, apathy by customers not to stand up for their clubs assuming the council will approve venues. We need to be active in the defence of the clubs, dancers you need to be pushing customers to write in. So long as you state that you do not want your details released the council cannot publish your details just a redacted print out of the letter/e-mail.

The local online paper (here) has noted the club intends to operate as a Burlesque bar with 11 full nude nights every year under the TENs regulations. Whilst reading the article I noticed that Debbie Lomas of the Rainforest Shop who has been at the forefront of trying to close the club pretend that her heart goes out to the "girls". No it doesn't you are busy applying your moral standards to other people and that is just wrong. And I would say that the dancers are no girls, you belittle them Ms Lomas while portray them as infantile and unable to make decisions. Now if a man calls gown women girls he is a misogynist so I can only assume that most feminists will see Ms Lomas's statement as Misogynistic.
Nice to see that personal attacks are a thing of the past.
Now onto twitter which I continue to have a love/hate relationship with. But I did spot an absolute classic in a snippet between our statistics heroine Julie Bindel and Gail Dines. In the photo you will see the lovely terminology that is being used by these two lovely ladies to judge others just because the research done by these "Prickdemics" (had to add that to the dictionary) shows that the views held by radical feminists may not be as accurate as they would hope. It sort of shows that blanket ad hominem attacks can and will be used when any research dares challenge the articles of faith of radical feminism. Now if I was to attack the two ladies using this language I would no doubt be called troll or even accused of using threatening behaviour which I have never and in now way ever condone. I would challenge Ms Bindel on her "research" for her report for Glasgow council which I have done in the past and to Ms Dines I have read your thesis and sometimes a cartoon is just a cartoon. But I would never consider attacking their personalities or who they are, I just challenge the facts as they see them.

I was going to come up with amusing words to describe radical feminist journalists and academics but this would be sinking to their level and I have no need to do that as the facts are the facts and insulting those who produce them via peer reviewed research does not change the end results.

TonyN (tonyprince@acdcfan.com)

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  1. The Great Smell Of BruteJuly 19, 2015 at 11:09 AM

    Neologisms like 'prickademics' and 'orgasmic intellectuals' are just further examples of ersatz Marxist-Leninist dinosaurs like Bindel and Dines resorting to something close to chimp tactics, in order to try to leverage a little unearned power for themselves, by smearing anyone who agrees with their expressed views on sex work and porn. And Dines is being particularly hypocritical, in that she (along with Bindel) does the dirty work of that section of the elite which is currently attempting to curb civil liberties re sex work, porn and other forms of adult entertainment; one might even go as far as to describe her as a shill for religious fundamentalists and political conservatives, given the relatively long history of alliances between them and the radfems.

    Personally, I'd say it would be far healthier for undergraduates to be tutored by orgasmic academics than by non-orgasmic academics! ;-)

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    1. ChasmalJuly 19, 2015 at 11:53 AM

      You would assume those like Hardy and Saunders, Hubbard and Lister are those who would be labelled for daring to say anything that might rock the belief system Dines and Bindel seem to cling to. It is telling that the label is required by them rather than challenging any of the research they don't like.

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    2. The Great Smell Of BruteJuly 20, 2015 at 7:07 PM

      Bindel, Dines, etc., display the classic attitude of the orthodox in the face of 'heresy'.

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    3. ChasmalJuly 20, 2015 at 8:13 PM

      A belief system is the worse aspect of dealing with some of the more rad elements. Truth need not apply just vicious dogma.

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  2. The Great Smell Of BruteJuly 19, 2015 at 11:13 AM

    As for Debbie Lomas, her mawkish, emotive rhetoric as reported by the local press in Chester is typical of the hypocrisy of agency-deniers, who do their best to silence those affected by such activism whilst pretending to represent their best interests.

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    1. ChasmalJuly 19, 2015 at 11:55 AM

      Nothing like making out grown women are in fact children to create the belief they can't think. I can imagine what Ms Lomas would call me if I started labeling her as a girl.

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    2. The Great Smell Of BruteJuly 20, 2015 at 7:08 PM

      Probably something unprintable in the local press! :-D

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    3. ChasmalJuly 20, 2015 at 8:11 PM

      I wear the label well it seems.

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  3. The Great Smell Of BruteJuly 20, 2015 at 7:11 PM

    Oh, before I forget, Kate Smurthwaite was caught showing her true colours on Twitter recently, as reported by Sex & Censorship:

    http://sexandcensorship.org/2015/07/kate-smurthwaite-anti-sex-feminism/

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    1. ChasmalJuly 20, 2015 at 8:13 PM

      The great thing about this community is if one of spots something we do try to get it out there.

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    2. The Great Smell Of BruteJuly 20, 2015 at 9:51 PM

      To judge by the article, Smurthwaite behaved like a spoilt small child would when suddenly faced by a adult prepared to stand up to her latest strop; it's only a shame that Jerry didn't read out the Tweet and let her storm out as she threatened to.

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  4. AlanSJuly 23, 2015 at 4:20 PM

    Seems Eden Lounge in Exeter has lost its licence too.
    Surely this industry is in terminal decline.

    I'm glad I'm getting on a bit and saw the best of it while I was still relatively young.

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    1. ChasmalJuly 24, 2015 at 7:42 PM

      At the moment I not finding any confirmation but with a barrage of 16 objections it doesn't surprise me the council caved. The overwhelming numbers against the clubs... yeah I do feel like Canute at times.

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    2. The Great Smell Of BruteJuly 26, 2015 at 4:05 PM

      Personally, I wouldn't say that the industry is in terminal decline; rather, it's been hit by the same economic factors as the rest of the licensed trade. The Police and Crime Act 2009 has given the prohibitionists a little more leverage with Licensing Committees, but it hasn't led to the mass closures that the likes of Object were aiming for.

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    3. The Great Smell Of BruteJuly 26, 2015 at 4:41 PM

      The fact is that the prohibitionists pretty well lost the argument in public circa 2011-2012, and any licence renewals which are refused usually involve local politicians with an axe to grind and the spurious use of 'inappropriate location' as an excuse.

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    4. AlanSJuly 26, 2015 at 7:59 PM

      Maybe you're right.
      Perhaps I was just feeling pessimistic when I wrote that.

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    5. ChasmalJuly 28, 2015 at 11:35 AM

      As per my latest piece we need to mobilise the thousands of dancers and millions of men that go to venues. My spurious and lazy maths estimates around 2 million men will visit clubs of the course of a year, from the once a years to the 4 or 5 days a week. But we are often worried about the stigma associated with writing in. I haven't checked on Wrexham yet to see what they did with names but when only one e-mail of support is received it doesn't bode well.

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    6. The Great Smell Of BruteJuly 28, 2015 at 12:52 PM

      The religious lobby is quite strong in that part of Wales - it's hardly a hotbed of 'radical feminism'! - which ought to be bourne in mind, and is hardly representative of the rest of England and Wales. As we've already seen, dancer and customer activism is strongest in large cities, particularly London; perhaps it's unrealistic to expect people to mobilise in support of a new club in a medium-sized town which already has two.

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