A very interesting piece just published by ‘Researching Reform’::

http://researchingreform.net/2013/09/30/childrens-mental-health-in-the-21st-century-a-barometer-we-cant-ignore

I’ve just posted the following comment:

I should be astonished if there’s not a strong causal link between the state’s assaults on the nuclear family, and the increasing incidence of mental health problem in children and young adults. Assaulting the nuclear family and financing the lifestyle option of single motherhood have been the default policy directions of successive governments for 30+ years, and accelerated under the Labour administrations (1997-2010) due to the nefarious activities of Harriet Harman and her like. The Conservative-led coalition has pursued the same policy directions. The proposed ‘tax breaks’ for married couples is truly pathetic – not all couples who are married will get it, and those who do will benefit by less than £4 per week.

Like many people who aren’t young any more (I’m 55) my grasp of social media isn’t great, and while J4MB has this blog as well as Facebook, YouTube and Twitter accounts, for some time I’ve been thinking we might benefit from deeper insights into social media. But where to turn to? It turns out UK Feminista has produced a very useful guide (link below), so I’m about to email Kat Banyard katbanyard@yahoo.co.uk with a link to this post, thanking her for UK Feminista’s contribution to our efforts.

131004 UK Feminista guide on how to use social media in campaigning

My thanks to the supporter who’s just sent me the following local newspaper article about his experience of facing false rape allegations, and the use of such allegations by women to gain a UK visa:

http://www.thelancashiremagazine.co.uk/local-news/cry-rape-for-a-uk-visa/

There’s no doubt such cases lead to innocent men committing suicide. It could very well have done so in this particular case. After being cleared by a judge at Minshull Street Crown Court, Manchester, when the Crown offered no evidence against him, the husband said:

The telephone evidence showed that she had texted me daily in that period, to say she loved me, to ask me what I wanted to eat when I came home from work, or sometimes to ask whether I minded if she could stay with her sisters. Why did it take a year of my life to gather the evidence against her? If my employers, some of my friends and my family had not helped me in that period, I think I might have killed myself.

She put me through hell for a year. I have received no apologies or explanations for what happened. It is now blatantly obvious that her family was scrounging from the welfare system and arranging to get benefits for her, even before she became British. Yet the authorities just couldn’t care less, throwing money and support at women who cry rape with no evidence.

I asked the CPS why they dropped the case and they said it was something to do with her visa status which they were monitoring on a monthly basis. I can only guess that when her student visa was expiring around November 2012 she panicked and applied for the DV visa to continue to stay in the country. She’s still in Oldham. I saw her across the street last week.

It seems it was her actions as regards her visa status that finally made the authorities drop the case, not my evidence. Furthermore, if she hasn’t been granted a DV visa, then technically she has been illegal since November 2012, despite the UK Border Agency being involved in the police case. She is still living in Oldham. No-one seems to be doing anything about her and police have told me they won’t be charging her with any offence.

Once again we see women in the UK are above the law, even women with no genuine right to live here after their grounds for remaining here (alleged DV) have been disproved in a court of law. If this is patriarchy, I’m a Waldorf salad.

[Update 6.10.13: Laura Bates of The Everyday Whining Sexism Project has confirmed – in a ‘tweet’ – that she’s not the person who made this donation to J4MB. That’s a relief.]

Laura Bates has donated £50 to our latest fundraising campaign:

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/help-j4mb-raise-gbp-1-000-to-fund-its-fifth-2015-general-election-candidate/x/4610446?c=pledges

I can’t be sure, but I don’t think it’s the whiny young woman of the same name, who runs The Everyday Whining Sexism Project. Likewise, I’m a bit suspicious about the true identity of Harriet Harman, who made a generous donation to our last fundraising campaign.

I invite you to join these ladies and make a donation (link below). We’re trying to fund our fifth candidate for the 2015 general election.

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/help-j4mb-raise-gbp-1-000-to-fund-its-fifth-2015-general-election-candidate

AVfM has just published a piece in which I outline the assaults on NHS patients, schoolboys, and taxpayers, resulting from the increasing feminisation of the NHS and the education system over the past 30 – 40 years:

http://www.avoiceformen.com/sexual-politics/evo-psych/david-camerons-absurd-medical-policies

My thanks to a supporter, Tom, for directing me to the BBC’s coverage of a tragic case in which a woman’s four-year-old son starved to death. He was so malnourished that he still fitted in a baby grow suitable for a six-month-old infant when he died.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-24394980

Tom makes the following sound points:

This is a horrific case of child abuse. However, when abuse is committed by women it’s ‘neglect’ … I cannot see how this is ‘neglect’ … it is violence and abuse of the most sickening kind.

Another insightful piece from Robert St Estephe:

http://www.avoiceformen.com/series/unknown-history-of-misandry/he-deserved-it-the-hidden-side-of-dv/

Glen Poole has a new website http://equality4men.com and he’s just posted a couple of encouraging pieces with respect to male genital mutilation (links below). Good to see something positive for the human rights of males coming out of the EU for once. Let’s hope we see an end to the barbaric practise of medically unnecessary MGM of babies and children before long.

http://equality4men.com/2013/10/02/male-circumcision-is-a-human-rights-violation-that-must-be-stopped-say-european-leaders

http://equality4men.com/2013/10/02/10-reasons-german-socialist-wants-europe-to-ban-male-circumcision

The Freethinker yesterday published a strong piece on the possibility of a ban of medically unnecessary MGM in the Nordic countries (Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark and Iceland):

http://freethinker.co.uk/2013/10/02/nordic-countries-push-for-circumcision-ban-stand-by-for-howls-of-anti-semitism-and-islamophobia/

The latest AVfM post on female-on-male domestic violence:

http://www.avoiceformen.com/men/mens-issues/in-his-own-words-violent-alcoholic-wife-attacks/

A characteristically strong piece from the estimable Paul Elam:

http://www.avoiceformen.com/feminism/feminist-lies-feminism/pauline-hopkins-waxes-pathetic/