Sometimes we learn of pieces on the internet which raise our spirits, and confirm J4MB is moving in the right direction. This is an example. Our thanks to MrShadowfax42:
Month: February 2014
False rape allegation led man to assault innocent bystander
An interesting example of violence by proxy. It appears the woman who made the false rape allegation hasn’t even been charged, while her boyfriend has been found guilty of assault, and punished:
False rape claim gets woman deferred year in jail
Another suspended sentence:
http://www.seacoastonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20140212/NEWS/140219898/-1/NEWSMAP
If we read the last paragraph correctly, she broke the bail conditions relating to another crime… and still faced no punishment!
Woman who made false rape allegation is fined £90
The website http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/ is a good source of material for MHRAs. This is the first of a small number of pieces drawn from it, which we’ll be posting today. The woman who made the false rape allegation which prompted a ‘huge’ police investigation resulting in the arrests of three men, received a Fixed Penalty Notice (i.e. she received no criminal record) and had to pay… £90. A miniscule proportion of the cost of the police investigation – met by taxpayers, and men pay 72% of the income tax collected in the UK – not to mention the treatment meted out to three innocent men.
Unprecedented Domestic Violence Study Affirms Need to Recognize Male Victims
A commenter – ‘Sid’ – on the Ally Fogg blog piece we recommended earlier today has just posted the following gem, in response to a hate-driven commenter:
Lucy @ 79
You wish your bigoted nonsense were true. The reality is that quality research has been showing that women are as likely to commit DV against men, as men are against women, since the 1970s.
That debate is long over.
Further proof that the BBC doesn’t give a damn about male victims of domestic abuse / violence
On January 19 2014 we lodged our first official complaint with the BBC, concerning an episode of Newsnight during which only male perpetrators of DA, and female victims, were mentioned:
Footage of the programme on our YouTube channel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_arobNtUyU
We put a considerable amount of time and effort into our complaint, and included an analysis of the programme’s 50+ breaches of guidelines contained in the 215-page document, ‘BBC Editorial Guidelines’. It’s been almost four weeks since we lodged the complaint. Ever optimistic, we were starting to hope for some substantive engagement, but we’ve just received this:
Dear Mr Buchanan
Reference CAS-2526463-VBBJ6H
Thanks for your contact regarding ‘Newsnight’ on 7 January.
We took your concerns to the Assistant Editor of Newsnight, who thanked them for their feedback. He added that the Newsnight team, as well as the wider editorial staff at BBC News, are aware that there are many male victims of domestic abuse and he appreciates you taking the time to contact us on this issue.
He disagrees, however, that the report was misleading and is confident that it did not breach our editorial guidelines. The fact that this particular film and discussion focussed on female victims of domestic abuse should not be taken as a denial that men too can be victims.
This is an issue that we have covered, for example: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-25038695, which actually links to the Mankind campaign, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23876948 and http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12126783.
However, we have taken on board your comments.
Thanks again for taking the time to contact us.
Kind Regards
<name redacted>
BBC Complaints
The contempt for our complaint is evident from the start:
We took your concerns to the Assistant Editor of Newsnight, who thanked them for their feedback.
Um… he thanked our concerns for their feedback? The response continues:
He disagrees, however, that the report was misleading and is confident that it did not breach our editorial guidelines.
We outlined 50+ breaches of the guidelines. It continues:
This is an issue that we have covered, for example: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-25038695, which actually links to the Mankind campaign, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23876948 and http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12126783.
This is an example of a BBC tactical response to complaints which has been reported to us before, both generally and with regard to this particular programme. The BBC points to examples of programmes which aren’t in line with the thrust of the complaint, in an effort to discredit the basis of the complaint. Anyone who has the level of interest we have in DA is acutely aware that the overwhelming narrative on BBC programmes is of male perpetrators and female victims. Rarely are people concerned about male victims given a voice.
The final piece of contempt for our complaint, given that the BBC has manifestly NOT taken on board out comments:
However, we have taken on board your comments.
We’re going to escalate this complaint as far as we can, to OFCOM if necessary. The BBC hasn’t heard the last of this matter.
Ally Fogg: Some important findings from the ONS crime stats – Intimate & sexual violence
An interesting piece posted yesterday:
I’ve left a number of comment (the first is #41) and invite you to do likewise.
Sonia Mellor: £100k benefits cheat who said she was ‘virtually immobile’ caught on camera trampolining and dancing
Another day, another woman defrauding the taxpayer and getting away with it:
Sonia Mellor claimed and received over £100,000 more in benefits that she was entitled to, and received a suspended sentence. Will she ever repay the money (with interest) to the public purse? I very much doubt it. She should have received a stiff prison sentence, as a man convicted of a similar offence surely would have.
An overpriced free Kindle ebook
Our thanks to the supporter who’s just alerted us to an ebook which is downloadable for free for the next couple of days:
On an initial run-through it seems to be a piece of gender feminist propaganda, even citing the utterly discredited ‘Duluth Model’ of Domestic Abuse/Violence. No mention that 40% of victims of domestic abuse are men, nor that most victims of unreciprocated domestic abuse are men, and the perpetrators women.
I’ll leave a review on Amazon shortly, and invite you to do the same.
Carol Sarler on the Dave Lee Travis case
It’s always worth reading Carol Sarler’s pieces, and this is no exception:
Justice for Men & Boys 