Some weeks ago Kathy Gyngell co-founded an excellent new website, The Conservative Woman. We wish it well. The following piece by her is typical of the quality of material on the site:
Month: April 2014
Janet Street-Porter: the most vile woman in Britain?
‘A Voice for Men’ is the most-visited and most influential men’s human rights website in the world. To date the site’s published 36 of our articles, going back a little further than the launch of J4MB in February 2013. We announced the name of the party, and our proposed strategy, in the second article.
Some months ago AVfM posted an article in which we posed the question, ‘Janet Street-Porter: the most vile woman in Britain?’ A number of supporters and donors – mainly from outside the UK – emailed us asking questions along the lines of:
Is Harriet Harman dead, then?
The following link will take you to our AVfM article library. Scroll down to find the Janet Street-Porter piece, which attracted a good number of comments:
Mark Hoban MP: ‘More jobs for women & Britons’
An article written by Conservative MP Mark Hoban was published on ConservativeHome today. It’s titled:
Mark Hoban MP: More jobs. More full-time jobs. More jobs for women & Britons. Employment is working.
No mention, as always, that more than half of the people registered as unemployed are men. The fact that ‘record numbers of women are in work’ is trumpeted, but there’s no mention of the fact that many of these women have been bullied into the workplace by the tax policies of a Conservative-led coalition following the feminist policy directions as the three preceding Labour administrations.
I’ve just posted the following comments. In the past the people who run the site haven’t removed my comments, but in case they start, here they are:
In the title – ‘More jobs for women & Britons’. Do I really need to point out how absurd a line that is? Nigel Farage and his people must laugh their socks off when they read lines like that, and I wouldn’t blame them. I laughed myself. Men collectively pay 72% of the income tax collected in the UK, women only 28%. It’s about damned time the Conservatives recognised men have value beyond bankrolling the state and all the state-driven social engineering schemes designed to advantage women and girls over men and boys. When (not if) Cameron announces he’s ‘reluctantly’ going to implement all-women PPC shortlists for the 2015 general election, we’ll present him with our ‘Toady of the Year’ award. It will sit nicely alongside the awards he won in 2012 and 2013.
Mike Buchanan
JUSTICE FOR MEN & BOYS
(and the women who love them)
Diana Davison: Feminism v Equality
A short but insightful new piece by one of our favourite Honey Badgers:
Caroline Criado-Perez – next month’s ‘Lying Woman of the Month’ award winner
Caroline Criado-Perez is the whine merchant behind pathetic campaigns such as ‘women on banknotes’. She appears with monotonous regularity in the mainstream media, often complaining of efforts to silence her. She personally gets considerably more mainstream media coverage – globally – than all the world’s men’s human rights advocates collectively. I wish I, along with other MHRAs, was silenced as much as CC-P.
In June 2013 I was interviewed at length (45 minutes) on BBC Three Counties Radio about the issue of women on boards, and related matters. CC-P called in and we had a lengthy discussion (16:09 – 35:05 on the audio file, link below). At 18:17 she made the following demonstrably inaccurate claim, after I’d explained about five longitudinal studies which show that increasing the proportion of women on corporate boards leads to financial decline:
I would like to pick up the idea of longitudinal studies if I could. Actually, there are many longitudinal studies that would say the opposite.
I immediately challenged her, but she soon moved onto another topic, and of course the white knight interviewer didn’t challenge her.
A few days after the programme I publicly challenged CC-P about her inaccurate claim, and 10 months on we still haven’t had a response. I felt it was about time we had one. Shortly after midday yesterday, I posted a message on the comment form at her modestly-named website http://carolinecriadoperez.com. From her website I learned that – bizarrely, for a woman who’s every bit as miserable as Laura Bates of The Everyday Whining Project – she’d appeared in ‘The Happy List’, a list of 100 people prepared by the left-leaning Independent on Sunday last year. An online article about the list starts with the following (seriously, I haven’t made this up):
Today, The Independent on Sunday publishes its sixth annual Happy List, naming 100 outstanding people whose volunteering, caring, fundraising, mentoring, charity founding or selflessness makes Britain a more contented, supportive, better-adjusted and happier place.
A link to the article:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/the-independent-on-sunday-happy-list-2013-8591000.html
The note I posted on the contact form on CC-P’s website yesterday:
Caroline, good afternoon. I hope this finds you well.
