Our thanks to Ian for alerting us to this piece:

http://www.desiblitz.com/content/domestic-violence-towards-asian-men

A few lines at the end (below) are simply incorrect – decades of research have been done on this subject of domestic violence, and women’s and men’s experiences of it as both perpetrators and victims – but otherwise it’s an interesting article. It would have been good to see it pointed out that in most cases of unreciprocated domestic violence, the perpetrators are women. 

One of the main questions regarding the issue remains unanswered; why does domestic violence against men occur? Whether this is due to women believing that this violence is a means towards independence, or whether the violence is traced back to childhood trauma or abuse from a previous partner is yet to be discovered.

Interesting piece in the Daily Mail today, confirming what we’ve been saying for a long time:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2589403/Now-half-doctors-women-Concerns-grow-female-GPs-demanding-work-time.html

The feminisation of the NHS has been a disaster for patients and taxpayers. But hey, it’s great for female doctors who want to work part-time, so let’s have more female doctors. It makes complete sense, and it only costs half a million pounds to train a new doctor, with men paying 72% of that sum, as they pay 72% of all the income tax collected annually in the UK. GPs today earn an average of £105,000 p.a., even with so many female doctors working only part-time. So, apart from patients and taxpayers, everyone’s a winner, right?

There’s a small piece on the same page concerning ‘women in the boardroom’, and citing some remarks by Maria Miller, minister for women and equalities. The remarks are utterly idiotic even by her customary low standards.

Whilst leading the Conservatives in opposition from 2005 until May 2010, it was said that David Cameron saw himself as the ‘heir to Blair’. We see him more as the ‘heir to Harman’. A reference of course to Harriet Harman, the truly odious radical feminist Labour MP who’s been poisoning the House of Common for the past 30 years. During Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons, you’ll always see Harman looking at Cameron fondly. I imagine her thinking:

Good boy, Dave. Good boy!!! You’ll get some chocolate drops later for doing your Mistress’s bidding!’

We confidently predict the Conservatives will follow the Labour Party in adopting all-women prospective parliamentary candidate (‘PPC’) shortlists to select candidates for the 2015 general election. They’ll say they’re doing so ‘reluctantly’ but the assertion will be arrant nonsense – the move will be entirely consistent with David Cameron’s pro-women and anti-men instincts. He’s the least principled prime minister (of any party) in living memory.

I worked for the Conservatives as a consultant during 2006-8. In the autumn of 2009 Cameron announced his intention to adopt all-women PPC shortlists. I cancelled my membership in response, as did a number of other party members of my acquaintance. I then started work on a book which was published the following year, David and Goliatha: David Cameron – heir to Harman? I commissioned my favourite living cartoonist, Martin Honeysett, to draw the cartoon which graced its cover:

9780956641625 front cover

The day the Conservatives introduce all-women PPC shortlists – it’s more a matter of ‘when’ than ‘if’ – we’ll present David Cameron with the ‘Toady of the Year (2014)’ award. Our press release on the matter is already prepared.

On 7 January 2014, one of the BBC’s flagship television programmes, Newsnight, ran a lengthy piece on domestic violence. We captured it for our YouTube channel:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_arobNtUyU

As usual with the BBC the narrative was of men only as perpetrators, and of women only as victims. We’ve highlighted previous occasions when Newsnight has done this, our YouTube channel and in this blog. This time we decided to take some action. We read the 215 page document on BBC Editorial Guidelines, and found this Newsnight piece to breach over 50 of those them. We itemised those breaches in an attachment to our letter of complaint, and posted a blog piece on the matter, including a link to our letter:

https://j4mbdotorgdotuk.wordpress.com/2014/01/19/our-first-official-complaint-to-the-bbc-the-newsnight-piece-on-domestic-abuseviolence-7-january-2014/

The response we received from the BBC was nothing short of insulting, so we sent a letter appealing against their handling of our complaint. That was over four weeks ago, and we have yet to hear back from them.

