A powerful piece by Peter Hitchens in today’s Mail on Sunday. I’ve left a comment, and urge you to do likewise. Thank you.

http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2013/06/so-much-for-fathers-day-in-a-country-where-fatherhood-is-dying-out.html

Some months ago we published a link to an interesting report by the Samaritans on the high suicide rate among disadvantaged British men in mid-life:

https://j4mbdotorgdotuk.wordpress.com/2013/02/12/why-disadvantaged-men-in-mid-life-die-by-suicide/

A contributor to ‘A Voice for Men’ wrote a remarkable critique of that report:

https://j4mbdotorgdotuk.wordpress.com/2013/02/24/a-mesage-for-poor-white-heterosexual-men/

Let’s consider a few facts:

1. Four out of seven unemployed people in the UK are men.

2. Men are far more likely than women to commit suicide after losing their jobs.

3. British men are three times more likely than British women to commit suicide.

4. As we reported recently, the recession has adversely affected male employment far more than female employment.

Adding all these facts together, how in God’s name could the government possibly justify its relentless focus on driving up the number of women in paid employment, but not the number of men? It couldn’t, of course. Its policies are leading to increasing male unemployment and therefore male suicide. In short:

Government policies in this area are killing men.

There are, of course, many areas in which the state, through its actions and inactions, kills men. Another – appropriately on this, Father’s Day – is the state’s continuing refusal to ensure men enjoy reasonable access to their children following relationship breakdowns. We shouldn’t be surprised that almost ten times as many men as women commit suicide after long-term relationship breakdowns. How much of this reality can be attributed to vindictive ex-partners denying fathers access to their children? I should be amazed if it were not a significant proportion.

The public sector has long been women’s preferred sector in which to work, and almost two-thirds of public sector workers are women. Yet the Equality Act (2010) allows public sector bodies to use ‘positive action’ – positive discrimination (which remains illegal) in all but name – to favour women over men in recruitment and promotion terms, thereby driving up the female employment rate and the male unemployment rate. The lunatics truly have taken over the asylum.

A recent article in The Atlantic about the suicide rate among middle-aged American men has been brought to my attention. It’s well worth reading:

http://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/05/whats-driving-the-rise-in-suicide-among-middle-aged-men/275792/

Tomorrow I’ll be meeting with a man in Bedford who leads a new group committed to supporting men suffering from depression. Young men, and disadvantaged men in mid-life, are the two groups with the highest suicide rate in the UK.

We’re starting to see the Telegraph publish more articles showing sympathy with abuses of men’s human rights. To mark Father’s Day, they’ve interviewed Louis de Bernieres:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/mother-tongue/fatherhood/10122543/Fathers-Day-Children-suffering-from-bias-against-men-says-Captain-Corelli-author.html

A new thought-provoking piece by an American lady blogger who’s well worth following:

http://judgybitch.com/2013/06/15/feminists-agree-at-least-in-theory-that-women-must-face-the-consequences-of-deciding-to-have-sex-no-abortion-no-adoption-no-safe-havens-and-if-you-dont-like-it-then-close-your-legs/

From time to time one encounters something which gives a glimpse into the extent to which states (72% funded by men, in the UK at least) and organisations such as the United Nations pursue feminist agendas by assaulting the cornerstones of civilised societies through their actions and inactions.

I’m indebted to CP for pointing me to a recruitment advert published on the European Consulting Network, on behalf of UNDP (United Nations Development Programme) and SEESAC (The South Eastern and Eastern Europe Clearing House for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons):

https://www.ecn-eu.com/news/14/06/2013/256goback=.gde_1900346_member_249757221

‘Gender Awareness Expert Trainer’. What will this mysteriously titled person do, you might well ask? From the ‘Background Information’:

UNDP/SEESAC is working closely with the Ministries of Defense in the Western Balkans on the implementation of the project ‘Strengthening of Regional Cooperation on Gender Mainstreaming in Security Sector Reform in the Western Balkans’, which was launched in 2012. The objective of the project is to mainstream gender equality in defense reform thus contributing to increased efficiency in the security sector in the Western Balkans.

Throughout its three years cycle, the project is supporting Ministries of Defense in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Republic of Serbia and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia in their efforts to improve access for women to the military profession, and increase the retention of female military personnel, thus contributing to the UN Security Council Resolution 1325, on women peace and security.

The Project is contributing to the achievement of the following results: 1) institutionalized and strengthened Gender Focal Points (GFPs) in MoDs and the armed forces; 2) improved recruitment and retention of women in the military, and 3) increased gender awareness of military personnel. In order to respond to specific needs of MoDs, project is designed in a way to allow activities at regional and at the country level in line with project outputs and taking into account country specific contexts.

In a sane world, viable candidates for jobs like this would be unemployable.

