Good to see again on AVfM a piece by the legendary MHRA ManWomanMyth, first published in March 2013. Enjoy:
Month: January 2014
Emma Thompson – our next ‘Whiny Woman of the Month’?
Our thanks to the supporter who’s just emailed us the following link along with the comment, ‘I thought you might (dis)like this’:
He continues:
How absurd. What’s wrong with women these days? I wouldn’t fancy going to the theatre to see a man play Jane Austen, Queen Elizabeth I, Margaret Thatcher, Florence Nightingale, Boadicea, Joan of Arc, Eva Peron, or Mother Theresa… who would? I propose Emma Thompson for your next ‘Whiny Woman of the Month’.
Well, that’s Emma Thompson in the frame for the award next month, along with Jo Swinson MP, who’s been proposed by a number of supporters. She’s whiny even by the soul-crushingly dismal standards of Lib Dem MPs. There are, of course, many female Labour MPs who might be in contention this year, obvious candidates being Harriet Harman, Yvette Balls (née Cooper), the teeth-gratingly whiny Eagle sisters…
Don’t make your kids kiss granny: Outcry as sex education chiefs say a high-five or wave protects children from abuse
What is wrong with some of the people who give advice to teachers, parents etc.? What a dystopic world they’re trying to create, where even grandparents must by default be assumed to be potential sexual predators:
The start of the piece:
Getting a reluctant child to give an elderly relative a kiss often requires some gentle persuasion. But parents who force their sons and daughters to give granny a peck on the cheek may be doing them harm, it was claimed yesterday. For instead of helping a child learn about showing affection, it may blur the boundaries of what is acceptable when it comes to physical contact, according to Lucy Emmerson, co-ordinator of the Sex Education Forum.
Getting a reluctant child to give an elderly relative a kiss often requires some gentle persuasion. But parents who force their sons and daughters to give granny a peck on the cheek may be doing them harm, it has been claimed. Getting a reluctant child to give an elderly relative a kiss often requires some gentle persuasion. But parents who force their sons and daughters to give granny a peck on the cheek may be doing them harm, it has been claimed.
She even claims that encouraging a youngster to blow a kiss, high-five or wave to a relative instead will help them avoid future sexual exploitation. Children need to learn from the start about the importance of consent and that ‘their bodies are their own’, she says.
Her controversial comments, in an online sex education resource for teachers, were immediately attacked by family campaigners. They said there was no evidence that children who are persuaded to kiss close relatives are more at risk of being sexually exploited later and said her recommendation undermined parents.
Mums who cut fathers out after separation: One in three say Dad should not have say in their child’s upbringing
Our thanks to a number of supporters for pointing us towards this:
The Economist: ‘Most Germans remain surprisingly traditional in their views of the sexes’
We continue to despair of the Economist with respect to its treatment of gender-related matters. Our thanks to M for pointing us to this piece in its latest edition:
From the article:
Eastern Germany, with its Communist legacy, may be quite advanced in some aspects of gender equality – young mothers tend to use child care early and return to work quickly, for instance. But western Germany, so proudly progressive in many other ways, remains surprisingly conservative in attitudes to gender equality.
So the Economist considers the former East Germany ‘advanced’ in some aspects of gender equality, such as young mothers returning to work quickly, and the former West Germany ‘surprisingly conservative’. The world’s turned upside down when even the Economist peddles left-wing narratives on gender-related issues, but it’s consistently done so for some years. Nowhere in the article is there any exploration of the apparent conundrum (given the paper’s analysis) that the more economically successful region of Germany – the former West – is also the most socially conservative.
It’s a simple truism that the German economy has long been stronger than the UK’s economy, in part due to a highly impressive manufacturing sector. In the UK, unlike in Germany, successive government’s policies have continued to force mothers with children into paid employment, regardless of the impact on women’s and children’s happiness, and children’s development. The Conservative-led coalition hasn’t changed the direction of travel. Shamefully, for a Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne has said imperiously that stay-at-home parents are exercising a ‘lifestyle choice’. Financial considerations – driven by the tax system, in the main – ensure that few women in Britain today are able to exercise that choice.
We anticipate proposing in our 2015 election manifesto that personal tax allowances be transferable in full between partners who have children under 16 years of age living with them.
BBC ‘Newsnight’ ignores male victims of domestic violence – yet again.
You could be forgiven for assuming that the Fawcett Society has full editorial control of the BBC flagship news programme Newsnight. The latest episode finished about two hours ago:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03pdgth/Newsnight_07_01_2014/
Around half the programme consisted of pieces that must have had gender feminists cackling over their cauldrons. The first piece (1:12 – 11:10) covers the story about the man and woman who pleaded guilty today to sending threatening tweets to Caroline Criado-Perez, and Jeremy Paxman interviews her at length. Needless to say she takes the opportunity to trot out her tedious misogynistic / sexist society speech we’ve heard so many times before, with nobody presenting counter-arguments.