How quickly does the BBC seek to respond to complaints? From their website:

We email or post over 90% of replies within 2 weeks (10 working days) but cannot always guarantee this. It will also depend on what your complaint is about, how many others we have and practical issues such as whether a production team is on location or otherwise away.

Mark Brooks is well-known and highly regarded among men’s human rights activists. He’s the chairman of the Mankind Initiative, a charity supporting male victims of domestic violence. On 23 January he wrote an excellent letter of complaint about the same programme to the BBC, and it’s downloadable through a short blog piece we posted a few days letter:

https://j4mbdotorgdotuk.wordpress.com/2014/01/28/mankind-initiatives-letter-of-complaint-to-newsnight/

If the Newsnight team had the slightest concern for male victims of domestic violence, they’d have made answering his letter a priority. They can’t even be bothered to pretend they have concern for male victims. The BBC has now had Mark’s letter for nine weeks, and still not replied to it.

Our thanks to T, a key member of the core J4MB team, for pointing us to this:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03yn83q

Another fine piece from an important Canadian Honey Badger, Janet Bloomfield (‘JudgyBitch’):

http://judgybitch.com/2014/03/25/dont-be-that-guy-heres-whats-wrong-with-that-message-corrected/

We normally only present ‘Toady’ awards to prominent men and men in positions of influence who advantage women (and girls) at the expense of men (and boys) – men such as David Cameron, winner of ‘Toady of the Year’ awards in 2012 and 2013, who’ll win the 2014 award when he ‘regretfully’ announces later this year that the Conservatives will follow Labour in having all-women prospective parliamentary candidate shortlists to select candidates for the 2015 general election – now just 14 months away.

Of late we’ve been thinking of presenting ‘Toady’ awards to men who excuse women’s behaviour and ride to their rescue when they’re rightfully criticised. It’s one of the reasons that adult women such as Ellie Slee continue to act like petulant children, and don’t act in a civilised manner. There’s a term for the psychological condition they suffer, Whiny Personality Syndrome (‘WPS’). There’s no known cure, and there are sound historical records of women whining well past 100 years of age.

As they grow older, normal young women realise they need to be accountable for their actions and inactions, although they soon learn their accountability is less than that of men, in the justice system and in many other areas. But a proportion of young women never make that healthy realisation, and end up as lifelong whiny Entitlement Princesses. It’s believed most come from broken homes, which could explain a lot. Maybe the others had indulgent fathers, and the rest of us end up paying the price. Men who ride to the rescue of women who shouldn’t be rescued from personal accountability are known by a number of terms in the men’s human rights movement, among the more repeatable on a political party’s website being ‘white knights’ and ‘manginas’.

Today an outstanding example of white knighting was brought to my attention. James Carver-Grenside (I imagine he’s from Glasgow) is a fashion photographer. Maybe he failed the fitness tests for his first choice of career, the Marines. Anyway, he sprung like a well-trained lapdog to Ellie Slee’s defence, after an Irish MHRA posted a blog piece about Miss Ellie. I imagine Ellie – who’s apparently so intelligent she could doubtless have studied rocket science at University, but opted for fashion instead – is now saying to James Carver-Grenside, ‘Good boy, James! Good boy! Here’s a chocolate treat for pleasing Mistress!’

James’s ‘Toady’ award certificate, and the story of why he’s such a deserving winner:

140325 James Carver-Grenside’s Toady award certificate, revised

An interesting new lady blogger has been brought to our attention. Enjoy:

http://caprizchka.wordpress.com/2014/03/04/why-i-am-not-an-equalist

Ellie Slee emailed me yesterday, in response to a blog piece I’d written critiquing one of her recent blog piece published by HuffPo. Her first email:

If you insist on writing about me please get your facts straight. I have never modelled in my life. Where in god’s name are you getting this drivel from? And who is writing shit about who now? Remove it from this article:

https://j4mbdotorgdotuk.wordpress.com/2014/03/23/ellie-slee-being-schooled-in-feminism/

I replied in my customary polite manner, with a link to a photograph of her in what I’d taken to be a ‘model pose’. It was the final photograph in the series of photographs accessible through this link: 

http://www.nicelyturnedout.com/2011/09/featured-look-ellie-slee/

She replied:

That photograph is from an interview that was conducted with me. The photographs were taken explicitly for the interview. I have never modelled in my life. Why the hell are you pushing this?

