Getting Smashed in the Face by the Patriarchy!

PC Lydia Ward crumpled in a heap, face covered in blood is a sign of true justice and equality in a once sexist world. Isn’t it?

Trigger Warning – May offend women policemen. If you don’t like what you read, don’t criticise me, because I suffer from ITCD (Incapable of taking criticism disorder). If you do criticise me in spite of knowing about my disorder, then you have no respect and have probably upset Jesus.

I was chatting with a surgeon friend recently who was bemoaning the lowering of standards in the NHS. The medical students coming in are ‘cognitively insubstantial’, a great many are afforded extra time in exams because they would struggle to achieve the required standard without it. It likely doesn’t matter that much; robots will replace them all in a few short years, but in the meantime, we might expect some extra time added to our hip replacement surgery…what’s another few hours when you’ve waited 5 years already?

In January 2025, as massive blazes tore through the City of Angels, Los Angeles Fire Department’s diversity chief defended the use of DEI hiring practices saying that ‘you want to see someone responding to your emergency that looks like you’ and that if she, as a female, couldn’t carry a man out of a burning building then ‘He got himself in the wrong place’.

Just last week we saw PC Lydia Ward (understandably) screaming, sobbing and retching after being punched in the nose by an assailant at Manchester airport.

The Metropolitan Police Act 1829, which established the Met Police in London, did not include any provisions for women to serve as police officers. The initial force created by the Act was exclusively male, but that was before we ‘woke’ up to injustice and inequality. That was back in the bad old days, when we were all horrible sexists, preferring instead to protect and safeguard women as wives and mothers. PC Lydia Ward crumpled in a heap, face covered in blood is a sign of true justice and equality in a once sexist world. Isn’t it?

A recent government report on policing reveals a target of 50% female recruits, and they’re well on their way:

“The figure of 50,364 women in the 43 police forces achieved today means there are now more female police officers pursuing criminals and serving the public than since records began – making up 34.9% of the overall workforce. Of the recruits hired since April 2020, 42.5% (13,326) are women.

Reaching 50,000 female police officers is a really positive milestone. The uplift programme has seen many more women apply to join policing”

We should be embarrassed by this, not celebrate it. Despite appearances, not all police work involves arresting those who have misgendered someone online, baddies still exist, and policemen are at the forefront of the fight to protect us from them. This is men’s work.

True equality is not uniformity; it is in recognising the nature of something and arranging things such that this nature can flourish. Why do we balk at Lions pacing around in zoos, at circus bears, and at battery farming? Because we know that these creatures were not made for such things. I suppose there may be some Trans-Lions who like nothing more than lying in a glass cage being looked at all day, nevertheless, to do this to Tufty goes against his very nature. And we know it.

Well, unsurprisingly, we humans also have a particular nature as expressed by great champion of social justice