Our thanks to the person who’s just sent us a link to this piece:

http://exposingfeminism.wordpress.com/shaming-tactics/

Without employing anti-male shaming tactics, feminists are powerless. Women wouldn’t accept the idea of gender-wide shame resulting from the actions of a few evil women, and quite rightly. By the same token, men shouldn’t accept the idea of gender-wide shame resulting from the actions of a few evil men. If men should feel any emotion resulting from the contributions of men to the world over the past few thousand years, and the modern world, it would surely be pride… not shame.

 

Another solid piece from JB:

http://www.avoiceformen.com/education/help-harvard-girls-wreck-harvard-guys/

About six weeks ago we confidently predicted the Crazy Ladies would have some success with their “Lose the Lads’ Mags” campaign:

https://j4mbdotorgdotuk.wordpress.com/2013/07/29/we-predict-the-next-pathetic-feminist-victory-lose-the-lads-mags/

Only Caroline Criado-Perez’s “women on banknotes” campaign was more laughable.

From The Independent today:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/press/coop-bans-lads-mags-from-its-stores-8804155.html?origin=internalSearch

Spiked posted a good piece recently on the “Lose the Lads’ Mags” campaign:

https://j4mbdotorgdotuk.wordpress.com/2013/08/29/saleha-ali-lose-the-lads-mags-campaign-is-nuts/

The real objective of the “Lose the Lads’ Mags” and similar campaigns is not, of course, to prevent a ‘culture of sexism’, or to reduce the incidence of sexual assaults of women. The prime objective – we would argue the only objective – is to raise funds for the Crazy Ladies, and by that measure alone, such campaigns are outstandingly successful. By any other measure they have no value whatsoever for women.

 

My heart sank a few minutes ago when an email arrived from the DBIS, with a link to a press release from our Anti-Business Secretary, Vince Cable:

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/cable-announces-review-of-executive-search-code-of-conduct

One strand of the government’s bullying of companies into appointing more women to their boards consists of a ‘voluntary’ code of conduct being adopted by executive search firms. You’ll see the narrative has now moved on from the FTSE100 to the FTSE350, as we predicted some time ago at Campaign for Merit in Business http://c4mb.wordpress.com. This whole ‘more women on boards’ initiative is a gravy train for executive search firms – as well as the poorly qualified women they try to persuade major companies to appoint – so of course the search firms are supportive of this insane direction of travel.

At one time David Cameron, Vince Cable and others claimed a business case for increasing the representation of women on boards, i.e. corporate financial performance could be expected to improve. C4MB have conclusively blown that fantasy/lie/delusion/myth (call it what you will) out of the water, and even Vince Cable hasn’t made such nonsensical claims publicly for some time – to the best of our knowledge, anyway.

Our briefing paper on the evidence showing that increasing female representation on boards leads to corporate financial declines:

http://c4mb.wordpress.com/improving-gender-diversity-on-boards-leads-to-a-decline-in-corporate-performance-the-evidence/

The press release informs us that Charlotte Sweeney – I don’t have an email address but her Twitter address is @charlottesweene – has been appointed to review the voluntary code of conduct of the executive search industry. It continues:

Charlotte has over 20 years experience of equality, diversity, inclusion, health & wellbeing, change management, employee engagement and corporate culture shift at a global and local level, with a clear link to business performance.

From 2009 – 2012 she was the International Head of Diversity and Inclusion for Nomura International PLC. Within that time she developed and implemented Nomura’s first Diversity & Inclusion Strategy.

Before Nomura, she joined HBOS plc as Head of Diversity in 2005 – 2009 and developed the first group wide diversity strategy, including regular diversity reporting within business planning and developing the Diversity Steering Group chaired by the CEO.

Prior to this role she was the diversity manager at Barclays PLC from 2000-2005 specialising in diversity, culture change, change leadership and executive coaching. She won a number of awards including the Personnel Today DWP Age Positive at Work Award.

So, who better than Charlotte Sweeney to provide us with evidence of ‘a clear link to business performance’, proving that improved gender diversity on boards leads to improved corporate financial performance, the elusive Holy Grail of the diversity, equality, and inclusivity gravy train? A contact at the DBIS has kindly agreed to forward this blog post on to her.

Our public challenge to Ms Sweeney:

Charlotte, good afternoon. We have five longitudinal studies showing that when more women are appointed to major corporate boards, financial performance declines:

http://c4mb.wordpress.com/improving-gender-diversity-on-boards-leads-to-a-decline-in-corporate-performance-the-evidence/

If you refute these studies, could you please outline why? And if you know of any reports or studies showing a causal link between increased female representation on boards and improved financial performance, could you please email me at mike@j4mb.org.uk with directions to them? Please don’t send me reports (e.g. McKinsey, Credit Suisse, Reuters…) which make it perfectly clear they’re reporting correlation, not causation, and that correlation neither proves nor even implies causation. Thank you.

I wonder if Ms Sweeney will have the integrity to respond? I won’t hold my breath.

Fraser Nelson is editor of the Spectator. His insightful article on gender-specific abortion has just been published by the Daily Telegraph:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10289000/We-need-a-proper-law-to-put-an-end-to-gender-specific-abortions.html

At J4MB we’re opposed to the vast majority of elective abortions in the UK, and if our proposals in this area were adopted, 97% of elective abortions would become illegal – those carried out on the spurious grounds of limiting the risk of injury to the mental health of women with unwanted pregnancies, when no evidence exists to support the theory that abortions have any ‘therapeutic effect’.