You may recall you made an inaccurate statement when calling into a BBC Three Counties Radio programme on which I was being interviewed at length last year. I publicly challenged you to retract that statement (link below) and you’ve never responded to that challenge. To refresh your memory, I suggest you scroll down to the audio file (and a link to our public challenge) dated 7 June 2013:
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKhX1c3ow6BrzdzP3ydpeZQ/videos
I invite you to apologise for making the misleading statement, and to retract it, before the end of April, otherwise you’ll become next month’s ‘Lying Woman of the Month’ award winner on 1 May. Feel free to send the apology and retraction to me at mike@j4mb.org.uk, and I’ll do a short blog piece with your text. I should much prefer that you do the honourable and adult thing – to apologise and to retract your statement – than issue you with the award. Hopefully you’ll find five minutes at some point in the next 25 days to do so.
Kat Banyard was the inaugural winner of this award, having failed to retract a claim she’d made on ‘Channel 4 News’, concerning the frequency with which schoolgirls suffer sexual harassment.
Have a nice day.
Best wishes,
Mike Buchanan
JUSTICE FOR MEN & BOYS
(and the women who love them)
I hadn’t the slightest intention of putting this message into the public arena – I wanted her to act like an adult with integrity, a ridiculous ambition, I know, hope springs eternal – but her emotive responses made me change my mind. Earlier today, rather than contact me privately by email, she posted four messages addressed to me on her Twitter account in the space of just four minutes:
@MikeBuchanan11 since you don’t seem to understand police warnings, I’ll try a clearer tack: DO NOT EVER CONTACT ME AGAIN. Reported again.
I’ve never received a police warning in my life – I have a new Police Certificate by way of proof, obtained as part of my visa application for my travel to Detroit in June – so is she simply mistaken in thinking I’ve had one in relation to her? Presumably she made a complaint about me to the police concerning polite messages I’d sent her in the past.
The police haven’t even contacted me on the matter. Did CC-P imagine they have nothing better to do with their time than follow up every whiny little complaint she makes to them? Is she narcissistic? Delusional? Her other messages:
@MikeBuchanan11 and award me whatever pathetic little prize you want. I literally couldn’t give a fuck what you choose to waste your time on.
@MikeBuchanan11 but I do care when I have to waste my time ensuring your dullard emails go to spam. 30mins of my life I’ll never get back.
@MikeBuchanan11 So, in summary, continue your pointless obsessions, but DO NOT CONTACT ME. Hope this gets through your thick skull.
This is priceless. It feels like being attacked by a petulant foot-stomping little child, the same feeling I had on the only occasion I met Laura Bates, when Bates became angry and stomped out of a BBC studio after our interview with Jeremy Vine (his show regularly attracts 6-7 million listeners). The following link will take you to our YouTube library, scroll down to the file dated 14 March 2013 for our discussion:
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKhX1c3ow6BrzdzP3ydpeZQ/videos
CC-P appears to be giving me her permission to continue my ‘pointless obsessions’ – could she be referring to my battle against her hate-driven female supremacy ideology, and it manifestations, I wonder?
CCP then orders me NOT TO CONTACT HER as though – being a woman – she has the automatic power to order any man around. Hmm, how might that work out with me? She really should check her privilege. Later today I’ll be nominating her for next month’s ‘Entitlement Princess of the Month’ award. In the meantime, here’s her ‘Lying Woman of the Month’ award certificate:
140407 Lying Woman of the Month, May 2014 – Caroline Criado-Perez
It’s awarded for May 2014, still three weeks away, but as L’Oreal might say:
She’s worth it.
Hannah Wallen: Challenge to Women – spread this meme!
A short but powerful new piece by Hannah Wallen, who used to write under the pseudonym ‘Della Burton’:
How Germany keeps out foreign-born brides
Our thanks to Martin for this:
Teresa Hughes (39) – ‘Lying Woman of the Month’
Our award this month goes to a truly vile woman, whose lenient treatment by the justice system was nothing short of scandalous:
Mike Buchanan on a panel discussing ‘women in senior roles’ on London Live TV
‘London Live TV’ http://londonlive.co.uk was launched last week. It’s run by a sister company of two left-leaning papers, the Independent and the Evening Standard. I was invited onto a discussion panel on one of their flagship lunchtime shows. The presenter, Claudia-Liza Armah, emailed me the following beforehand. My thoughts are in square brackets:
“We’ll be asking why we need quotas to get women on boards.”
