The latest gem from SparkyFister:

http://www.avoiceformen.com/feminism/why-do-i-even-bother/

In politics you know you’re making progress when your enemies resort to misrepresenting you in order to attack you. So we thank Claire for pointing us to a piece in The Huffington Post by a feminist ray of sunshine, Ellie Slee, prompted by a forthcoming debate at Durham University:

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/ellie-slee/durham-university-feminism_b_4438952.html

It’s predictably dreary stuff, which may yet lead to Ms Slee winning a ‘Whiny Woman of the Month’ award – there’s no shortage of competition, as always – but what caught my eye was her assertion that J4MB:

… refers to women as ‘gestational incubators’ and proposes that their rights are stripped away so that men can get back to doing the hard work and women can resume their intended position as housewives.

The reference to housewives is so silly as to not deserve a response, likewise the comment about ‘stripping away’ women’s rights – we campaign against abuses of power by women, often state-enforced e.g. denying former partners access to their children, which are emotional abuses of both fathers and children – but the claim that we’ve ever referred to women as ‘gestational incubators’ is simply and demonstrably untrue. So where does Ms Slee get the idea from that we have referred to women in that way, if indeed she does believe that? She links in her piece to a recent intriguing article written by Clint Carpentier and published on AVfM – ‘The Future of Women in a MGTOW Society’ – to which we recently provided a link. The full article is here:

http://www.avoiceformen.com/sexual-politics/m-g-t-o-w/the-future-of-women-in-a-mgtow-society/

We didn’t comment on the piece other than to say it was an interesting piece of ‘future gazing’, or words to that effect. An extract from Carpentier’s article:

What women didn’t realize was that the very things which made their lives easier – be they appliances or conveniently boxed pre-made meals at the grocery store – simultaneously reduced the necessity for women. Men are increasingly becoming aware of this, and are opting to go their own way and reject the farce that marriage has become.

Women have inadvertently been reduced to gestational incubators; everything else, men can take care of on their own. And the more that women harp on about how evil, and useless, and stupid men are, and how much men must be responsible for the life choices women make, the more men opt to ignore women altogether.

I’ve posted the following comment, in the forlorn hope of receiving our first public apology from a feminist:

There’s so much utter nonsense in this article (e.g. gender pay gap – SERIOUSLY? Factor in seniority, size of enterprise, premium for accepting risks to life and limb, unsocial hours… and the ‘gap’ disappears) that’s been discredited so many times by so many men’s human rights activists, I’m not prepared to do so yet again. But as the leader of the political party ‘Justice for men & boys (and the women who love them)’ http://atomic-temporary-215937230.wpcomstaging.com, which you claim refers to women as ‘gestational incubators’, I challenge you to point me to where I, or anyone involved in my party, has ever said such a thing. The article to which you link was written by someone whose identity is unknown to us. A public apology is in order, I think. That said, even where we’ve challenged gender feminists such as Kat Banyard and Caroline Criado-Perez to retract manifestly misleading statements made on TV, radio, etc. they never have retracted statements. They’re utterly shameless. Hopefully you’re not.

A couple of weeks ago we received a call from Mary Jones, a charming 64-year-old lady who lives in the East of England. She was very supportive of what we’re doing, and wished to make a donation. I invited her to submit a letter explaining why she’s supporting us, with a view to publishing it on this website. She kindly agreed. We’ve just received the letter and a generous donation, for both of which we’ve thanked her. The content of Mary’s letter takes up the remainder of this post:

“I am a 64-year-old wife and mother with three sons. These are my experiences and personal observations.

The UK has become more and more anti-male. My generation of female friends are aware of the slow but sure spread of anti-male propaganda aimed at our sons and grandsons, and have expressed concerns between ourselves.

We’re aware that women’s groups, without any fear of reprimand, put men down at every opportunity and constantly criticise them in speech and in writing. Many spokespeople in the media seem to be avid feminists.

We believe the very real and frightening injustices for men are the result of insidious meddling by the government with legislation to create laws to pursue women’s groups agendas. This scares us. If the government’s plan is to secure women’s votes by this meddling, this shows a lack of knowledge and understanding of the majority of British women. We don’t want a ‘Woman’s World’, we want a fair one.

My generation of women were never victims, we are a generation who love and respect our men, we work together to build a better life. I am 64 and I have never been bullied nor intimidated by a man, although I have been bullied by women.

We all know the suicide rate amongst men in the UK is extremely high, that almost all homeless people are men, and that boys are failing at school. The law is very much on the side of women now, yet still the women’s groups crave more conflict and power, and seem indifferent to the fact that men too need support, not vilification.”

A short but insightful piece from Ray Barry:

http://www.equalparentingalliance.org/2013/12/sentencing-guidelines-skewed-against-men.html

From the start of the article, prompted by two articles in last Friday’s Birmingham Mail:

Woman jailed for 6 years for plotting to have her ex-husband killed.

Man receives life sentence for attempted rape. and served 17 years before his conviction was quashed.

Ray leads The Equal Parenting Alliance, a political party, and at the May 2015 general election he’ll be standing for J4MB in Wolverhampton South-West. He wrote the equal parenting proposals in our public consultation document.

Our thanks to J for pointing us to this piece by a beautiful young New Yorker:

http://thoughtcatalog.com/emmi-jacqueline/2013/12/6-possible-reasons-you-cant-find-a-nice-guy/

Our thanks to L for sending us this gem from a Glaswegian blogger:

http://stgeorgewest.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/lets-play-annie-lennox-drinking-game.html

Just 4,000 of the UK’s 84,000 prison population are women.

The Prison Reform Trust (PRT) is a registered charity, and its Director since 1999 has been Juliet Lyon CBE. As we’d expect, the majority of the staff members are women, including the Deputy Director and Executive Officer. Of the 16 staff members whose gender is clear from their first names, 12 are women http://prisonreformtrust.org.uk/whoweare/staff.

Given that 95% of the country’s prison population are men, you might reasonably expect the Trust’s focus to be on reducing men’s imprisonment. You would, however, be disappointed, as we can see from pieces like this:

http://www.prisonreformtrust.org.uk/ProjectsResearch/Women

PRT even has a Director for Reducing Women’s Imprisonment. On its website the PRT says it believes custodial sentences should be imposed on fewer women.

An insightful new piece from Peter Hitchens:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2523836/PETER-HITCHENS-A-tax-break-rescue-marriage-doomed-decades.html

http://www.avoiceformen.com/feminism/feminist-violence/professor-of-law-seeks-legalized-murder/

A man living in the UK, of Iranian extraction, and erroneously suspected of being a paedophile, was killed recently killed. His (male) murderers then doused his body with petrol and set fire to it:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/10421076/Police-suspended-after-innocent-man-accused-of-paedophilia-burned-to-death.html

There have been numerous other examples of ‘paedophile hysteria’ leading to innocent men’s deaths (NEVER innocent women’s deaths). My thanks to R for sending me the following link, inspired by the man’s tragic death:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ySyA-36PQYs