An impressive new article from a Canadian Honey Badger who never disappoints, Diana Davison. She has a gift for analysing, shredding, then incinerating feminist narratives:
http://www.avoiceformen.com/feminism/logic-another-form-of-female-oppression/
It’s about time she published another of her amazing videos.
Sometimes the left-wing and feminist-friendly bias of the BBC almost defies belief. They treated our complaint about 50 breaches of their own editorial guidelines on a Newsnight piece about domestic violence with utter contempt, and we’re still awaiting a response to our appeal.
Despite having ‘limited experience’, Duncan Weldon has been appointed as the programme’s new economics correspondent. Weldon was formerly an adviser to Harriet Harman, and an economist at the BBC:
I’ve been a big fan of stand-up comedy for as long as I can remember. The MHRM holds a few comedians and comediennes (I refuse to use one term for both) in high regard. My personal favourites with respect to speaking the truth on gender-related matters are Bill Burr (American) and Jim Jefferies (Australian) but a supporter just emailed me to suggest we end the week by posting a link to a Bill Maher (American) classic. A good idea. Enjoy:
I awoke early this morning, and as I’ve been engaged on an exciting project – hopefully I’ll be able to say more towards the end of the week – I struggled to return to sleep. I like to spend my time doing useful things, and what better thing could there be than to inform prominent gender feminists of some our materials relating to them?
And so it was that at about 8:30 this morning I sent an email to Kat Banyard kat.banyard@yahoo.co.uk, copying Laura Bates laura@everydaysexism.com, and Finn Mackay finn.mackay.09@bristol.ac.uk – rays of sunshine, one and all, I think you’ll agree – with the subject title, ‘A Sunday Morning Ramble’. The YouTube video of Kat Banyard has since attracted another ‘downvote’, bringing the number to the same as the number of upvotes – 34. The text of my email to the young ladies takes up the remainder of this blog post.
“Kat, good morning. As you used to work for The Fawcett Society, I thought you’d be pleased to know an Irish lady recently presented them with an award:
Are you ready yet to correct the demonstrably incorrect statement you made in an interview with Jon Snow on Channel 4 News? A video of the interview is below, which resulted in our public challenge of you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R3fMxygLXw
It’s the most-viewed file on our YouTube channel http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKhX1c3ow6BrzdzP3ydpeZQ/videos. It’s attracted more ‘downvotes’ than any piece we’ve ever published. Could it be that your supporters aren’t happy to see you publicly challenged with respect to making a misleading statement in an interview?
Yesterday I received an email from a supporter pointing out that today is the first anniversary of the publication of my article on you, Laura Bates, and Finn Mackay, on ‘A Voice for Men’. She thought I should bring the article to the attention of the three of you, so here it is. Enjoy:
http://www.avoiceformen.com/feminism/kat-banyard-laura-bates-finn-mackay-the-noisy-handful/
Laura Bates’s campaign inspired us to launch The Whine Club and our Whiny Woman of the Month award, of which she was the inaugural winner. My article on The Whine Club was published on 21 November by ‘A Voice for Men’:
http://www.avoiceformen.com/author/mikebuchanan1957/
Laura’s award is downloadable through this link:
https://j4mbdotorgdotuk.wordpress.com/the-whine-club/
Have a nice day.
Best wishes,
Mike Buchanan
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[‘A Voice for Men’ has just published this piece:
http://www.avoiceformen.com/feminism/why-i-hate-the-feminists-who-desecrate-my-fathers-memory/
I invite you to leave any comments you may have on that website rather than this one – or ideally both, if you can. Thank you.]
One of the feminist narratives which angers me the most is that men are inherently violent, and that if more women were in charge of countries, we’d see fewer armed conflicts. Given the readiness with which some women manipulate men to assault and even kill men who’ve displeased them – ‘violence by proxy’ – it’s a ridiculous claim. Why wouldn’t women be even more prepared to start wars, given the victims would be overwhelmingly men? The fact that in most cases of unreciprocated domestic violence the perpetrator is a woman surely tells us that women are NOT inherently less physically aggressive than men. A higher proportion of female MPs than male MPs voted for Britain to go to war with Iraq – many of them the ‘Blair Babes’ elected in 1997.
