Three days before Father’s Day, it was good to read the following article by Jan Moir in today’s Daily Mail:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2340677/Why-does-TV-portray-dad-dimwit.html
As Swayne O’Pie points out in Why Britain Hates Men: Feminism Exposed, all the male characters in The Simpsons are dysfunctional, all the female characters admirable. The same is true for many other shows including Family Guy in which the dog, Brian, is an alcoholic.
An interesting piece by Louisa Peacock in last Monday’s Daily Telegraph:
The article starts:
The number of women in employment since 2008 has increased by more than a quarter of a million, a 1.2% net rise, while the number of men in work has dropped by 70,000, a 0.4% net fall, a study of official labour market data has shown. The analysis by The Jobs Economist, an employment consultancy which publishes the research today, claims the widespread assertion that women have been more adversely affected by austerity and job cuts than men is wrong. Dr John Philpott, director of The Jobs Economist, said he can see no reason why the Government is focusing on trying to help get more women back to work when men appear to have been worst hit by job cuts.
We applaud Dr Philpott, a professional economist, for being a rational voice in the midst of a relentless media narrative in which women are invariably presented as being disadvantaged. His blog’s here http://thejobseconomist.blogspot.co.uk and the following recent post relates to this particular matter http://thejobseconomist.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/do-workless-women-deserve-more.html?m=1
My thanks to FN for drawing my attention to an interesting news item from Canada. Try to ignore the uninformed comments about MHRAs by the (male) journalist. This is surely a sign of things to come, on both sides of the pond (and elsewhere):
A few months ago we posted a public consultation document detailing 18 areas in which men and boys are assaulted by the actions and inactions of the state:
https://j4mbdotorgdotuk.wordpress.com/our-public-consultation-exercise-2/
We invite feedback to the document, and suggestions for other areas to address. To make the task of engaging with feedback manageable, we ask for a minimum £20 donation to party funds for the opportunity to submit feedback and have it considered by myself. I personally read and consider all feedback very carefully, and if the person providing the feedback wishes it, I engage in email exchanges and/or phone discussions.
We’ve had men and women from all walks of life provide feedback, and it’s proven a valuable exercise. Some of the feedback will undoubtedly be reflected in our 2015 general election manifesto, and I expect we’ll have nearer to 25 than 18 areas in that document.
One group has been notably unwilling to comment on the document, even when I’ve waived the request for a £20 donation. Feminists. Recently I asked the ladies at ‘The F Word’ http://www.thefword.org.uk/ if anyone associated with the site would be willing to provide feedback to the document. Despite the site having an eye-wateringly long list of contributors http://www.thefword.org.uk/archives/author/ apparently nobody was able to provide feedback on our document.
So I’m laying down a challenge to all feminists, anywhere in the world. If you’re prepared to provide feedback on the document, and afterwards engage in exchanges of information and views, email me at mb1957@hotmail.co.uk. We’ll waive the request for a £20 donation. Thank you.
MHRM legend ManWomanMyth http://youtube.com/manwomanmyth has just posted the following video. I urge you to find six minutes in your busy life to watch this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOoW-4aZP0s&feature=youtu.be&a
An interesting video has just been published by ‘A Voice for Men’:
http://www.avoiceformen.com/video/marriage-is-dead/
For those unfamiliar with the term ‘MGTOW’, it’s an acronym for an intriguing phenomenon, ‘Men Going Their Own Way’. If you want to know more about MGTOW, I recommend the website of the people behind the video – http://mgtow.com.
Hopefully you’d be outraged (as I would, and every MHRA I know) if a man said the following with respect to his ex-girlfriend:
In Dubai, we had a massive row and I pushed her and I slapped her around the face. It was only a slap. Everyone slaps their girlfriend once, when she deserves it.
My thanks to KR for pointing me towards a piece in today’s Independent in which Mark Brooks, chairman of the ManKind charity http://mankind.org.uk, rightly took exception to a piece on The Only Way is Essex:
ManKind provides support to male victims of domestic abuse and violence. If you’d like to make a donation to this very worthwhile charity, you can do so through this link:
http://mankind.org.uk/donations_bequests.html
Thank you.
I’ve long been an admirer of the Centre for Social Justice (‘CSJ’), the think-tank established by Iain Duncan Smith in 2004, shortly after he was deposed as leader of the Conservative party. It talks a great deal of sense on many topics, and its recommendations have been all but ignored by the Conservative party since David Cameron became party leader.
The CSJ has just published a shocking report on fatherless families in the UK, and here’s the Daily Mail report on it:
An outstanding new article by Melanie Phillips, on the impact of female doctors on the NHS:
The cost of training a doctor is around £250,000, she writes, and
… a startling 60% (of female doctors) leave the profession altogether.
If there were a profession in which 60% of men (trained at considerable public expense) left the profession, what would the state do in response? Without doubt, it would drive up the number of women entering that profession.
Last Friday I had a lengthy discussion with Jonathan Vernon-Smith on BBC Three Counties Radio, concerning women in the workplace:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GulYuojvoMw
Caroline Criado-Perez, a feminist and founder of ‘The Women’s Room’ http://thewomensroom.org.uk contributed to the discussion. Over the course of one section (16:15 – 20:05) I made the point that we have five longitudinal studies which show that when companies increase the number of women on their boards, corporate performance declines. Our briefing paper on the studies is here:
Ms Criado-Perez made the following astonishing claim (18:16):
There are many longitudinal studies that would say the opposite.
I expressed my disagreement with this claim, and I now publicly challenge her to send me links to the ‘many’ longitudinal studies she claims exist.
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