But it was the second piece (22:08 – 33:54) that got a number of supporters and myself hopping mad. Newsnight has a long track record of following gender feminist narratives on domestic abuse/violence (DV) being solely (or overwhelmingly) a male-on-female phenomenon. And so it was again in this programme. Maybe to give some pretence of balance, one of Paxman’s interviewees was a man, but he kept to the same feminist narrative line, presumably because – on the evidence of this piece, anyway – his charity gets its income from supporting female victims and/or seeking to change the behaviours of male perpetrators. Then we had Polly Neate of Woman’s Aid who – of course – also never mentioned female perpetrators or male victims. Not one mention was made in the almost 12 minute long piece about most domestic abuse being reciprocal, or that in 70% of cases of uni-directional DV, the perpetrators are women.
We’re going to file an official complaint against the BBC in relation to the relentlessly biased coverage of DV on Newsnight. We have videos from previous episodes on our YouTube channel.
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NHS payout for family of father-of-three who threw himself in front of a train after GP receptionists failed to pass on his calls for help THREE TIMES
When we read stories like this, we shouldn’t be surprised that for every woman who commits suicide in the UK, three men do:
From the article:
The family of a man who threw himself in front of a train after making at least three unanswered calls to the mental health service have been awarded compensation by the NHS. Father-of-three Peter Bane, 48, was being treated for occasional bouts of depression.
Two weeks before his death, Mr Bane, a road safety engineer, rang his GP’s surgery three times to say he was considering taking his own life. But his calls for help went unanswered as each time receptionists failed to pass the message on to the mental health services.
Is it conceivable that the receptionists – presumably women, as always – might have failed to pass on messages from a woman in the same position? No. So another man died needlessly at the hands of the feminised NHS – a social engineering scheme for women generally with poorer work ethics than their male colleagues – which treats men as second-class citizens. Who’ll ultimately finance the NHS payout to this poor man’s widow and children? Largely men, who pay 72% of the income tax collected in the UK.
As with so many other areas men pay a damned sight more into the system, and get a damned sight less out of it.
Fidelbogen: ‘Feminism Liberates the Dark Feminine’
It’s always good to see a new video by Fidelbogen, a legendary MHRA. Enjoy:
http://www.avoiceformen.com/feminism/feminism-liberates-the-dark-feminine/
We recommend subscribing to his video channel:
Caroline Criado-Perez – a man (25) and a woman (23) plead guilty to sending menacing tweets to her
Thanks to K for sending us this:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25641941
Of course we don’t condone anyone (male or female) sending menacing tweets – or other communications, in any form – to anyone (male or female). The sole purpose of this piece is to critique some comments made by CC-P. From the article:
Asked how she felt about one of her attackers being a woman, she said: “I think it is really sad but on the other hand I don’t see why we should think that women who are brought up in a society steeped in misogyny should be any less affected by it and any less likely to hate women.”
Firstly, why was it ‘really sad’ to CC-P that one of the people was a woman? Maybe because it flew in the face of the feminist narrative, ‘women good, men bad’? In CC-P’s twisted gender feminist worldview (the word ‘twisted’ is surely redundant, on reflection) women’s actions – even threats made to other women – are to be attributed to ‘being brought up in a society steeped in misogyny’. So even when women do bad things, men are still to blame. Priceless. Like the youngest dimmest children, women shouldn’t be held fully accountable for their actions and inactions, in the way men are. Female privilege, anyone?
Misogyny is a versatile feminist weapon, isn’t it? Just one of several arrows in their quivers of shaming tactics. I’ve never knowingly met or communicated with a misogynist, in the MHRM or outside it, and people who know me will attest I’m not one myself. It’s been painfully evident for decades that misogyny is nothing less than a projection by misandrous women, a group which includes all gender feminists by definition.
It’s been over four months since I publicly challenged CC-P over a demonstrably misleading claim she made on BBC radio, when she called into a show on which I was talking about women in the workplace. Details of the challenge can be found through the second link in this piece:
She didn’t respond to the challenge. No surprise there, because no gender feminist has ever responded to our public challenges, even when we’ve presented evidence to show their arguments were demonstrably flawed. There are a number of possible explanations for their utter shamelessness, but the most obvious is surely MISANDRY.
Quod erat demonstrandum.
Whenever and wherever you find yourself thinking about gender feminists – hopefully not too often, for the sake of your sanity – bring to mind some immortal advice:
Illegitimi non carborundum.
David Cameron’s hairdresser gets an MBE. No, seriously, he does!
Another one for the ‘You couldn’t make this s*** up!’ file. Dave’s (male) hairdresser has been given an MBE in the New Year’s Honours List, presumably for services to hiding his ever-expanding bald patch:
It’s a rare thing for us to quote Labour MPs, but in this case we’ll make an exception. From the article:
Labour MP John Mann said the award to Mr Carbosiero took ‘cronyism to a different level. It devalues the honours system. Anyone who the Prime Minister knows gets an honour.’
Fellow Labour MP John Ashworth said: ‘He deserves a gong – after all, it’s a tall order to make him [Mr Cameron] look good.’
Contradictory points, but both are well made.
Justice for Men & Boys 