Particularly objectionable, we feel, are gender-specific elective abortions, regardless of the gender of the foetus in question. Such abortions are illegal in the UK, yet are carried out by sympathetic doctors – ‘We don’t ask questions, it’s your choice’. The justice system refuses to press charges against these doctors, even when the evidence against them (e.g. video footage) is overwhelming, saying it wouldn’t be ‘in the public interest’.

A powerful new piece on abortion from a leading American Honey Badger (anti-feminist woman):

http://judgybitch.com/2013/09/08/a-fetus-isnt-a-person-unless-its-a-female-how-to-have-your-cake-eat-it-too-and-blame-the-whole-mess-on-men/

Yesterday we put up a post about a feminist, Kristina Milburn, which attracted a considerable number of ‘hits’.

https://j4mbdotorgdotuk.wordpress.com/2013/09/07/krista-milburn-femitheist-advocates-for-a-new-humanity-a-new-world-with-a-9010-female-male-gender-ratio-but-no-longer-advocates-for-icd-international-castra/

Ms Milburn posted ‘clarifications’ – for example, that she no longer advocates for ICD (International Castration Day) – on the very day (last Tuesday, 3 September) that AVfM’s John the Other posted the following powerful piece, which for some reason we missed first time around:

http://www.avoiceformen.com/feminism/your-new-employee-krista-milburn

As usual with AVfM, both the article and the resulting comments are well worth reading. The defences of Ms Milburn by men – ‘white knights’ – are truly shocking. These men are in the same moral position as Jews who supported the Holocaust in World War 2.

Can it be a coincidence that both the AVfM piece and Ms Milburn’s ‘clarifications’ were posted on the same day? It appears highly unlikely to us.

An interesting piece from the Mayo Clinic:

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/domestic-violence-against-men/MY00557

On 10 October Mankind Initiative, a charity supporting male victims of domestic abuse, will be hosting the second ‘National Conference on Male Victims of Domestic Abuse’, this time in Slough:

https://j4mbdotorgdotuk.wordpress.com/national-conference-on-male-victims-of-domestic-abuse-10-october/

Domestic violence is one of our key areas of interest, so I’ll be attending the conference, along with one or two other people in J4MB. I hope you’re able to attend, and if you are, it would be good to meet. Email me at mike@j4mb.org.uk and we’ll see if we can find time to grab a coffee and have a discussion.

Whenever I’m told by feminists that feminists don’t advocate for achieving female supremacy through violence against men, or the threat of it, I refer them to the late Valerie Solanas http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Solanas. She was the feminist who shot and very nearly killed Andy Warhol in 1968 (direct heart massage saved his life). The previous year she wrote a book, ‘The SCUM Manifesto’ – SCUM is the acronym of ‘Society for Cutting up Men’ – and this is Wikipedia’s piece on the book:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCUM_Manifesto

The book urges women to:

… overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation and eliminate the male sex.

Whenever I’ve mentioned the book to feminists, they’ve countered that modern feminists regard Solanas as insane, and the book isn’t influential. While Solanas was undoubtedly insane, the book was highly influential, and remains so. We know it’s read and highly regarded in militant feminist circles. It was written and published in 1967, 46 years ago, and it’s still in print. It’s been reprinted 10 times and translated into 13 languages. If those aren’t signs of an influential book, I don’t know what is.

I’ve written about Solanas and her evil book by way of introducing you to an outstanding new piece by a man I admire, Lucien Valsan, just published by ‘A Voice for Men’. He describes himself thus on AVfM:

Hated by the local feminists, despised by most ideologues and appreciated by high profile debate societies, Lucian Vâlsan is the Romanian guy that will tell you unapologetically that misandry has no language barrier. He is also the European News Director for AVfM, the host of The Voice of Europe radio program, and can be reached at lucian@avoiceformen.com.

His new piece concerns Krista Milburn, ‘Femitheist’, whose YouTube channel has over 11,000 followers. Krista is evidently a person with influence in militant feminist circles. Lucien’s article points to one of her websites, and some ‘clarifications’ she posted last week:

http://femitheistreborn.blogspot.ro/2013/09/how-remiss-of-me-tuesday-clarifications.html

From the ‘clarifications’ we learn Ms Milburn once advocated for ICD (International Castration Day) but no longer does so. However, note the following extract:

… because ICD could be considered unnecessary violence, I dropped it.

Could be considered…? She says:

I do advocate the creation of a new humanity, a New World, and a 90:10 (female – male) ratio, but I do not endorse achieving this by engaging in any sort of killing, genocide, or any other enactments of violence against anyone.

Lucien’s comparisons of people such as Krista Milburn with Charles Manson, Adolf Hitler, and Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, are both perceptive and chilling. Are we destined to repeat history and not take Milburn, and people like her, very seriously? Given that only a small (albeit growing) proportion of the general public understands feminism is a hate-driven female supremacy movement, it would seem so. Lucien’s article:

http://www.avoiceformen.com/feminism/feminist-violence/it-all-starts-innocently/

Some news for those who say women are oppressed by men in Muslim culture and/or in Muslim countries:

http://www.avoiceformen.com/updates/saudi-arabia-bans-some-domestic-abuse/

A young British Muslim woman, Zara Faris, explains why Muslim women wouldn’t exchange their combination of rights and responsibilities with Muslim men:

https://j4mbdotorgdotuk.wordpress.com/2013/04/15/zara-faris-debunks-feminism/

GirlWritesWhat asks if women were historically oppressed in developing countries, and whether they are now:

https://j4mbdotorgdotuk.wordpress.com/2013/06/28/girlwriteswhat-were-women-historically-oppressed-are-they-now-in-developing-countries/