An interesting short article was posted by MRA London today, written by a male victim of domestic abuse. He has something in common with his ex-wife. Both are church ministers.

http://www.mralondon.org/2013/05/domestic-violence-fearful-silence.html

We wish this brave man a happier future, and hope he retains a relationship with his children, despite a family law system which will happily play to his ex-wife’s tune.

I read a newspaper report earlier this week to the effect that Laura Bates – who runs the feminist grievance factory ‘The Everyday Sexism Project’ – was delighted at Facebook’s response to pressure from her and other sour-faced angry whingers. Which cannot be good for men, and women not driven by misandry.

An excellent article posted yesterday on ‘A Voice for Men’ by Paul Elam:

http://www.avoiceformen.com/mens-rights/its-on/

I’m halfway through a week’s holiday in the north of Scotland – balmy weather almost every day so far – and checking on emails only every two or three days. Yesterday I received an email from someone working for the Channel 4 programme 10 O’Clock Live, hosted by David Mitchell and others. The email invited me to appear on tonight’s show, but I can’t get down in time, so I called to explain the position. I was told that the discussion tonight will now include Angela Epstein and Christine Hamilton, both of whom I admire, and Laurie Penny of the New Statesman, the proud holder of the nickname ‘Red Penny’. Should be interesting…

A startling new piece on ‘A Voice for Men’:

http://www.avoiceformen.com/feminism/feminist-violence/jodi-arias-survivor-t-shirt-sales-domestic-violence-teachable-moment/

An interesting article by Glen Poole of ‘Helping Men’ http://helpingmenblog.blogspot.co.uk appeared yesterday on ‘A Voice for Men’ (link below). It’s well worth reading, as is the discussion thread that follows it.

http://www.avoiceformen.com/men/mens-issues/reason-for-cheer-about-the-mens-movement/

My thanks to JT for pointing me towards a video from the legendary Canadian MHRA Karen Straughan, aka ‘GirlWritesWhat’ / ‘GWW’. It dates from March 2012 but somehow I missed it the first time around. As usual with GWW’s pieces, she covers far more territory than you might expect from the piece’s title. It’s well worth watching, as always with GWW. Enjoy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlvMAS_20K4

At around 21:30 GWW refers to, ‘men going their own way’. The term – often shortened to MGTOW – refers to an ever-growing cohort of men with each passing year. To find out more about the MGTOW phenomenon I recommend http://mgtow.com.

I’m writing to ask for your support with respect to an e-petition concerning a challenge of an initiative in Wales. It will you take under a minute to sign the e-petition, and you don’t need to be a resident of Wales to sign it.

The Welsh government is planning to introduce a framework for setting policies and allocating state resources in line with the now highly discredited theory that only men are perpetrators of Domestic Abuse/Violence, and only women are victims. The organisation ‘Healing Men’ is the principal petitioner of an e-petition relating to this issue, and Erin Pizzey was one of the first people to sign it. I’ve just signed it myself, and I would ask you and any other people sympathetic to this issue to do likewise. One small tip. If you live outside Wales you must click on the box ‘Find my location’ after entering your post code.

The e-petition:https://www.assemblywales.org/epetition-list-of-signatories.htm?pet_id=878

A related video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrAjrxaxUtg&feature=youtu.be

Thank you for your support. This is a very important initiative.

My thanks to the lady who brought this story to my attention. A Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/events/181795768644403/ has been posted with respect to events surrounding the proposal to introduce a Men’s Officer onto the Students’ Union Executive committee. Nathan Hoyle’s introduction to the matter:

Open letter to the University of Manchester Students’ Union

Last week, the Union held an assembly (as it does for new ideas), one of which was whether to introduce a Men’s Officer as a position on the Exec. Usually, this would be a panel of 20 students, picked on a representative basis (so e.g. 10 men, 10 women, ethnically balanced etc.). For some reason, with this issue, somewhat suspiciously the number of females on the panel outnumbered the men more than two-to-one, something the Union and Mancunion both failed to report…

I’ve posted the following comment:

It’s been over 30 years since I was a university student, but it appears that Student Unions have since become such important organisations that they now have Chief Executive Officers. Amazing. Yesterday I emailed the Student Union beds.su@beds.ac.uk at the University of Bedfordshire http://www.bedssu.co.uk which is centred in Bedford, where I’ll be standing as a prospective parliamentary candidate in 2015. I offered ‘a 30-minute presentation about the state’s ever-worsening assaults on the interests of men and boys’. I’ve just received the following email from the Student Union’s Chief Executive Officer, Michele Flynn Michele.flynn@beds.ac.uk:

Thank you for your email. This is not a proposal Beds SU has interest in pursuing.

Doubtless Ms Flynn consulted widely among both male and female students before coming to the decision to stop me giving a 30-minute presentation to students at her University. Or perhaps… here’s a crazy idea, but let me say it anyway… she didn’t?

An interesting article by Deborah Kendrick, an American former feminist, has been published on ‘A Voice for Men’:

http://www.avoiceformen.com/feminism/my-evolution-from-feminism-to-the-mhrm/#comments

If you don’t already subscribe to the website http://avoiceformen.com I strongly recommend you do so now. Barely a day goes by when an article doesn’t provide me with yet another piece of the gender politics ‘jigsaw’.