A short but intriguing piece, prompted by a press release from Save Indian Family Foundation (‘SIFF’) http://saveindianfamily.org:

http://www.moneylife.in/article/suicides-thousands-of-helpless-men-are-victimized-every-year-says-siff/33192.html#.Ubs7v1HDCyY.facebook

This piece – reported by the BBC – is one of those that hardly needs a comment from me. Another story for the ‘You couldn’t make this stuff up!’ file:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-22886668

I understand another team of researchers – also from Canada’s McMasters University – is currently engaged in a five-year study to discover whether or not grizzly bears and black bears defecate in woods. Keeps them out of the unemployment statistics, I guess.

Another story for the ‘You couldn’t make this stuff up!’ file, this time concerning a woman fired by CMC Markets, a company founded by former Conservative co-founder, Peter Cruddas:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-business/10119321/Female-executive-claims-City-firm-fired-me-for-being-a-woman.html

You have to ask yourself – why did the company hire her in the first place? Presumably she was a women then, too?

Nine days ago we set up a ‘crowdfunding’ campaign to raise £1,000 to fund another J4MB candidate for the 2015 general election:

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/justice-for-men-boys-and-the-women-who-love-them

The campaign has another 51 days to run (to 3 August) but donations have already reached £601. If we don’t reach the £1,000 target by 3 August, all donations will be returned to donors in full. If we pass the target before 3 August, any sums beyond £1,000 will go towards funding more candidates. We plan to field 30 candidates at the 2015 general election.

Earlier this morning we received a £200 donation from a pensioner, HS. His details aren’t shown on the website because he chose to stay anonymous, but his email address is visible to us, so I emailed him to thank him for the donation, and asked him if he’d like to explain the motivations behind it. He replied, and I have his permission to reproduce his reply here:

I’m a pensioner, and every year I set aside £200 from my pension payments to pay for a short holiday. I’ve got to an age – 84 – where I’m not as mobile as I once was, and I was in two minds about whether to have a holiday this year, or not. I decided I couldn’t think of a more worthwhile use for the money, than to help you fund another candidate at the next election.

I can barely contain my rage at what’s happened to British society over the past 50 years, and the past 30 in particular. A small minority of men-hating women declared war on men, and the state has helped them – and women in general – assault men (and boys) on so many levels. It continues to do so. I’ve seen a steady poisoning of relationships between men and women, which has led to the dysfunctional society we see all around us today. And it’s not only men who suffer. Most women and children suffer, too.

I’m sick to death of the constant assaults on men’s interests, and they get worse with each passing year. An example is the current crisis in the NHS, caused by a huge influx of female doctors (I believe 70% of medical students today are women). Most female doctors quit the profession, or work part-time, and refuse to work unsocial hours. The result is an ever-worsening service, for which the taxpayer pays ever more. The (Conservative) Health Minister Anna Soubry has the gall to say the ‘solution’ is to train yet more doctors (mostly women, needless to say) at a cost of £250,000 each. Most of the tax burden falls on men. THIS IS INSANE.

I see feminist thinking behind most, if not all, the assaults on men and boys. My grandson’s wife had an affair, the marriage ended in divorce, she ended up with the house and children – who adored their father – and while poisoning their impressionable young minds towards him, she denied him access to them even in the face of Custody Orders (which the courts wouldn’t enforce).

He’s been close to suicide quite a number of times (I can quite understand why the F4J member defaced a portrait of the Queen yesterday). We shouldn’t be surprised the suicide rate among British men is three times higher than that among British women. I don’t think most men’s suicides should be attributed to ‘failings’ on those men’s parts. Many of those men have simply reached the point where their lives have objectively become not worth living. The state tells men in distressing circumstances to go hang themselves. We shouldn’t be too surprised that so many of them do.

I’m a lifelong Conservative voter, but under David Cameron the party has been a disaster, following the feminist agendas of Harriet Harman and her like. Dear God, when you compare Cameron with Margaret Thatcher… I’ll end here before my blood pressure goes through the roof.

Thank you for all you’re trying to do for men and boys (and women and children in general). I don’t know if I’ll live long enough to see your party succeed in its aims, but I hope I do. Good luck.

I don’t mind admitting HS’s email brought a lump to my throat, and we thank him warmly both for his generosity, and for his explanation of why he donated the sum.

If you can make a donation to our campaign for more candidates in 2015, however small, I should be very grateful. We’re working hard to make the future brighter for men and boys (and the women who love them). Nobody associated with J4MB draws any income from donations. Thank you.

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/justice-for-men-boys-and-the-women-who-love-them

Thanks to SW for bringing people’s attention to a piece on Mail Online regarding today’s defacing of a portrait of the Queen by a F4J member:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2340991/Portrait-Queen-defaced-paint-Westminster-Abbey.html

F4J pointed out it wasn’t an official action by the group, and their spokesman said:

I would  support this act, but it is sad that he has to take such desperate  steps.

J4MB sympathises deeply with the situation faced by Tim Haries and so many other fathers denied access to their children. This is state-condoned emotional abuse of fathers and children, and it’s gone on for too damned long. It’s the #1 issue that supporters of J4MB, and our donors, are concerned about.