Our thanks to M for pointing us to a short piece in the British Medical Journal citing research carried out in Finland:

http://www.sciencecodex.com/women_take_almost_50_percent_more_short_term_sick_leave_than_men

The BMJ’s piece contains this gem:

Women may be better at recognising problems and going to the doctor for treatment, suggest the authors.

We discussed the research findings over our teatime cups of Earl Grey and McVities biscuits, and we couldn’t think of any other possible explanations for why women might take more short-term sick leave than men. After all, it would be crazy to suggest women might typically be less work-centred and conscientious than men, right?

After tea was over, Angela strolled over to my office to remind me the renowned sociologist Dr Catherine Hakim published a paper on ‘Preference Theory’ in 2000, showing that while four in seven British men are work-centred, only one in seven British women is. Hakim found a similar gender ratio in other European countries including Sweden.

It would clearly make perfect sense, therefore, for taxpayers to fund government initiatives to drive up the proportion of women in medicine, engineering etc. It would also make sense to pay female students more than male students, on the sole grounds of their gender. We present you with a vision of the future. Female postgraduate engineering students at Brunel University will be paid grants of £15,000 p.a. more than their male counterparts – substantially more than the gross annual income of someone working full-time on the minimum wage:

https://j4mbdotorgdotuk.wordpress.com/female-postgraduate-engineering-students-to-be-given-15000-p-a-more-than-their-male-counterparts/

We sent a FoI request to Brunel University, asking if male students would be entitled to the grant if they underwent gender reassignment surgery. We’ve been told to expect a response by January 13.

Another gem from The Huffington Post:

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/12/17/prosthetic-leg-mistaken-for-paedophile-schoolchildren-evacuated-kent-swimming-pool_n_4457740.html

An excellent video posted five months ago by the Canadian Honey Badger (female anti-feminist) Karen Straughan – ‘GirlWritesWhat’:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=GHLMfGz3VAI

Her YouTube channel is well worth subscribing to:

http://youtube.com/user/girlwriteswhat

Back in October we posted a piece, ‘Cry rape for a UK visa’, about an Englishman who’d been subjected to a false rape allegation by his ex-partner, a foreign women, who was still given a visa to live indefinitely in the UK:

https://j4mbdotorgdotuk.wordpress.com/2013/10/04/cry-rape-for-a-uk-visa/

Foreign nationals can apply for visas to live indefinitely in the UK on the basis of merely alleging domestic violence at the hands of their partners. In early October I sent a Freedom of Information Act (FoI) request to the Visas & Immigration department of the Home Office:

I am writing with respect to Domestic Violence Settlement Visas. Could you please inform me how many such visas have been applied for, and how many granted, by gender, by year, since they were introduced? And does the award of these visas give applicants the right to permanent residence in the UK?

Government departments are required to respond to FoI requests within 20 working days. Quick as a flash, a female civil servant responded in 62 working days, and I’ve just received these from her:

131217 FoI request response

131217 FoI request Table of data

From the first document:

Those wishing to make an application for leave to remain as a victim of domestic violence are provided for in Appendix FM Section DVILR of the Immigration Rules. These rules provide equally for male or female victims of domestic violence.

Now we shouldn’t be too surprised that women outnumber men in applying for the visas, if only because far more British men are prepared to support foreign women, than British women prepared to support foreign men. The Table of data shows that (over the period 1.1.13 – 30.9.13) 10,170 foreign women applied for visas, and 1,435 foreign men. About 7:1.

Here’s where it gets interesting. Of the 10,170 women who applied for visas, 5,280 were successful – 51.9%. Of the 1,435 men who applied, just 370 were successful – 25.8%. So a woman who applies for the visa is twice as likely as a man to get one. Combining these numbers means that for every man who gets a visa, 14 women get one. Gender equality is a fine thing.

Let’s return to one sentence in the first document:

These rules provide equally for male or female victims of domestic violence.

Once again we have a situation where the guidance for decision-making – whether it’s in primary legislation, guidance to civil servants, rules etc. – is gender-neutral, but implementation is relentlessly pro-female and anti-male. We’re not aware of even one area of state policy which advantages men over women.

A short but interesting piece by Kalan Chinuck, which begs the question – how many feminists risked their lives to save others’ lives at Chernobyl and Fukushima?

http://www.avoiceformen.com/men/the-men-who-died-to-save-the-world/

Carnell Smith will be speaking at the AVfM conference in Detroit next year. An interesting article from him:

http://www.avoiceformen.com/paternity-fraud/12-reasons-for-dna-paternity-testing

It’s the 21st century, and men can still get sued (in the US at least) for ‘breach of promise’. Incredible.

http://womenformen.org/2013/12/13/man-forced-to-pay-50k-for-failing-to-marry-his-girlfriend/

Men across the world have for many years been treated by the state as sub-human. Beyond saying that, words fail me.

http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/12/16/21880908-daughter-said-she-lied-and-sent-dad-to-prison-for-rape-but-da-upholds-conviction?lite

http://www.returnofkings.com/22358/10-reasons-why-foreign-women-are-better-than-american-women

Earlier today we publicly invited a young gender feminist, Ellie Slee, to apologise for a factual error concerning J4MB which she made in a piece published online by The Huffington Post today:

https://j4mbdotorgdotuk.wordpress.com/2013/12/16/ellie-slee-misrepresents-j4mb-in-an-article-in-the-huffington-post/

We’ll add this to the growing list of our unanswered public challenges of feminists (and their collaborators). We’ll happily remove it from that list if and when she publicly apologises for the error in her article. Based on our previous experiences of such challenges, we can only offer you this advice:

Don’t hold your breath.