If an elderly woman, suffering from dementia, was killed by her 54-year-old alcoholic son, we can be sure he would serve a lengthy prison sentence, and his alcoholism not considered a mitigating factor. And if the killer was her 54-year-old alcoholic daughter? 16 months:
Month: January 2014
Daily Telegraph: ‘Quotas needed for women in executive roles’
A truly embarrassing article written by a female journalist for the Daily Telegraph. Is there no editorial control at the paper these days?
You can be almost sure of one thing in the case of articles like this, and it’s certainly true in this case:
The intelligent commentary is not in the article, but in the comments section.
Dr Tara J Palmatier: ‘Ben & Jerry’s is a Radical Hate Group’
An excellent piece from the good doctor, very funny in parts:
Is there a psychological driver behind feminism?
Yesterday a supporter asked me if I knew anything about ‘dick swab’. I said I didn’t, worrying he might be about to regale me with a story about a type of cotton bud used in STD clinics. But it turned out he was referring to Dick Swaab, a distinguished 69-year-old Dutch brain scientist, whose book WE ARE OUR BRAINS: From the Womb to Alzheimer’s was recently published. A broadsheet review of the book included this:
At the hear of the book is Swaab’s insistence that neuroscience has settle the nature-nurture argument in favour of nature. As he rightly says, the orthodoxy a few decades ago was that at birth we are blank slates, destined to be scribbled on by our families and societies. The left, in particular, was obsessed with this idea, convinced it meant we could be altered by social and political change. Swaab reports bitter confrontations with nurturist gays and feminists as he tried to refute the idea of the blank slate.
In fact, he and his pro-nature colleagues won this battle some time ago and neuroscience has sealed the victory. It is plain that, at birth, we have a whole range of innate tendencies, most of which will be only marginally affected by our experiences.
The supporter then reminded me I’d had an article published by AVfM, drawing on a couple of books, Professor Louann Brizendine’s The Female Brain and Professor Simon Baron-Cohen’s The Essential Difference. The article was titled, ‘Is there a psychological driver behind feminism?’ and it’s here:
Diana Davison’s new video
It had been three weeks since Diana Davison’s last video. Too long. Her latest, just published, is every bit as good as we’ve come to expect:
http://www.avoiceformen.com/mens-rights/false-rape-culture/mind-raping-with-more-zest/
Diana Davison is in her 40s. The key to looking young for longer is clearly to reject feminism.
Dominic Raab MP: ‘Feminists are now amongst the most obnoxious bigots’
Our thanks to J for this. It isn’t a new piece – January 2011 – but it’s a good one. We understood Mr Raab had his knuckles rapped over his comments, proof positive he was telling the truth:
AVfM secures a retraction from ABC News
A welcome piece from Paul Elam at AVfM, inspired by our success in prompting HuffPo to retract a leading statement, following our contact with their legal team:
http://www.avoiceformen.com/a-voice-for-men/abc-news-retracts-lies-against-a-voice-for-men/
Cosmopolitan: ’30 Ways to Please a Man’
Our thanks to L for this:
http://www.cosmopolitan.com/sex-love/relationship-advice/ways-to-please-a-man#slide-1
Our personal favourite:
#9 Pretend you care what he’s talking about.
Just nod and smile and you’ll get through this.
Is it just us, or do #24 and #25 reveal a certain lack of… er… effort on the part of the writer?
Janet Bloomfield: ‘Five rights feminists delivered for women, but feminists don’t want to share with anyone else’
Another fine piece from Janet. If anyone tells you modern feminism is about gender equality, point him/her to this:
Andybob’s letter of complaint to the BBC about its treatment of domestic abuse on ‘Newsnight’
A Voice for Men recently published a piece about our complaint to the BBC, relating to a piece about domestic abuse on the 7 January edition of Newsnight:
Someone using the pseudonym ‘Andybob’ has just left the following comment on the piece:
“Excellent work, Mr Buchanan. Your work reverberates across the globe and is already contributing to releasing feminism’s stranglehold on the public discourse on issues that impact the lives of men and boys. Here is my complaint letter which I will send forthwith:
Dear Sir/Madam,
Re: Complaint regarding biased coverage of domestic violence on Newsnight (7/1/14)
I am writing to complain about the biased coverage of the issue of domestic violence on Newsnight which aired on 7th January, 2014. Throughout the segment, the issue of domestic violence is presented as a gendered issue in which all perpetrators are assumed to be men, and all victims are assumed to be women.
This erroneous assumption is explicitly expressed by all of the participants, for example Jeremy Paxman: ‘If you teach a man to manage his behavior so that he is not overtly violent, there’s a danger he may start to find more subtle ways of being abusive.’ Guest speaker Polly Neate: ‘It’s not just about a guy learning to control his temper, it’s about coercion.’
Domestic violence is a serious issue which deserves to be discussed in a fair, balanced and comprehensive manner which cannot be achieved without rigorous, fact-based research. This was clearly not undertaken by either the Newsnight team, or its panel of guests. Had they done so, they would have discovered that more than half of all DV incidents are reciprocal, and that women are the perpetrators of the majority of all non-reciprocal domestic violence between heterosexual partners.
Independent studies reveal that men comprise up to 40% of all DV victims in Great Britain. Yet the Newsnight segment completely ignores their existence, just as it ignores the existence of female perpetrators of domestic violence. It is grossly irresponsible of the BBC to contribute to the further marginalization of these already egregiously neglected men by rendering them invisible. It is particularly reprehensible that this was done on a segment that claims to present supportive solutions regarding domestic violence.
While presenting DV as exclusively perpetrated by men may conveniently fit in with feminist narratives on the issue, it does not reflect reality. Erin Pizzey, founder of Britain’s first women’s refuge, Chiswick Aid, observed that DV is not a gendered issue. It is generational, with many contributing factors, including drugs, family/social dysfunction, poverty and mental health.
Ms Pizzey, now Editor at Large for ‘A Voice for Men’ http://avoiceformen.com has commented that viable solutions to DV can never be developed and implemented until we begin to honestly recognize and assess its fundamental causes. This cannot be achieved until we reject the feminist lie that men are always the perpetrators of DV and women are always the victims. We must acknowledge the truth about domestic violence before truly meaningful discussions of value can take place.
The Newsnight segment on domestic violence failed in its obligation to the public to present the truth about this issue by ignoring the existence of male victims of female-perpetrated domestic violence. Vilifying men as solely responsible for DV may be in line with radical feminist propaganda, but it directly breaches the BBC’s own Editorial Guidelines of what constitutes fair and objective reporting. It makes a mockery of readily available facts that could be easily obtained by a secondary school student researching an essay.
I expect the BBC to reply to this complaint by explaining why it allowed one of its most prestigious news programmes to present this serious issue with such obvious anti-male bias and woefully inadequate research. Male victims of domestic violence, and those who love them, deserve better than such callous disregard for the truth – and so do BBC viewers.
Yours faithfully,
Andybob
(real name on complaint)”
Justice for Men & Boys 