One of the areas that’s attracted the most interest in our public consultation document (link below) has been that concerning male victims of domestic abuse. The ’21 Key Facts’ in the document were written by Mark Brooks, who runs The Mankind Initiative http://mankind.org.uk – a charity supporting male victims of domestic abuse.

https://j4mbdotorgdotuk.wordpress.com/our-public-consultation-exercise-2/

The lack of support available for male victims of domestic abuse is a scandal around the world, and the UK is no exception.

Last year Mankind ran the first National Conference on Male Victims of Domestic Abuse, and the second is going to be held in about eight weeks time (10 October) in Slough. I urge anyone with an interest in this area to attend the event. Details here:

http://www.mankind.org.uk/conference.html

My thanks to GE for bringing the following to my attention. She saw some parallels with her own life, originally being very career-focused – she went into engineering, encouraged by a feminist mother. She’s now a stay-at-home mother with two young children, and says she’s never been happier.

http://www.whale.to/c/daughter.html

From http://mgtow.com:

MGTOW is basically the statement of self-ownership and saying that only you have the right to decide what your goals in life should be. It is saying that, as a man I will not surrender my will to the social expectations of women and society, because both have become hostile against masculinity.

I had a very interesting two-hour-long Skype discussion recently with a 28-year-old man who’s writing a paper as part of his university course, on how the genders are represented in the media. We touched on issues like all the male characters in Family Guy and The Simpsons being dysfunctional, and all the female characters admirable. This would appear to have been the default template for much of popular culture for many years.

He’s interested in the MGTOW phenomenon, as I am. If you self-identify as a MGTOW, and you’d be willing to have a phone or Skype conversation with the man in the near future, please email me at mb1957@hotmail.co.uk and I’ll possibly put the two of you in touch. If you could provide me with some evidence that you’re a MGTOW, that would be appreciated. Thank you.

When men’s human rights activists start to outline the evidence proving that feminists are hate-driven ideologues pursuing female supremacy regardless of the damage to society, they’re often met with responses such as:

Feminists believe in gender equality.

I’m a feminist and I’m not like that.

Not all feminists are like that.

In a newly-published and powerful article, John Hembling, Editor-in-Chief at A Voice for Men, asks a very intriguing question:

Where are the feminists who are ‘not like that’?

The article’s here:

http://www.avoiceformen.com/feminism/not-all-feminists-are-like-that-3/

An excellent piece on the feminist ‘Lose the Lads’ Mags’ campaign appeared on Mail Online recently, and later appeared on A Voice for Men:

http://www.avoiceformen.com/feminism/feminist-censorship/another-feminist-attack-on-male-sexuality/

An interesting article in today’s Sunday Express:

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/421170/EXCLUSIVE-Government-urged-to-probe-bogus-migrant-brides-crying-rape-just-to-get-UK-visas

A piece from an important Canadian anti-feminist, on relational aggression:

http://www.avoiceformen.com/sexual-politics/its-a-woman-problem/

With every week that passes, more women are self-identifying as non-feminists or anti-feminists. Some – to their eternal credit – have the courage to reject feminism publicly, both in the ‘real world’ and online. This trend is accelerating, and nothing is going to stop it. Why? Because feminism is fuelled by misandry and relies on a narrative of conspiracy theories, fantasies, lies, delusions and myths. The latest woman to publicly reject feminism is here, in a four-minute-long video just posted by the good folk at ‘A Voice for Men’:

http://www.avoiceformen.com/video/disillusioned-with-feminism/

Happy days are here again.

I’ve just discovered a very interesting blog http://seculartraditionalism.wordpress.com . It’s the work of a Jamaican lady – ‘Mamaziller’ – who’s married to a German. They currently live in the Netherlands. From the ‘About’ page:

My current aim or wish is to create an anti-feminism space for women especially to speak out against feminism from a secular and pro-patriarchal point of view. It should act as a voice where women can say to the world that feminists are not the only voice for women out there.

The name for us at the moment is Traditional Women’s Rights Activists or TWRAs.

If you are interested in such a space, in contributing to such a website please let me know. We have to band together to have our voice heard. The feminists and MRAs are very loud and it currently seems like they are the only voice out there. We have to get our voice out there.

I don’t agree with her stance on everything in the blog – in particular the sense in which she uses the term ‘patriarchy’, and her views on the rejection of traditional roles by many MRAs – but we’ve had a very cordial exchange of views, which is visible at the end of the ‘Home’ page. I’ve added the blog to our list of recommended blogs and websites, and I hope we all hear more from her in due course.

A shocking story concerning the neglect of Albert Riches, an 86-year-old man with dementia, by two female ‘carers’ in a care home in Henlow, near Bedford:

http://www.bedfordshire-news.co.uk/News/Henlow-care-home-worker-guilty-of-neglect-after-leaving-resident-collapsed-on-floor-20130809094437.htm

One of the women, Jackie Ndoro, has been convicted, and will be sentenced on September 6. The other woman has jumped bail, and the police are looking for her. The judge played to the gallery at the end of the trial:

Judge Barbara Mensah told Ndoro: ‘In my view this case crosses the custody threshold. It is a very serious matter. The case of neglect is so serious I have in mind a custodial sentence.’

If the judge gives Jackie Ndoro a custodial sentence, I’ll eat my hat. The convicted person is a woman, the neglected person only a man. If the carer had been a man, and the neglected person a woman, the likelihood of a custodial sentence would be far higher – and this case would already have made the national newspapers, TV and radio programmes. In the UK there are 80,000 men in prison, and 4,000 women. The government is planning to build more men’s prisons, and close down women’s prisons.

The only person who comes out of this story with any credit is Kevin Wilkinson, the manager of the home, who had the sense to install CCTV cameras to capture what was going on. You have to ask yourself how common such incidents are in care homes for the elderly.