Robert St. Estephe is well-known to followers of AVfM for his remarkable articles on how men and boys have been assaulted (physically, emotionally, financially… ) by misandrous women throughout history, and over the past 100 years in particular. His comments on other people’s articles are always worth reading. AVfM have just published an image from Robert, it’s his ‘Meme of the Day’. Enjoy:
http://www.avoiceformen.com/art/meme-your-thoughts-must-be-correct
Our thanks to the good people at A Voice for Men for publishing our latest short article:
AVfM have published 21 of our articles to date, all are available here:
An interesting new piece by AVfM’s John Hembling (‘John the Other’, or JtO):
http://www.avoiceformen.com/just-plain-crazy/laci-greene-i-object/
I was once a big fan of The Independent – 20+ years ago – but I haven’t been for many years. It’s now a relentlessly embarrassing left-leaning rag.
Chris Blackhurst is a former Editor of The Independent, and he’s now Group Content Director of the four titles owned by the paper’s Russian owner. For an indication of just how low the paper’s standards have sunk, it would be difficult to top this embarrassing piece of trash, which he wrote:
Why is it trash? Because international evidence clearly shows that driving up the proportion of women on corporate boards lead to corporate financial decline. It’s mainly an inexperience effect, not a gender effect. Our short briefing paper on the matter:
If I has a choice of only two newspapers to read, The Independent and The Guardian, I’d read the latter. That’s how awful The Independent is.
Our thanks to the Indian lady who just alerted us to this website, following the suicide of a brother she loved dearly:
It’s been two weeks since we published a post explaining that on the basis of writing an exceptionally whiny article for The Daily Telegraph, journalist Hannah Betts was being considered for our next ‘Whiny Woman of the Month’ award:
No stronger contenders have emerged since – while we disagree with Julie Bindel on everything, you couldn’t accuse her of being whiny – so we’re pleased to present the February 2014 award to Ms Betts:
140129 Hannah Betts’s ‘Whiny Woman of the Month’ award certificate
A startlingly good presentation by a young American at a TEDxYouth conference. With young men like this becoming well-versed in the realities of gender politics, the future’s looking a lot brighter for men and boys. Enjoy:
http://www.avoiceformen.com/men/mens-issues/true-gender-equality-adrien-martinon-at-tedxyouth/
Our thanks to John Gormley of https://www.facebook.com/MALE.for.equality for his photographic response to the Durham debate:
Our thanks to a man who was in the audience for the Durham debate last Friday, and has just sent this in. It’s being reproduced here with his permission, and it takes up the rest of this blog piece.
“I was at this debate and read with interest Freya Bromley’s report of it on The Huffington Post:
Freya’s article was as fascinating to me, as the debate was fascinating to her. I should like to offer my own take on the proceedings.
It was as inevitable as night following day that the motion wasn’t carried, because there was a feminist ‘rentamob’ at the back of the room. I gather they’d planned to form a picket line outside as people arrived, but it was a bit cold and slightly drizzling, so they didn’t. What the male speakers in support of the motion said was never going to carry such a rigged audience.
However, even if the male speakers in support of the motion had said nothing, their case was made for them by the two women who spoke against it! They were nakedly sexist in every utterance, and in their total demeanour.
Cindy Gallop’s opening statement, ‘I am a feminist’, was intrinsically sexist. What else could it have been? She champions women’s issues over men’s. She appeared in her trademark black cat suit with brass-fronted high heel shoes and, announcing that she wasn’t wearing a bra (which was plain to see, considering the amount of décolletage she was showing) and that she dates young men, delivered her standard speech; broadly the same one she gave at the Oxford Union last year – same speech, different motion. In this standard performance, she promulgates her idea (and her web site) ‘Make love not porn’ all spiced with deliberately salacious comments like ‘Come on my face’ etc.
Apropos of absolutely nothing, she concurrently argued for what amounts to a fifty-fifty social arrangement where men and women equally control society (a rather oblique knife in the side of the patriarchy so beloved of feminists as their bête noir). In fact this is just ‘Equiarchy’, an idea which she seemed to pass off as hers, but which is actually a long-discredited idea. The term was first coined as long ago as 1999 by Steven Goldberg in his widely cited book The Logic of Patriarchy which unequivocally demolishes the feminist argument about it. All in all, Cindy brazenly sailed over any attempt to address the motion but I will say this, she is what most people would call entertaining – ‘A good turn’.
As for Ms Bindel… well, where do I start? What about a litany of what amounted almost to hate speech against men? Her advocacy for women who kill their husbands and partners? The tear-jerking stories, delivered in varying tones from strident to dulcet, all intended to massage the emotions. Then her repeated shouts of ‘Liar!’ at Mr Buchanan when he said she’d been a co-founder of the feminist campaigning organisation ‘Justice for Women’ which operates the website http://www.justiceforwomen.org.uk which is blatantly sexist and had the hateful strapline, ‘Men, women and murder’. In the days following Mr Buchanan’s challenge, the strapline was removed.
She expressed resentment at men who say, ‘Nice arse!’ to women. She had to be told to sit down by the Chair after she’d jumped to her feet during contributions from the floor, waving her arms and angrily stabbing her finger in the air, threatening a young man in the audience who’d eloquently and intelligently challenged her, pointing out she hadn’t even tried to address the motion.
Yet the motion was defeated. However, it was defeated not because of reason and good arguments, but because of two undoubtedly articulate and well-practised feminists who knew precisely how to press the buttons of the heavily gender-politicised youngsters you find on our campuses today, aided and abetted by organised mobs of radical young women who seek to stifle any dissent against their angry creed. Judging from the rabble-like response the good lady speakers scored a ‘victory’ in the shouted vote at the end, but it was, as W S Gilbert put it, ‘Managed by a job, and a good job too!’
The real victory lay with Mike Buchanan and Swayne O’Pie who with gentleness, politeness, erudition and sheer dedication to the principle of playing the game and trying honourably – and honestly – to address the motion, presented the case for the motion unimpeachably.
So what if they lost the vote? I know Durham Union Society very well indeed (Durham is my uni too). It is fun, rather silly, and very typical of students’ debating societies in general. It is, after all, just playing shops.”
Four nights ago, in the course of a debate and subsequent discussions at Durham University, the gender feminist journalist Julie Bindel denied that a website I was talking about – that of the feminist campaigning organisation ‘Justice for Women’ – was the website of an organisation she’d co-founded many years ago. She publicly branded me a liar for asserting that the strapline of the organisation, located under its logo, was the following:
Men, women and murder
The strapline on the organisation’s website has since been removed, as we’ve reported, in a piece with a link to the website’s content before the removal of the strapline:
//j4mb.org.uk/2014/01/28/justice-for-women-removes-its-men-women-and-murder-strapline/
Our challenge to Ms Bindel is simple:
Ms Bindel, we invite you to publicly retract your allegations that (1) the website http://www.justiceforwomen.org.uk is not the website of the ‘Justice for Women’ organisation you co-founded in 1990, and that (2) the strapline ‘Men, women and murder’ was not to be found under the organisation’s logo at the time of our debate in Durham. We also invite you to agree to our publishing a video of the Durham debate online.
Our public challenges of other prominent feminists (and their male collaborators):
https://j4mbdotorgdotuk.wordpress.com/our-public-challenges-to-feminists/
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