Nor have I said that castration is a suitable punishment for a man sexually assaulting me. Although now you come to mention it, maybe its (sic) something we should look into.

You are the creepiest, weirdest jerk off I’ve ever had the misfortune of encountering. Every time you harass me, I am thankful that my father – who is younger than you, and nowhere near as twisted [MB: He’s be so proud to hear that] – is normal and sees the struggles that me and my sister face. I feel DESPERATELY SORRY for your children. I wonder what they think of their dad bullying young women on the internet.

[MB: Ellie, I’ve never bullied a man or woman in my life, young or old. I’m saying it’s time for you to grow up, and start acting like a civilised adult. I’m saying it’s time for you to stop being a permanently petulant hate-driven harridan, pathetically misrepresenting honest criticism as bullying.]

I’m blocking your email now so you will never be able to contact me again. [MB: Oh no!!!] Stop posting your pitiful comments on my writing. [MB: Er, no, Ellie, I won’t stop making whatever comments I like about your miserable, ridiculous, misandrous blog pieces. If you write utter nonsense – as you invariably do with respect to gender issues – expect to be called out on it vigorously and frequently, by myself and others. If you don’t want to be criticised, stop writing nonsense. Simples.]

So Ellie Slee was never a part-time model, and is demanding a correction of our assertion that she was. It’s a bit rich for the woman who misrepresented J4MB in a HuffPo blog post, then refused to retract the comment – it was only retracted after we contacted the legal team at HuffPo – to complain about being misrepresented herself. But such is the mindset of Entitlement Princesses. One rule for them, another rule for men.

An extract from her HuffPo blog piece:

Last week, my two best friends and I went out in a bar we’d never usually go to and were immediately reminded why not. [MB: So why didn’t you leave, and go somewhere else?] Walking in there was like that scene in the Wasp Factory. You know… with the maggots. It looked OK from the outside and then suddenly, we got in, and there were eight million stockbrokers swarming all over us, trying to buy us a drink (read: have sex with us).

[MB: Eight million stockbrokers. Now some London bars are quite large, but even so…]

One particularly awful man named Stefan took a shine to one of my friends and would not leave us alone. So I was rude to him. He wasn’t used to women being rude to him. He called me a cock block. I told him I resented the assumption that I was the only thing standing between his cock and my best friend. His face, dripping sweat and resembling a spit-roasted pig’s, contorted. I had stumped him. He leaned towards me so I could smell his stagnant breath and said, “Why are you so bitter?”

Ah, the eternal question. Why am I so bitter? Because that’s what this is, isn’t it, this woman-not-wanting-you-to-invade-her-evening thing? Just an outrageous dose of bitterness.

But, the lightbulbs come (sic) on!, Stefan had heard a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down – hmmm, something sweet… Could he buy me a pornstar martini? An amaretto sour? Would it soften the blow if he paid me some attention as well, bitter old bitch that I am? What about a –

Nah not really, I’m good. But touch my backside again Stefan, babes, and I will find some way of ensuring that you never procreate. [MB: my emphasis]

I remind you of two sentences in Ellie’s email:

Nor have I said that castration is a suitable punishment for a man sexually assaulting me. Although now you come to mention it, maybe its (sic) something we should look into.

Would HuffPo keep online an article by a young male blogger saying that if a woman in a bar touched his backside twice, he’d find some way of ensuring that she never procreated? Of course not. They’re giving exposure to misandry of the worst kind.

A powerful new piece by John Hembling:

http://www.avoiceformen.com/mens-rights/false-rape-culture/teach-men-to-not-rape/