[We need neither quotas, nor the threat of them, given we know that increasing female representation on boards leads to corporate financial decline. Our briefing paper on the matter:
“Is enough being done to encourage and help women to progress to senior roles?”
[Too much is being done, mainly at taxpayers’ expense, although men pay 72% of the income tax collected in the UK, women only 28%. Given that on average women in senior roles perform less well than men – and virtually all the women on FTSE100 boards are only non-executive directors – NOTHING should be done to ‘encourage’ or ‘help’ women.]
“What effect are initiatives such as this having on men in the workplace?”
[Men see women being promoted ahead of them, even when the women are markedly less experienced and/or have less expertise. Almost every week we’re emailed stories – from men in both public sector and private sector organisations – of women being promoted above more experienced male colleagues, and the male colleagues then having to work overtime (invariably unpaid) teaching the women how to do their new jobs! Preferencing of women for senior roles solely on the grounds of gender understandably makes men both angry and demotivated.]
I was told two other people would be on the panel. One was Helena Morrissey, the founder and still the leader of The 30% Club, which campaigns for higher female representation on the boards of major British companies. Around a third of FTSE100 chairmen are members http://30percentclub.org/members/.
J4MB and its associated organisations have presented many FTSE100 chairmen with ‘Toady’ awards. One of the first was presented to Sir Roger Carr, chairman of Centrica plc. The following piece was prompted by our learning his daughter Caroline was at the time (late 2012) Goldman Sachs’s Global Head of Diversity and Leadership, and on the club’s steering committee.
The other person was Sarah Churchman, Head of Diversity at PwC, an international professional services firm. She was interviewed for International Business Times:
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/tv/smashing-the-glass-ceiling-qa-with-sarah-churchman-pwc-2663
I’m too pushed for time to watch the piece. Harriet Harman MP, our rottweiler, is whining again. She wants to be taken to the park to terrorise the other dogs – the male dogs, specifically. If you watch the piece and think I should watch it – e.g. if Churchman claims (or, more likely, implies) that corporate performance improves when there are more women on boards – please email me mike@j4mb.org.uk. Thank you. I’ll then publicly challenge her.
Hours before the discussion I was told Morrissey wouldn’t be joining us. Barbara Kasumu, the chief executive of the charity ‘Elevation Networks’ was replacing her. I spent time on her website and saw nothing to suggest she’d have anything perceptive to say in the discussion.
An hour before the discussion, I was in the ‘green room’ with Barbara. I explained my qualifications to talk about the subject of women (and men) in senior roles, having worked in senior roles in business for 30+ years (until my retirement in 2010) and led Campaign for Merit in Business http://c4mb.wordpress.com for the past two years. I explained I’d collected a lot of evidence showing a causal link between increasing female representation on boards and corporate financial decline, and offered her our short briefing paper (the second link in this article) to read, to help her prepare for the discussion. She declined, and spent the remainder of the hour sullenly tapping away on her smartphone.
Not long after, a young woman wearing dangerously high heels marched confidently into the room, and I was introduced to Emma Sinclair, serial entrepreneur, CEO of Target Parking, Daily Telegraph columnist. It transpired that Sarah Churchman, like Helena Morrissey, wouldn’t be joining us. Ms Sinclair promptly exited the room and next met us in the studio just before the discussion, where we were unable to talk.
The video of our discussion is available through this link – click on the file dated 4 April 2014:
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKhX1c3ow6BrzdzP3ydpeZQ/videos
The ladies were startled when I said during the discussion that if there’s a ‘need’ for more women in boardrooms, then there’s a ‘need’ for more white sprinters in the Olympics 100 metres men’s final. Emma later ‘tweeted’ about the discussion, and I pointed her to a video. It was created by the man behind the legendary ‘ManWomanMyth’ http://youtube.com/manwomanmyth and ‘Humanity Bites’ http://www.youtube.com/user/HumanityBites YouTube channels. In the video I appear along with Erin Pizzey and Steve Moxon, author of The Woman Racket (2008):
One of my favourite ‘ManWomanMyth’ videos is the one in which he explained that feminism is a female supremacy ideology:
Sack her! 80% of the public want PM to axe shamed Maria Miller as Culture Secretary over her expenses dodge
The following is going to be published in tomorrow’s Mail on Sunday:
Justice for Men & Boys 