From time to time we take a little time out from more important work, to publicly challenge feminists to retract misleading statements they’ve made in public. Invariably they don’t respond – feminists are utterly shameless in driving misleading narratives – but we have the occasional pleasing result, such as when the businesswoman Heather McGregor, TV’s ‘Mrs Moneypenny’, a founder member of the odious but influential ‘30% club’, retracted a misleading statement she’d made to a House of Commons select committee (she and I were on the same ‘witness panel’):

http://c4mb.wordpress.com/2013/03/12/heather-mcgregor-corrects-the-misleading-statement-she-made-to-a-house-of-commons-inquiry/

A challenge we made to Kat Banyard about a misleading statement she’d made on television, concerning the statistics on sexual harassment of schoolgirls, remains unanswered to this day. The same is true of the challenge we made to Caroline Criado-Perez concerning a misleading statement she’d made on BBC Radio, about seven weeks ago:

https://j4mbdotorgdotuk.wordpress.com/2013/06/10/our-public-challenge-to-caroline-criado-perez/

We invite CC-P once again to correct her misleading statement. Or does she, too, have no shame?

There’s been a great deal of media coverage of the huge number of threats of violence, and threats of rape, allegedly made (through Twitter) against Caroline Criado-Perez in the light of her ‘women on banknotes’ campaign. My strong hunch is that if she’s really received the number she’s claimed (up to 50 per hour…or was it 50 per minute… or was it 50 per second?… it’s so difficult to keep up…) then the overwhelming majority would have been sent by feminists using new accounts with men’s names, keen to pursue the feminist ‘all men are violent’ and ‘all men are rapists’ narratives. Of course the mass media – BBC at the head of the queue, as usual – report her claims as both factual and beyond challenging.

Ms CC-P has blocked me from sending her tweets, it must have taken her 0.1 seconds to do so.

For an intelligent critique of this matter we turn to someone who can usually be relied upon. Yes, it’s one of our favourite anti-feminist lady bloggers:

http://judgybitch.com/2013/07/29/policing-twitter-is-dumb/

We recommend you subscribe to her blog. You won’t regret it. She’s a marvel.

My thanks to the estimable gentleman who’s just suggested an obvious feminist campaign to follow their forthcoming inevitable – if pathetic – victory in their ‘Lose the Lads’ Mags’ campaign.

Men should wear ‘blinkers’ – known as ‘blinders’ in North America – similar to those worn by horses, when in public:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Horses_2.jpg

Men should also wear blinkers, surely, in any situation where they might encounter women, including the home. The gaze of a man must not fall upon a woman who hasn’t permitted it in advance.

Possibly because they’re starting to lose the gender war, and they can’t stop the rising tide of anti-feminist narratives, feminists are utterly obsessed in winning minor battles (of their own making) in a desperate – yet futile – effort to keep their spirits up. They recently crowed about their successful campaign to shame the Bank of England into putting another woman on British banknotes (Jane Austen will appear on £10 notes from 2017). A fine example of that age-old strategy, ‘winning through whining’. A few lines from feminist icon Jane Austen, from Oxford Book of Quotations:

How horrible it is to have so many people killed! And what a blessing that one cares for none of them! (Letter to Cassandra Austen, 31 May 1811, after the Battle of Albuera, 16 May 1811. ‘Jane Austen’s Letters’ – 1952)

Their next pathetic victory will, we predict, be the ‘Lose the Lads’ Mags’ campaign. They make the utterly absurd claim that lads’ mags – Loaded, Nuts, Zoo etc. – encourage sexist attitudes towards women, and in turn violence against them. Predictably, The Everyday Whining Project is whining about this issue. Everyday.

The feminazis have even threatened to mount legal challenges against the retailers of these magazines, saying the images on the front of them assault the ‘sensibilities’ of female shop workers, who are clearly all fragile hothouse orchids. They’re unconcerned, of course, about the ‘sensibilities’ of male shop workers with respect to images of tall/handsome/well-built/rich men on the front covers of romance novels… maybe they should be banned?

A story about the Co-op’s response to the feminazis’ campaign, on the BBC website today:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23486027

The Co-op, along with a number other retailers, is asking the magazines’ publishers to put the magazines in ‘modesty bags’ which hide the front covers – an understandable (if regrettable) response to angry feminazis’ demands. Of particular interest to me, then, was a typical feminazi response to this proposal:

But campaign group Lose the Lads’ Mags said the Co-op was not going far enough.

Spokeswoman Sophie Bennett said: “The so-called ‘modesty bags’ they are demanding from publishers are designed to allow the Co-operative to continue profiting from sexist, harmful lads’ mags – but just a bit more discreetly.”

This campaign – which will be successful, at least with respect to some retailers – has nothing to do with sexist attitudes towards women. It has everything to do with shaming men for finding attractive women, especially attractive young women, attractive (i.e. objectification). Is that their problem? A rhetorical question, of course.

