Gwyneth Paltrow has put in a very strong bid for our next ‘Gormless Woman of the Month’ award. The inaugural award was won by the staff and supporters of The Fawcett Society.

Our thanks to Martin for this quite lengthy but important piece.

I try to use ‘plain English’ wherever possible, but some words unfamiliar to the general public carry a great deal of meaning in the field of gender politics. One such is ‘gynocentrism’. My Chambers dictionary – the latest edition – is 1,800+ pages long, and doesn’t include the word. Microsoft’s ‘Word’ spellchecker doesn’t recognise it. So what does the word mean? Wikipedia’s entry starts with the following:

“Gynocentrism is the ideological practice, conscious or otherwise, of asserting the female point of view on a wide range of social issues. The perceptions, needs, and desires of women have primacy in this approach, where the female view is the point of departure or lens through which issues are addressed or analyzed. The antonymic perspective to gynocentrism is androcentrism, where the male view is the central reference point.

Ideologically, gynocentrism prioritizes females hierarchically as the overriding focus, at the exclusion of all else; and as a result emulates or may be interpreted as misandry, the hatred and prejudice towards men. Katherine K. Young and Paul Nathanson claim that gynocentrism is a worldview based on the implicit or explicit belief that the world revolves around women, and is a cultural theme so well entrenched that it has become ‘de rigueur’ behind the scenes in law courts and government bureaucracies, which has resulted in systemic discrimination against men.”

[Note added 1.6.14: In 2011 AVfM published a series of landmark lectures by Adam Kostakis on the subject of gynocentrism, and they’re currently republishing the series. They’ve just posted lecture #7 The personal, as contrasted with the political which we thought would be of particular interest to followers of this blog.]

We recommend the online resource Telegraph Men http://telegraph.co.uk/men which is publishing some interesting materials. They’ve put a link to the Mankind Initiative video set in a London park, showing double standards in responses to gender-on-gender physical assaults. Neil Lyndon recently wrote an excellent piece on abortion. Last week Glen Poole was involved in an interesting discussion hosted by Emma Barnett, in which representatives of Women’s Aid and The White Ribbon Campaign also took part. We plan to put a link to the video along with a detailed critique in the next day or two.
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An interesting new piece from John Hembling (‘John the Other’).

The Detroit Conference on Men’s Issues, the first such international conference in the world, is less than four weeks away. AVfM has just published a piece which includes a link to a letter from the Hilton hotel group. Our enemies – hate-driven female supremacists who viscerally oppose justice for men and boys (and the women who love them) – are determined that the conference will be cancelled. These bullies must not prevail, and we shall be asking you shortly to contribute to the additional security costs being demanded from AVfM. Thank you.

An excellent new piece by Frank Furedi for Spiked.

A short but insightful blog post from Sweden.

An interesting piece just published by AVfM. The writer is one of the two people behind this excellent website.

[Note added 13.7.14: This piece has just been published by A Voice for Men, here.]

I was interviewed at some length (16 minutes) by Jeni Barnett (standing in for Vanessa Feltz) on BBC Radio London 94.9 this morning, on the topic of positive discrimination. The piece has just been loaded onto our YT channel, here.

I would ask you to read the commentary beneath the audio file before listening to it. The question I was asked at 22:15 was, in my view, outrageous:

Do you like women, Mike?

In most of my BBC radio interviews the presenters (both male and female) have alleged or implied I’m a misogynist. People who know me well know that nothing could be further from the truth.

Please submit any comments you may have on the YouTube piece, rather than here. Thank you.