A few months ago my father (Malcolm) died at the age of 90. A gentle, generous and kind man who grew up in the Outer Hebrides, he was a lifelong hero to me, in no small measure because on his 21st birthday, a few days after D-Day, he jumped onto a Normandy beach as part of the unit supporting General Montgomery. Yesterday the BBC broadcast a remarkable documentary about the men who served in WW1, which ended a few years before my father was born. It moved me deeply, because it said so much about the sense of duty men – such as my father – feel to protect the vulnerable, often at terrible personal cost:
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKhX1c3ow6BrzdzP3ydpeZQ/videos
It’s a lengthy but very moving documentary, worth watching in full. It consists mainly of interviews of men (and a few women) recorded about 50 years after the outset of WW1, in the early 1960s – about 50 years ago. Any man who watches the documentary will surely stand a little taller after watching it. Any woman who watches it – any woman with a heart, anyway – will surely be grateful that men (then, as now, as always) have been prepared to die in order that women and children don’t.
50 years after Dad had jumped onto that Normandy beach I took him to visit the Normandy beaches, the war cemeteries etc. It was the first time since WW2 he’d been back. We went to one of the British cemeteries in Bayeux, where he politely asked to be left alone as he walked down line after line of graves. It was clear from the crosses on the gravestones that most of the men who’d died on the Normandy beaches were around 20 years of age, as he’d been at the time. Many were only 17 or 18. We later went to the enormous and impressive American war cemetery, with crosses and Stars of David marking the final resting places of huge numbers of similarly young men – all facing the United States – and I recall thinking that any European spouting anti-American sentiments should be required to spend an hour or two walking slowly around that place.
Whilst walking past all those graves my father evidently had tears streaming down his face – the first and only time I ever saw him cry – and he was obviously laying some ghosts to rest. He was to live for another 19 years, and I saw him regularly over those years. It was rarely he didn’t find the time to say how much that trip had meant to him. A wonderful father. A wonderful man.
I wrote a short blog piece when he died, saying I thought he was from the last generation of men who weren’t automatically vilified on account of being men. He never came close to understanding about feminism, maybe the two things were related. I’ve heard it speculated that feminism was enabled and energised by the notion that as it was men who’d started two world wars, men collectively were somehow to blame. The facts that only men were in positions of real power at that time, and 99% of the victims of those wars were men, were of course never considered worthy of mention.
We’ve been working lately with a new men’s rights organisation which is going to be launched soon, and which we believe will make a significant impact in the mainstream media, for reasons I’m not currently at liberty to divulge. The organisation has a need for some professional graphic design input with relation to posters, leaflets etc. – at no cost, as is usually the case, but hopefully that will change one day. The organisation plans to launch itself with a press release next Friday, 21 March.
The gentleman who designed the J4MB logo is unfortunately unable to help as he’s attending to his dying father, so are you a professional graphic designer who could help, or do you know someone who is? If so, please email me at https://j4mbdotorgdotuk.wordpress.com. Thank you.
I’m sometimes asked what my favourite radio interview has been to date, and someone asked me again today. I think it must be the one with Julia Hartley-Brewer for LBC radio, partly because she’d clearly done her ‘homework’ beforehand. She’d clearly read through our public consultation document. and grasped the key points. No other interviewer has ever gone to this trouble before interviewing me, to the best of my knowledge.
Towards the end of the interview she spoke about some of the elements in the document, and then said something unexpected which made me laugh out loud. I’ve just searched for the interview on our YouTube channel, and thereby discovered it was recorded exactly a year ago to the day. What a year it’s been. The link:
Here we go again:
From the article:
A pregnant mother was spared jail yesterday despite her role in a human smuggling gang that sneaked hundreds of illegal immigrants through UK borders.
Romanian Marcella Nedea, 29, sobbed uncontrollably as a judge told her that her trafficking gang opened the doors of the country to terrorists. But he gave her only a suspended sentence. A male accomplice was jailed for three years…
Judge Nigel Van Der Bijl said Nedea’s difficult pregnancy and the fact she had a ten-month old daughter meant he could show mercy.
Sentencing her to a suspended 18-month jail term, he added: ‘There really is no point in sending you immediately to prison.’
‘No point’!!! Incredible. What, we might then reasonably ask, was the ‘point’ in sending the man to jail for three years?
Our thanks to Christina Hoff Sommers for ‘tweeting’ this story:
Another strong piece by ‘John the Other’. I look forward to meeting him in Detroit, where he’s scheduled to give a talk.
http://www.avoiceformen.com/feminism/feminisms-cracking-foundation/
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