It’s heartening to see feminazis spending their time and energy on these silly little battles. In the meantime, we can devote our time and energy to winning the big battles, and ultimately the war. I assume a few feminazis have the intelligence to realise they’re inevitably going to lose the war, however much they screech, manipulate, lie and whine. And when they do lose the war, it will be a fine day for all men and boys, and the vast majority of women and girls.

The future’s bright. The future’s non-feminist.

One of the countless outcomes of sexism which the women at ‘The Everyday Sexism Project’ will never whine about, is the gender gap in sentencing of criminals. Why? Because only supposed anti-female sexism (real or imagined) is important to these women. Anti-male sexism, even in its most appalling manifestations, isn’t of the slightest interest to them. ‘The Everyday Sexism Project’ is, of course, itself sexist.

Della Burton has just written an excellent piece on the gender gap in the sentencing of criminals, covering outcomes in the US and the UK:

http://www.avoiceformen.com/misandry/gender-disparity-in-criminal-court

The article starts with the following:

A study by Sonja Starr, an assistant law professor at the University of Michigan found that within the United States’ justice system, women generally receive much more lenient treatment over the same crimes:

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2144002

A quote from the study:

This study finds dramatic unexplained gender gaps in federal criminal cases. Conditional on arrest offense, criminal history, and other pre-charge observables, men receive 63% longer sentences on average than women do. Women are also significantly likelier to avoid charges and convictions, and twice as likely to avoid incarceration if convicted. There are large unexplained gaps across the sentence distribution, and across a wide variety of specifications, subsamples, and estimation strategies. The data cannot disentangle all possible causes of these gaps, but they do suggest that certain factors (such as childcare and offense roles) are partial but not complete explanations, even combined.

Della Burton ends the article with a sentence that evokes George Orwell’s Animal Farm:

Are some humans more human than others?

There’s been a lot of media coverage, including an interview of Suzanne Moore on BBC24 this afternoon, about threats of rape and violence allegedly made towards Caroline Criado-Perez, in the form of threats on Twitter. This follows CCP’s ‘successful’ campaign to have a second woman printed on British banknotes – Jane Austen, on the £10 note, in 2017. What a victory for womankind that was haha. Anyway, the matter of the alleged threats has been raised in a new blog piece published not long ago by Glosswitch, ‘On banknotes and the etiquette of shouting’:

http://glosswatch.com/2013/07/27/on-banknotes-and-the-etiquette-of-shouting/

A few characteristically Glosswitchesque lines from the piece:

Women, there’s nothing wrong with you. [MB: There’s nothing wrong with any women? In any areas? Wow…]. The fact is, the minute you open your mouth you’re losing because your words are not the words of a person; they’re the words of a woman, and it doesn’t matter how you play it, that’s what people will hear.

I’ve already left one comment which hasn’t been published. Glosswitch is moderating comments following an ‘invasion’ of MRAs in recent days – my hats off to all of you for some very insightful and challenging comments – so I’m guessing wildly she won’t be publishing my second comment either (text reproduced below). So, if you wish to comment on her new blog piece, but she won’t post your comments, what can you do? Easy. Send them here, and we’ll publish them. Thanks. I look forward to hearing from you. The comment I’ve just sent to Glosswitch:

“I genuinely doubt (as do a number of other MRAs of my acquaintance) that a significant proportion of the threatening tweets to CC-P have been sent by angry men, but if we’re wrong, and they have been, the men in question must surely have mental health issues. There are a HUGE number of issues in relation to how men are treated which make many men (and many women, come to that) righteously angry, and ‘women on banknotes’ isn’t on the radar of the vast majority of men, let alone MRAs. The outcome of the campaign was yet another vindication of the age-old ‘winning through whining’ strategy used by women to manipulate men, as will be feminists’ inevitable forthcoming victory with their Tesco ‘Lose the lad’s mags’ campaigns.

To men and women who aren’t committed feminists, the objectives of these campaigns look pretty pathetic. Feminists are losing the narrative on gender politics, and it’s clear you haven’t the slightest idea how to regain it. You’re winning small battles, but you’re starting to lose the war.

So, who HAS been sending those tweets? At a guess, feminists keen to pursue their goals of:

– demonising men collectively

– getting even more publicity for the minor victory of getting Jane Austen onto £10 notes in 2017. Our blog post on that ‘victory’ https://j4mbdotorgdotuk.wordpress.com/2013/07/24/jane-austen-to-appear-on-10-notes-in-2017-a-pyrrhic-victory-for-feminists/

– gaining censorship of Twitter to disallow anti-feminist narratives (following some feminist successes in this regard with respect to Facebook)

– giving CC-P more exposure (with or without her knowledge)

On the assumption you won’t publish this comment, I’m about to post it on my blogs. Maybe we can have a reasoned exchange of views THERE?

Mike Buchanan

JUSTICE FOR MEN & BOYS

(and the women who love them)

https://j4mbdotorgdotuk.wordpress.com “

Canada is both the home of many radical feminists, and some notable men’s human rights advocates (MHRAs) including Daniel Perrins, John Hembling (‘John the Other’), Karen Straughan (‘GirlWritesWhat’), and many more. Another well-known Canadian MHRA is Alison Tieman, who I know best from her pieces which appear on A Voice for Men http://avoiceformen.com under the name ‘TyphonBlue’.

Things are getting interesting in Canada. There’s been a lot of media coverage there with respect to MHRAs putting up posters – mainly on university campuses, I believe – in response to feminist posters with the anti-rape message ‘Don’t Be That Guy’, as if any potential rapist is going to be deterred by posters. The posters have a number of objectives including telling the blatant lie to women that men collectively are inclined to rape, and that men collectively can stop the tiny proportion of men who commit rape.

Some MHRAs have reacted with campaigns putting up posters with titles such as, ‘Don’t Be That Girl’, with messages such as, ‘Just because you regret having had sex, doesn’t mean it was rape.’ It’s these campaigns which have been getting media attention.

I was pleased this morning to see on ‘The Counter-Feminist’ website http://counterfem.blogspot.co.uk that Alison Tieman has appeared on Canadian national television. The rest of this post is taken from the website. Interesting commentary from the man who runs the website, Fidelbogen, including a reference to growing ‘street-level activism’ in Canada, a welcome development:

“Alison Tieman (a.k.a. TyphonBlue) has been interviewed on CTV, the Canadian equivalent of CBS as I am told. Here, see for yourself:

http://saskatoon.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=972074&binId=1.1165965&playlistPageNum=1

This interview was in regard to the recent postering activity in Saskatoon – although they touch upon the Edmonton activity as well. By the way, Alison herself says that SOME of the postering in Saskatoon was being done by a person or persons unknown to her. She also says that postering (also by persons unknown) has happened in the city of Regina (Saskatchewan).

And Eric Duckman of Men’s Rights Edmonton – who is a true son of the Alberta prairie! – tells me that they are getting enquiries from all sorts of people who want to ‘set up local groups’.

So… I think you get the picture here. The idea that men are part of the human race, and deserve to be treated as such, is spreading like a ‘disease’. Heh, forgive me! 😉

On another note, a Slutwalk parade was held in Edmonton today, and our friends at MR Edmonton were on hand to greet the Sluts as they entered Churchill Square in downtown Edmonton. The Sluts were in for a surprise, for what did they behold but MRE peeps holding up placards bearing such mottos as ‘We Love Sluts’, and ‘Whore-ay for Sluts’, ‘Be More Slutty.’

I am told that the Sluts were taken aback and confused by this message, and some very lively exchanges followed – many of which were captured on video. Stay tuned.”

 

The third National Conference for Men & Boys (‘NCMB’) is to be held in Brighton, 26 – 29 September. It’s the UK’s biggest gathering of people committed to improving the lives of men and boys. Link to the Conference website here:

http://mensconferenceuk.wordpress.com/

The Conference’s lead host is the prominent men’s rights activist Glen Poole glen@glenpoole.com. Glen runs the consultancy ‘Helping Men’ http://helpingmenblog.blogspot.co.uk and he’s also the UK coordinator for International Men’s Day, which will be held on November 19. Glen’s kindly invited me to contribute to the first day of the Conference, the ‘Thinking Men’ gathering. Details of that day are here:

http://mensconferenceuk.wordpress.com/2013/04/24/thinking-men-thursday-27th-september/

From the start of the page:

This year’s Conference includes our first ever ‘Thinking Men’ gathering. We’re bringing together some of the UK’s leading thinkers on men’s issues to explore what we have in common, where we think differently, and how we can work together more effectively in the future.

Glen has emailed me the following:

Themes (depending on the final mix of delegates) in the morning are likely to included men’s physical health, men’s mental health, fatherhood, crime and violence, and education. The afternoon’s themes will include questions like, ‘How do we put men’s issues on the political agenda?’

Tickets for one or more days of the Conference can be ordered through the link below. ‘Early Bird’ prices of £40.00 per day apply up to 3 August (the subsequent standard price will, I understand, be £80.00 per day):

http://mensconferenceuk.wordpress.com/tickets/

I look forward to the Conference, and hopefully I’ll be able to meet some of you on 26 September. I urge you to attend at least one day at THE leading event in the British men’s and boys’ welfare calendar. Thank you.

Glosswitch’s blog piece for the New Statesman yesterday – about women, weight, wah, wah, wah – got me thinking about videos which should be required viewing for her, feminists in general, and the misandrous and determinedly miserable women who contribute to Laura Bates’s ‘Everyday Whining Project’, whose long list of complaints about men usually includes ‘objectification’. High on my list would be this classic video by Karen Straughan, ‘GirlWritesWhat’. Enjoy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-N9daqANcw

Her YouTube channel:

http://www.youtube.com/user/girlwriteswhat

Her blog:

http://owningyourshit.blogspot.co.uk/

Bill Burr, American comedian and radio show host, on domestic violence:

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

His website is here http://billburr.com.